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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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An image of Harry Rosenberg, missing since an oceanfront condo building collapsed in Surfside, Florida, hangs on a fence as part of a makeshift memorial, June 29, 2021. (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Man who lost wife to cancer, parents to COVID, missing in Florida condo collapse

By Adriana Gomez Licon

Harry Rosenberg, an observant Jew, had been seeking a new start in Surfside when building fell while he was hosting his daughter and son-in-law, who are also unaccounted for

Leon Oliwkowicz carries a Torah scroll at a dedication ceremony in Chicago in 2019. (Courtesy Chabad)

Elderly Jewish couple confirmed dead in Miami building collapse

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One prior to departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on June 29, 2021. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Biden to visit Florida building collapse site on Thursday

By AFP

Crews from the United States and Israel work in the rubble of Champlain Towers South condo, in Surfside, Florida, June 29, 2021. (Lynne Sladky/AP)

Israeli rescue team head at Florida building collapse says not giving up hope

By ToI Staff and AP

Col. Golan Vach maintains there is still a chance of pulling people out alive from rubble nearly 6 days after disaster; says team built 3D model of site before they flew out

As condo death toll rises, officials vow to keep up search despite fading hopes

Condo board head warned of worsening structural damage weeks before collapse

By Curt Anderson and Bernard Condon

Florida officials pledge multiple probes into deadly building collapse

By TERRY SPENCER

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and Ilan Shtulman, consul general in Dubai (C) at the opening of Israel's new consulate in Dubai, June 30, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

UAE minister: Ties 'will foster more stable, secure region'

Lapid inaugurates Dubai consulate: ‘Symbolizes our ability to change the world’

By Lazar Berman

Foreign minister closes 2-day trip to UAE by opening Israeli mission in the emirate after touring Dubai Expo 2020; says new allies created peace for the next generation

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan meet at the UAE Foreign Ministry in Abu Dhabi, on June 29, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Lapid in UAE: Palestinians must want progress before Arab states can help

By Lazar Berman

Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma. (Bahrain Foreign Ministry)

First Bahraini ambassador to Israel formally appointed

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Police at the scene where a woman was shot dead in her apartment in Haifa, June 30, 2021. (Omri Stein/Flash90)

Mother of four shot dead in her Haifa home with two of her children present

By Stuart Winer

Ex-husband of Maysir Othman, 27, reportedly a suspect in case; shooting brings number of Arab women killed in violent crime this year to nine, says lobby group

The scene of a suspected murder in Eilat, May 27, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man to be charged for murdering sister, says he disapproved of her lifestyle

By Stuart Winer

From left: Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbivai, Energy Minister Karin Elharrar, Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg and Transportation Minister Meirav Michaeli, announce a new inter-ministerial initiative to cut greenhouse emissions by 2050, June 29, 2021. (courtesy)

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Israelis held in Gaza in a 2021 combination picture: Clockwise from top left: Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, Hadar Goldin and Hisham al-Sayed. (Flash90/ Courtesy)

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Israel, Hamas at impasse in Cairo prisoner swap talks

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President Reuven Rivlin (middle seated) with a group of 21 UN ambassadors in New York on June 29, 2021. (Shahar Azran)

At UN, Rivlin makes plea to PA’s Abbas: ‘It’s our role to end conflict’

President meets with UN chief Guterres, 21 ambassadors, urges them to oppose investigations and resolutions against Israel, which he says make peace more difficult to achieve

Reporter's notebookIn US, Rivlin proudly shows off inclusion of Islamist Ra’am in Israeli coalition

By Tal Schneider

Palestinian security forces block a road during a demonstration in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on June 26, 2021, protesting the death of human rights activist Nizar Banat while in the custody of Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

PA said to ask Israel to allow in riot gear amid protests over activist’s death

Film review24th installment has women wielding the hammers for a change

Jewish troika breaks more than glass ceilings in Marvel’s epic ‘Black Widow’

By Jordan Hoffman

Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Weisz and director Cate Shortland make up a trifecta of Women of the Tribe propelling this dazzling action film, out in the US July 9

Surfside was my last stop before moving to Israel

From my apartment, I crossed the street and turned right to South Beach; a left, and I was in Surfside. I was convinced it was Jewish paradise

My maiden speech to the Knesset on the environment

If we have only 10 years to stabilize greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere, we may have even less time to protect the land of Israel. We must act now

Palestinian workers recycle metal rods from the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli air strikes during an 11-day conflict last month, in Gaza City on June 29, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

US opposes conditioning Gaza reconstruction on return of IDF troops’ bodies

As Israel seeks to link post-war rebuilding in the Strip with prisoner swap, Biden administration concerned demand will derail Cairo negotiations aimed at maintaining ceasefire

This picture released by the Hezbollah Media Relations Office, shows terror leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, meeting with Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 29, 2021. (Hezbollah Media Relations Office, via AP )

Hamas leader Haniyeh meets Hezbollah chief Nasrallah in Beirut

By Aaron Boxerman and Agencies

An Israeli youth receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem on June 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s COVID vaccination rate soars again as teens flock to shot centers

Health Ministry data shows over 30 percent of 10-19 age bracket at least partially protected, with overwhelming majority of shots now going to adolescents

Travelers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport on June 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Airport to begin segregating arrivals from COVID hotspots

People at the illegal Israeli outpost of Evyatar on June 28, 2021. (Flash90)

Evyatar settlers okay new agreement to leave illegal West Bank outpost

Residents accept compromise that will push back opening of yeshiva by several months, but limit time Defense Ministry can spend surveying land

Illustrative: Border Police officers guard near a Jewish home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on June 22, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

4 Palestinians arrested during clashes in Sheikh Jarrah

View of a shop that was demolished by Israeli authorities in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with cops over demolition of East Jerusalem shop; 3 arrested

By Aaron Boxerman

MK David Amsalem (Likud) speaks during a plenary session at the assembly of the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘You need hospitalization,’ Likud MK lashes out at deputy coalition whip

David Amsalem’s remark to Boaz Toporovsky at Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting comes day after another opposition MK told coalition whip Silman to answer ‘like a good girl’

Protestors, including Joint List MK Ayman Odeh (center), hold a demonstration against the "family reunification law" outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset vote on extending Palestinian family reunification law pushed off again

Interview'You needn't be Jewish to stand up for Israel'

Former Labour MP: Corbyn’s continued denial of antisemitism makes him culpable

By Robert Philpot

After quitting UK party in protest against Jew-hatred under Jeremy Corbyn, onetime parliamentarian Joan Ryan will head the new branch of a nonprofit bolstering Europe-Israel ties

An illustration of how Trigo's machine vision technology works (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s Trigo to help global chains fend off threat from Amazon shop-and-go

By Shoshanna Solomon

Startup signs deal with retail giant REWE to set up store in downtown Cologne; UK’s Tesco set to launch its first checkout-free supermarket

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, photographed on November 15, 2016. (The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

'Gaps in provenance weren't seen as a problem'

How Nazi-looted treasures ended up in a Jewish-owned collection

By Jenni Frazer

After antiques were donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, their ‘concealed histories’ were exposed, along with how much was known about their acquisition

US said to pick Amy Gutmann, daughter of Holocaust survivor, as Germany envoy

By AFP

Arizona GOP congressmen to hold fundraiser with Holocaust revisionist

Rabbis examine the production line at Quality Poultry KFT in Csengele, Hungary, February 2017. (Zsolt Demecs/ via JTA)

An EU ruling on kosher slaughter tells rabbis how to go about their business

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Ebrahim Raisi, who went on to win Iran's presidential election, waves after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

UN official calls for human rights investigation into Iran president-elect Raisi

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An undated photo of Rabbi Reuven Bulka. (Michelle Valberg/Machzikei Hadas via JTA)

Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi who inspired nation, dies at 77

A computer-generated image of Sea Breaker naval missiles that are manufactured by the Rafael defense contractor. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

Israeli weapons maker Rafael unveils new state-of-the-art anti-ship missile

By Judah Ari Gross

A cubist female bust by the Spanish painter Picasso is displayed by police officers in Athens during a press conference on June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Take the fallGreek police recover stolen Picasso painting, then drop it

By AFP and ToI Staff

Gal Gadot arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on February 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Wonderful newsGal Gadot welcomes third daughter, named Daniella

Yonatan Fadida, the driver who killed cyclists Tomer Weinstein and Yaniv Lugasi in 2019, arrives to hear his sentence at the Lod District Court, June 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Driver who killed 2 cyclists while under influence of drugs jailed for 9.5 years

By Stuart Winer

View of the Herod's Palace hotel in Eilat on October 11, 2019. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Tourism Ministry cancels domestic tourism ad campaign over high hotel prices

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, wears a Jewish prayer shawl as he leave his house in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, to meet veterans of the Nigerian civil war, on May 26, 2017. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Nigeria announces arrest of separatist leader who fled to Israel, UK

By AFP

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaking at the annual Eli Hurvitz economic conference in Jerusalem held by the Israel Democracy Institute; June 29, 2021 (Israel Democracy Institute)

Bank of Israel’s Yaron says fiscal restraint needed to curb debt

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian marchers in New York, Thursday, on May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Yale student council approves statement accusing Israel of ‘genocide’

New York City Mayoral candidate Eric Adams mingles with supporters during his election night party, June 22, 2021, in New York. (Kevin Hagen/AP)

NYC Democratic mayoral primary in chaos after vote-counting data glitch

By Karen Matthews and Deepti Hajela

Counselors for Piece of the Puzzle, one of the 20 overnight camps taking place across Israel during July-August 2021 as part of Summer Camps Israel (Courtesy Summer Camps Israel)

S'more funIsraeli schools are out for the summer, time for sleepaway camp

By Jessica Steinberg

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