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What Matters Most On Friday, July 2, 2021

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Settlers gather for a group photograph under a giant Star of David and a national flag before evacuating the newly-established wildcat outpost of Evyatar near the northern Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank, on July 2, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

'We will return,' residents declare

Settlers vacate illegal Evyatar outpost under deal that keeps it intact

By Jacob Magid and Shalom Yerushalmi

Evyatar expected to remain point of friction with Palestinians for IDF, which will maintain permanent presence on northern West Bank hilltop as state determines status of land

Palestinian protesters use laser torches during a demonstration against the Israeli settlers' outpost of Evyatarin the West Bankon July 1, 2021. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinians clash with soldiers outside West Bank outpost on eve of evacuation

Palestinian security officers in plainclothes detain a demonstrator during clashes that erupted following a rally protesting the death of Palestinian Authority outspoken critic Nizar Banat, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

UN human rights chief urges Palestinian Authority to allow protests

By AP and ToI Staff

Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed and wounded in Boston on July 1, 2021 (Chabad.org)

Chabad rabbi stabbed and wounded in attack outside Boston Jewish center

Shlomo Noginski, an Israeli citizen, hospitalized in stable condition; attacker apprehended and identified as 24-year-old Khaled Awad

Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, in center among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Fla., June 26, 2021. (Andrea Sarcos/AFP)

These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

By Ben Harris and Shira Hanau

Among those confirmed killed or missing are several members of the area’s vibrant Jewish community, including newlyweds, grandparents and multi-generational families

US President Joe Biden attends a briefing in Miami Beach, Florida with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, on the collapsed condo tower in Surfside, on July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘We’re not going anywhere’: Biden visits Surfside with offer of support

By Alexandra Jaffe and Jonathan Lemire

American Jewry and Israel: Ending the unhealthy give-take paradigm

With a commitment to support the Diaspora enshrined in law, this new government can spearhead a historic turning point in the nature of relations

Miriam Gedwiser

How vigilante Pinchas brought peace

If the real goal is living in accord with God’s will, then Pinchas needed to stop the Israelites’ slide away from the Divine

The mainstreaming of the Religious Zionist party

Was it the RZP’s commitment to the Jewish people, heritage and survival that elevated it from pariah to pillar of Israeli politics?

The unconstitutional bigotry of a religious test for Dilawar Syed

Pointing out the Muslim faith of the US Senate’s SBA nominee is an insidious tactic, one that’s all-too-familiar to Jewish Americans like me

Maritza Rodriguez poses backstage at the first annual Mexican Billboard Awards on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Plot twist

Former Colombian telenovela star now an Orthodox Jew in Israel

Sarah Mintz, who was born Maritza Rodríguez, was a hugely famous TV personality who gave up her career to move to the Jewish state and live a religious lifestyle

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An Israeli teen receives a coronavirus vaccination in Jerusalem on June 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Curbing Delta’s force, vaccines keep Israel’s hospitals calm and avert lockdown

By Nathan Jeffay

‘If we weren’t so well-vaccinated, lockdown would be looming,’ says top government adviser; doctors breathe sigh of relief, but worries linger about ‘weak spot’ in COVID fight

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the arrival of over 100,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, at Ben Gurion Airport, on December 9, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Pfizer said to rule against extending expiry date for unused Israeli vaccines

A man queues at the entrance of the National Insurance Institute branch in downtown Jerusalem on September 21, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

COVID unemployment benefits said to cost the state NIS 39 billion ($12 billion)

Alon Tal pictured standing above the Bokek stream near the Dead Sea. (Courtesy)

Interview

Meet the US-born MK aiming to bring a sustainability ‘revolution’ to the Knesset

Longtime environmental activist Alon Tal also vows to tackle issues of religious pluralism and ‘heal the rift’ between Israeli and American Jews

IGY (Israel Gay Youth) participants. (courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Gay Israeli youth make societal change through IDF, national service

What opportunities do Israel’s young LGBTQ+ have after high school? We speak with Rom Ohayon from Israel Gay Youth to find out

Illustrative: Demonstrators take part in a protest against prostitution outside the Gogo strip club in Tel Aviv on December 22, 2016. (Flash90)

Israel downgraded in State Department human trafficking report

US criticizes Jewish state for fewer investigations and prosecutions in trafficking cases in 2020 compared to 2019

The Kosher buffet provided by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed's office to the Israeli delegation in Abu Dhabi, June 29, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

'This was 100% the UAE'

Abu Dhabi ruler went out of his way to ensure kosher food for Lapid delegation

By Lazar Berman

Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed’s office insisted on preparing freshly made food for Israeli group’s visit, with delivery even getting a royal escort

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid shakes hands with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, on June 29, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem GPO)

Lapid in joint op-ed with Emirati FM: We must urge other states to join us

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara address their supporters on the night of the Israeli elections, at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Police probing state’s payment for $15,000 jacuzzi at Netanyahu home – report

Netanyahus say story ‘a complete lie’; couple themselves not suspected of wrongdoing, Channel 12 says, though initial findings echo past pattern of abuse of public funds by family

French MP Meyer Habib (L) with Sara Netanyahu (C) and Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, July 1, 2021. (Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu hosts French MP at Balfour residence despite promises to Bennett

By Raoul Wootliff

Yamina MK Abir Kara (center) is seen during a discussion on a law regarding unemployment benefits in the Knesset on July 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina MK to be investigated for illegally voting twice in Knesset

Governor of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Duesseldorf, Germany, June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Interview

Kirsten Grieshaber

Merkel’s likely successor: Every young person should visit Auschwitz

The fight against growing antisemitism in Germany is close to Armin Laschet’s heart, and like the current chancellor he is a strong supporter of Israel

Illustrative: A fireball lights up the night sky above buildings near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as IDF planes hit a Hamas site in the Palestinian enclave, on June 17, 2021. (Screen capture)

Israel bombs Hamas weapons factory in Gaza in response to arson balloons

After 2 weeks of quiet, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza start 4 fires in southern Israel, but do not cause major damage

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused from an incendiary balloon near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, on June 15, 2021. (Israel Fire Service)

After 2 weeks of quiet, arson balloons launched from Gaza start 4 fires in south

Emma Goldberg, in her book 'Life on the Line,' followed six new doctors in New York City hospitals as they treated COVID patients. (Author photo by Brittainy Newman; book courtesy of Harper/ via JTA)

'New York was a sort of war zone'

A journalist followed 6 rookie doctors in NYC as they came of age during COVID

By Lori Silberman Brauner

27-year-old Emma Goldberg’s book ‘Life on the Line’ offers a look at how newly-minted physicians began their careers in the heart of a global, and frighteningly local, pandemic

The Natanz uranium enrichment facility buildings are pictured some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, on March 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran said to restrict UN inspectors’ access to Natanz nuclear site after attack

Tehran reportedly citing security concerns in wake of alleged Israeli strike in April; ‘They are provoking us,’ a Western diplomat says

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a ceremony marking the completion of an IDF officers training course on July 1, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Bennett: If required to use force, Israel will be more lethal than ever

Then-Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett (R) is interviewed by Brookings Executive Vice President Martin Indyk at the Brookings Institute in Washington on December 6, 2014. (Brookings Institute)

PM Naftali Bennett lived in NJ as a kid. Israel belongs to all Jews, he says

By Larry Yudelson

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Allen Weisselberg, center, departs Manhattan criminal court, July 1, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump Organization, CFO indicted for ‘sweeping and audacious’ tax fraud scheme

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

130 countries back bid to enforce global taxes on Amazon, Google, Facebook

By David McHugh

Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg (left) and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli. (Flash90)

Ministers Zandberg, Michaeli receive boosted security after threats

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, January 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Putin holds up Israel as a model of unity for Ukrainians and Russians

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Washington State Rep. Jim Walsh compared coronavirus vaccine mandates to the Holocaust in a video posted to his Facebook page. He later apologized. (Screenshot via JTA)

2 Republican state lawmakers liken coronavirus protections to Nazi laws

Illustrative image of an elbow-bump (Picturesque Japan; iStock by Getty Images)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise buys Israel’s Zerto to expand cloud data protection

By Shoshanna Solomon

Lawmaker Said al-Harumi pauses during an interview at his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2021.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

InterviewBedouin MK seeks change for community through ‘experiment’ of joining government

By Areej Hazboun and Joseph Krauss

The site of a paraglider crash near Modiin on July 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Two men injured in paraglider crash outside Modiin

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