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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 4, 2021

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Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in a Boston hospital recovering from a stabbing attack on July 1, 2021. (Rabbi Dan Rodkin)

Wounded Boston rabbi says stabbing attack was ‘unequivocally’ antisemitic

By ToI Staff and AP

The previously Israeli-owned CSAV TYNDALL is seen sailing near the port of Pireas, Greece, on January 15, 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)

UAE-bound vessel, previously Israeli-owned, attacked in Indian Ocean

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Fire breaks out aboard Liberia-flagged CSAV Tyndall, formerly owned by Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Maritime; Israeli officials believe Iran behind attack

The Iranian town of Karaj (Mojtaba Momeni/Wikimedia Commons)

Satellite photos said to show damage from attack on Iran centrifuge site

IAEA Deputy Director General Massimo Aparo in Seoul, South Korea, November 2018. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

UN atomic agency’s deputy chief to visit Iran amid inspection access tussle

By AFP

Yasmin Jaber, a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem convicted on July 4, 2021, of spying for Hezbollah. (Shin Bet)

E. Jerusalem woman jailed for 2.5 years for recruiting terrorists for Hezbollah

National Library employee Yasmin Jaber, convicted in a plea bargain, met agents of terror group during trips to Lebanon and Turkey, was instructed to enlist Arab Israeli women

People. some with face masks. in Jerusalem on June 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Experts: Without restrictions, daily COVID cases could rise to 1,000 in 2 weeks

Hebrew University report urges government to adopt immediate new measures to curb outbreak, estimates vaccines 60-80% effective in preventing contagion for Delta variant

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) leads a cabinet meeting alongside Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett says new measures mulled as COVID infections, serious cases keep rising

A woman holds a face mask on her wrist in Jerusalem on June 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Officials to weigh reimposing some virus restrictions as Delta variant spreads

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz at the Abarbanel Mental Health Medical Center, Bat Yam, on June 22, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Health minister: We’re in talks with another country to swap vaccines

Nitzan Horowitz says coronavirus cabinet will weigh new restrictions as COVID cases rise, but notes that number of those in serious condition remains low

6:21 pm

Pfizer vaccine 70% effective against Delta variant, claims study
6:13 pm

Gantz: Conflict with Gaza could erupt at any time
5:34 pm

Hamas chief denies progress in prisoner swap deal

Personal belongings dangle from inside the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South Condo building in Surfside, Florida, July 3, 2021. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

As storm closes in, Surfside tower to be demolished; rescue efforts suspended

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jewish and Israeli athletes set to compete in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, from left: Sue Bird, Diego Schwartzman, Linoy Ashram, Maru Teferi, Jessica Fox. (Courtesy: AP/Jessica Hill; AP/Thibault Camus, AP/Efrem Lukatsky; Denis Barthel, CC BY-SA 4.0; AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Games start on July 23

Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish athletes to watch

By Emily Burack

Israel’s first Olympic surfer, one of the all-time greatest canoe paddlers, and a teen track star para-athlete are just some of the athletes to root for

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett on Gaza strikes in response to arson balloons: ‘Things have changed’

PM declares Israel not looking to fight but will retaliate against any violence; also says new government looking to aid Strip ‘without suitcases of dollars’

Israel strikes Hamas sites in Gaza after renewed arson balloon attacks in south

By Emanuel Fabian

UN agrees to take over distribution of Qatari funds in Gaza — report

Arson balloon attacks continue for second day after IDF strikes Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

A Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 plane comes in for a landing in an undated photograph. (Dmitry Terekhov/CC BY-SA 2.0/Wikimedia)

Moroccan plane lands in Israel, reportedly before taking part in IDF drill

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli military refrains from commenting on the visit, which can be seen in public flight-tracking software, saying only that it ‘cooperates with a variety of foreign nations’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid shakes hands with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 29, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/Government Press Office via AP)

From the blogs

Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Yair Lapid

UAE-Israel peace is more than an agreement. It’s a way of life.

The Abraham Accords represent a future that we believe must become more commonplace: one in which differences are set aside in favor of dialogue

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Daily Briefing July 4 – Eyes on Israel as world watches COVID outbreak spread

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A medical worker gives the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine at the Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, Iran, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran reimposes vast COVID restrictions as Delta variant spreads

By AP

Homesick for the Fourth of July

My family took the celebration seriously: Jews should make this a day of thanking God for the country that gave us safe harbor and liberated the camps

Yair Lapid should know better. So should we

Why is Israel’s foreign minister argle-bargling the Jerusalem-Washington tension as if it’s a recent Republican thing?

The permanent display at the Manchester Jewish Museum in England celebrates the blue-collar roots of the community, when many of its members worked in steel and textile. (Chris Payne via JTA)

Renovated Manchester Jewish Museum celebrates the community’s roots

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Housed in a former synagogue, museum documents the rise from Jews’ past as industrial laborers in the city’s urban center to their becoming residents of its leafy suburbs

Residents of villages watch a fire in the Larnaca mountain region in Cyprus on July 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

4 killed in worst forest fire in Cypriot history, as Israel sends aid

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

Four Israeli planes set to join firefighting aircraft taking part in efforts to douse massive blaze

Residents of villages watch a fire in the Larnaca mountain region on July 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Live updates (closed)Israel to dispatch firefighting planes to Cyprus to battle large blaze

Left, Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on June 21, 2021. Right, Interior Minister, Ayelet Shaked at a ceremony in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Yonatan Sindel/Flash90; collage by Times of Israel)

Gantz, Shaked squabble over settlements as cabinet sorts out a West Bank policy

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry denies report it would meet quarterly on approving settlement construction, saying no such decision has been made

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-transportation minister Israel Katz attend the inauguration ceremony for a new train station in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, September 17, 2018. (Flash90)

Likud’s Katz: I would’ve been able to form coalition; Netanyahu chose opposition

Former finance minister says ‘too bad’ ex-PM didn’t step down from party leadership to enable right-wing government, but adds he respects decision

Prime Minister's Office Legal Adviser Shlomit Barnea Farago attends an award ceremony in Jerusalem on December 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said threatening to sue legal adviser at PM’s office

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and former prime minister Ehud Olmert, left, attend the funeral of Likud MK Zeev Boim in Binyamina, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod, Pool)

Olmert doubles down on calling Netanyahus ‘mentally ill’ in response to lawsuit

Palestinians hold posters depicting human rights activist Nizar Banat during a protest triggered by the violent arrest and death in custody of Banat, in his hometown of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (MOSAB SHAWER / AFP)

Palestinian human rights lawyer said arrested by Israel after anti-PA protest

By Aaron Boxerman

Rights group says Farid al-Atrash arrested, but no comment from Shin Bet; Muhannad Karajah, lawyer for late Abbas critic Nizar Banat, briefly detained by PA

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops during a protest marking Land Day, in the West Bank city village of Qusra near Nablus, on March 30, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian fatally shot amid clashes near illegal West Bank outpost

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

Hundreds of demonstrators call for an end to PA President Mahmoud Abbas's 16-year rule during a rally in Ramallah on July 3, 2021. (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

Hundreds of protesters call for Abbas to resign over death of PA critic

By Aaron Boxerman

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Eid Najum holding Yael Shevach's wedding wing, July 4, 2021. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Full circleParks Authority worker finds lost wedding ring of terror victim’s wife

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during an award ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, on July 2, 2021. (Vladimir Martsul/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Rivlin congratulates authoritarian leader of Belarus on its independence day

By ToI Staff and AP

Itay Mautner (left) and Michal Vaknin, the new artistic directors of the Israel Festival, announced July 4, 2021 (Courtesy Yair Meyuhas)

Culture shiftIsrael Festival announces new artistic director team

By Jessica Steinberg

An Iraqi man buys ice blocks at a factory in the northern city of Mosul, on July 3, 2021, amid power outages and soaring temperatures. (Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)

Iraq boils as blackouts hit, with father putting baby in fridge to cool down

Mohamad Nader Badarneh is seen blowing his nose on a banknote in Turkey. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Snotty behaviorIsraeli said booted from Turkey for blowing nose on banknote

Khaled Nakhash (Courtesy)

Nazareth teen fatally shot in latest murder in Israel’s Arab community

Illustrative image of hacking, hackers, ransomware and a cybersecurity attack. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Experts say Russian group behind massive ransomware attack on global businesses

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

17-year-old Arab Israeli run over, stabbed to death in brawl

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen reacts after being reelected as leader of the far-right Nationally Rally party, at a party congress in Perpignan, southern France, on July 4, 2021. (Valentine Chapuis/AFP)

Marine Le Pen reelected as French far-right leader

Trump supporters gather outside the US Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US Capitol rioters accused of erasing content from social media, phones

By JACQUES BILLEAUD

An undersea fire is seen in the in Gulf of Mexico on June 3, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Water on fireGas pipeline rupture causes undersea fire in Gulf of Mexico

By AP

In this photo released by the Joint Task Force - Sulu, rescuers search for bodies from the site where a Philippine military C-130 plane crashed in Patikul town, Jolo province, southern Philippines on July 4, 2021. (Joint Task Force-Sulu via AP)

Philippine military plane crashes, killing at least 29

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