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What Matters Most On Monday, July 5, 2021

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A medical worker tests an Israeli youth for coronavirus at a basketball court turned into a coronavirus testing center in Binyamina, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

'Hospitals won't be overwhelmed; this is not a fourth wave'

Israel ‘underreacting’ to COVID? Or justified optimism? Hospital chiefs split

By Nathan Jeffay

With Muslim festival and Israeli wedding season approaching and COVID cases rising, some are filled with foreboding while others relax, saying vaccines doing their job

Prime Minister Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz attend a press conference at a Maccabi vaccine center in Holon, on June 29, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Bennett speaks to Pfizer CEO about additional supply of vaccines to Israel

Israelis wear protective face masks as they shop in Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv, on June 29, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Government set to impose fresh restrictions as COVID cases rise

An Israeli teenager receives the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center of the Tel Aviv municipality and Magen David Adom, in Tel Aviv on July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ministry data said to show Pfizer shot blocks majority of serious Delta cases

Figures reportedly indicate vaccine less effective against contagion from variant, but hospitalizations remain low; officials said weighing use of Moderna for 2nd dose for over 18s

A young Israeli receives a coronavirus vaccine shot at a Clalit vaccination center in Petah Tikva on June 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Early Israeli data signals Delta strain may bypass vaccine, cause mild illness

By AFP

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Short on votes, government makes last-ditch push for deal on reunification law

As crunch time arrives, Ra’am chief says talks on compromise ongoing but nothing yet agreed; proposal would upgrade status of 1,500 Palestinian families

9:32 pm

Knesset begins debate on Palestinian family reunification law
8:00 pm

Compromise on reunification law proposes upgrading status of 1.5K Palestinian families
6:26 pm

Ra'am chief: Still no agreement on Palestinian family reunification ban

Palestinians and Arab Israelis protest against the 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law into Israel outside the Knesset on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vote to extend Palestinian family reunification law coming down to the wire

Shaked said to agree on compromise with 6-month extension; Likud MKs to meet ahead of vote to solidify position; coalition MKs slam opposition as damaging Israel’s security

A protest against the 'family reunification law' outside the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 5 – What’s at stake in the Palestinian reunification law?

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian family reunification law up for Knesset vote, a day before deadline

The remaining structure of the Champlain Towers South condo building is demolished more than a week after it partially collapsed, late Sunday, July 4, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Rescue efforts resume in Florida after demolition of remaining part of condo

By Rebecca Santana and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

The damaged remaining structure at the Champlain Towers South condo building collapses in a controlled demolition, Sunday, July 4, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

Remaining part of Surfside condo demolished as rescuers prepare to resume search

By Adriana Gomez Licon and TERRY SPENCER

People observe the memorial to those missing outside the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on July 4, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Saul MARTINEZ / Getty Images via AFP)

Fireworks go silent as Miami area marks somber Fourth of July

By AP

Roselle Kline Chartock

The bottom line on Elvis Presley’s Jewish heritage

The King of Rock ‘n Roll grew up in a poor, fundamentalist Christian family in the Deep South, but a conversation with his mother Gladys likely changed his outlook for life

Is co-existence in Israel a myth? Co-thriving is not!

A Friday morning beach training session of Jewish and Arab martial arts instructors may sound risky, but meant only sand, sea, sweat, fresh air, and goodwill

My Hamas-supporting taxi driver

Our understandings of recent events were contradictory: I knew the terror group had attacked Israel on Jerusalem Day; he was sure they were only retaliating

Saving the Knesset

Outsized by a ballooning population, Israel’s flailing parliament desperately needs reform to strengthen checks and balances and promote equality

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InterviewThe family 'helped start a public health crisis'

How the Sackler family built a pharma dynasty and fueled an American calamity

By Rich Tenorio

In ‘Empire of Pain,’ Patrick Radden Keefe details the humble Jewish immigrant roots of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and how it is evading justice despite being behind the opioid crisis

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (center) and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (left) inaugurate a memorial to fallen South Lebanon Army soldiers, on July 4, 2021, in Metulla. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense minister: Israel will act whenever, wherever needed against Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

In TV interview, Gantz also warns war could again break out in Gaza Strip, as terror groups continue to launch arson balloons into Israel; offers to help Lebanon

The alleged Karaj centrifuge parts plant near Karaj, Iran, seen in a photo posted online by Google user Edward Majnoonian, in May 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)

Experts reportedly see major damage in attack on Iran centrifuge plant

The Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant back online after sudden closure

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Yair Netanyahu during an interview with the One America News Network on July 2, 2021. (YouTube)

Netanyahu’s son Yair attacks Bennett on US TV as ‘puppet’ PM of the radical left

In interview with far-right One America News Network, ex-premier’s son says new government is ‘very dangerous,’ lacks public legitimacy

Yair Netanyahu, son of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on March 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Court rejects Yair Netanyahu’s appeal to cancel libel verdict against him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, enters a courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in his corruption trial, April 5, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)

Court again delays resumption of Netanyahu trial, putting it off till July 19

Postponement puts restart of proceedings just 2 days before summer recess; delay comes at request of prosecutors who need more time to provide defense with missing materials

A man hurls antisemitic abuse at a Jewish man in London on July 3, 2021. (screen capture via Twitter)

Twice in an hour: Jewish man faces antisemitic abuse on London bus, train

In two incidents within an hour, passerby threatens to ‘slit your throat for Palestine,’ while another shouts ‘I f***ing hate the Jews’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz awards Israel's Golomb Security Prize to an unnamed Military Intelligence Officer, alongside President Reuven Rivlin, right, and Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Eshel, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 5, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Awarding defense prize, Gantz says military tech limited civilian deaths in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

President, defense minister give top security prize to four classified projects, dealing with intelligence, the air force, cybersecurity, and a new technological capability

A Hamas-appointed government employee in Gaza signs a document to receive 50 percent of her long-overdue salary from funds donated by Qatar, while others wait in the queue, at the main Gaza Post Office, in Gaza City, December 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel said seeking European donors to provide Gaza funding alongside Qatar

A picture taken from the Israeli settlement of Kedar shows the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, both in the West Bank, on October 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Norway’s largest pension fund divests from firms linked to West Bank settlements

By AFP

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi lays a wreath at the funeral of Col. Sharon Asman in Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery, on July 4, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

IDF to probe fitness program, lack of defibrillator after officer’s death

By Judah Ari Gross

Col. Sharon Asman, 42, is laid to rest in Tel Aviv on July 4, 2021 (IDF spokesperson's office)

‘An officer and a gentleman:’ IDF commander who died during training is buried

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Workers dismantle a temporary structure at a compound in Meron, northern Israel, on June 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Meron disaster commission begins investigation, orders documents handed over

Attorney general given 30 days to present government reports on planning of Lag B’Omer event at Mount Meron, where 45 people were killed in a deadly crush

Then Balad MK Heba Yazbak speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 23, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police to probe Arab former lawmaker for alleged incitement

Heba Yazbak says she was summoned for questioning but not told what investigation is about; ex-Balad MK previously praised terrorist who killed Israelis

Joint List party member MK Hanin Zoabi in the Knesset plenum on July 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Firebrand ex-MK Hanin Zoabi to strike plea bargain in forgery case — TV

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View of the Jordanian city of Aqaba, as seen from the Israeli city of Eilat. November 10, 2019. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Eilat’s neighbor Aqaba beckons Israeli tourists with bargain vacation prices

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome, on June 27, 2021.
(Andrew Harnik/AP)

Star mangled bannerLapid fumbles July 4 message with tweet of Liberia flag

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel approves tax rule changes for greater transparency of multinationals

Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican on July 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope in ‘good condition’ following intestinal surgery, Vatican says

By Frances D'Emilio

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2021. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Bennett speaks with Russia’s Putin for first time since becoming PM

A fire near the West Bank settlement of Migdalim on July 4, 2021. (Israel Firefighting Services)

Fire forces evacuation of homes in West Bank settlement; arson suspected

The Amos 17 satellite of Spacecom Satellite Communications (Courtesy)

Spacecom gets $8.6 million follow-on Hungary deal for satellite services

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: The Israeli Prison Authorities, Gilboa Prison, February 28, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90/File)

Panel on prison reform recommends some sentences be served at home

Police during a search and rescue operation for a teenager washed out to sea off the coast of Hadera, seen on July 5, 2021. (Israel Police)

Major search underway for missing teen washed out to sea near Hadera

By Stuart Winer

The ‘Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror’ platform that details the operations of Israeli company NSO Group, as part of an investigation in July 2021 by Amnesty International and Citizen Lab. (Courtesy)

Amnesty, research groups map out global reach of Israeli NSO Group’s spyware

By Shoshanna Solomon

The website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer screen in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

4 arrested for selling nude images, videos of women, teens without their consent

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, speaking at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Bank of Israel keeps rates unchanged, says COVID still poses ‘risk’ to economy

By Shoshanna Solomon

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