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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 7, 2021

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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)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett said to order review of Iran policy ahead of expected meeting with Biden

By Itamar Sharon

According to Axios, issues under discussion include position on US return to 2015 deal, Jerusalem’s potential to influence issue and the state of the Israeli military option

6:22 pm

Biden extends White House invitation to Jordan's King Abdullah
6:17 pm

Bennett said to order review of Iran policy ahead of expected meeting with Biden
6:09 pm

Group photo brings together Bennett, Netanyahu, Rivlin, Herzog, Hayut

Photo essay

The presidency that was: Reuven Rivlin’s seven years in office

Moments when Israel’s 10th president hugged, cried and laughed with the Israeli public

President Reuven Rivlin at a ceremony awarding outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem. April 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 5, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Rivlin’s record-breaking presidency in numbers

By Stuart Winer

Undated photo of President Reuven Rivlin wearing a disguise. (Shin Bet)

Hair forceDisguised President Rivlin strolled among public

By Stuart Winer

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing July 7 – Ripples of Rivlin: How his farewell tour left a mark

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

President Reuven Rivlin (right) with his successor Issac Herzog and Herzog's wife Michael. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Herzog to take office as Israel’s 11th president in a day of pomp and ceremony

US President Barack Obama (right) talks with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during a bilateral meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, December 9, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON)

Obama to Rivlin: Your leadership on Israeli democracy set a positive example

By Lazar Berman

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks via video call during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 17, 2020. (Aleksey Nikolskyi, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Washington Institute

Putin, Israel, and the Calculated Limits of a Bilateral Relationship

Where are Russian-Israeli ties headed today? What are Vladimir Putin’s motivations for involvement in the Middle East, and what implications does this activity hold for Israel?

Israeli medical workers test for COVID at a drive-in testing compound in the Golan Heights. July 7, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

With COVID comeback, ministers tighten Ben Gurion isolation requirement

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Though coronavirus cabinet doesn’t impose major new restrictions, it orders rapid testing at geriatric centers, summer camps; quarantine period may be shortened

Travelers arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel enter the COVID-19 testing area, July 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

For 2nd day in row new virus cases top 500, number of seriously ill slowly rises

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit vaccination center in Rehovot on December 29, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

As Israel mulls 3rd virus shot, study shows antibody levels high after 6 months

2nd study indicates that inoculated elderly, immunocompromised also remained well-protected; 3rd study shows vaccinated who catch coronavirus are less contagious than unvaccinated

A poster hoping to overcome the COVID-19 crisis is displayed at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Israel flies 700,000 Pfizer vaccines to Seoul in swap deal

Shaare Zedek Medical Center staff wearing protective clothes move patients to the new coronavirus ward of the hospital in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Unvaccinated doctor said to infect several with COVID after continuing to work

A man holds a placard during a protest organized by Jewish associations, who say justice has not been done for the killing of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, at Trocadero Plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

'There is a growing frustration, anxiety level among Jews'

Amid rising US antisemitism, Jewish groups plan July 11 solidarity rally in DC

By Matt Lebovic

‘NO FEAR: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People’ set to take place in Washington with a ‘big tent’ of Jewish groups; co-organized by Elisha Wiesel

Illustrative: A plenum session in the Knesset, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In coalition boost, Knesset okays budget extension, law easing Likud defections

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs pass three key laws aimed at shoring up the position of the paper-thin majority; coalition forced to pull one bill from agenda for fear it wouldn’t pass

Likud MK David Bitan arrives for a Knesset faction meeting on June 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State to charge Likud MK David Bitan with bribery, fraud

By Raoul Wootliff

Michael Rainsbury

President Rivlin: The Jewish world’s greatest educator

When the ’sabra’ president included Diaspora Jewry in his long-term plan, he earned the title he’d claimed: ’president of the Jewish people’

Deborah Gastfreund Schuss

Will an age-old hatred define a new America?

A family vacationing in Florida. Kids in a schoolyard. Jews from the FSU… With US Jews targeted on pretext of protesting Israel, of course they’re edgy

When mental illness is deployed as a political weapon

The insults do grave damage to those of us in Israel who are diagnosed with mental disorders, so why are the psychiatrists silent on the matter?

Agunot and the ransoms they pay

The state helps release Jewish women from marital captivity, which prevents most of us from noticing that it put us all in marital captivity to begin with

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With ban on Palestinian family unification expiring, what happens next?

The Knesset voted not to extend the controversial 2003 law, meaning thousands of Palestinians may now have a pathway to citizenship, though several hurdles remain

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

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked addresses the Knesset on July 6, 2021. {Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked vows to bring downed Palestinian family unification law to another vote

By Raoul Wootliff

Opposition members rejoice after a Knesset vote rejected an extension of the Palestinian family reunification law, in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wingers slash at each other after citizenship ban extension fails

By Raoul Wootliff

IDF troops map out the home of a Palestinian man suspected of carrying out a drive-by shooting, ahead of its potential demolition, in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, May 6, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Demolition of home of deadly terror attack suspect said delayed at US request

US, which opposes punitive demolitions, sent representatives from embassy to High Court hearings where petition noting that Muntasir Shalabi was estranged from family was rejected

US House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Gregory Meeks, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and US Embassy in Israel Charge D'affaires Michael Ratney at the US Embassy's Independence Day celebration on July 5, 2021. (Ziv Sokolov/US Embassy in Jerusalem)

At US embassy, Bennett pushes for return of bipartisan backing for Israel

Max Lewis, left, and Ilan Naibryf both served as leaders in the University of Chicago Jewish community. Lewis died after being hit by a stray bullet and Naibryf is missing in the building collapse in Surfside, Florida. (Courtesy of University of Chicago Chabad/ via JTA)

'Our community has been irreparably torn by these tragedies'

U of Chicago Jewish student missing in Surfside, another killed by stray bullet

Jews at the school are left reeling as Ilan Naibryf is listed among the missing in the Florida condo collapse and Max Lewis is struck on his way home from an internship

Florida storm becomes hurricane, threatening condo search effort as toll hits 36

By Curt Anderson and FREIDA FRISARO

Surfside disaster death toll rises to 32 as weather threatens to hamper search

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Slew of lawsuits aim to get to bottom of Florida building collapse

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and Curt Anderson

Israel's charges d'affaires in Poland, Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon (Foreign Ministry)

Israeli envoy to Polish senate amid Holocaust row: Restitution law harms rights

By Lazar Berman

Charge d’affaires says proposed bill is bad for Jews and others; critics say it could block Jewish heirs from claiming property left during Holocaust

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks with people after the wreath laying ceremony at Mound of Glory war memorial marking Independence Day, on the outskirts of the capital Minsk, Belarus, July 3, 2021. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Israel slams ‘unacceptable’ remarks by Belarus leader that world bows to Jews

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustration of a pacemaker in the human body (chombosan via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli nanotech may use body’s energy to generate power for pacemakers and more

By Nathan Jeffay

Nano-film can create electricity from any motion in the body, even the slight movement of blood moving through veins, according to research published in peer-reviewed journal

The SenseGuard product developed by Israeli startup NanoVation (Courtesy)

Medical startup NanoVation gets EU backing for breathing monitor

By Shoshanna Solomon

Intel Corp. unveils its highest-performing data-center processor, Ice Lake Server, sired in Israel (Intel Corp)

Israel’s Shlomit Weiss gets key chip design job at Intel Corp

By Shoshanna Solomon

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attends the Qader 2021 military exercise, July 4, 2021 (YouTube screen capture)

Analysis

Egypt uses military to send firm message to newly conciliatory Turkey

Despite quiet talks between the two rivals, base opening and military exercises show Sissi not ready to accept Erdogan’s overtures

Security forces stand outside the state security court where the trial of Bassem Awadallah, a former royal adviser, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a distant cousin of the king, is taking place, in Amman, Jordan, on June 21, 2021. (Raad Adayleh/AP)

Verdict in alleged Jordan coup plot set for next week

By AFP

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is pulled by one of the Suez Canal tugboats, in the Suez Canal, Egypt, on March 29, 2021. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

After 3-month seizure, Egypt releases ship that blocked Suez Canal

Rabbi Michael Perice of Temple Sinai in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, shared his story of addiction and recovery with his congregants after celebrating 10 years of sobriety. (Rachael Perice/ via JTA)

'I wanted to let others know that I understand them'

US rabbi formerly addicted to opioids uses his experience to help congregants

Rabbi Michael Perice struggled with opening up to synagogue members about his past but thought it best to fight stigmas. Now he’s bowled over by the outpouring of love and support

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Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams speaks at his election party in New York, June 22, 2021. (Kevin Hagen/AP)

Former police captain Eric Adams wins Democratic primary in NYC’s mayoral race

By Karen Matthews

TV cameras in front of the 'Grand Hotel Vienna' where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, June 20, 2021. (AP/Florian Schroetter)

US, Europeans warn nuclear talks in danger as Iran plans enrichment boost

By AFP

A computer rendering of the Shaldag-class ship that the Defense Ministry says it is purchasing from Israel Shipyards Ltd. on July 7, 2021. (Israel Shipyards Ltd.)

In NIS 100m deal, navy buys four new patrol ships from Israeli firm

By Judah Ari Gross

A woman outside her family's house in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2021. (Adel Hana/AP)

UN report assesses rebuilding Gaza after recent fighting to cost $485 million

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman meets with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon, on August 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

US hosts highest-level Saudi visit since Khashoggi killing

By Matthew Lee, Lolita C. Baldor and Ellen Knickmeyer

Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad in June 2011. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Former Palestinian PM Fayyad visits Gaza, Ramallah to push unity government

By Aaron Boxerman

Iranian clock counting down to "destruction of Israel."(Screenshot/Channel 12)

Final countdownIran’s doomsday clock for Israel’s end halts amid power cuts

By ToI Staff and AP

Outbrain in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Ahead of IPO, Outbrain raises $200 million from Boston’s The Baupost Group

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz speaks at the annual Greenbelt arts, faith, and justice festival in the UK in 2016. (YouTube)

From our partnerUK Jewish school reinstates female lecturer fired over rabbinical ordination

Hundreds gather on July 1, 2021, for a rally in Brighton, Mass., in support of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, who was stabbed the day before in the same park across the street from his Jewish day school. (Courtesy of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston via JTA)

Boston Jews rally together after streak of attacks in the area

By Penny Schwartz

Ron Eliyahu Oved, right, and his father. Oved was killed in an accident during a tryout for the IDF Paratroopers Brigade on April 11, 2019. (Courtesy of the family)

Top IDF officers get rebuked over death of recruit, subpar probe

By Judah Ari Gross

Twitter announced on December 18, 2017, that it will be enforcing stricter policies on violent and abusive content, such as hateful images or symbols, including those attached to user profiles. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

French court orders Twitter to reveal efforts to stop hate speech

By AFP

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