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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 13, 2021

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and President Isaac Herzog (right). (AP)

In possible sign of thaw, Turkey’s Erdogan talks with new Israeli president

Isaac Herzog and Turkish president pledge to maintain contact ‘and ongoing dialogue’ despite differences, after years of strained ties

The Daily Briefing

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 13 – Reshaping Israel’s foreign policy from East to West

AnalysisAs Saudis and Emiratis take aim at each other, Israel could get hit by ricochets

By Lazar Berman

Activists protest Israel’s military actions in Gaza outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC on May 18, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Poll finds a quarter of US Jews think Israel is ‘apartheid state’

Also, 22% of respondents believe ‘Israel is committing genocide’; 67% say denying Jewish state’s right to exist is antisemitic

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a plenum session in the Knesset on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PM: We don't hold a press conf. for every Pfizer phone call

Sourpuss, showman: Bennett bashes Netanyahu over Iran, COVID in Knesset showdown

Prime minister mocks predecessor for showboating accomplishments, while opposition leader accuses new government of undoing his gains

Shirley Pinto, the first deaf Knesset member, speaks during a plenum session on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

First deaf Knesset member gives maiden speech in sign language

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bashing water deal, Netanyahu accuses Jordan of helping bolster Iran

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with 26 EU foreign ministers in Brussels, July 12, 2021. (European Union)

Analysis

Stressing new coalition’s liberal values, Lapid looks to revive ties with EU

Marking shift from Netanyahu cultivating Visegrad bloc while seemingly snubbing ‘old Europe,’ foreign minister backs two-state solution and seeks to get back in sync with Brussels

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels on July 12, 2021. (JOHN THYS / AFP)

In meetings with Lapid, EU expresses eagerness to improve Israel ties

By Lazar Berman

(L-R) 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)

German, French envoys said to have boycotted US embassy’s July 4 Jerusalem event

Top: a coin from around 134-135 CE found in Wadi Rashash. Bottom: a coin from around 67-68 CE found at Khirbat Jib’it. Background: Wadi Rashash in the West Bank. (Tal Rogovsky, Yechezkel Blumstein / courtesy)

2,000-year-old coins hailing ‘freedom’ of Zion, Jerusalem uncovered in West Bank

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on July 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

In bid to topple government, Netanyahu seeks a dysfunctional Knesset

The new coalition has proven surprisingly resilient, but a state budget law must pass by November if it is to survive. Likud is hard at work, once again, making sure it doesn’t

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at a press briefing with journalists in Jerusalem (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Liberman to bring budget to cabinet in August, seeks hike in home property tax

By Shoshanna Solomon

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem, on July 6, 2021. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Sa’ar says he’ll advance Basic Law on criminal defendants’ rights

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

Daily virus rate surges to 730 new cases, highest tally since March

Rachel and Yitzhak Na'eh (Courtesy)

Vaccinated elderly couple die of COVID 4 days apart

A technician tests a passenger for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ministry says testing glitch underreported COVID positivity rate for weeks

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits a laboratory in the Israel Institute for Biological Research on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel’s own COVID-19 vaccine to be tested in Georgia, Ukraine and at home

NRx Pharmaceuticals will send inoculation, known as Brilife, to third-stage clinical trials, which will be conducted on tens of thousands of volunteers in Israel and abroad

Healthcare worker takes a COVID-19 test sample in Netanya, on April 13, 2021 (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Health Ministry said set to recommend reducing quarantine period to 7 days

Then-US vice president Joe Biden is seen on large video screens as he addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, March 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

AIPAC cancels 2022 policy conference, citing lingering pandemic concerns

Cars pass the Qalandiya crossing between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, July 11, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Live updates (Closed)

Gunman opens fire at West Bank checkpoint, security guard hurt from shrapnel

Attacker opens fire from vehicle at Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah before fleeing scene, reports indicate

8:54 pm

Reports: Gunman opens fire at West Bank checkpoint, security guard hurt from shrapnel
6:15 pm

Final Miami collapse death toll expected to be less than 100
5:47 pm

Coronavirus cabinet approves cutting COVID quarantine by a week

When it comes to Israel, the world has an anxiety disorder

The diagnosis fits: Overgeneralization? Check. Disqualifying the positive? That too, along with all-or-none thinking and emotional reasoning

Words create worlds

Is someone disabled, or a person with a disability? What about ’special needs’ or ’neurodiverse’ or ’on the Autism spectrum’? Language can have huge consequences

Converting Israel’s office buildings to apartments is doomed to failure

This supposed housing crisis quick-fix appeals to voters, but it’s a money-loser for developers. Vacate inner-city apartments used as offices instead

A meditation for the 9 Days

Baseless hatred destroyed the Second Temple; recognizing the divine image in every human sparks the love needed to rebuild it

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (L) and political strategist Mark Mellman in the Knesset before the swearing in of Israel's 36th government, June 13, 2021. (Yesh Atid)

Interview

Lapid’s US pollster sees 10 years of work come to ‘dramatic, emotional’ fruition

By Tal Schneider

Mark Mellman, strategist for Yesh Atid and founder of Democratic Majority for Israel, believes new Israeli government can restore Jewish state’s bipartisan place in US politics

Poll: A month into new government, Israelis split on whether they support it

Footage aired by Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar on July 12, 2021, shows the attack on an IDF jeep on July 12, 2006 that sparked the Second Lebanon War. (Screen grab)

Hezbollah airs new footage from 2006 attack that triggered Second Lebanon War

Terror group releases previously unseen video of operatives moving through wooded border area and carrying out deadly bombing of IDF patrol vehicle, then taking 2 hostages

Scooter drivers waiting outside a gas station in Lebanon's capital Beirut raise their middle fingers in protest against hikes in the price of fuel, June 29, 2021. (Joseph Eid/AFP)

EU paves way for sanctions against Lebanese political elite over ongoing crisis

By AFP

Drone pilots from five countries and Israel pose in front of a Hermes-450 unmanned aerial vehicle during an international exercise, dubbed Blue Guardian, which launched on July 12, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF launches first-of-its-kind international drone exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, on May 14, 2021. (US Embassy Palestinian Affairs Unit/Twitter)

Biden’s Mideast point man in region amid tussle over home demolitions

By Lazar Berman

Hady Amr makes second trip to Israel, expected to voice displeasure over Israel’s policy of razing homes of terror suspects and death of activist at hands of PA

Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, gestures during a rally in Beit Lahiya on May 30, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/ Flash90)

Egypt expresses growing optimism on Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange — report

Suha Jarrar (L) greets her mother Khalida Jarrar of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) after she was released from 20 months of detention in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 28, 2019 (STR/Flash90)

Israel bars jailed senior PFLP member from attending her daughter’s funeral

By Aaron Boxerman

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

Interview'The only comedian to have made Elie Wiesel laugh'

Jewish comedic legend looks back on 50 years of laughs in new memoir

Rabbinical student-turned-comedian David Steinberg has penned a new book detailing his unforgettable anecdotes with the funniest and most famous comics of the past five decades

An illustration of the new Tel Aviv University sensor to recreate the sense of touch (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

Israeli study offers hope of ‘rewiring’ nerves to restore lost sense of touch

By Nathan Jeffay

Poised to help many who have lost touch sensation to injury or amputation, tech feeds sensor’s signals to healthy nerves; tests on rats documented in peer-reviewed research

In this July 6, 2021, file photo, a memorial for the Guara family is posted on a fence near the Champlain Towers South, in Surfside, Florida (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Child’s necklace, wedding album: The hunt for keepsakes in Florida condo rubble

By TERRY SPENCER and KELLI KENNEDY

As rescuers recover personal possessions of the dead and missing, rabbis work in the processing area to ensure that religious artifacts are handled with care and properly stored

The pile of debris from the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building is seen through fencing on July 11, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

As collapsed condo ruins become ‘holy site,’ Surfside weighs how to honor dead

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

Jacob Steinmetz is drafted for the MLB (MLB.com via JTA)

Jacob Steinmetz becomes first known Orthodox Jewish player drafted into the MLB

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.

Steinmetz, from Long Island, known for his blazing fastball, picked 77th overall by Arizona Diamondbacks in Major League Baseball draft

This July 16, 1981 file photo shows US baseball union leader Marvin Miller speaking to reporters after rejecting a proposal to end a baseball strike, in New York. (AP Photo/Howard, File)

Marvin Miller, Jewish former MLB union chief, to be inducted in Hall of Fame

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Rescue forces near the scene where 10 young Israelis were swept to their deaths in flash floods in the Tzafit riverbed, near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

Families of students killed in flash flood reach NIS 24 million settlement

Zionist activist Rudy Rochman pitches his project, 'We Were Never Lost.' (Screenshot)

Israeli filmmakers arrested in Nigeria over alleged contact with separatists

By Lazar Berman

High Court justices at a court session on petitions filed against the proposed government in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/POOL)

High Court upholds Basic Law underpinning PM rotation deals

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men study toward professional degrees at Kemach, a Jerusalem-based organization that guides Haredim through study programs and job placement. (photo credit: Kemach/JTA)

High Court okays gender-segregated ultra-Orthodox college programs

A man walks dogs in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood of Florentine, on November 6, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Genetic wasteTel Aviv will test dog poop DNA to fine owners who don’t clean up

An illustrative image of a pizza (davit85; iStoch by Getty Images)

Coca-Cola Israel invests in Biomilk to develop cultivated milk products

By Shoshanna Solomon

Lawmakers during an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 12, 2021. (Noam Moskowitz/ Knesset spokesperson's office)

Securing some stability, Knesset okays 11 permanent committees

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives for his testimony at in the case against former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial on criminal allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, at the District Court in Jerusalem, June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: New texts from ex-Walla CEO’s phone strengthen case against Netanyahu

This image provided by the Dormont, Pennsylvania Police shows Moshe Journo, an Israeli man who allegedly had been on the run for 15 years after being accused of raping a teenage girl in Pennsylvania. Journo was remanded to the Allegheny County Jail after he was extradited back to United States on February 21, 2019. (Dormont Police/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)

Israeli man gets 10-25 years for raping 15-year-old girl near Pittsburgh

England's Tyrone Mings reacts following defeat to Italy at the Euro 2020 soccer championship final at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (John Sibley/Pool Photo via AP)

Hit with abuse, England soccer stars take on racist fans, their own government

Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado, center, smiles after joining other freshman Republican House members for a group photo at the Capitol in Washington, January 4, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Auschwitz Museum says Boebert’s Nazi-vaccine link shows ‘intellectual decline’

England's Harry Kane, center, consoles Bukayo Saka after the penalty shootout of the Euro 2020 soccer final match between England and Italy at Wembley stadium in London, July 11, 2021. (Laurence Griffiths/Pool via AP)

Amid racism row, Instagram says monkey emojis to Black soccer players are okay

By ToI Staff and AFP

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