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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 15, 2021

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Speaker Mickey Levy in the Knesset on July 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker flubs vote, killing coalition bill for rabbinical court reform

Mickey Levy not allowed to change ballot after hitting wrong button, leading to 51-51 tie that torpedoes measure, in latest embarrassing defeat for wide-tent government

Israelis protest against a man charged with rape of a 13-year-old girl, in Tel Aviv on March 15, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bill to store samples from sex crime victims advances; opposition votes against

Israelis gather at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to mark the international marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, on April 20, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Coalition pulls bill on decriminalizing marijuana because of Ra’am opposition

Illustrative photo of an Israeli F-15 fighter jet. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Iron Dome almost knocked out Israeli F-15 during recent Gaza fighting

Articulated pig skeleton as found in City of David excavation. (Oscar Bejerano, Israel Antiquities Authority)

This little piggy went to Jerusalem 2,700 years ago, raising some questions

Bones of small pig pulled out of home being excavated in City of David, adding to rare, but not nonexistent, series of finds showing Judeans did occasionally ham it up

Aiming to bring home the bacon, MeaTech wants to put lab-grown pork on the table

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing July 15 – How odd couple Bennett-Lapid are settling into marriage

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

Pro-Palestinian supporters demonstrate in New York's Times Square, May 20, 2021, amid the Hamas-Israel conflict. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Op-ed

Genocide, apartheid? A poll Israel cannot allow itself to ignore

Nobody who knows the reality in Israel could possibly believe it is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Yet 22% of US Jews apparently do. Alarm bells should be ringing

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

'Vaccines alone won't halt the spread'

PM: Delta can be beaten in 5 weeks if public heeds rules; lockdown a last resort

Saying whole world is turning red, Bennett urges Israelis to cancel trips abroad; blames renewed outbreak on the previous government’s ‘serious neglect’

Police at a temporary checkpoint outside Jerusalem's Old City, on September 19, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown on Rosh Hashana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Official reportedly warns lockdown could be ordered for Rosh Hashanah

By Stuart Winer

People eating at Sarona market in Tel Aviv on July 13, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Over 750 new COVID cases reported for 3rd day; deaths, serious illnesses rise

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Trust or bust: New honor system coalition learns from Netanyahu’s fall

Lapid gave up a key measure this week that would have helped protect him from a potential betrayal by Bennett when the time comes to rotate premiership. Was it naivete?

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset on September 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Knesset rejects bill to provide compensation to Meron disaster victims

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Jerusalem is a thriving city. Why on Tisha B’Av do we mourn its destruction?

Jewish remembrance isn’t only about recalling the past; it’s about building the future. Perhaps there should be a new, middle-ground approach to observe the day

Noam and Rachel’s Excellent Adventure

A new program for Jewish students counters the perverse spread of anti-Zionist, antisemitic and anti-American currents in US educational culture

Allison Josephs

Enough with the ‘ex-Orthodox’ drama

Hollywood excels at telling stories of outsiders and redemption (think Luca and Shrek!), so why this repeated depiction of Orthodoxy as freakish?

Ilhan Omar’s antisemitism poses a moment of reckoning for Democrats

Just as we have called out fellow Conservatives, Nancy Pelosi must choose between real leadership or shameful capitulation to the enemies of the Jewish people

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

15 years on, IDF girds for a potentially devastating war against Hezbollah

Military does not believe conflict is imminent, but says Iran-backed terrorist militia, against which it fought a war in 2006, has an arsenal of roughly 140,000 missiles

Police at a temporary checkpoint outside Jerusalem's Old City, on September 19, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown on Rosh Hashana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Health Ministry director says holiday lockdown is a possibility

Nachman Ash also suggests that the indoor mask mandate in Israel will stick around until at least next year

6:36 pm

Joint List ready to negotiate with the new government on the budget - report
6:24 pm

Microsoft accuses Israeli group of selling tool to hack into Windows
6:23 pm

Qatar pressing Hamas to accept Israeli restrictions on aid money - report

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and US President Joe Biden. (composite image: AP, Flash90)

Merkel to visit next month, shortly before she steps down

Bennett mulls visiting DC on a weekend, to avoid missing Knesset votes

By Tal Schneider

Timeframe for Biden meeting would be very tight due to coalition’s wafer-thin majority, opposition filibusters, Shabbat observance and US presidents not holding meetings on Sundays

German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a joint press conference with Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, on October 4, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Germany’s Merkel said angered by Israeli leak of her planned August visit

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Joint Chiefs head said Trump was preaching Hitler’s ‘gospel’ before Capitol riot

According to new book, General Mark Milley accused former president of sending his ‘brownshirts’ into streets, warned: ‘This is a Reichstag moment’

Then-US ambassador to Israel David Friedman during a visit in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, February 20, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Former US envoy confirms Trump was angry at Netanyahu for congratulating Biden

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Zuckerbucks’: Republican nickname for Facebook CEO riles antisemitism watchdog

ADL says term, born after Zuckerberg steered $400 million from nonprofit to assist local election offices, suggests ‘rich Jews control levers of power’

Naama and Eitam Henkin, who were killed in a terror attack on October 1, 2015. (Courtesy)

US court: Iran, Syria liable for deaths of Israeli couple in 2015 terror attack

By ToI Staff and JTA

Eitam and Naama Henkin’s relatives sued the 2 countries for financing, arming Hamas; lawyer says ruling is 1st time Iran banks liable for foreign terror group killing of US citizen

Birzeit University students visit the demolished home of Muntasir Shalabi in Turmus Ayya on July 14, 2021. (Courtesy)

IDF nabs dozens of Hamas activists after solidarity visit to terrorist’s village

Illustrative: Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF said asking for major budget increase to enable potential strike on Iran

Request for billions of shekels comes as government prepares for possibility that talks to revive nuclear deal will fall apart; Netanyahu accused of neglecting issue

Iran said unwilling to restart nuclear talks until hardliner Raisi enters office

Gantz: We must ‘adapt our plans’ to prepare for a nuclear Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

French envoy to Israel: Iran should never possess nuclear bomb

By Lazar Berman

Barcelona's Lionel Messi celebrates with team mates scoring the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Celta at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, May 16, 2021. (AP/Joan Monfort)

Beitar Jerusalem scraps Barcelona preseason friendly in row over game’s location

Owner of Israeli team says Spanish soccer team insisted the game be held somewhere other than Jerusalem; Joint List MK welcomes decision

FILE- In this Aug. 8, 2007 file photo, Anthony Bourdain, host of theTravel Channel's "No Reservations," poses in a New York restaurant. Court papers show Bourdain was worth $1.2 million when he died in June 2018. Most of his estate was left to his 11-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Film review

Documentary attempts to unravel inner journeys of globetrotting foodie Bourdain

By Jocelyn Noveck

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Israelis wait to recieve a COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center operated by the Tel Aviv Municipality with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Miriam ALster/Flash90)

Israeli research finds COVID-19 antibody levels differ between men and women

By Stuart Winer

(From left to right) Avner, Sara, Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu tour the Golan Heights, on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

Shin Bet set to provide only 6 months of security for Netanyahu’s wife and sons

The aftermath of the fires caused at the site of the incident in Lod. (Israel Police)

8 Arab Israelis arrested for alleged role in Lod firebomb attack

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks following his cabinet meeting in Ankara, May 17, 2021. (Mustafa Kamaci/Turkish Presidency via AP)

Turkey’s ruling party says ties with Israel to improve after presidents’ call

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at a party conference in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud MK advances law to prevent reopening of US consulate for Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Aaron Boxerman

In this file photo taken on April 7, 2016, Journalist Masih Alinejad speaks onstage at the 7th Annual Women In The World Summit at the Lincoln Center in New York City. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images North America / AFP)

Journalist shocked by ‘unbelievable’ Iranian plot to kidnap her from Brooklyn

By AFP

Police operate in Qalansawe following a deadly shooting which killed Leith Nasra on March 19, 2021. (Screenshot: Ynet)

Arab Israeli former city council member shot dead in Qalansawe

By Aaron Boxerman

Convicted murderer Roman Zadorov at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

State prosecutor announces retrial of convicted killer of 13-year-old Tair Rada

A Jewish terror suspect arrives to hear his verdict on his involvement in an arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, October 24, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)

Top court upholds conviction of teen accomplice in deadly Jewish terror attack

In this Monday, March 12, 2018 file photo, Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi speaks to delegates at a three-day forum in a resort hotel near Johannesburg, South Africa. Katumbi returned to Congo on Monday May 20, 2019, one of a number of political exiles coming home after a new president took office this year. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe,)

Ancestry of Jewish refugee’s son at heart of major political crisis in Congo

By Cnaan Liphshiz

MK Zvi Hauser attends an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 21, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New Hope MK Hauser hospitalized after suffering ‘mild neurological event’

Yigal Unna, the director general of the Israel National Cyber Directorate, right to left, Morocco's defense minister Abdellatif Loudiyi and Unna's Moroccan counterpart General El Mostafa Rabii, sign a cybersecurity cooperation accord in Rabat, Morocco; July 2021 (Courtesy)

Israel, Morocco sign accord for cybersecurity cooperation

By Shoshanna Solomon

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