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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 21, 2021

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Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked tours the Ben and Jerry's factory in Israel, on July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

'Ben & Jerry’s chose to suck up to terrorists, antisemites'

Interior minister: Israel drumming up US grassroots boycott of Ben & Jerry’s

Ayelet Shaked visits Israeli ice cream factory, says she’s working with Jewish and evangelical groups to pressure US company to drop settlement ban

View of the Ben & Jerry's factory shop in Yavne on July 20, 2021. (Flash90)

Israeli envoy urges 35 US states to activate anti-BDS laws against Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry's ice cream pictured on sale in Jerusalem on July 20, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

PA applauds Ben & Jerry’s for ending sales in settlements

Analysis

US states’ fully baked anti-BDS laws could put the freeze on Ben & Jerry’s

Legislation doesn’t differentiate between Israel and settlements, and states could now be forced to pull contracts, along with pension funds invested in parent company Unilever

Two patrons enter the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream shop in Burlington, Vermont, on, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Illustrative: BDS movement in France. (CC BY-SA, Odemirense, Wikimedia commons)

Ben & Jerry’s could make BDS flavor of the month, warns Foreign Ministry source

By Lazar Berman

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the State Department in Washington, on July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US State Department vows to oppose BDS after Ben & Jerry’s settlement pullout

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 21 – How anti-BDS laws may melt Ben & Jerry’s freeze

US correspondent Jacob Magid dishes up practical measures that 30+ states may employ against ice cream giant while political reporter Tal Schneider tells of a licked Yair Netanyahu

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a news briefing at City Hall, July 20, 2021. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office via JTA)

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio raps Ben & Jerry’s, saying he’ll lay off Cherry Garcia

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale in a shop in Yavne, on July 20, 2021. (Flash90)

Australian kosher authority delists Ben & Jerry’s ice cream over West Bank ban

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean Sea, September 2, 2015. (Flash90)

The Washington Institute

Israel’s Dramatic Energy Turnaround

What are the possibilities and limits of Israeli natural gas, and what is the country’s energy trajectory in the Middle East?

French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, December 1, 2020. (Benoit Tessier/Pool/AFP)

Morocco denies using notorious Israeli NSO spyware to target French officials

By AP and ToI Staff

Rabat lashes out at reports it may have used Pegasus malware to eavesdrop on the cellphones of France’s president and other public figures

Government said to form team to deal with fallout of NSO spyware revelations

France’s Macron, Moroccan king among potential targets of Israeli firm’s spyware

By AFP

Protests erupt in India’s parliament over Israeli spyware scandal

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and Krutika Pathi

Rescuers check for victims in flooded cars on a road in Erftstadt, Germany, July 17, 2021 (AP/Michael Probst)

As floods stir climate change fears, Israel may be up a creek without a plan

A comptroller report in June found cities woefully unready for 2020’s deadly deluges; and though leaders say they take the issue seriously, funding for preparedness remains elusive

ExplainerHotter here, wetter there: How and why climate change will remake our world

The Bootleg Fire burns at night in southern Oregon, July 17, 2021. (Bootleg Fire Incident Command via AP)

Monstrous Oregon wildfire now a third the size of Rhode Island

By Gillian Flaccus

Israelis wear protective face masks as they walk through the Carmel market in Tel Aviv, on July 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Some restrictions return as coronavirus cases continue to climb

Israel reinstates Green Pass system for indoor events with over 100 attendees; fines come into effect for businesses that don’t enforce rules, including that customers wear masks

The remains of an alleged Iranian drone that was downed over northern Israel, parts of which fell in a fish pond in Kibbutz Maoz Haim, on May 14, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Months after it was downed, Iran UAV still swimming with fishes in kibbutz pond

By Judah Ari Gross

After initial attempts at retrieval failed, IDF decided to instead wait until the pool gets drained, leaving the drone unguarded, fishery manager says

My ex-Orthodox life isn’t glamorous, but my story may help people

What happens when you enter the world you’ve been told will eat you alive without Julia Haart’s catapult to success? How do you manage the verboten?

Dr. Muhammed’s mezuzah and the talisman of the Angel Raphael

Non-Jews’ desire to affix God’s name to the entrance of their homes realizes the prophetic vision that all humanity will unite to call God’s name together

Hillel Schenker

Ben & Jerry’s did the right thing

Boycotting the settlements is not boycotting Israel, it is reaffirming the need to end the occupation based on a negotiated two-state solution

How Israelis and Gazans ended up behind bars in Bulgaria

They were 5 terrified young men shivering in the Bulgarian forest. I tried my best to explain to the border police why Israelis would help Palestinians

Yesh Atid parliament member Yoav Segalovitz, now Deputy Public Security Minister, at a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on May 30, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90

InterviewYoav Segalovitz says he may bring in Shin Bet

Arab Israelis will soon see progress on ending crime wave, deputy minister says

By Aaron Boxerman

An Arab municipal official voices cautious optimism, praises ‘seriousness’ of new government in tackling communal bloodshed

Saeed Mousa, an Arab Israeli who was assaulted by a Jewish Israeli mob, at Ichilov Medical Center, May 14, 2021. (video screenshot)

4 more to be charged over Jewish mob attack on Arab man in Bat Yam

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

The Fleur de Passion sails out of Eilat en route to Sudan, on July 20, 2021. (Marcos Schonholz)

'Bridging science and diplomacy for the future of corals'

Winds of peace fuel Israeli-led expedition to Sudan to save Red Sea coral reefs

Multinational mission will spend four summers in unprecedented project to assess health of threatened reefs, all on a boat originally built by the Nazis to lay mines

The United States Consulate in Jerusalem, March 4, 2019. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Biden to further delay Jerusalem consulate reopening at Israel’s request

US agrees to postpone move until after new government passes state budget

6:27 pm

NSO denies leaked target list linked to its spyware: 'Insinuations and slander'
6:14 pm

Judge awards $150 million in initial compensation to victims of Florida condo collapse
6:00 pm

Muslim, Jewish Democrats in US House call for Islamophobia monitor

Ultra-Orthodox representatives of the Chief Rabbinate cross Jaffa Road in Jerusalem as they deliver a kosher certificate to a local restaurant, on December 31, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Religious affairs minister seeks to reform kosher certification, irking Haredim

New plan would create private agencies, overseen by the Chief Rabbinate, to provide certifications to businesses in each city

An Israeli Air Force officer takes part in the Juniper Falcon exercise in February 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

US troops land in Israel for in-person part of so-far virtual air defense drill

By Judah Ari Gross

Militaries to hold second stage of the Juniper Falcon exercise, the first part of which was held in February remotely

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi attends a ceremony in central Israel, on July 14, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

IDF chief vows to respond to any attack after rocket fire from Lebanon

A prototype of Russia's prospective fighter jet is displayed at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Zhukovsky, Russia, July 20, 2021. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Russia unveils new stealth fighter jet to compete with F-35

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Israeli PM Naftali Bennett speaking at the Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv on July 21, 2021 (Chen Galili, Tel Aviv University)

Bennett: Israel to set up ‘global network shield’ against growing cyberthreat

By Shoshanna Solomon

PM calls on ‘like-minded’ nations to join network to detect, alert and respond to attacks in real time; Israel cybersecurity chief warns: ‘Cyber winter is here’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks during Tel Aviv University's cyber week conference on July 20, 2021. (Tal Oz/Defense Ministry)

After NSO bombshell, Gantz asserts that Israel complies with international law

Israeli paratroopers recreate the partisans historic jump during World War II in honor of Hannah Senesh, in Slovenia, on July 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF paratroopers recreate WWII jump in honor of poet-soldier Hannah Senesh

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Soldiers from the Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian and British militaries also take part in memorial jump in Slovenia

Julia Haart is interviewed backstage during a La Perla fashion show in New York City, February 9, 2017. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via JTA)

Julia Haart tells ‘My Unorthodox Life’ critics: Watch before you judge me

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A promo poster for season 3 of 'Fauda,' featuring both familiar and new faces (Courtesy 'Fauda' Facebook page)

Speaking their languageHit Israeli series ‘Fauda’ to be dubbed into Persian

Iran's government spokesman Ali Rabiei speaks at a regular news briefing, on July 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran security council rejects proposal to restore nuclear deal – gov’t spokesman

Poway synagogue shooting suspect John Earnest during a preliminary hearing in Superior Court in San Diego, on September 19, 2019. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

California synagogue shooter pleads guilty to deadly 2019 attack

By AP

Screen capture from video of an exhibition soccer game featuring former players of rival Spanish clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, in Tel Aviv, July 20, 2021. (YouTube)

Legends live onRetired Real Madrid soccer stars trounce FC Barcelona in Tel Aviv

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A Mobileye car doing a pilot drive in New York City, July 2021. (Courtesy)

If you can make it there: Mobileye self-driving car plies New York City streets

By Shoshanna Solomon

Reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza of Mexico, poses for the media during her visit to the Empire State Building on May 18, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Southern bellesMiss Universe competition to be held this year in Eilat

By AP

Yair Netanyahu, son of 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)

Yair Netanyahu apologizes to Wexner fellowship alumni for ‘pedophile cult’ claim

By Tal Schneider

Medics treat wounded settlers after a clash with Border Police near the West Bank outpost of Kumi Ori on July 20, 2021 (Courtesy)

Far-right settler youth clash with border police at West Bank outpost

MK David Bitan at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK suspended from managing Knesset plenum after apparently fudging vote

The AI-based software developed by Ibex Medical Analytics, in use at Unilabs. (Courtesy)

Swiss diagnostic firm Unilabs to use Ibex cancer-detecting tech in labs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Recho Omondi, right, pictured in 2016, was accused of antisemitism for calling Leandra Medine Cohen, pictured in 2020, a "Jewish American Princess." (Getty Images via JTA)

Fashion podcaster accused of antisemitism apologizes to Jewish community

Members of the band Yamma, including singer Talya G.A Solan (center), Yonnie Dror, Aviv Bahar, Nur Bar Goren, and Avri Borochov. Solan has found new audiences for music based on ancient Hebrew texts through YouTube (Ruth Luar)

Beloved tunesAncient Hebrew love poetry finds new audiences on YouTube

By Jessica Steinberg

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