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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 8, 2022

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Magen David Adom medical team members at a drive-through coronavirus testing site in Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2020 (Flash90)

Official warns of COVID wave; PM, health minister hold off new restrictions for now

As cases rise, indoor masking recommended for the public; virus czar says 5th vaccine dose may be needed; transmission rate continues to rise, positive test rate over 20%

Health workers screen passengers arriving from abroad for monkeypox symptoms at Anna International Airport terminal in Chennai, India, June 3, 2022. (Arun Sankar/AFP)

Israel confirms third monkeypox case in man who returned from abroad

Op-ed

Netanyahu and the right are about to regain power; they’ll hold it for a long time

The final blow to the coalition could come from many directions, but come it will. And Israel will get a gov’t of the ideological hue most of the electorate voted for a year ago

Then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote, together with his wife Sara, at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset elections on March 23, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Justice Minister Gideon Saar leads a New Hope faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sa’ar to try again to advance settler law bill, admits coalition may be on last legs

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum during a vote on the so-called settler law, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu-led bloc would win 60 seats if elections held, 1 short of majority — poll

Johara Khnifes (Courtesy)

Anti-violence activist, daughter of Shfaram deputy mayor, killed in car bombing

Device attached to car of Johara Khnifes, 28; police investigating if relative involved in attack and if linked to her work; bombing thought to be unrelated to father’s position

Far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir makes his way to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man arrested on suspicion of impersonating police officer to threaten far-right MK

All About Change, the new podcast from Jay Ruderman

On the cusp of national stardom, Selena Quintanilla was tragically shot and killed at the age of 23. Listen to her story here.

An inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency sets up surveillance equipment, at the Uranium Conversion Facility of Iran, just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, Aug. 8, 2005 (AP Photo/Mehdi Ghasemi, ISNA, File )

Iran says it switched off 2 of UN watchdog’s surveillance cameras at nuclear site

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State media report doesn’t identify location of cameras, but they could be at Fordo or Natanz; move appears to be attempt by Tehran to apply pressure ahead of possible censure

Demonstrators of an Iranian opposition group protest near the 'Grand Hotel Wien' where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria on April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

US, UK, France and Germany submit motion censuring Iran to UN nuclear watchdog

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A prisoner being held in an Iranian prison. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Iran hangs 12 inmates in mass execution, NGO says

By AFP

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Key losses expose fatal threats facing Bennett’s coalition from every direction

Failed votes on settler bill and ministerial post deepen the cracks in a coalition that was once vaunted for its myriad ideologies but now risks being felled by them

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R), Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (C) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) during a Knesset discussion on a bill to renew the application of some Israeli law to settlers, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi (L) speaks with Ra'am MK Mazen Ghanaim (R) during a Knesset discussion on a bill to renew the application of some Israeli law to settlers, June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Calls intensify for coalition MKs who torpedoed key bill to resign from Knesset

An IDF tank at a military outpost overlooking Syria near the Israeli border in the Golan Heights, May 23, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Israeli tanks said to destroy Syrian army outpost built in Golan demilitarized zone

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF reportedly drops pamphlets warning Syria’s military against operating in off-limits area between the two countries

Illustrative: Footage of Israeli strikes on Iranian and Syrian targets in southern Syria following an attempted explosive attack by Iranian-backed operatives against Israeli troops on the Golan Heights, November 18, 2020 (Israel Defense Forces)

Alleged Israeli strike said to prevent Iran from landing weapon systems in Syria

Aircraft participating in a joint drill, conducted by Russian and Syrian air forces in Syria, June 7, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Syria, Russia carry out joint exercise after alleged Israeli airstrikes

By Albert Aji and Emanuel Fabian

MK Nir Orbach (standing) seen with Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman during a Knesset plenum session, November 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Coalition chaos: Yamina MK denies he’s defecting; Liberman puts off budget talks

By Michael Bachner

Government’s collapse looms closer than ever as reports say Nir Orbach in talks with opposition’s Likud; finance minister vows budget won’t include ‘populist’ minimum wage hike

8:31 pm

Drone attack said to hit near US consulate in Kurdish Iraq
7:33 pm

Bennett applauds IAEA decision to censure Iran for nuclear program
7:08 pm

IAEA adopts resolution censuring Iran for nuclear program, diplomats say

Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion put camouflage makeup on in preparation for a 16-kilometer overnight journey to complete their training course, in Azoz village, southern Israel, near the border with Egypt, September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deputy minister knocks plan to let more women into combat units

By Judah Ari Gross

Matan Kahana, a reserve fighter pilot, says he fears IDF will lower standards to bring female recruits into elite helicopter-borne search-and-rescue outfit

Illustrative: Female soldiers during training, in an undated photography published by the military on June 7, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF expands combat roles for women, but says most are not cut out for elite units

By Emanuel Fabian

US slams ‘one-sided’ UN probe blaming Israel for perpetuating the conflict

Member of open-ended Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry says ‘ending occupation’ will break cycle of violence; Israel calls report ‘waste of money’

Illustrative: Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 15, 2022. (Flash90)

An Israeli soldier draws his weapon as mourners attending the funeral for Auda Sadaqa, 17, react at a checkpoint in the West Bank village of Al-Madiya near Ramallah, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP/ Majdi Mohammed)

UN probe blames Israel for perpetuating conflict with Palestinians

By Lazar Berman

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan addresses the General Assembly on January 20, 2022. (Screen capture)

Erdan, 20 other UN envoys elected vice presidents of General Assembly

By Michael Horovitz

Israel: Crippled by baseless hatred

The opposition and rebel coalition MKs blocked the same law they themselves passed 4 times in the last 20 years, just to damage the government. What a disgrace

The forgotten soldiers

Too many of the 7,000 lone soldiers per year who serve without support from family can’t find housing and never manage to make a life in Israel

When a secret group of Chicago women defied the law to provide 11,000 safe abortions

By Renee Ghert-Zand

From June 8, the HBO documentary ‘The Janes’ takes viewers back to the pre-Roe v. Wade era, and a little-known underground movement that kept women out of septic wards and morgue

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)

Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Ukraine invasion, relative says

By JTA and ToI Staff

Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was just reelected to his position, has no plans to return to Russia after coming under pressure from authorities to back ‘special operation’

A civilian militia man holds a shotgun and a rifle during training at a shooting range in outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, June 7, 2022. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Zelensky defiant as Russia claims Severodonetsk’s residential areas

By Blaise GAUQUELIN and Quentin Tyberghien

Israa Jaabis at the District Court in Jerusalem on November 7, 2016, for a sentencing hearing. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prison service rejects nose job request from Palestinian bomber

Police officer who was injured when Israa Jaabis tried to blow herself up appealed to public security minister against funding procedure; IPS says treatment not critical for health

Yousef Sameeh Assi and Yahya Marei, arrested in the Palestinian town of Qarawat Bani Hassan on April 30, 2022, for a terror attack on April 29 at the entrance to the Ariel settlement in which security guard Vyacheslav Golev was killed. (Social media)

High Court okays home demolitions for alleged terrorists in Ariel attack

Police question a Palestinian man near the West Bank town of al-Fawwar, south of Hebron on June 8, 2022. The suspect snatched the rifle of one of the officers before driving off. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Palestinian grabs Israeli police officer’s rifle, flees to Hebron

By Emanuel Fabian

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, May 19, 2022. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

In first, Blinken calls for independent investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing

Secretary says facts haven’t been established, effectively dismissing PA probe; until now, US focused on urging Israelis, Palestinians to conclude their respective investigations

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, Pool)

PA’s Abbas dismisses US bid to boost ties unless consulate reopened

Lebanese army soldiers stand next to a billboard that shows Hezbollah fighters with Arabic that reads: 'Jerusalem is closer, we are coming,' that sits on a hill across from the Israeli town of Metula, on the Lebanese-Israeli border, near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Sunday, May 29, 2022. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Top general threatens to target Hezbollah operatives who are building at the border

Amid tensions over gas dispute, IDF Northern Command chief says work on posts along Lebanon frontier intensifying, but Hezbollah operatives ‘will pay the price’ in future conflict

People sail past an Israeli navy vessel off the coast of Rosh Hanikra, an area at the border between Israel and Lebanon (Ras al-Naqura), on June 6, 2022. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

US envoy to hold maritime talks in Beirut as tensions flare over Israeli rig

More Headlines

A covered body lies on the street after a car crashed into a crowd of people in central Berlin, Germany, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

One dead, eight injured as car plows into crowd in Berlin

By AFP

A woman floats in the Dead Sea at Ein Bokek. Illustrative. (Subbotsky via iStock by Getty Images)

Tourism Ministry earmarks $50 million for new hotels as visitors return

By Danielle Nagler

A view of the Israeli town of Bet Shemesh on February 8, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Beit Shemesh hopes to quadruple population with new housing, commercial plans

By Danielle Nagler

Council members Eric Dinowitz and Inna Vernikov announced on June 7, 2022, that a City Council meeting on antisemitism has been postponed. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

NY City Council postpones CUNY antisemitism hearing, citing scheduling conflict

Illustrative: A dog walks past presidential campaign posters during the first round of the French presidential election, in Strasbourg, eastern France, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Jewish man says he was beaten while hanging campaign flyers for his wife in France

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A soldier in the IDF's Combat Intelligence Corps operates a new drone purchased by the military for company commander. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF drone crashes in northern Gaza under unclear circumstances

By Emanuel Fabian

In this photo provided by Iranian Red Crescent Society, rescuers work at the scene where a passenger train partially derailed near the desert city of Tabas in eastern Iran, June 8, 2022. (Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP)

At least 21 killed, dozens injured in Iran train derailment

By Nasser Karimi

Sarah Silverman speaks on stage at Variety's 2022 Power Of Women event in New York City, May 5, 2022. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Variety via JTA)

‘Jewface’ critic Sarah Silverman joins Netflix film casting Bradley Cooper as a Jew

By Andrew Lapin

Members of the Revolution Orchestra rehearsing for their latest piece, 'Moods,' to be performed June 12, 2022 at the Tel Aviv opera house (Courtesy Revolution Orchestra YouTube screen shot)

On the band-wagonRevolution Orchestra brings Radiohead, dancing instruments onstage

By Jessica Steinberg

Vegan revelers at Vegan Fest, a three-day celebration of all things vegan at Tel Aviv's Sarona Park, organized by Vegan Friendly and the Tel Aviv Municipality, June 7-9, 2022 (Courtesy Ruti Benziman)

Cui-sceneVegan Fest pegged as world’s largest returns to Tel Aviv’s Sarona Park

By Jessica Steinberg

Adam Sandler attends the after party for the Netflix World Premiere of 'Hustle' at Baltaire on June 01, 2022 in Los Angeles, California (Phillip Faraone / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Middle school dramaAdam Sandler’s production company making bat mitzvah-themed film

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

Isaac Berger, left, at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish featherweight champion, Olympic medalist Isaac ‘Ike’ Berger dead at 85

By jacob gurvis

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