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What Matters Most On Monday, June 20, 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)

Test positivity rate reaches 38.95%

Israel sees over 10,000 new coronavirus cases, highest daily number since April

Health Ministry reports 168 people in serious condition, a rise of 95% from last week; health officials tell hospitals to prepare for reopening of dedicated COVID-19 wards

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu hails the collapse of the Bennett-Lapid coalition, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu hails fall of ‘Israel’s worst government,’ slams Bennett’s ‘charade’

By Michael Bachner

Opposition chief says ‘everyone is smiling’ at coalition’s fall, claiming it ‘gave in’ to terror and ’caused loss of national pride’; vows to form ‘wide national government’

8:42 pm

EU says Russia, not sanctions, to blame for global food crisis
8:12 pm

'Don't believe everything in the media,' Shaked says after reports of not being consulted by Bennett
7:32 pm

Israeli bus driver lightly injured by rock-throwing in West Bank

Israelis set up tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities, on June 19, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tent encampments spring up across Israel to protest soaring housing costs

Over a decade after 2011 movement, protest camps pop up again in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other parts of the country, with organizers planning for large demonstration on July 2

A construction site of a new residential neighborhood in Kfar-Yona in the Sharon area, August 8, 2019. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Cost of new apartments rising faster than at any point in past decade

By Danielle Nagler

Tel Aviv University Environmental Studies: Lead the Next Gen of Green

Join a free webinar on June 22nd to hear from leading faculty about TAU International’s M.A. program in Environmental Studies.

French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech after the first results of the parliamentary elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, on June 19, 2022. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET / AFP)

Le Pen's party wins 89 seats, up from 8 in last parliament

Far-right ‘tsunami’ in France sees Macron lose parliament absolute majority

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally overtakes traditional Republicans to become the largest right-wing party in parliament in major setback to French leader; hard left also makes gains

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen addresses reporters June 20, 2022, in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. (AP Photo)

Le Pen hails huge gains in French parliament as a ‘seismic event’

By AP

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) looks on as he leaves after casting his vote in the second stage of French parliamentary elections at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France on June 19, 2022. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

In blow to Macron, French president’s party projected to lose parliamentary majority

By Stuart Williams and Adam PLOWRIGHT

A screen shot of a siren. (screen capture: YouTube)

Cyberattack suspected behind false siren alerts in Jerusalem, Eilat

National Cyber Directorate investigating possible hack after civilian warning systems – not military – activated on Sunday; said examining if Iranian hackers behind attack

A general view taken on December 9, 2021, from the Mount of Olives shows Jerusalem's Old City (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Sirens heard in Jerusalem and Eilat in a false alarm, military says

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israelis prepare to fly to Dubai at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, December 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Report: Officials concerned over Israeli travel to UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt

Amid high-level warning for Turkey, network says security officials cautioning that if Iran gets ‘desperate,’ it could try for an attack on Israelis in other countries

Defense Minister Benny Gantz leads a Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Gantz: Israel preparing offensive options against Iran ‘if and when’ they’re needed

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, June 20, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/ Knesset spokesperson's office)

Gantz says regional air defense alliance has already thwarted Iranian attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran says engineer’s death at Parchin military site caused by ‘industrial sabotage’

Comments by Revolutionary Guard commander follow reports that complex was hit by quadcopter suicide drones last month, which fits pattern of previous strikes attributed to Israel

2004 satellite image of the military complex at Parchin, Iran. (AP/DigitalGlobe-Institute for Science and International Security)

Iran blames US for stalled nuclear talks, but maintains ‘train not derailed’

By AFP

Times of Israel podcastDaily Briefing June 20: Lapid heading to Turkey as Israelis face security threat

Lapid set to visit Turkey amid efforts to thwart Iranian attacks on Israelis there

By Lazar Berman

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a no-confidence motion against the government at the Knesset, May 9, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition may bring Knesset dispersal bill for preliminary vote on Wednesday

Netanyahu-led bloc will pull back proposal if it sees it cannot get a majority; reports say move may be an attempt to pressure Yamina’s Orbach to fully leave coalition

Opposition Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu (left) walks next to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during the vote on the state budget, in the Knesset on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett said resisting anti-Netanyahu bill, warning coalition will collapse

United Torah Judaism party chief Moshe Gafni holds a press conference (together with UTJ MK Yaakov Litzman and Shas head Aryeh Deri) at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gafni puts forward bill to lower electoral threshold to 2%

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Remembering the unglorious Lebanon War

Making the hairpin mountain turn and seeing Beirut below us, I turned to the soldier next to me in the jeep and said, ’We’re never getting out of here’

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Religion for non-believers: It’s a Jewish thing

When you don’t believe in God, the demanding, inexplicable practices of Judaism become an unconvincing game of pretend. Yet people take them on, and seriously

Interview'The Church was one of the main points for Jewish escapees'

Fascist Italy, Church under ‘Hitler’s Pope’ took steps to save Jews, claims author

By Robert Philpot

In his new book, ‘Syndrome K,’ British author Christian Jennings paints a complex picture of fear, resistance, and covert humanitarianism in a country torn asunder by the Nazis

Senior Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, stand with the family of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a memorial in Ramallah on June 19, 2022. (WAFA/Mahmoud Abu Zeid)

PA demands Israel hand over rifle that may have killed journalist Abu Akleh

By Aaron Boxerman

PM Shtayyeh reiterates refusal of joint investigation with Israel into Al Jazeera reporter’s death, says Israel ‘fabricated the history of a people, stealing land and homeland’

Dr. Idit Weisbach in an interview with Channel 12 news on June 19, 2022. (Screenshot)

‘I thought I was going to die’: Doctor recalls attack by patient bearing crowbar

Dr. Idit Weisbach says she required 7 stitches to her scalp and a CT scan after being beaten last week: ‘I just started to scream. It hurt so much and I was bleeding a lot’

Illustrative: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018. (Courtesy: Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)

Ministers advance motion stiffening punishment for attacks on medical staff

Police at the scene where a man murdered his wife and then tried to kill himself on June 12, 2022, in Haifa (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Police vow extra forces to tackle spike in murders, crime in Arab community

Recent weeks have also seen surge in violence against women; police claim to have foiled 50 attempted murders over last month

Weapons seized by security forces near Neot Hakikar in southern Israel, after an alleged gun-smuggling over the border with Jordan on June 20, 2022. (Israel Police)

Security forces bust gun-running operation on Jordanian border, seize 13 firearms

By Emanuel Fabian

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, second from left, speaks to an interactive artificial intelligence video of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)

'Use this to light up the world and make it a better place'

Doug Emhoff meets a Holocaust survivor and his AI double at cutting-edge LA exhibit

By jacob gurvis

America’s Second Gentleman explores the new Dimensions in Testimony project at USC’s Shoah Foundation, which provides lifelike interactive accounts as the WWII generation wanes

Screen grab from IDF footage of a strike on a terror group observation post in Gaza overlooking an Israeli border community. The strike was carried out on June 18, 2022 in response to rocket fire. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF limited strike on Hamas post overlooking town to avoid Hamas casualties – report

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Military to move entrance gate of Netiv Ha’asara so that it’s no longer under threat of Hamas fire; post overlooking community rebuilt after was hit in IDF strike after rocket fire

View of the barrier along the Israel-Gaza border, on December 8, 2021. (Flash90)

2 armed Palestinians captured trying to enter Israel from Gaza, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

View of salt formations on the Dead Sea shore, October 30, 2021.(Mila Aviv/Flash90)

Authorities urged to act immediately to stabilize Dead Sea levels

In draft policy paper, Environment Ministry proposes limiting industrial pumping and charging for it, seeking regional deal to allow more water for Jordan River

A delegation of 12 Egytian industrialists and businesspeople during a visit to Israel as part of the 2004 QIZ agreement. (June 20, 2022.)

Egyptian trade delegation visits Israel as countries eye stronger cooperation

By Tobias Siegal

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Former rebel Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Marquez, celebrate before supporters after winning a runoff presidential election in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Former rebel wins Colombia election, becoming country’s first leftist president

By regina garcia cano and ASTRID SUAREZ

Nur al-Din Shinawi, a Palestinian man who stabbed 18-year-old Shuva Malka in terror attack in Afula on June 11, 2018, in the courtroom at the Nazareth District Court on June 28, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Palestinian gets 23 years in prison for 2018 terror stabbing of girl in Afula

Orit Peled, 49, an Israeli who drowned while snorkeling in Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula on June 17, 2022. (Courtesy)

Israeli died of epileptic seizure in Sinai, lifeguards didn’t know CPR, husband says

Itzik Saidyan appears at a Sheba Medical Center event on June 19, 2022. (Screenshot)

After year of recovery, IDF vet who self-immolated makes first public appearance

Illustrative: An empty classroom at Cramim school in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, on October 21, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Schools nationwide again open late Monday, as teachers continue strikes

Rodent poison left in a baby formula container in the puppet corner of a kindergarten in central Israel. (Ministry of Environmental Protection)

Pest control company fined NIS 30,000 for leaving rodent poison in kindergarten yard

Dredging slurry from the Nablus Stream before it flows into the Alexander River. (Courtesy, Alon Heyman)

NIS 88 million to go to rehabilitation of streams, with an eye to flood prevention

A view of the Shafdan water treatment plant in Rishon Lezion of Mekorot, Israel's national water company. (Mekorot)

Italy scouts for Israeli water tech as drought concerns mount

By Ricky Ben-David

Elad Walach, CEO, center, Michael Braginsky (CTO), left, and Guy Reiner (VP R&D), the co-founders of Aidoc (Courtesy)

Israel’s Aidoc raises $110m for AI tech that reads imaging scans

By Ricky Ben-David

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference to announce the first presumptive positive case of the coronavirus, technically known as COVID-19, in Washington, March 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

DC mayor battles challenge from councilor who claimed Rothschilds control weather

By AP

Ariel University in the West Bank (CC-BY Michael Jacobson/Wikipedia)

After decade of refusal, Ariel University accepted into key education organization

By Tobias Siegal

A man suspected of murdering his son's father-in-law arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Suspected killer of son’s father-in-law claims he thought weapon was an airsoft gun

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