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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 21, 2022

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announce the collapse of their coalition, at a joint appearance at the Knesset, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition to begin process on Wednesday for dissolving Knesset, new elections

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Procedural hoops mean the legislation will likely take several days to complete; if it proceeds as planned, Lapid set to take over as interim PM next week

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 19, 2022. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 21: Behind Bennett’s explosive decision to dissolve coalition

Op-ed

The day Netanyahu turned out the lights on Naftali Bennett’s government

Unrelenting pressure from the Likud chief pulled apart Bennett’s own Yamina party, clearing a path for Israel’s record-breaking leader to rise yet again

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

AnalysisAs Bennett dissolves Knesset to save settler law, a new set of challenges await

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Reporter's Notebook‘I really don’t know’: Hours before announcement, Bennett hinted he’d step down

By Lazar Berman

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, leave their podiums after a joint statement at the Knesset, announcing the collapse of their coalition, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Bennett announces coalition’s demise, new elections: ‘We did our utmost to continue’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

PM says ‘no stone was left unturned’ to keep government alive, cites settler law’s failure to pass, which would have led to ‘chaos’; Lapid: Bennett is putting Israel first

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

Opposition cheers government’s end; Netanyahu: Likud will lead country again

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on June 12, 2022. (Maya Alleruzzo / POOL / AFP)

Coalition heads announce vote to dissolve Knesset next week, Lapid to be interim PM

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Tal Schneider

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)

TV polls predict another election won’t free political system from cyclical deadlock

Netanyahu-bloc stands to gain if Israelis sent back to polls, but will still remain seat or 2 shy of majority, surveys show; far-right Religious Zionism party also receives boost

6:19 pm

Lapid said slated to keep several senior Bennett aides in office turnover
6:17 pm

TV polls predict another election won't change much: Israeli politics slated for further deadlock
5:31 pm

Lapid, Blinken discuss Biden's upcoming Mideast trip in first call amid political turmoil

Shas daily: 'And all the wickedness was consumed in smoke'

A year out of power, Haredim hail government’s downfall, credit divine intervention

By Judah Ari Gross

In statements and newspaper headlines, ultra-Orthodox rabbis and politicians rejoice as one of the few coalitions in recent decades that didn’t include them falls apart

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen speaks during a campaign event of the Shas party in Holon on September 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

A technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)

Iran claims it detained Mossad cell planning to kill nuclear scientists

Officials don’t say how many people arrested or their nationalities; separately Iran announces that a group was arrested in April on suspicion of leaking classified nuclear secrets

Iran's underground Fordo nuclear facility outside of Qom, Iran, October 23, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

IAEA report says Iran stepping up uranium enrichment at underground Fordo site

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A boat of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy operates in close proximity to patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco and expeditionary fast transport USNS Choctaw County in the Strait of Hormuz, June 20, 2022. (US Navy via AP)

US Navy reports ‘unsafe’ encounter with Iran’s Guards in Strait of Hormuz

By AP and ToI Staff

The Biden visit and the return to bipartisanship

After a quiet mending of the immeasurable harm Bennett’s predecessor did to US-Israel ties, the two countries’ leaders have an opportunity to make real advances

A letter to my children about Jewish values and January 6th

Donald Trump eroded the three pillars Judaism considers critical for a stable society and showed that democracy must never be taken for granted

Antisemitic nationalists killed Germany’s Jewish FM. His mom forgave them

With compassion, Walter Rathenau’s mother told the mother of her son’s murderer: ’Had he known my son, he had rather turned the weapon on himself than on him’

Abraham Rabinovich

The time I studied Talmud with Uri Zohar

As a comedian, he was funny, bawdy, and hilarious. I loved his wild humor, and I couldn’t believe he’d chosen the path of piety. I had to see for myself

Bennett: Israel and Turkey foiled multiple Iranian terror attacks in recent days

By Lazar Berman

In press conference prior to announcing end of coalition, prime minister praises cooperation between Jerusalem and Ankara

Turkish riot police officers walk in front of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul on June 14, 2022. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, center speaks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, May 25, 2022. (Asi Efrati/ GPO)

Lapid’s trip to Turkey for security talks still on despite political tumult

By Lazar Berman

A jogger runs along a marina in Herzliya, Israel, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Report: Unknown agents used fitness app loophole to track Israeli troops on bases

Amid political upheaval, US says Biden to visit Israel next month as planned

Lapid now expected to greet American leader as interim PM; US envoy reiterates visit has nothing to do with who is premier

Then-finance minister Yair Lapid meets with then-US vice president Joe Biden in Washington, DC, in 2013. (courtesy/ File)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and US President Joe Biden. (Composite/AP)

PM: Biden’s visit ‘vital,’ goal is to finalize joint plan against nuclear Iran

By Lazar Berman

Then Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, center, with Ambassador to Morocco David Govrin, left, and Jewish community leader Samy Cohen, during her visit to Morocco, June 20, 2022. (screen capture: Instagram)

Shaked arrives in Morocco, in third official visit since normalization

By AFP and ToI Staff

COVID-19 rapid antigen testing in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel sees over 10,000 new coronavirus cases for 2nd day in a row

Number of seriously ill patients continues to rise, reaching 180; COVID czar says he believes verified cases are only ‘tip of the iceberg’ due to low testing rates

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. A leading doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as 'a random event' that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/ CDC via AP, File)

Israel confirms first communal spread of monkeypox

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Newly elected Colombian President Gustavo Petro (C) celebrates next to his wife Veronica Alcocer and his running mate Francia Marquez at the Movistar Arena in Bogota, on June 19, 2022 after winning the presidential runoff election on June 19, 2022 (Daniel MUNOZ / AFP)

Colombia’s incoming president once compared Israel to Nazis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro was publicly rebuked by Israel in 2014 for publishing false anti-Israel pictures, has accused IDF of ‘massacre’ of Gazans

The buildings and surrounding wild countryside of Pereh, one of Israel's newest boutique hotels that opened in June 2021, in the southern Golan Heights (Courtesy Aya Ben Ezri)

Thanks to Sykes-Picot, history and luxury mingle at Golan battlefield-turned-hotel

By Jessica Steinberg

At Pereh, historic early 20th-century French customhouses have been restored to new glory, after a prolonged brawl with Israeli bureaucracy

Jerusalem, August 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Socioeconomic mobility between generations is relatively low in Israel — study

Israel Democracy Institute research finds that only 14% of Israeli children in lowest income category climb to the top, with large differences between population groups

Illustrative: Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland calls for ‘regulated’ Holocaust educational trips amid dispute with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

After Jerusalem declines to resume visits due to disagreement over curriculum, Polish deputy FM says Warsaw wants deal on presence of armed guards, meetings with young Poles

Part of a mural by Indonesian art group Taring Padi on display at the Documenta 15 art festival. On the right, a man is depicted with sidelocks often associated with Orthodox Jews, fangs and bloodshot eyes, and is wearing a black hat with the SS-insignia. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Israel, Jews voice ‘disgust’ over antisemitic imagery at German art festival

The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the product of 10 years of rigorous academic scholarship.(Image courtesy of Oxford University Press; design by Grace Yagel/ JTA)

'The price is okay for the library but not the beit midrash'

They set out to produce an ‘accessible’ Mishnah. The price tag: $645

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Oxford University Press annotated version of notoriously cryptic Oral Torah compendium comes steep even for an academic title, but may become more affordable in the future

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View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv, as schools begin at 10 a.m., due to a strike of the Israel Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Teachers strike for 2 hours Tuesday morning, third day in a row

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 14, 2021. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File)

Saudi crown prince kicks off Mideast tour with Egypt visit ahead of Biden trip

Drugs caught in an attempted smuggling from Lebanon to Israel near Moshav Shtula, June 20, 2022. (Israel Police)

IDF, police foil drug smuggling from Lebanon, seize 35 kilos of hashish

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, on May 19, 2022. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

NYT probe: Abu Akleh ‘most likely’ killed by IDF, but no indication she was targeted

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid: If Orbach gets reserved spot on Likud list, we’ll probe if it’s legal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

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

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the influential Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, poses for a picture next to his 23-karat gold medal before it is auctioned at the Times Center, Monday, June 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Russian journalist’s Nobel medal sells for record $103.5 million for Ukraine kids

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

An illustrative photo of a person riding an electric scooter in Tel Aviv, November 27, 2019. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Knesset panel approves expanding enforcement of electric scooter and bike rules

A soccer match between Wales and Belgium at the Cardiff City stadium in Cardiff, Wales, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Israeli shoe-tracking sports startup Playermaker raises $40 million

People march in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to allow LGBT Palestinians granted temporary asylum to work

By Aaron Boxerman

An undated picture of laying hens in a cage. (Animals Now)

Cages for laying hens banned from new coops, to be phased out in existing ones

Salvatore Di Grazia, a teacher visiting from Rio Grande Valley, Texas, prays at a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas Monday, May 30, 2022, for the victims killed in last week's school shooting. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Report: Police in Uvalde had rifles, ballistic shield an hour before class stormed

By AP

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