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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 30, 2022

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File: Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, and his replacement, incoming premier Yair Lapid, along with their spouses, during a handover ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Outgoing PM blesses his interim successor

Lapid at PM handover ceremony with Bennett: ‘The job is bigger than all of us’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Israel’s 14th premier visits Yad Vashem, vows to ‘always keep Israel strong,’ hours after Knesset disbands and votes to hold Nov. 1 elections; President Herzog congratulates him

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, the incoming interim prime minister, sits in the Knesset, during voting to dissolve parliament for new elections, on June 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ExplainerYair Lapid’s unlikely rise from TV star to Israel’s incoming prime minister

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, and incoming prime minister Yair Lapid embrace in the Knesset after the passage of a bill to dissolve the parliament and hold new elections, June 30, 2022 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu: We'll restore citizens' national pride

Knesset disbands, sets elections for November 1; Lapid to become PM at midnight

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Parliament formally disperses a year after inauguration of diverse coalition, sending Israel to its 5th national vote in less than 4 years; major transport and US visa laws ditched

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the Knesset as Knesset Speaker MK Mickey Levy sits in background, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

‘This isn’t how you run a session!’: Knesset sees rowdy, venomous final meeting

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Campaign posters prior to general elections, in Tel Aviv, on March 17, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Panel okays 12.5% increase in funds for party election campaigns

Op-ed

Is the understated Lapid betting a scathing, divisive Netanyahu will defeat himself?

The new interim PM managed, briefly, to assemble a coalition that kept the Likud leader from power. Without Bennett, but with the premiership, how does he aim to repeat the feat?

Outoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, and his interim successor Yair Lapid speak after the passage of a bill to dissolve the Knesset, June 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 30: 11th-hour drama as the Knesset officially disbands, finally

Kosher in the Bahamas

Inspired by Israeli cooking techniques, Atlantis’ Kosher dining service offers contemporary fare with an array of classic and novel dishes. For events and group functions.

Smotrich: A disgusted public 'vomited him out'

Bennett announces he won’t run in next elections, hands Yamina leadership to Shaked

By Jeremy Sharon

In emotional speech, outgoing prime minister lauds his government’s achievements, calls for national unity, says he will ‘remain a loyal soldier of this country’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to deliver a statement announcing he won't run in the next elections, at the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then justice minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset on December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll shows Shaked’s Yamina winning 5 seats, capable of giving Netanyahu a majority

A Muslim couple poses for a picture at the Duty Free at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 30, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Likud vows to stymie US visa bill since it eases barriers on Palestinian travelers

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference on the final day of the NATO summit in Madrid, June 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Live updates (closed)

Biden says upcoming Mideast trip aimed at boosting Israel’s integration in region

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Amid speculation of potential diplomatic breakthrough between Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia, US president reveals Jewish state’s lobbying for him to visit Jeddah

6:36 pm

Turkish media: Iran cell was caught 'at the last moment' targeting Israeli ex-consul
6:04 pm

Johnson vows UK 'not giving up on Hong Kong,' 25 years after handover
5:16 pm

Edelstein backtracks, says he won't run against Netanyahu for Likud helm

Ice cream containers at the Ben and Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malachi, on July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

Israeli manufacturer praises 'wonderful' new arrangement

Ben & Jerry’s Israel, parent company Unilever reach deal to end settlement boycott

Israeli firm wins right to produce, sell its ice cream in Israel and West Bank under Hebrew and Arabic names; Israel and supporters hail ‘victory’ over BDS; Ben & Jerry’s unhappy

IRGC Brig.-Gen. Ali Nasiri (File)

Iran reportedly arrests an IRGC general on charges of spying for Israel

Citing Iranian and Israeli defense officials, New York Times says Brig.-Gen. Ali Nasiri, who served in the IRGC’s Protection of Information Unit, was detained earlier this month

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) attends a press conference with Josep Borell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (L), at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran on June 25, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says nuclear deal still possible despite apparent setback at Qatar talks

By AFP

Robert Malley, the Biden's administration special envoy for Iran, waits to testify about the Iran nuclear deal during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/File)

‘No progress made’: US blames Iran for failure of indirect nuclear talks

By Anne Levasseur and Raphaelle PELTIER

Bracha Goldstein

The last day of school: A mother’s lament

When the system wasn’t built for your child, when showing up for your child is hard and lonely… still, you (and I) are here. We’ve made it through the year

R. Prof. David Weiss Halivni – An intellectual and religious tribute

He was a magnetic figure, and yet humble, in his perpetual search for greater understanding, probing modern questions without abandoning the past

Jewish athletes participating in the 20th Maccabiah Games wave their national flag during the opening ceremony in Jerusalem, July 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Russians will compete in this year’s Maccabiah Games, but Russia won’t

By Judah Ari Gross

Organizers claim Russia and Belarus withdrew four months ago, a day after UK’s Jewish News highlighted website entry showing Russia to play Ukraine in women’s beach volleyball

Jewish worshipers are seen at Joseph's Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on June 30, 2022, amid clashes between Palestinians and the Israel Defense Forces. (Screen capture: Twitter)

3 Israelis, including IDF commander, lightly hurt in armed clashes at Joseph’s Tomb

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Military says Palestinians directed ‘massive gunfire’ at worshipers who came to pray at Jewish shrine in northern West Bank; Col. Roy Zweig taken to hospital with shrapnel wound

Philippe Lazzarini, center, Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), talks during press conference af at the Balakhiya area in Shati refugee camp, Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UNRWA places 6 staffers on leave for incitement in social media posts

Analysis

Michael Brenner

Russia’s antisemitism aimed at Zelensky is a variant of a very old European virus

In times of conflict, a Jewish leader’s background can be used as part of a political strategy of defamation; a series of Jewish leaders were assassinated in Europe in the past

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walk past honor guards as they attend a ceremony to receive diplomatic credentials from newly appointed foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, October 11, 2018. In the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, US sanctions are targeting Putin and a handful of individuals believed to be among his closest security advisers, including Lavrov. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 30, 2022. (Dmitry Azarov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

As NATO expands with Sweden and Finland, Putin slams ‘imperial’ alliance

By Max Delany and Dmytro Gorshkov

This satellite image taken by Planet Labs PBC shows thick black smoke rising after a suspected Ukrainian drone strike on Russian positions on Snake Island, Ukraine, in the Black Sea, May 6, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Russian forces leave strategic Snake Island; Ukraine claims they were driven off

By FRANCESCA EBEL

Dr Albert Bourla (right) receives the 2022 Genesis Prize from Israel's President Isaac Herzog, left, and Stan Polovets, co-founder and chairman/CEO of the Genesis Prize Foundation. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Pfizer boss Bourla receives $1M. Genesis Prize, pledges funds for Holocaust museum

Protesting anti-vaxxers greet hundreds of guests at star-studded Jerusalem event; Bourla, son of Greek survivors, to give cash to planned Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki

Pharma giant Bayer to set up cybersecurity center in Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Court finds 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges in 2015 Paris attacks trial

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and Barbara Surk

President of the Laws Commision at the French National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet holds a paper flower offered by a man at the 'Centre de Retention Administrative' (CRA), a migrant detention center in Vincennes, eastern Paris, on September 18, 2019. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish lawmaker becomes first female speaker of French National Assembly

By Lazar Berman

A child receives a COVID vaccine in Jerusalem on December 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID vaccines halved infection in kids during winter, Israeli study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

Biggest study of its kind checked medical records of almost 100k children at height of winter wave; found 51% effectiveness against infection and 48% against symptomatic infection

Illustrative image: an elderly woman in hospital (LightFieldStudios via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech works to avert hospitalizations by flagging problems with clashing meds

By Nathan Jeffay

Celebrity interviewer Yael Bar-Zohar, left, speaks to reality television star Shay Mika about Jewish ritual purity laws around menstruation in a video for the 'She'asani Isha' campaign. (Screen capture)

Billionaire’s daughter pays ‘influencers’ to tout Jewish menstruation laws

By Judah Ari Gross

Lev Leviev’s daughter Ruthy paid some NIS 150,000 to get secular female social media stars to promote Jewish purity rules, celebrity news journalist Guy Pines reports

Film review

Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?

By Andrew Lapin

Despite its theme, the film doesn’t have a particularly Jewish bent – which works to its advantage as it deals with the aspects of the coming-of-age ritual everyone can relate to

A view of Schragel’s Bagels in Hong Kong. (Jordyn Haime/ JTA)

In Hong Kong, dreams for a new Jewish deli devolve into a war between owners

By Jordyn Haime

More Headlines

Participants in Mitzpe Ramon's first LGBT pride march, July 2, 2021 (Flash90)

Police back down from plans to reroute Mitzpe Ramon pride parade to avoid yeshiva

Illustrative image of the Jordan Valley, on June 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minor earthquake shakes northern Israel, latest in a series

Paramedics at the scene where a four-month-old boy died after being left in a car for hours, June 30, 2022. (MDA)

4-month-old boy dies in Elad after being left by father in car for three hours

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi delivers a speech during the One Ocean Summit, in Brest, Brittany, February 11, 2022. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Egypt’s government sponsoring ‘campaign against journalism’ — media watchdog

By AFP

Israel Olympic baseball player Ian Kinsler takes fielding practice at Salt River Fields spring training facility, May 12, 2021, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Former All-star baseman Ian Kinsler to coach Team Israel in 2023 world championship

By jacob gurvis

This image taken from video provided by WJLA shows crews battling a fire at Camp Airy for Boys in Thurmont, Md., on June 29, 2022. (WJLA via AP)

No injuries as huge fire ravages building at Maryland Jewish boys camp

By AP

Dudi Ashkenazi, an Israeli citizen arrested while vacationing with his wife Racheli on Kos Island, Greece. (Courtesy)

Israeli cops said to tell Greece that arrested man’s ID number doesn’t match warrant

This aerial view shows Katzrin, an Israeli town in the Golan Heights, on December 26, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Support for urban renewal moves out to Israel’s periphery

By Danielle Nagler

Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, arrives at the federal courthouse with his wife Svetlana Parnas in New York, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Giuliani associate Lev Parnas receives 20-month sentence for campaign finance crimes

By Larry Neumeister

Then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse while traveling in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), Russia, Aug. 3, 2009. (Alexei Druzhinin/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Chest beatingPutin says G-7 leaders would look ‘disgusting’ topless

By AP

At the Jerusalem Jazz Festival in July 2021; this year's festival takes place July 5-7, 2022 and includes international artists once again (Courtesy Jerusalem Jazz Festival)

The cats are backInternational artists return to Jerusalem Jazz Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Actor Alec Baldwin attends the screening for "Framing John DeLorean" during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on April 30, 2019, in New York, left, and filmmaker Woody Allen attends a press conference for the film "Irrational Man," at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 15, 2015. (AP Photo)

Woody Allen tells Alex Baldwin next movie may be last: ‘A lot of the thrill is gone’

By AFP

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