Lapid opens Israeli embassy in UAE * Biden hosts Rivlin, vows: No Iran nukes * Israel may dump 800,000 vaccines * ’GPS’ nano-drug seen as gamech anger * Keitel as Lansky

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, June 29, 2021 [Lapid inaugurates UAE embassy on 1st official visit, thanks Netanyahu and Trump]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Foreign minister calls on all countries in region to ‘come talk to us’; Emirati culture minister closes her speech with Hebrew greeting]( [Nearly year after ties normalized, top Israeli diplomat finally visits UAE]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Biden tells Rivlin he won’t allow Iranian nukes on his watch]( By [Jacob Magid, Tal Schneider and AP]( [US president hosts outgoing Israeli head of state at White House, says he will meet with Bennett ‘very soon’; Rivlin says he is ‘very much satisfied’ with Biden’s comments]( [Israel, US in talks for Bennett-Biden meeting at the White House in July]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett says ‘childish’ opposition harming Israel, trying to damage ties with US]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Jacob Magid]( [Old friends: Rivlin leaves Washington, confident Biden is in Israel’s corner]( [President uses farewell visit to hold frank conversation on Iran, convey concerns over vacuum created by US withdrawal, request new precision missiles, and explain new gov’t makeup]( [Blinken hopes US strikes on pro-Iran groups are ‘strong’ deterrent]( By [AFP]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing June 29 – In Washington, Biden and Rivlin reboot US-Israel ties]( By [TOI staff]( [Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today]( [Israel may have to throw away nearly 1 million COVID vaccines]( By [TOI staff]( [Country scrambling to find buyer for 800,000 doses set to expire at the end of July, and is hoping to use another 600,000 doses on own population, according to report]( [Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines produce ‘long-lasting’ immune response — study]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Travelers leaving Israel must pledge not to go to countries with high COVID risk]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett: COVID-19 wave can be beaten without restrictions by upping vaccinations]( By [TOI staff]( [Touring inoculation center, PM urges parents to have their children get inoculated, says traveling to banned high-infection countries without permit will be made illegal]( [Some travelers landing at Ben Gurion waiting 10 days for COVID test results – TV]( By [TOI staff]( [Despite rising infections, Israel records just 1 COVID death in 2 weeks]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Lena Katsnelson]( [Let’s talk about antisemitism, the shape-shifting beast]( [Are we suddenly realizing that this is new? That this is different from the dull memory of our otherness to which we had become accustomed?]( [Alden Solovy]( [Nevertheless: A meditation for men on women in political power]( [Following verbal attacks on MK Idit Stilman: ’Do not call women in power ‘Little girls’ / With your hatred and disdain / We see the fear in your eyes’]( [Nina B. Mogilnik]( [America is no more]( [Nothing remains of a ’united’ United States and I no longer consider myself a part of it. I have retreated to my narrow place, to my mitzrayim]( [Thane Rosenbaum]( [The Surfside tragedy and South Florida’s long hold on the Jewish imagination]( [It was once known – if at all – as Miami Beach’s less sparkling neighbor and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s winter haven. Now it will forever be synonymous with misery]( Don't miss a thing [Get The Times of Israel on your Google News]( [Catch everything that really matters on Israel and the Jewish world. Click here, then on the star >]( Live updates [LIVE: Lapid set to meet UAE foreign minister after inauguration of Abu Dhabi Embassy]( By [Michael Bachner and TOI staff]( [Meeting with Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan next on agenda in first official visit by top Israeli diplomat to Gulf country since Abraham Accords]( [Compromise reached to prevent razing of illegal West Bank outpost]( By [TOI staff]( [Evyatar residents accept deal with government to vacate the site in favor of a yeshiva; authorities to examine whether settlement can be legalized]( [New Israeli ‘GPS’ nano-drug busts inflammation, touted as antibody replacement]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Nanoparticles, tested on mice and unveiled in peer-reviewed research, head straight to cells that are inflamed, and either ‘silence’ or edit the gene that is causing inflammation]( [CRM]( [As questions mount over condo collapse, a trail of missed warnings emerges]( By [AP and AFP]( [Surfside official said building was in ‘very good shape’ despite report on structural damage 3 years ago; contractor says he spotted issues under pool 36 hours before disaster]( [Miami-Dade Jews ‘proud’ of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s leadership amid tragedy]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Death toll in condo collapse rises to 11 as crews keep up perilous rescue dig]( By [TERRY SPENCER and Russ Bynum]( [In Florida, Israel’s new Diaspora minister looks to comfort community, mend ties]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Nachman Shai, who has relationships with US Jewish community going back decades, visits Surfside to show solidarity with Jews as well as wider American population]( [Opposition filibusters through the night at acrimonious Knesset debate]( By [TOI staff]( [2 votes of no-confidence in government knocked back; legislation on Norwegian law, budget extension passes first readings as lawmakers spar for 15 hours]( [Ultra-Orthodox to boycott Knesset committee because its chair is a Reform rabbi]( By [TOI staff]( [4 new deputy ministers appointed by cabinet; 2 more MKs sworn in]( By [TOI staff]( Film review [In ‘Lansky,’ Harvey Keitel puts legendary gangster’s Jewishness front and center]( By [Stephen Silver]( [Now playing in US theaters and available on-demand, the film by director Eytan Rockaway seeks to understand the notorious criminal who supported Israel and fought Nazis]( [Taboola heads to Nasdaq as SPAC merger gets green light]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israeli content recommendation company to start trading Wednesday at a valuation of some $2.6 billion]( [Does series ‘Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein’s Shadow’ whitewash enigmatic heiress?]( By [Francine Wolfisz]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Finance Minister Liberman pledges no new taxes, ‘responsible’ fiscal policy]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Hamas leader Haniyeh meets Hezbollah chief Nasrallah in Beirut]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Agencies]( [UN report accuses Israel of ‘grave violations’ against children]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Poland says it’s hoping Israel will come around on Holocaust legislation]( By [Dario Thuburn]( [The naked truth / Nude photographer Spencer Tunick to again lay bare Dead Sea’s plight]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Court further delays resumption of Netanyahu trial until July 12]( By [TOI staff]( [In first for Latin America, ultra-Orthodox city planned for Mexico]( By [JTA]( [Pittsburgh congregation at shul where shooter killed 11 asks his life be spared]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [US to open Olympic baseball against Israel on July 30]( By [AP]( [German knife attack probe finds Islamist extremist motive ‘likely’]( By [Deborah Cole]( [Family of PA critic vows to reject commission conclusions on his death]( By [Aaron Boxerman and AFP]( [Iran-backed militias said to fire projectiles at US base in Syria]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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