Israel seeks to drum up US grassroots boycott of Ben & Jerry’s * Israel-led voyage sets out to save Red Sea coral * Iranian drone in a kibbutz f ishpond * Fauda in Persian

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Wednesday, July 21, 2021 Presented by The Washington Institute [Interior minister: Israel drumming up US grassroots boycott of Ben & Jerry’s]( By [TOI staff]( [Ayelet Shaked visits Israeli ice cream factory, says she’s working with Jewish and evangelical groups to pressure US company to drop settlement ban]( [Israeli envoy urges 35 US states to activate anti-BDS laws against Ben & Jerry’s]( By [Amy Spiro]( [PA applauds Ben & Jerry’s for ending sales in settlements]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Jacob Magid]( [US states’ fully baked anti-BDS laws could put the freeze on Ben & Jerry’s]( [Legislation doesn’t differentiate between Israel and settlements, and states could now be forced to pull contracts, along with pension funds invested in parent company Unilever]( [Ben & Jerry’s could make BDS flavor of the month, warns Foreign Ministry source]( By [Lazar Berman]( [US State Department vows to oppose BDS after Ben & Jerry’s settlement pullout]( By [TOI staff]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing July 21 – How anti-BDS laws may melt Ben & Jerry’s freeze]( By [TOI staff]( [US correspondent Jacob Magid dishes up practical measures that 30+ states may employ against ice cream giant while political reporter Tal Schneider tells of a licked Yair Netanyahu]( [NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio raps Ben & Jerry’s, saying he’ll lay off Cherry Garcia]( By [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Australian kosher authority delists Ben & Jerry’s ice cream over West Bank ban]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( From our Sponsor [Israel’s Dramatic Energy Turnaround]( [What are the possibilities and limits of Israeli natural gas, and what is the country’s energy trajectory in the Middle East? Hear ‘Decision Points’ from The Washington Institute for Near East Policy]( [Morocco denies using notorious Israeli NSO spyware to target French officials]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Rabat lashes out at reports it may have used Pegasus malware to eavesdrop on the cellphones of France’s president and other public figures]( [Government said to form team to deal with fallout of NSO spyware revelations]( By [TOI staff]( [France’s Macron, Moroccan king among potential targets of Israeli firm’s spyware]( By [AFP]( [Protests erupt in India’s parliament over Israeli spyware scandal]( By [SHEIKH SAALIQ and Krutika Pathi]( [As floods stir climate change fears, Israel may be up a creek without a plan]( By [Sue Surkes]( [A comptroller report in June found cities woefully unready for 2020’s deadly deluges; and though leaders say they take the issue seriously, funding for preparedness remains elusive]( [Explainer / Hotter here, wetter there: How and why climate change will remake our world]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Monstrous Oregon wildfire now a third the size of Rhode Island]( By [Gillian Flaccus]( [Some restrictions return as coronavirus cases continue to climb]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel reinstates Green Pass system for indoor events with over 100 attendees; fines come into effect for businesses that don’t enforce rules, including that customers wear masks]( [Months after it was downed, Iran UAV still swimming with fishes in kibbutz pond]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [After initial attempts at retrieval failed, IDF decided to instead wait until the pool gets drained, leaving the drone unguarded, fishery manager says]( Top Ops [Dainy Bernstein]( [My ex-Orthodox life isn’t glamorous, but my story may help people]( [What happens when you enter the world you’ve been told will eat you alive without Julia Haart’s catapult to success? How do you manage the verboten?]( [Yakov Nagen]( [Dr. Muhammed’s mezuzah and the talisman of the Angel Raphael]( [Non-Jews’ desire to affix God’s name to the entrance of their homes realizes the prophetic vision that all humanity will unite to call God’s name together]( [Hillel Schenker]( [Ben & Jerry’s did the right thing]( [Boycotting the settlements is not boycotting Israel, it is reaffirming the need to end the occupation based on a negotiated two-state solution]( [Ruth Peri]( [How Israelis and Gazans ended up behind bars in Bulgaria]( [They were 5 terrified young men shivering in the Bulgarian forest. I tried my best to explain to the border police why Israelis would help Palestinians]( Interview [Arab Israelis will soon see progress on ending crime wave, deputy minister says]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [An Arab municipal official voices cautious optimism, praises ‘seriousness’ of new government in tackling communal bloodshed]( [4 more to be charged over Jewish mob attack on Arab man in Bat Yam]( By [Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff]( [CRM]( [Winds of peace fuel Israeli-led expedition to Sudan to save Red Sea coral reefs]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Multinational mission will spend four summers in unprecedented project to assess health of threatened reefs, all on a boat originally built by the Nazis to lay mines]( Live updates [LIVE: Health minister warns of ‘long months’ ahead in battling Delta variant]( By [TOI staff]( [Nitzan Horowitz predicts serious cases will also rise in coming weeks, says government’s goal is for schools to completely reopen in the fall]( [Religious affairs minister seeks to reform kosher certification, irking Haredim]( By [Amy Spiro]( [New plan would create private agencies, overseen by the Chief Rabbinate, to provide certifications to businesses in each city]( [US troops land in Israel for in-person part of so-far virtual air defense drill]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Militaries to hold second stage of the Juniper Falcon exercise, the first part of which was held in February remotely]( [IDF chief vows to respond to any attack after rocket fire from Lebanon]( By [TOI staff]( [Russia unveils new stealth fighter jet to compete with F-35]( By [VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV]( [Bennett: Israel to set up ‘global network shield’ against growing cyberthreat]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [PM calls on ‘like-minded’ nations to join network to detect, alert and respond to attacks in real time; Israel cybersecurity chief warns: ‘Cyber winter is here’]( [After NSO bombshell, Gantz asserts that Israel complies with international law]( By [Amy Spiro]( [IDF paratroopers recreate WWII jump in honor of poet-soldier Hannah Senesh]( By [TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross]( [Soldiers from the Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian and British militaries also take part in memorial jump in Slovenia]( [Julia Haart tells ‘My Unorthodox Life’ critics: Watch before you judge me]( By [Shira Hanau]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Speaking their language / Hit Israeli series ‘Fauda’ to be dubbed into Persian]( By [TOI staff]( [Iran security council rejects proposal to restore nuclear deal – gov’t spokesman]( By [TOI staff]( [California synagogue shooter pleads guilty to deadly 2019 attack]( By [AP]( [Legends live on / Retired Real Madrid soccer stars trounce FC Barcelona in Tel Aviv]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [If you can make it there: Mobileye self-driving car plies New York City streets]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Southern belles / Miss Universe competition to be held this year in Eilat]( By [AP]( [Yair Netanyahu apologizes to Wexner fellowship alumni for ‘pedophile cult’ claim]( By [Tal Schneider]( [Far-right settler youth clash with border police at West Bank outpost]( By [TOI staff]( [Likud MK suspended from managing Knesset plenum after apparently fudging vote]( By [TOI staff]( [Swiss diagnostic firm Unilabs to use Ibex cancer-detecting tech in labs]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Fashion podcaster accused of antisemitism apologizes to Jewish community]( By [Ben Sales]( [Beloved tunes / Ancient Hebrew love poetry finds new audiences on YouTube]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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