Bennett, Lapid plead for unity * Yossi Klein Halevi hails coalition of reconciliation * Iran attack on Israelis in Turkey thwarted * Israel Baseball swings for the fences

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Sunday, June 12, 2022 [Bennett, Lapid in unity plea as coalition teeters: ‘We won’t give up on our country’]( By [TOI staff]( [PM, Yamina’s Orbach meet again; Sa’ar advances contentious settler law bill; Meretz leadership to discuss rebel MK Rinawie Zoabi; Ra’am seems to prep for wayward MK Ghanaim’s exit]( [Ra’am shakeup may pave way for rebellious MK Ghanaim to leave Knesset]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Rebel Meretz MK says she’s ‘lost faith’ in coalition leaders]( By [TOI staff]( From the blogs [Yossi Klein Halevi]( [The soon-to-end coalition that nurtured two visions of Israel]( [It has been a government of dual national reconciliation – between Jews and Arabs, between Jews and Jews. The alternative is the unraveling of Israeli cohesion]( Live updates [LIVE: Israel said to have thwarted planned Iranian attack on Israeli targets in Turkey]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Jerusalem reportedly enlisted Istanbul’s aid in foiling attack last month; warning soon followed for Israelis to avoid travel to Turkey amid fears of Tehran revenge plot]( ToI podcast [TOI staff]( [Daily Briefing Jun 12: That’s the way the coalition crumbles?; Israel-bashing report]( [Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn tries to make sense of Knesset chaos; diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on what’s in a label and what Baltic states learn from Israel]( [In TV clash with Ra’am’s Abbas, Likud’s Israel Katz bashes ‘terror supporting’ party]( By [TOI staff]( [Meretz activists protest outside rebel MK’s home, call for her resignation]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( [Bennett: Iran dangerously close to nukes; may get there soon if no Western pressure]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [In an interview with UK’s Telegraph, prime minister calls on global community to ramp up efforts, saying ‘Iran’s nuclear program won’t stop until it’s stopped’]( [Iran says it’s starting up new centrifuges, claims IAEA ‘hostage to Zionist regime’]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Iran’s currency drops to all-time low amid US sanctions]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Top US official meets fuming Abbas in Ramallah ahead of expected Biden visit]( By [Jacob Magid]( [PA president warns US he’s on verge of downgrading ties with Israel over actions in East Jerusalem and West Bank; reiterates demands for Biden to delist PLO, reopen consulate]( [Israel bristles as Norway mandates labels for produce from West Bank, Golan]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Tiferet Peterseil]( [My daughters need their mommy]( [A car accident left me disabled, but with help, I take care of my kids better than anyone else can. That’s why Israel needs to legislate support for families like mine]( [Elchanan Poupko]( [No glory in abandoning Russian Jewry]( [Past Chabad leaders have lost their lives while defying the Russian government to serve local Jews. Painting today’s rabbis as collaborators is beyond insulting]( [Driver remanded over killing of volunteer cop at sobriety checkpoint]( By [TOI staff]( [Suspect in killing of Amichai Carmely, 46, to be held for five days, along with four passengers; lawyer denies client was even in the car]( [Israel Baseball swings for the fences, building the field in hopes players come]( By [Steve Leibowitz]( [After a strong 2021 Olympic showing, a new regulation field is nearly done and 4 youth teams will play in Europe this summer – but there’s still a struggle to find homegrown talent]( [Biden: Zelensky ‘didn’t want to hear’ warnings about Russian invasion]( By [AFP]( [US president says there was ‘no doubt’ that Putin would order his troops into Ukraine, and ‘we had data to sustain’ that assessment]( [Zelensky says Ukrainian troops continue to defy predictions]( By [david keyton and John Leicester]( [EU chief visits Kyiv, promises answer on Ukraine’s candidacy bid next week]( By [Benoit Finck and Blaise GAUQUELIN]( [Lebanese rally near Israeli border against gas extraction in area claimed by Beirut]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [‘We absolutely refuse to neglect Lebanon’s maritime resources,’ lawmaker tells hundreds at protest near border, days after rig arrives at Israel’s offshore Karish field]( [Woman killed, husband injured in suspected murder-suicide attempt in Haifa]( By [TOI staff]( [Couple found stabbed in an apartment; woman dies of her wounds in hospital]( [Man gunned down, killed in his car in northern town of Jatt]( By [TOI staff]( [18-year-old seriously injured in Umm al-Fahm shooting]( By [TOI staff]( [Schools, kindergartens open late in Jerusalem area as teachers continue strike]( By [TOI staff]( [Educational institutions, with exception of high schools and special education, open at 10 a.m.; union leaders reportedly say different part of country to be disrupted each day]( [Antisemite Father Coughlin’s former church reaches out to Jews in show of good faith]( By [Andrew Lapin]( [Once a base of hatred, the National Shrine of the Little Flower in metro Detroit co-hosts interfaith event aimed at maintaining and continuing to improve Jewish-Catholic relations]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Four ibexes die in suspected poisoning in southern Israel]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Rights groups say Meta’s moderation of Iran content hurting citizenry]( By [AFP]( [US police arrest 31 white supremacists over plans to riot near Idaho Pride parade]( By [martha bellisle]( [Saudi Arabia pledges $10 million to avert oil spill from tanker abandoned off Yemen]( By [AFP]( [Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest on seaside promenade]( By [AP]( [‘March for our lives’: Thousands rally across US to demand new gun safety laws]( By [ASHRAF KHALIL and DARLENE SUPERVILLE]( [Planned DeSantis speech in NYC to conservative Jews draws LGBTQ ire]( By [BOBBY CAINA CALVAN]( [UK government cuts ties with imam over protests against film on Muhammad’s daughter]( By [AFP]( [New Ben Platt movie to be filmed at site of former Jewish summer camp]( By [Andrew Lapin]( [Parliamentary elections open in France as left seeks to challenge Macron]( By [Agencies]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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