Yamina’s Orbach quits coalition; it’s now a minority * Amid Iran terror threats, Lapid tells all Israelis in Turkey: Come home * Sa’ar interview * How to fight addiction

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, June 13, 2022 Live updates [LIVE: Yamina’s Orbach suspends cooperation with coalition, in major blow to Bennett]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [MK confirms he won’t vote with government but also won’t vote to bring it down, blaming MKs from Ra’am and Meretz for refusing to adhere to coalition for its dysfunction]( [Lapid calls on Israelis in Turkey to leave immediately amid Iran attack threat]( By [TOI staff]( [FM’s instruction follow reports of Israeli and Turkish security agencies uncovering an Iranian plot to kidnap and murder Israeli tourists]( [Iranian kidnapping of Israeli tourists said thwarted in Turkey last month]( By [TOI staff]( [Iran says any response to Israel ‘will not be in a third country’]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Gideon Sa’ar to ToI: To save the government, our partners need to sacrifice more]( By [Tal Schneider]( [New Hope leader thinks other party heads in flailing coalition should start cracking the whip with rebel MKs; dismisses idea that only its left wing is being required to compromise]( [Sa’ar pans opposition bill ‘politicizing’ selection of Supreme Court judges]( By [TOI staff]( [Yesha leader faces rebellion for backing coalition bill crucial to settlers]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [CRM]( Analysis [Emanuel Fabian]( [Shuttering Damascus airport, Israel ramps up its efforts to foil Iran arms transfers]( [Friday’s strike blocked all air travel, not just large cargo planes, after intel showed weapon parts were still being smuggled; move shows operations continuing despite Russian ire]( [UN mission demands security guarantees from Lebanon after troops ‘threatened’]( By [AFP]( [Biden says Israel’s national security part of reason for Saudi trip]( By [Jacob Magid]( [President dismisses idea that his Riyadh visit is related to energy issues; Israeli official says stops in Jerusalem, Bethlehem will be on July 14, 15, but US says dates not final]( [With EU commissioner set to visit Ramallah, PA hopes for end to funding crisis]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [In fiery libel hearing against Olmert, Netanyahu denies having ‘psychiatric history’]( By [TOI staff]( [Opposition chief calls defense lawyer ‘crazy’; his wife says she wasn’t admitted to psychiatric ward; former official says Netanyahu family’s behavior ‘took its toll on the state’]( [Daily Briefing Jun 13: Mazel tov! Coalition a year old; why Israel hit Syria airport]( [listen to the podcast]( Analysis [AP]( [Battle of Donbas region could decide outcome of Ukraine war]( [A Moscow victory in eastern industrial heartland paves its way to large swaths of territory in center; a defeat would bring Kyiv counteroffensive, perhaps Kremlin upheaval]( [Former Russian PM: Putin is ‘out of it’, Ukraine war could last two years]( By [Anna SMOLCHENKO]( [Zelensky: Ukrainian, Russian forces fighting for ‘every meter’ in Severodonetsk]( By [Anna MALPAS and Benoit Finck]( Top Ops [Daniel Elbaum]( [3 things we do wrong when we talk to our kids about Israel]( [Parents can interact meaningfully and memorably by switching the language, changing the location and, frankly, talking less and doing more]( [Jonathan A. Greenblatt]( [You don’t need a map to find antisemitism]( [Anti-Zionists may wrap themselves in the cloak of solidarity with the oppressed, but this movement is as conspiratorial and anti-Jewish as the far-right]( [Shuki Friedman]( [I am not a ‘disease carrier’]( [The left’s venom against religious Zionists is dangerous and foolish – not least because it limits their ability to temper the actual extremists]( [Scott Copeland]( [Be subversive – celebrate Hebrew Book Week]( [I want a book that transports me to other places, that breaks the routine, and that suggests that the way I live – the way we live – is not the only path to humanity]( [Yamina defector Chikli appeals party ouster as undemocratic]( By [TOI staff]( [MK asks district court to consider the obligations and allegiances of a lawmaker: whether they lie with the voters who elected him or only the party leader]( [In fresh blow to coalition, Blue and White MK renews boycott of coalition votes]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Beit Shemesh resident, 18, indicted for death threat against Liberman]( By [Tobias Siegal]( Ahead of World Drug Day [In hitting bottom, an alcoholic psychiatrist finds the key to fighting addiction]( By [JP O’ Malley]( [In ‘The Urge: Our History of Addiction,’ author Carl Fisher taps into both his own experience and humanity’s to argue that substance abuse isn’t a one-off solvable issue]( [Vaccinated people who recovered from Omicron found to be best protected against BA.5]( By [TOI staff]( [Doctor at Sheba Medical Center says a person who’d been infected with Omicron but hadn’t been inoculated against COVID ‘is not protected’ from other strains]( [Key COVID-19 transmission figure hits 3-month high as renewed outbreak intensifies]( By [TOI staff]( [US regulators: Pfizer’s COVID vaccine appears effective for kids under 5]( By [MATTHEW PERRONE and Mike Stobbe]( [At bleak conference, officials warn Israel unprepared to deal with major emergency]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Senior cop says force unable to provide ‘comprehensive response’ to ethnic unrest; IDF chief threatens Lebanon: ‘Power of our attacks will be something you’ve never seen’]( [Israel unveils armed robotic vehicle for ‘forward reconnaissance missions’]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Members of Jan. 6 panel: There’s enough proof to indict Trump over Capitol storming]( By [Hope Yen]( [After first public hearing, several lawmakers in the US House committee leading the investigation say they believe there is a case against the former president]( [Head of US white supremacist group among those arrested near Idaho Pride parade]( By [LINDSAY WHITEHURST and San Metz]( [In modest breakthrough, US senators announce outline of gun control deal]( By [Alan Fram]( [CRM]( [Iran says its actions in contravention of 2015 nuclear deal are ‘reversible’]( By [AFP]( [Spokesman argues a new accord could turn back clock on Tehran’s accelerated nuclear development, as IAEA slams non-cooperation]( [Iran says 2 Revolutionary Guard members ‘martyred’ as regional tensions rise]( By [Nasser Karimi]( [73 lawmakers from Iraq’s biggest bloc resign, plunging country into uncertainty]( By [Qassim Abdul-Zahra]( [PHOTO ESSAY: Venice ghetto’s synagogues undergo a restoration renaissance]( By [CHRIS WARDE-JONES]( [Effort underway to preserve historic neighborhood’s 16th-century houses of prayer, both for the small remaining Jewish community and for tourists]( More Headlines [Police find body in northern Israel amid searches for missing woman]( By [TOI staff]( [Three held on suspicion of leaking classified IDF information online]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Deficit drops to nearly zero for the first time in 14 years]( By [Luke Tress]( [Ron DeSantis slams ‘woke gender ideology’ in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan]( By [Jacob Henry]( [Bus driver blocks girl, 13, from boarding, says her clothing is ‘sexual harassment’]( By [TOI staff]( [State-owned pipeline to pay NIS 250,000 for damaging corals, won’t admit liability]( By [Sue Surkes]( [UAE bans Pixar’s new animation ‘Lightyear’ over same-sex kiss scene]( By [Jon Gambrell]( [Retired US general resigns as head of prominent think tank amid Qatar lobbying probe]( By [Alan Suderman and Jim Mustian]( [Teachers renew partial strike as union dispute with Finance Ministry drags on]( By [TOI staff]( [Shipping conservation / Ahoy, me hearties! Young buccaneers invited to learn about marine life]( By [Sue Surkes]( [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? [Subscribe here]( [Unsubscribe]( from this List © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved