Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid shakes hands with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/Government Press Office via AP)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates On Saturday, June 19, as the new Yair Lapid/Naftali Bennett government finished its first week in office, Jews in synagogues around the world read the Torah portion that describes Moses striking a rock in the desert to extract water, instead of speaking to it as God had commanded.
As a punishment, Moses the leader who ushered the Israelites into freedom and kept them together through forty long years in the desert was not allowed to enter Canaan. Instead, it would be a new leader with a new style, Joshua, who would pick up where Moses left off and bring the people into the Promised Land.
Family reunification law aims to lower number of Palestinian citizens in Israel
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