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.
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