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U(D54G1D)y+$!%!&!?!= JERUSALEM — Israeli opposi- tion parties announced on Wednesday that they had reached a coalition agreement to form a government and oust Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history and a dominant figure who has pushed his nation’s politics to the right. The announcement could lead to the easing of a political impasse that has produced four elections in two years and left Israel with- out a stable government or a state budget. If Parliament ratifies the fragile agreement in a confidence vote in the coming days, it will also bring down the curtain, if only for an intermission, on the premier- ship of a leader who has defined contemporary Israel more than any other. The new coalition is an unusual and awkward alliance between eight political parties from a di- verse array of ideologies, from the left to the far right. While some an- alysts have hailed it as a reflection of the breadth and complexity of contemporary society, others say its members are too incompatible for their compact to last, and con- sider it the embodiment of Israel’s political dysfunction. The alliance would be led until 2023 by Naftali Bennett, a former settler leader and standard- bearer for religious nationalists, who opposes a Palestinian state and wants Israel to annex the ma- jority of the occupied West Bank. He is a former ally of Mr. Netanya- hu often described as more right wing than the prime minister. If the government lasts a whole term, it would then be led between 2023 and 2025 by Yair Lapid, a centrist former television host considered a standard-bearer for secular Israelis. It was Mr. Lapid who was picked by the president, Reuven Rivlin, four weeks ago to try to form a new government. And it was Mr. Lapid who called Mr. Rivlin at 11:22 p.m. on Wednesday, with just 38 minutes left before his mandate expired, to inform him that he had assembled a fragile co- alition. “I commit to you, Mr. President, that this government will work to serve all the citizens of Israel, in- cluding those who aren’t mem- bers of it, will respect those who oppose it, and do everything in its power to unite all parts of Israeli society,” Mr. Lapid said, according to a readout provided by his office. Mr. Bennett, 49, is the son of American immigrants, and a for- mer software entrepreneur, army commando and chief of staff to Mr. Netanyahu. His home is in central Israel, but he was once chief exec- utive of an umbrella group, the Yesha Council, that represents Jewish settlements in the occu- pied West Bank. Until the most re- NETANYAHU RIVALS ARE ON THE VERGE OF REPLACING HIM In Israel, Ungainly Coalition Would Be Led by a Religious Nationalist By PATRICK KINGSLEY Naftali Bennett could lead a new government until 2023. POOL PHOTO BY YONATAN SINDEL Continued on Page A6 As the world’s oil and gas giants face increasing pressure to reduce their fossil fuel emissions, small, privately held drilling companies are becoming the country’s big- gest emitters of greenhouse gases, often by buying up the in- dustry’s high-polluting assets. According to a new analysis of the latest emissions data dis- closed to the Environmental Pro- tection Agency, five of the indus- try’s top 10 emitters of methane, a particularly potent planet-warm- ing gas, are little-known oil and gas producers, some backed by obscure investment firms, whose environmental footprints are wildly large relative to their pro- duction. In some cases, the companies are buying up high-polluting as- sets directly from the largest oil and gas corporations, like Cono- coPhillips and BP; in other cases, private equity firms acquire risky oil and gas properties, develop them and sell them quickly for maximum profits. The largest emitter, Hilcorp En- ergy, reported almost 50 percent more methane emissions from its operations than the nation’s larg- est fossil fuel producer, Exxon Mo- bil, despite pumping far less oil and gas. Four other relatively un- known companies — Terra Ener- gy Partners, Flywheel Energy, Blackbeard Operating and Scout Obscure Names On a Top 10 List Of Big Polluters By HIROKO TABUCHI Continued on Page A18 MIAMI — Three years ago, not long after Hurricane Irma left parts of Miami underwater, the federal government embarked on a study to find a way to protect the vulnerable South Florida coast from deadly and destructive storm surge. Already, no one likes the an- swer. Build a wall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed in its first draft of the study, now under review. Six miles of it, in fact, mostly inland, running parallel to the coast through neighborhoods — except for a one-mile stretch right on Biscayne Bay, past the gleaming sky-rises of Brickell, the city’s financial district. The dramatic $6 billion pro- posal remains tentative and at least five years off. But the star- tling suggestion of a massive sea wall up to 20 feet high cutting across beautiful Biscayne Bay was enough to jolt some Miami- ans to attention: The hard choices that will be necessary to deal with the city’s many environmental challenges are here, and few peo- ple want to face them. “You need to have a conversa- tion about, culturally, what are our priorities?” said Benjamin Kirt- man, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Mi- ami. “Where do we want to in- vest? Where does it make sense?” A Wall Looms As Miami Plans For Rising Seas By PATRICIA MAZZEI Continued on Page A18 The Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City forcefully attacked their opponents’ records and ethics in starkly personal terms on Wednesday night, tan- gling over how they would ad- dress growing concerns over ris- ing violent crime and the city’s economic recovery. In their first in-person debate of the campaign, the eight leading contenders battled over crime, justice and the power of the police, questions of education and char- ter schools and, in the debate’s most heated moments, the issue of who is qualified to lead the na- tion’s largest city. The debate was the first oppor- tunity for the candidates to con- front each other face to face, and the setting and the timing — just 20 days before the June 22 Demo- cratic primary — elevated the im- portance and the tension of the gathering. One of the most heated ex- changes unfolded between Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, and Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate — two contenders who have general- ly been considered the front-run- ners, though the race is tighten- ing. “Eric, we all know that you’ve been investigated for corruption everywhere you’ve gone,” Mr. Yang charged, accusing Mr. Ad- ams of involvement in a “trifecta of corruption investigations.” “Is that really what we want in the next mayor? he asked. “Did you think you were going to enter City Hall, and it’s going to be dif- ferent? We all know it’s going to be exactly the same.” Mr. Adams, who defended his integrity, noted Mr. Yang’s lack of past political experience in the city and remarked, “You do not vote in municipal elections at all. I just don’t know — how the hell do we have you become our mayor, with this record like this?” The candidates laid out their ambitions on vital city issues, in- cluding how to account for educa- tional losses during the pandemic and the need to boost small busi- nesses. The debate also touched on broader thematic questions: Whether New York needed a polit- ical outsider with boldly ambi- tious ideas, or a leader with tradi- Mayoral Rivals Clash on Crime And Economy By KATIE GLUECK Continued on Page A22 The British actor Naomi Ackie does most of the dramatic heavy lifting in the new season of “Master of None,” Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Front and Center Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in college basketball, is planning his farewell campaign. PAGE B12 SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-10, 12 Last Dance for the Blue Devils It is difficult to overstate the hopes facing Deb Haaland as she takes the Interior Department’s helm. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-19, 22 A Native American First The politics of delivering broadband make connecting rural areas appealing, but many more people in cities live in areas that have high-speed service they cannot afford. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-7 Waiting on Broadband As the United States prepares for a safe summer for the vaccinated, nations still scrambling for shots are seeing some of their worst outbreaks. PAGE A5 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 No Return to Normal Here The web has presented a host of new opportunities for the nation’s Black- owned resale clothing shops. PAGE D1 THURSDAY STYLES D1-6 Vintage, and Diverse Desperation for food and shelter is growing in Congo after a volcano forced hundreds of thousands to flee. PAGE A4 Hunger Crisis After Eruption A study showed that sharp declines in financial instability coincided with the two most recent payments. PAGE A16 Stimulus Kept Families Afloat Medina Spirit faces disqualification, and his trainer, Bob Baffert, is barred from Churchill Downs for two years. PAGE B9 Derby Champ’s Test Confirmed After a shift in official guidance by the C.D.C., employers have begun to with- draw mask policies that workers say were protecting them from unvaccinat- ed customers. PAGE B1 Unease as Masks Come Off Nicholas Kristof PAGE A20 OPINION A20-21 CEUTA, Spain — Daouda Faye, a 25-year-old migrant from Sene- gal, was elated when he heard that Moroccan border guards had sud- denly started waving in undocu- mented migrants across the bor- der to Ceuta, a fenced-off Spanish enclave on the North African coast. “‘Come on in, boys,’” the guards told him and others as they reached the border on May 17, Mr. Faye said. And in they went — by the thou- sands. Normally, Morocco tightly con- trols the fenced borders around Ceuta, a six-mile-long peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast that Spain has governed since the 1600s. But now its military was al- lowing migrants into this toehold of Europe. Over the next two days, as many as 12,000 people flowed over the border to Ceuta in hopes of reaching mainland Spain, en- gulfing the city of 80,000. The crisis has laid bare the unique pressure point Morocco Morocco Sends Spanish Outpost a Migrant Influx By NICHOLAS CASEY and JOSÉ BAUTISTA Continued on Page A8 A Porous Border Leads to a Rise in Tensions A migrant in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Africa that has seen an influx of up to 12,000 people. SAMUEL ARANDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Two months after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting at a King Soopers in Boulder, Colo., in- vestigators have still not said why the gunman chose that particular supermarket — or why he turned violent in the first place. A similar mystery surrounds the killing of eight people at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis. Was the gunman angry because he had been fired? Was he target- ing Sikhs, who made up half of his victims? And in San Jose, Calif., the site of the latest mass shooting to grip America, investigators are still sifting through evidence to deter- mine exactly why a longtime tran- sit agency employee turned on his colleagues, killing nine of them. “We are not trained to analyze co- workers,” a local union leader said, adding, “We will never know.” In all three instances, the iden- tity of the perpetrators is not in question. And yet the cases still in some way feel unsolved because the motive remains unclear. Every time there is a mass shooting and a gunman is identi- fied, the biggest question is what drove him to violence. Law en- forcement officials may deploy hundreds of investigators, thou- sands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to un- derstand the why. But some criminal profilers have begun to discuss the limita- tions of fixating on motive, ques- tioning how much value there is in constructing a story with a defini- tive arc, and whether perpetra- tors are even capable of explain- ing themselves. “I’m one of these weird crea- tures that is doing research on mo- What Drives a Gunman to Act? Does It Matter? By SHAILA DEWAN The Limits of Trying to Make Sense of the Senseless Continued on Page A19 DESIREE RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES An undocumented immigrant and mother of three in the Bronx scrapes by on $100 a week in one of the world’s richest cities. Page A12. ‘It’s Not Enough’ Late Edition VOL. CLXX . . . No. 59,078 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021 Today, cloudy, showers, thunder- storms, watch for flooding, high 71. Tonight, thunderstorms, low 64. To- morrow, clouds, thunderstorms, high 78. Weather map, Page B12. $3.00
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JERUSALEM — Israeli opposi-tion parties announced onWednesday that they had reacheda coalition agreement to form agovernment and oust BenjaminNetanyahu, the longest-servingprime minister in Israeli historyand a dominant figure who haspushed his nation’s politics to theright.
The announcement could leadto the easing of a political impassethat has produced four electionsin two years and left Israel with-out a stable government or a statebudget. If Parliament ratifies thefragile agreement in a confidencevote in the coming days, it will alsobring down the curtain, if only foran intermission, on the premier-ship of a leader who has definedcontemporary Israel more thanany other.
The new coalition is an unusualand awkward alliance betweeneight political parties from a di-verse array of ideologies, from theleft to the far right. While some an-alysts have hailed it as a reflectionof the breadth and complexity ofcontemporary society, others sayits members are too incompatiblefor their compact to last, and con-sider it the embodiment of Israel’spolitical dysfunction.
The alliance would be led until2023 by Naftali Bennett, a formersettler leader and standard-bearer for religious nationalists,who opposes a Palestinian stateand wants Israel to annex the ma-jority of the occupied West Bank.He is a former ally of Mr. Netanya-hu often described as more rightwing than the prime minister.
If the government lasts a wholeterm, it would then be led between2023 and 2025 by Yair Lapid, acentrist former television hostconsidered a standard-bearer forsecular Israelis.
It was Mr. Lapid who waspicked by the president, ReuvenRivlin, four weeks ago to try toform a new government. And itwas Mr. Lapid who called Mr.Rivlin at 11:22 p.m. on Wednesday,with just 38 minutes left before hismandate expired, to inform himthat he had assembled a fragile co-alition.
“I commit to you, Mr. President,that this government will work toserve all the citizens of Israel, in-cluding those who aren’t mem-bers of it, will respect those whooppose it, and do everything in itspower to unite all parts of Israelisociety,” Mr. Lapid said, accordingto a readout provided by his office.
Mr. Bennett, 49, is the son ofAmerican immigrants, and a for-mer software entrepreneur, armycommando and chief of staff to Mr.Netanyahu. His home is in centralIsrael, but he was once chief exec-utive of an umbrella group, theYesha Council, that representsJewish settlements in the occu-pied West Bank. Until the most re-
NETANYAHU RIVALSARE ON THE VERGE
OF REPLACING HIMIn Israel, Ungainly Coalition Would Be
Led by a Religious Nationalist
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
Naftali Bennett could lead anew government until 2023.
POOL PHOTO BY YONATAN SINDEL
Continued on Page A6
As the world’s oil and gas giantsface increasing pressure to reducetheir fossil fuel emissions, small,privately held drilling companiesare becoming the country’s big-gest emitters of greenhousegases, often by buying up the in-dustry’s high-polluting assets.
According to a new analysis ofthe latest emissions data dis-closed to the Environmental Pro-tection Agency, five of the indus-try’s top 10 emitters of methane, aparticularly potent planet-warm-ing gas, are little-known oil andgas producers, some backed byobscure investment firms, whoseenvironmental footprints arewildly large relative to their pro-duction.
In some cases, the companiesare buying up high-polluting as-sets directly from the largest oiland gas corporations, like Cono-coPhillips and BP; in other cases,private equity firms acquire riskyoil and gas properties, developthem and sell them quickly formaximum profits.
The largest emitter, Hilcorp En-ergy, reported almost 50 percentmore methane emissions from itsoperations than the nation’s larg-est fossil fuel producer, Exxon Mo-bil, despite pumping far less oiland gas. Four other relatively un-known companies — Terra Ener-gy Partners, Flywheel Energy,Blackbeard Operating and Scout
Obscure NamesOn a Top 10 ListOf Big Polluters
By HIROKO TABUCHI
Continued on Page A18
MIAMI — Three years ago, notlong after Hurricane Irma leftparts of Miami underwater, thefederal government embarked ona study to find a way to protect thevulnerable South Florida coastfrom deadly and destructivestorm surge.
Already, no one likes the an-swer.
Build a wall, the U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers proposed in itsfirst draft of the study, now underreview. Six miles of it, in fact,mostly inland, running parallel tothe coast through neighborhoods— except for a one-mile stretchright on Biscayne Bay, past thegleaming sky-rises of Brickell, thecity’s financial district.
The dramatic $6 billion pro-posal remains tentative and atleast five years off. But the star-tling suggestion of a massive seawall up to 20 feet high cuttingacross beautiful Biscayne Baywas enough to jolt some Miami-ans to attention: The hard choicesthat will be necessary to deal withthe city’s many environmentalchallenges are here, and few peo-ple want to face them.
“You need to have a conversa-tion about, culturally, what are ourpriorities?” said Benjamin Kirt-man, a professor of atmosphericsciences at the University of Mi-ami. “Where do we want to in-vest? Where does it make sense?”
A Wall LoomsAs Miami PlansFor Rising Seas
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
Continued on Page A18
The Democratic candidates formayor of New York City forcefullyattacked their opponents’ recordsand ethics in starkly personalterms on Wednesday night, tan-gling over how they would ad-dress growing concerns over ris-ing violent crime and the city’seconomic recovery.
In their first in-person debate ofthe campaign, the eight leadingcontenders battled over crime,justice and the power of the police,questions of education and char-ter schools and, in the debate’smost heated moments, the issueof who is qualified to lead the na-tion’s largest city.
The debate was the first oppor-tunity for the candidates to con-front each other face to face, andthe setting and the timing — just20 days before the June 22 Demo-cratic primary — elevated the im-portance and the tension of thegathering.
One of the most heated ex-changes unfolded between EricAdams, the Brooklyn boroughpresident, and Andrew Yang, theformer presidential candidate —two contenders who have general-ly been considered the front-run-ners, though the race is tighten-ing.
“Eric, we all know that you’vebeen investigated for corruptioneverywhere you’ve gone,” Mr.Yang charged, accusing Mr. Ad-ams of involvement in a “trifectaof corruption investigations.”
“Is that really what we want inthe next mayor? he asked. “Didyou think you were going to enterCity Hall, and it’s going to be dif-ferent? We all know it’s going to beexactly the same.”
Mr. Adams, who defended hisintegrity, noted Mr. Yang’s lack ofpast political experience in thecity and remarked, “You do notvote in municipal elections at all. Ijust don’t know — how the hell dowe have you become our mayor,with this record like this?”
The candidates laid out theirambitions on vital city issues, in-cluding how to account for educa-tional losses during the pandemicand the need to boost small busi-nesses.
The debate also touched onbroader thematic questions:Whether New York needed a polit-ical outsider with boldly ambi-tious ideas, or a leader with tradi-
Mayoral RivalsClash on CrimeAnd Economy
By KATIE GLUECK
Continued on Page A22
The British actor Naomi Ackie doesmost of the dramatic heavy lifting inthe new season of “Master of None,”Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
Front and CenterDuke’s Mike Krzyzewski, the winningestcoach in college basketball, is planninghis farewell campaign. PAGE B12
SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-10, 12
Last Dance for the Blue DevilsIt is difficult to overstate the hopesfacing Deb Haaland as she takes theInterior Department’s helm. PAGE A10
NATIONAL A10-19, 22
A Native American First
The politics of delivering broadbandmake connecting rural areas appealing,but many more people in cities live inareas that have high-speed service theycannot afford. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-7
Waiting on BroadbandAs the United States prepares for a safesummer for the vaccinated, nations stillscrambling for shots are seeing some oftheir worst outbreaks. PAGE A5
INTERNATIONAL A4-8
No Return to Normal Here
The web has presented a host of newopportunities for the nation’s Black-owned resale clothing shops. PAGE D1
THURSDAY STYLES D1-6
Vintage, and Diverse
Desperation for food and shelter isgrowing in Congo after a volcano forcedhundreds of thousands to flee. PAGE A4
Hunger Crisis After Eruption
A study showed that sharp declines infinancial instability coincided with thetwo most recent payments. PAGE A16
Stimulus Kept Families AfloatMedina Spirit faces disqualification, andhis trainer, Bob Baffert, is barred fromChurchill Downs for two years. PAGE B9
Derby Champ’s Test Confirmed
After a shift in official guidance by theC.D.C., employers have begun to with-draw mask policies that workers saywere protecting them from unvaccinat-ed customers. PAGE B1
Unease as Masks Come Off
Nicholas Kristof PAGE A20
OPINION A20-21
CEUTA, Spain — Daouda Faye,a 25-year-old migrant from Sene-gal, was elated when he heard thatMoroccan border guards had sud-denly started waving in undocu-mented migrants across the bor-der to Ceuta, a fenced-off Spanishenclave on the North Africancoast.
“ ‘Come on in, boys,’” the guards
told him and others as theyreached the border on May 17, Mr.Faye said.
And in they went — by the thou-sands.
Normally, Morocco tightly con-trols the fenced borders around
Ceuta, a six-mile-long peninsulaon Morocco’s northern coast thatSpain has governed since the1600s. But now its military was al-lowing migrants into this toeholdof Europe. Over the next two days,as many as 12,000 people flowedover the border to Ceuta in hopesof reaching mainland Spain, en-gulfing the city of 80,000.
The crisis has laid bare theunique pressure point Morocco
Morocco Sends Spanish Outpost a Migrant InfluxBy NICHOLAS CASEYand JOSÉ BAUTISTA
Continued on Page A8
A Porous Border Leadsto a Rise in Tensions
A migrant in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Africa that has seen an influx of up to 12,000 people.SAMUEL ARANDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Two months after 10 peoplewere killed in a mass shooting at aKing Soopers in Boulder, Colo., in-vestigators have still not said whythe gunman chose that particularsupermarket — or why he turnedviolent in the first place.
A similar mystery surroundsthe killing of eight people at aFedEx warehouse in Indianapolis.Was the gunman angry becausehe had been fired? Was he target-ing Sikhs, who made up half of hisvictims?
And in San Jose, Calif., the siteof the latest mass shooting to gripAmerica, investigators are stillsifting through evidence to deter-
mine exactly why a longtime tran-sit agency employee turned on hiscolleagues, killing nine of them.“We are not trained to analyze co-workers,” a local union leadersaid, adding, “We will neverknow.”
In all three instances, the iden-tity of the perpetrators is not inquestion. And yet the cases still insome way feel unsolved becausethe motive remains unclear.
Every time there is a massshooting and a gunman is identi-fied, the biggest question is whatdrove him to violence. Law en-forcement officials may deployhundreds of investigators, thou-sands of hours and hundreds ofthousands of dollars trying to un-derstand the why.
But some criminal profilershave begun to discuss the limita-tions of fixating on motive, ques-tioning how much value there is inconstructing a story with a defini-tive arc, and whether perpetra-tors are even capable of explain-ing themselves.
“I’m one of these weird crea-tures that is doing research on mo-
What Drives a Gunman to Act? Does It Matter?By SHAILA DEWAN The Limits of Trying to
Make Sense of theSenseless
Continued on Page A19
DESIREE RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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