Bye Bye Bibi: Nearly immediately after being voted out by Parliament, Israel’s long-serving prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring down the coalition government that has replaced him after 12 years in office. 

  “If it is destined for us to be in the opposition, we will do it with our backs straight until we topple this dangerous government and return to lead the country in our way,” he said.

  Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, approved a new eight-party coalition government by a single vote, 60 to 59, with one abstention. Naftali Bennett, head of the small right-wing Yamina Party who was once a close aide to Netanyahu, took the oath of office as prime minister. He had said before the vote, “We stopped the train before the abyss. The time has come for different leaders, from all parts of the people, to stop, to stop this madness.”

  An observant Jew, the 49-year-old Bennett would be the first Israeli prime minister to wear a yarmulke.

  In his years in office, Netanyahu had turned his neighborhood Middle East politics on their head. While once it was thought that the only way to lasting peace was to let the Palestinians have their own country, he has denied them while making peace and economic deals with four Arab countries.

  Netanyahu has been a right winger — he loved Donald Trump. He’s a man who would accuse his adversaries of being traitors, anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic. He is fresh off a war in May with Palestinian militants that left much of the Gaza Strip in rubble. 

  Netanyahu was prime minister once before, installed in 1996. But in recent years his tenure has devolved into charges of corruption and four elections in two years in which the major issue was him.

G Whiz: The biggest thing world leaders were able to agree on at the G-7 Summit wrapped up in Cornwall, England, is that they were all glad Donald Trump wasn’t there.

  “It is great to have a US president who’s part of the club and very willing to cooperate,’’ French President Emmanuel Macron said after President Joe Biden.

  The group issued relatively tough statements about Russia and China. They called on China to restore the freedoms guaranteed to Hong Kong when Britain returned it to Chinese control, and condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “destabilizing behavior and malign activities,” including interfering with democratic elections and a “systematic crackdown” on dissidents and the media.

  The Chinese government responded in a statement, “The days when global decisions were dictated by a small group of countries are long gone.’’ 

Bite of the Apple: In the midst of investigations of leaks and disloyalty, the Trump administration subpoenaed Apple for the data of Trump’s own lawyer, White House Counsel Donald McGahn, and barred the company from telling him about it, The NY Times reports.

  Apple told McGahn last month, that his data had been seized, but wouldn’t say exactly what the government got, The Times  reports. McGahn’s wife also received a notice from Apple. It’s unknown whether McGahn or someone he was communicating with was the target.

  The Trump administration also seized the data of reporters and Democrat members of Congress.

Viral News: As the US approaches 600,000 deaths from Covid-19, the drug company Novavax has produced a fourth vaccine with a 90 percent efficacy rate. It requires two shots.

  It’s effectiveness is about the same as vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, and it’s better than the one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.

  Only half the country is fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and some people are putting up stiff resistance.

  Over the weekend a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brught by 117 staffers at Houston Methodist over the hospital’s vaccine requirement. One of the lead plaintiffs, a nurse, said the hospital was requiring “employees to be human ‘guinea pigs’ as a condition for continued employment.”

  The judge objected in particular to a clause in the lawsuit that compared the vaccine to medical experimentation during the Holocaust. “Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them the Covid-19 virus,” Judge Lynn Hughes wrote. He said employees who don’t like it “will simply need to work somewhere else.”

The Spin Rack: The family of Alton Sterling, a black man shot to death by Baton Rouge police officers in 2016, has been awarded $4.5 million. Sterling was held down on the pavement when he was killed. — At least four mass shootings over the weekend  left at least six people dead, and 38 wounded. The shootings in Austin, Cleveland, Chicago, and Savannah all occurred in a six-hour streak that began around 9 Friday night and spilled over into Saturday morning.

The Obit Page: Ned Beatty, the chunky actor in “Deliverance” who played the weekend adventurer assaulted by a backwoodsman in one of the most notorious scenes in movie history, has died at age 83.

  Beatty was a prolific actor who appeared in more than 150 movies and television shows, usually in a supporting roles. His credits include “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Superman” (1978), “Rudy” (1993) and “Back to School” (1986). He earned an Academy award nomination as a  supporting actor  in the television news satire, “Network.”

  Most memorable, though, was that scene from “Deliverance” in which a hillbilly orders Beatty’s character to squeal like a pig.

Pinocchio Rose: Former white House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was the front woman for Trump administration disinformation, claimed that she never lied to the press. She said at a leadership event for young women,  “As a woman of faith, as a mother of baby Blake, as a person who meticulously prepared at some of the world’s hardest institutions, I never lied. I sourced my information, but that will never stop the press from calling you a liar.”

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