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Uneasy Alliance May Give Israel New Leadership C M Y K Nxxx,2021-05-31,A,001,Bs-4C,E1 Late Edition Today, cloudy, becoming sunny, warmer, high 69. Tonight, partly cloudy, low 58. Tomorrow, partly cloudy, warmer, seasonable, high 77. Weather map appears on Page D8. VOL. CLXX . ...No. 59,075 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021 $3.00 An Easier Path UNEASY ALLIANCE For Foreigners MAY GIVE ISRAEL In Biden’s Plan NEW LEADERSHIP Immigration Overhaul to Undo Trump Rules NETANYAHU FACES PERIL By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS A Right-Wing Nationalist WASHINGTON — If President Joins Forces With a Biden gets his way, it will soon be far easier to immigrate to the Secular Centrist United States. There will be short- er, simpler forms and applicants will have to jump through fewer By PATRICK KINGSLEY security hoops. Foreigners will JERUSALEM — The longest- have better opportunities to join serving prime minister in Israeli their families and more chances to history, Benjamin Netanyahu, secure work visas. faced the most potent threat yet to A 46-page draft blueprint ob- his grip on power Sunday after an tained by The New York Times ultranationalist power-broker, maps out the Biden administra- Naftali Bennett, said his party tion’s plans to significantly ex- would work with opposition lead- pand the legal immigration sys- ers to build an alternative govern- tem, including methodically re- ment to force Mr. Netanyahu from versing the efforts to dismantle it office. by former President Donald J. If the maneuvering leads to a Trump, who reduced the flow of formal coalition agreement, it foreign workers, families and ref- would be an uneasy alliance be- ugees, erecting procedural barri- tween eight relatively small par- ers tougher to cross than his “big, ties with a diffuse range of ideolo- beautiful wall.” gies. The prime minister’s post Because of Mr. Trump’s immi- would rotate between two unlikely WILLIAM DESHAZER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES gration policies, the average time partners: Mr. Bennett, a former Lisa Craig, who struggles with sickle cell disease, received an echocardiogram at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. it takes to approve employer- settler leader who rejects the con- sponsored green cards has dou- cept of a sovereign Palestinian bled. The backlog for citizenship state and champions the religious applications is up 80 percent since right — and Yair Lapid, a former 2014, to more than 900,000 cases. television host who is considered Caught Between Sickle Cell Agony and a Wary Medical System Approval for the U-visa program, a voice of secular centrists. which grants legal status for im- “I will work with all my power to could do something so many phy- band, in the passenger’s seat, migrants willing to help the police, form a national unity government By JOHN ELIGON sicians had been unable to do: THE ERRANT GENE punched their destination into his has gone from five months to together with my friend Yair bring her painful disease under phone’s navigation system. NASHVILLE — She struggled A Woman’s Invisible Pain roughly five years. Lapid,” Mr. Bennett said in a control. “Live as if everything is a mir- In almost every case over the speech Sunday night. through the night as she had so Ms. Craig, 48, had clashed with acle,” reads a framed quote on Ms. many times before, restless from last four years, immigrating to the He added, “If we succeed, we doctors over her treatment for hope on this day in January 2019 Craig’s beige living room wall, and United States has become harder, will be doing something huge for sickle cell pain that felt like knives that’s exactly what she was hop- years. Those tensions had only in- rested in a Nigerian-born physi- more expensive and takes longer. the state of Israel.” stabbing her bones. When morn- cian at Vanderbilt University ing for. creased as the medical consensus And while Mr. Biden made clear Mr. Bennett’s announcement ing broke, she wept at the edge of Medical Center who had long People with sickle cell, a rare, around pain treatment shifted and during his presidential campaign came shortly after an armed con- her hotel-room bed, her stomach treated the disease, which mostly inherited blood disorder caused regulations for opioid use became that he intended to undo much of flict with Palestinians in Gaza that wrenched in a complicated knot of afflicts people of African descent. by a mutation in a single gene, more stringent. Her anguish had his predecessor’s immigration many thought had improved Mr. anger, trepidation and hope. typically endure episodes of debil- grown so persistent and draining That morning, she slipped on a legacy, the blueprint offers new Netanyahu’s chances of hanging It was a gray January morning, itating pain as well as chronic that she sometimes thought she’d cream-colored cardigan and a details about how far-reaching the on to his post. and Lisa Craig was in Nashville, be better off dead. pain. Roughly 100,000 Americans necklace with a heart-shaped pen- effort will be — not only rolling Because of the profound ideo- three hours from her home in She was willing to try just about dant. She played some Whitney and millions of people globally, mostly in Africa, have the disease. back Mr. Trump’s policies, but ad- logical differences within the Knoxville, Tenn., preparing to see anything to stop the deterioration Houston before sliding behind the dressing backlogs and delays that emerging coalition, which would a sickle cell specialist she hoped of her body and mind — and her wheel of her black S.U.V. Her hus- Continued on Page A12 plagued prior presidents. include both leftist and far-right The blueprint, dated May 3 and members, its leaders have indi- titled “D.H.S. Plan to Restore cated their government would ini- Trust in Our Legal Immigration tially avoid pursuing initiatives Mayor Hopefuls System,” lists scores of initiatives that could exacerbate their politi- intended to reopen the country to cal incompatibility, such as those more immigrants, making good related to the Israeli-Palestinian Vie to Win Over on the president’s promise to en- conflict, and focus instead on in- sure America embraces its “char- frastructure and economic policy. Key Latino Vote acter as a nation of opportunity If forced from office, Mr. Netan- and of welcome.” yahu is unlikely to leave politics. “There are significant changes Either way, however, he has left a By KATIE GLUECK that need to be made to really lasting legacy. He shifted the ful- open up all avenues of legal immi- crum of Israeli politics firmly to Eric Adams was not Represent- gration,” said Felicia Escobar Car- the right — Mr. Bennett’s promi- ative Adriano Espaillat’s original rillo, the chief of staff at U.S. Citi- nence being a prime example — choice to become New York City’s zenship and Immigration Serv- and presided over the dismantling next mayor, but now that he had ices, of the efforts to reverse Mr. of the Israeli-Palestinian peace landed the coveted endorsement, Mr. Adams was in a forgiving Continued on Page A15 Continued on Page A10 mood. It was more of a come-to-Eric moment than a come-to-Jesus mo- ment, but he credited divine inter- vention with winning over Mr. Es- As Employers Race to Fill Jobs, paillat, the first Dominican-Amer- ican to serve in Congress. “Today, all of that praying, all of America’s Teenagers Cash In those candles that I’ve burned, all of those incense that I put in place, all of those Hail Marys that I By JEANNA SMIALEK called up,” Mr. Adams, the Brook- and DAVID McCABE lyn borough president, thundered JORDAN GALE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Roller-coaster operators and earlier this month. “Finally, Jesus lemonade slingers at Kennywood Christ looked down on me and Shaun Donovan at the Futa Islamic Center in the Bronx, not far from where he began his campaign. amusement park, a Pittsburgh brought me Congressman Espail- summer institution, won’t have to lat!” buy their own uniforms this year. Less than one month before the Those with a high school diploma Democratic primary that will al- He Has the Résumé and the Money. But Votes? will also earn $13 as a starting most certainly determine the wage — up from $9 last year — city’s next mayor, the battle for cided then that running for mayor and new hires are receiving free Latino voters and endorsers is ac- By JEFFERY C. MAYS A Campaign for Mayor would have to wait. season passes for themselves and celerating, and the fight for that Mr. Tusk never found his candi- their families. ROSS MANTLE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Five years ago, a powerful New diverse constituency is emerging date, and Mr. de Blasio went on to The big pop in pay and perks for York-based political strategist Pitches Leadership Shaylah Bentley, 18, working at as one of the most crucial and un- easily capture his second term. Kennywood’s seasonal work was rooting around for someone Kennywood amusement park. certain elements of the race to Things have since changed dra- force, where nearly half of em- lead New York. whom voters could envision as the matically. Mr. de Blasio is in his fi- ployees are under 18, echoes what All the leading Democratic city’s next mayor, someone with to voters, saying then that New nal year as mayor, and Mr. Dono- is happening around the country demographic group. The share of mayoral candidates sense oppor- the right type of experience and Yorkers “want the competency of van is one of 15 Democrats and Re- as employers scramble to hire 16- to 19-year-olds who are work- tunity.
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