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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Hunting for a ghost: New show depicts CIA-Mossad pursuit of most-wanted terrorist

By Amy Spiro

‘Fauda’ co-creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff team up with Showtime on ‘Ghosts of Beirut,’ a mostly-true account of the assassination of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh

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Op-ed

David Horovitz

Ad-libbed at the General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas’s full-blown rejectionism

Speaking at the UN’s Nakba fest, the PA chief contradicted his previous assurances to Israel. In a reflection of the collapse of negotiation prospects, hardly anyone even noticed

Op-ed

Jerusalem Day needs to get back to its human story

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Jerusalem Day was once the Jews’ remembrance of visceral relief, safety and restoration. It has since become something narrower and more partisan

Reporter’s Notebook / Triumphalism and ethno-nationalism take center stage at Jerusalem Day events

By Jeremy Sharon

Inside story / On the way up to the Temple Mount, Likud is becoming Otzma Yehudit

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Gaza post-mortem

Emanuel Fabian

Operation Broken Record: Israel is already counting down to the next Gaza conflict

Round of hostilities branded a success due to initial strikes targeting Islamic Jihad leaders, but fighting dragged on longer than expected, with next battle likely not far away

Op-ed / Israel’s Gaza operation met its goals in seconds; trouble is, it went on for 5 days

By David Horovitz

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Analysis

Tal Schneider

From pariah to bosom buddy in 7 weeks: Netanyahu’s rehabilitation of Yoav Gallant

It didn’t take long for the prime minister to go from kicking his defense chief to the curb to courting him for photo ops; some of it has to do with national security

Analysis

After years of dead-end air campaigns, pinpoint use of ground forces may offer way out

By Lazar Berman

Yet another round underlined the overreliance on fire power and Iron Dome. The IDF doesn’t want to retake Gaza, but has a ‘Concept for Victory’ that puts troops in enemy territory

Analysis / With Erdogan on cusp of keeping power, Israel has reason to root for former foe

By Lazar Berman

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Legal Affairs

Menachem Begin championed judicial review now under Likud attack, former aide says

By Jeremy Sharon

Arye Naor says former Likud leader planted concepts now being undone by government in his attorney general Aharon Barak, who was also given larger role to scrutinize decisions

Top Ops

Michael Oren

When Israel gave Hamas something worth not fighting for

The latest clash showed that what’s good for Gaza can be good for us – it’s time to implement game-changing humanitarian plans for the Strip

Zev Farber

Standing up to Big Pita in the holy land

In search of a good explanation for why my local shawarma place won’t plate my meat with veg and hold the bread

Tehilla Katz

To all the apartments I’ve seen before

Seeking a rental flat in Jerusalem? Adjust expectations and whatever you do, don’t ask the landlord why there are no doors

Benjamin Birely

Fear and loathing at Damascus Gate

When the teen bullies at the Flag March saw me filming them, they surrounded me and cursed me out, never mind that we all wore the same kippot on our heads

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Religion

A single absentee mohel is thwarting dozens of converts at very end of their journey

By Canaan Lidor

The government’s Conversion Authority has a long backlog of men waiting for months for a 10-second circumcision inspection to be considered Jewish

Chabad envoys gather in Morocco, the cradle of the emissary project

By Canaan Lidor

European Jewish leaders gather in Portugal’s Porto to observe community’s revival

By Canaan Lidor

New York

After NYC colleges partner with Jewish groups, campus Zionists call it a fig leaf

By Luke Tress

Pro-Israel student, faculty group say CUNY’s new Jewish advisory council is a ‘shameful disgrace’; US law school again sparks controversy with anti-Israel commencement speaker

New York State lawmakers blast bill targeting charities sending money to settlements

By Luke Tress

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Environment

UN breathes life into once-polluted Gaza wetland

By Sue Surkes

Development Program removes 35,000 tons of garbage from Wadi Gaza, plans sports and leisure facilities, as clean water flows in from new treatment plant

ToI podcast

What Matters Now to historian Sara Hirschhorn: Extremism is now mainstream

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

For an American scholar of Israel’s ultranationalistic movements, a research trip that coincides with the Jerusalem flashpoint Flag March couldn’t have been better timed

Shoah

Now on display, UK Jews’ correspondence shows the Holocaust unfolding in real-time

By Robert Philpot

At London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through June 16, an exhibit of letters from WWII tracks the spread of information by Jews seeking to protect loved ones from the Nazis’ web

Friedel Jaffe working as a clerk in the Berlin office of Adler and Oppenheimer September 1936 Deborah Jaffe Collection e1683110126283

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Interview / At Sobibor, a filmmaker unearths Nazi Germany’s attempts to cover up its crimes

By Matt Lebovic

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UK posthumously honors Jewish diplomat blocked by Saudis in 1968 for being a Jew

By Robert Philpot

Culture

Israel Museum enters new phase with new director Denis Weil

By Jessica Steinberg

Nation’s largest cultural institution looks to reach new audiences including Arab and Haredi communities, create new programming and develop new tech

Two Arab artists from same hometown but different generations win prestigious prize

By Jessica Steinberg

Interview

Neurodivergent fashion designer-to-the-stars wears his Jewish identity on his sleeve

By Cathryn J. Prince

Tech Israel

From Fruit Roll-Ups to a fish filet, Israeli startup ready to feed its printer

By Sharon Wrobel

Steakholder Foods says it produced world’s first ready-to-cook filet that can go from printer to plate within minutes

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Israeli startup to give fans a referee’s-eye view at the EuroLeague final games

By Sharon Wrobel

IBM buys Israeli cybertech startup to automate cloud data protection management

By Sharon Wrobel

Finance Ministry cuts economic growth forecasts as tax revenue and investments cool

By Sharon Wrobel

Health

Proton therapy, touted as cancer killer without side effects, set for Israel debut

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hadassah Medical Center partners with Israeli company P-Cure in study comparing treatment with traditional X-ray radiation; Ichilov inks deal for first proton therapy center

At Biomed Israel conference, medical start-ups discuss challenges in reaching success

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Knesset Health Committee approves reform of private health insurance market

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Interview

A house divided: New book explores roots of the rifts between Israel’s many ‘tribes’

By Amy Spiro

Archaeology

Mysterious trilingual Cairo Geniza vocab list found to be penned by Maimonides

By Melanie Lidman

Housed at Cambridge University’s Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance dialect gives a glimpse into renowned philosopher’s method of thinking

Archaeology / Academic article on controversial 3,200-year-old ‘curse tablet’ fails to sway experts

By Melanie Lidman

Archaeology / Swimmer discovers precious marble cargo from 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Archaeology / 2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

From the Blogs

My prayer for the peace of Jerusalem

By Peta Jones Pellach

When we come here, our tribal identities should melt away. Instead of looking sideways to see how we differ, we should look upwards

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