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The Weekend Edition

The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, May 21, 2023

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Amir Khoury (center) as a young Imad Mughniyeh in SHOWTIME's 'Ghosts of Beirut.' (Sifeddine Elamine/SHOWTIME)

'Nobody knew what he looked like for so many years'

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

‘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

Key in his lapel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a Nakba Day event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, May 15, 2023 (Ed Jones / AFP)

Op-ed

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

A group of paratroopers marvels at the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967, during the Six Day War. (Micha Bar-Am/ Defense Ministry's IDF Archive)

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 NotebookTriumphalism and ethno-nationalism take center stage at Jerusalem Day events

By Jeremy Sharon

Inside storyOn the way up to the Temple Mount, Likud is becoming Otzma Yehudit

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Gaza post-mortem

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

The five-day battle between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gaza Strip dubbed Operation Shield and Arrow, which ended with a ceasefire Saturday night, was the first major conflict overseen by military chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi. The round of fighting was considered successful, but dragged on longer than needed,... Continue Reading

Israel's Iron Dome air defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

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

By David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the end of a press conference, May 10, 2023. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Analysis

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

A soldier enters an armored vehicle at a staging area for troops on the border with Gaza, on May 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

AnalysisWith Erdogan on cusp of keeping power, Israel has reason to root for former foe

By Lazar Berman

Then-prime minister Menachem Begin during a debate in the Knesset on March 20, 1979. (AP Photo/Max Nash/File)

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

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

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

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

Illustrative: A man examines his pants with a magnifying glass (Juleta Martirosyan; iStock by Getty Images)

Inside story

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 rabbis tour the old city of Fez, Morocco on May 18, 2023. (Avi Winner - Merkos 302)

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

By Canaan Lidor

Leaders and members of the Jewish Community of Porto posing at the Portuguese city's Boeira Hotel on May 16, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

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

By Canaan Lidor

Illustrative: Brooklyn College students walk between classes on campus in New York, on February 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

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

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

A general view shows houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, May 10, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamounn/Flash90)

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

A cleaned-up section of Wadi Gaza. (UNDP/PAPP image bank -- Shareef Sarhan)

UN breathes life into once-polluted Gaza wetland

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

Dr. Sara Hirschhorn at Jerusalem's Nomi Studios, May 16, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

ToI podcast'What used to be fringe is now in the Knesset'

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

Friedel Jaffe working as a clerk in the Berlin office of Adler and Oppenheimer in 1936. (Courtesy Deborah Jaffe)

Exhibition

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

Filmmaker Gary Hochman at the Sobibor excavations in Poland (courtesy)

InterviewAt Sobibor, a filmmaker unearths Nazi Germany’s attempts to cover up its crimes

By Matt Lebovic

Portrait of Sir Horace Phillips. (Courtesy of the British Foreign Office)

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

By Robert Philpot

Denis Weil, director of the Israel Museum, one year after taking on the job in March 2022, in the sculpture garden he remembers visiting as a 10-year-old (Courtesy Elie Posner)

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

Artist Hannan Abu Hussein, originally from Umm al Fahm like her fellow prizewinner, Maria Salah Mahameed, both winners of the 2023 Rapaport Art Prize for established artist and young promising artist (Courtesy Sigal Galil)

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

By Jessica Steinberg

Fashion designer and artist Akiva Alpert. (Courtesy)

Interview

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

By Cathryn J. Prince

Steakholder Foods says it 3D printed the world's first ready-to-cook fish fillet using animal cells cultivated and grown in a laboratory. (Courtesy)

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

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

Hadassah Medical Center staff assist a head and neck cancer clinical trial patient before she undergoes proton therapy by the P-Cure, Modiin Israel, April 2023. (Courtesy of P-Cure)

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

Industry leaders, scientists, engineers, physicians, and investors from over 45 countries at Biomed Israel 2023 conference, Tel Aviv, May 16, 2023. (Alexander Elman)

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

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: A member of the medical staff at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Knesset Health Committee approves reform of private health insurance market

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Author and journalist Isabel Kershner and her new book, 'A Land of Hope and Fear.' (Rina Castelnuovo)

Interview

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

Part of the handwritten list of words attributed to Maimonides from the Cambridge University Genizah Research Unit. (courtesy Cambridge University/José Martínez Delgado)

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

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

By Melanie Lidman

ArchaeologySwimmer discovers precious marble cargo from 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Archaeology2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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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