ToI’s weekly deep dive: New Dead Sea Scroll caves * The pastor who would have murdered Hitler * Israeli election slogans get lost in translation * Chefs praise the lard

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, January 27, 2019 [In the Qumran cliffs, an expedition digs up new Dead Sea Scroll caves]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan and Photos and video: Luke Tress]( [Winter excavation yields information on how an ascetic desert community lived and where it hid its precious sacred texts — and gives pointers for where to search next]( International Holocaust Day [A pastor who helped plot to kill Hitler is now the hero of a graphic novel]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Artist John Hendrix, himself a man of faith, immortalizes theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer in ‘The Faithful Spy,’ a serious comic for teens and tweens]( [One in 20 British adults doesn’t believe Holocaust happened, poll finds]( By [TOI staff]( [Canadian millennials uneducated on Holocaust — and their elders’ response to it]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( Analysis [Why are US ‘pro-Israel’ groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist?]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( Let it snow [When the IDF’s chief of staff had a snowball fight with a Palestinian family]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [5 years ago, I photographed an almost absurdly improbable interaction; at the time, the IDF wouldn’t allow publication, but now Benny Gantz is running for PM, it’s been unfrozen]( [Reporter's notebook / Missile fire can’t dampen Israel’s winter wonderland, with record snow on Hermon]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Romi Sussman]( [Not your typical ski day]( Reporter's notebook [Raoul Wootliff]( [Surrounded by idioms: How campaign slogans get lost in English translation]( [Key campaign messages with no clear counterparts in the Anglo vernacular present journalists with a challenge; and don’t get us started on party names]( StartUp Nation [Israel surges to take fifth place in new Bloomberg Innovation Index]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Startup Nation leaps up five places in 2019 ranking of most innovative countries, coming in above Singapore, Sweden, the US and Japan, but trailing top 2 South Korea and Germany]( [Allergy-triggering cells could be used to fight colon cancer, Israel study says]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israeli VAT-refund app for tourists nabs first prize in competition]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [In first, Israeli hospital uses fuel-cell energy for cleaner, smooth power flow]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Brave new world [To have equal rights as parents, some same-sex couples adopt their own kids]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [As Becca Israel undergoes rigorous screening to qualify for a second-parent adoption of her newborn son, she seeks to raise awareness of lingering inequalities in the law]( [Todd Berman]( [Where are the women?]( Interview [Architect Libeskind charts how he built a path to success — and how you can too]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Eat, Drink, and Be... [Brewery’s new ‘Gaza Border Beer’ crafted in support of southern Israel’s farmers]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Alexander Beer to donate profits of sales of special edition brew, which is made from wheat that survived torched fields targeted by incendiary devices launched from Gaza]( [Got Milk? Here’s a 10,000-year history of the white stuff, from farm to fridge]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [The skinny on animal fats / Will 2019 be the year of the schmaltz? Two new cookbooks by Jews praise the lard]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [A forgotten chapter: When Jewish America spoke Yiddish — and was anarchist]( By [Gideon Grudo]( Archaeology [Driving rain uncovers 2 rare horse statues, 2,000-years-old, in north of Israel]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Look down: As small equine figurines surface in separate locations, accidental archaeologists are encouraged to quickly report the finds they stumble over]( [Case of the siphoned sand / Subterranean 1,500-year-old cistern complex found under Jerusalem playground]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Sheri Oz]( [McJesus — What was really going on?]( [Kid on school trip unearths Second Temple-era coin in West Bank stream]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Dystopian drama ‘Autonomies’ stands on its own at NY Jewish Film Festival]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Israel Travels [Sculptures, street art, kiosks and coffee: A stroll down Ben Gurion Boulevard]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [The restored home of Israel’s founding father is just one stop on the eclectic, tree lined avenue named for him in north Tel Aviv]( [Born to run / Rhino birth catches zookeepers off guard]( By [Stuart Winer]( [The teacher with light in her eyes]( By [Ilana Blumberg]( [She borrows from yoga for the classroom to help body and mind work well together — and it’s a lifesaver for my kid]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved