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[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, March 24, 2019 [One small step for Israel highlights one giant heap of space trash for mankind]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [As Beresheet nears the moon, where it will spend eternity as a 160 kg tin can, experts warn of a growing pile of man-made debris on the lunar surface and more junk in orbit]( [Israeli spacecraft performs final maneuver before moon landing bid]( By [TOI staff]( [After Omar controversy, new group aims to get more Israel backers into Congress]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( Analysis [Raphael Ahren]( [Thanks to Trump, diplomatic taboo around Western Wall comes tumbling down]( [Foreign VIPs used to insist no Israeli officials escort them to site. Now, the US is not alone in flouting rule]( [With Mueller report done, Kushner appears in the clear — at least for now]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Kushners said snubbed brother Josh’s wife for 6 years because she wasn’t Jewish]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Democratic contender Beto O’Rourke knocks Netanyahu for ‘siding with racists’]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( Analysis [By recognizing Golan, Trump seen ‘solving’ a problem that doesn’t exist]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [The status quo on the plateau, in which Israel’s control was neither recognized nor challenged, will likely be upended by president’s move, and not in Israel’s favor, experts warn]( [Daniel Sherman]( [Trump and the Golan: Like candy from a stranger]( [Rafi Eitan, ex-minister and legendary spy who captured Eichmann, dies aged 92]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [Netanyahu tries to sink Gantz in election war over phone hacks & submarine sales]( [It was supposed to be a battle of a corruption-rocked incumbent versus a Mr. Clean challenger. But Gantz’s handling of phone saga raises eyebrows]( [Op-ed / The curious, potentially election-shaping case of Gantz and the Iran phone hack]( By [David Horovitz]( [Netanyahu and the submarine scandal: Everything you need to know]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Israeli elections 2019 / Ex-Shas MK, economist, anti-vaxxer: Who’s on Feiglin’s pro-cannabis Zehut list?]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( Photo essay [Boxing the ballot: Behind the planning of Israel’s largest-ever election]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( TOI Political events [Restraining Israeli court a matter of ‘life and death,’ New Right candidate says]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [At ToI election debate, Caroline Glick says everybody’s right to petition top court harms Israeli deterrence; Likud’s Nir Barkat condemns Otzma Yehudit ‘and many on the other side’]( [Times of Israel Presents / Feiglin says his party ‘similar’ to extremist Otzma Yehudit on Palestinian issue]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Times of Israel Presents / Knesset speaker: US Golan stance is good first step toward West Bank recognition]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( Analysis [Elana Sztokman]( [The Steinhardt protectors crying anti-Semitism]( [On the Steinhardt allegations: Why should the needs of the Jewish People come before the wellbeing of Jewish women?]( [Megadonor Michael Steinhardt accused by 7 women of sexual harassment]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( Archaeology [In Beit Shemesh, new highway collides with surprise biblical-era settlement]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Unusual exhibit at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, ‘Highway to History,’ examines the State of Israel’s fraught attempts to balance preserving the past and developing the future]( [2,600 years ago in Jerusalem, this fat jokester dwarf laughed evil spirits away]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Talmud-era winepress, mosaic unearthed in Jewish village condemned by Jesus]( By [Michael Bachner]( spotlight [The highs and lows of Amos Silver, Telegrass cannabis kingpin nabbed in Ukraine]( By [Ziv Genesove]( StartUp Israel [Newsweek ranks Israel’s Sheba Medical Center among top 10 hospitals worldwide]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Ramat Gan hospital placed number 10 for being ‘a leader in medical science and biotechnical innovation’; it serves over a million patients per year]( [Molecular genetics expert Adi Kimchi wins Israel Prize for life sciences]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli study: Pregnancy over 50 not a greater risk than during 40s]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI investigates / Where are the mobile bomb shelters KKL-JNF promised Golan residents last spring?]( By [Avner Hofstein and Anabel Zamir]( [This shocking exhibit reexamines age-old anti-Semitic trope of Jews and Money]( By [Jenni Frazer]( [Opened March 19, the show at London’s Jewish Museum doesn’t shy away from revealing to the public the extent of vicious anti-Semitic portrayals, past and present]( In living color [New graphic novel draws on Canada’s nearly forgotten 1933 anti-Semitic riot]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Authors hope to capture audiences unaware of Toronto’s Christie Pits riot, in which swastika-brandishing Anglo Protestants fought Jews and other immigrants]( [Film review / Impressionist masterpiece ‘Sunset’ paints mysterious picture of pre-WWI Hungary]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Play review / In new off-Broadway play, an exhausting, achingly human story of prewar Jewry]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Interview / Ginsburg biographer says justice, 86, is still the ‘leader of the liberal court’]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Baroque ‘Esther’ oratorio’s fate overturned by miraculous rescue from obscurity]( By [Penny Schwartz]( Inside Israel [With new light show, 2,000-year-old Masada gets makeover fit for a millennial]( By [Johanna Chisholm]( [50-minute ‘cultural performance’ is scored by Shlomo Gronich and performed by local artists, including Harel Skaat and Liraz Charhi]( [Lepidopterists rejoice / Israel blanketed by millions of butterflies]( By [TOI staff]( [Tel Aviv named world’s 10th most expensive city]( By [TOI staff]( Oped [For women in Israel, marriage is captivity]( By [Susan Weiss]( [The rabbinate claims only a small number of women are ’chained’, but the number is way larger — and the problem deeply ingrained]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved