ToI’s weekly deep dive: Visual midrash tells her-story * Malta’s tiny Jewish community * England’s Garden of Eden * Queen of podcasting Sara Koe nig * A Marvelous end

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, April 28, 2019 [36 hours in Arad, at the edge of the Judean and Negev deserts]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Take a break in this activity-filled southern town, where desert life and civilization meet up perfectly]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [With immunity gambit, Netanyahu endangers his legacy and our democracy]( [The PM recently declared ‘There are judges in Jerusalem.’ If he’s innocent, he need not fear them. If he moves to place himself above the law, he’ll be tacitly admitting his guilt]( Analysis [Demography is (voting) destiny: Ten takeaways from the 2019 election results]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [Which town voted for Likud in the highest proportions? Which gave the New Right 57% of its vote? What is Jerusalem’s most Meretz-loving neighborhood? Read on to find out]( [Far-right slate to offer PM immunity law in exchange for settlement annexation]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Dan Perry]( [Israel’s election was not democratic]( [Israel opens new Qalandiya checkpoint, phasing out inadequate crossing]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Jamie Allen Black, Naomi K. Eisenberger and Nicole Nevarez]( [After Steinhardt, now what?]( [The dark and painful side of the Jewish community was exposed again recently, when everyone awoke to a New York Times report describing more episodes of gender harassment in our communal organizations. This time, allegations were made by several professional women against Michael Steinhardt, one of the giants among our communal philanthropists and funders. Let’s not allow that particular jolting headline, dismaying as it is, to obscure an earlier one, either. Robert Kraft, in the same philanthropic league as Steinhardt, was charged with prostitution solicitation as part of a probe into...]( StartUp Israel [Scared of arachnids? Go watch Spider-Man, Israeli study says]( By [TOI staff]( [Researchers from Bar-Ilan and Ariel universities use short clips from superhero movies as positive stimulus in exposure therapy]( [US-Israel startup KIDBOX teams with Walmart to offer bundled kids’ clothes]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Intel launches its ‘most powerful’ laptop processors, sired by Haifa team]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israeli researchers probe how cannabis can treat endometriosis]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Will foreigners looking for tax breaks revive Malta’s tiny Jewish community?]( By [Larry Luxner]( Spiritual growth [Jewish farm plants a Garden of Eden in southern England]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Inspired by her time at the Isabella Freedman retreat in Connecticut, Sadeh founder Talia Chain returns home to practice earth-based Judaism — and fight for the environment]( [Bazy Swirsky Rubin]( [Monkeys, a car accident, and my 28th birthday]( Her-Story [In visual midrash, Israeli artist puts biblical women in the center of the frame]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Photographer Dikla Laor uses her Golan Heights home as backdrop to reimagine heroines from the Bible — some of whom are not even named]( Marching to a new beat [Founder of female-forward drum empire encourages musicians to ‘Hit Like a Girl’]( By [Micah B. Rubin]( [Tomtom magazine head Mindy Abovitz is hitting back at a male-dominated area of the music industry by spotlighting women percussionists]( [Interview / Could a revolutionary podcast change America’s criminal justice system?]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Israel Museum to host Nazi-era art hoard held by German recluse]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Exhibition of Gurlitt collection, which contains many looted works, raises ‘touchy questions,’ says curator, who wants to show how visual art was ‘instrumentalized by Nazi Germany’]( [Community leaders say ‘first’ Warsaw Ghetto seder no different from all others]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [Sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Berlin in 2018, report finds]( By [TOI staff]( Warning: Spoilers [Action-packed ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is unprecedentedly epic — and Jewish]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( People of the Books [Food-centric memoir explores emotional hunger of a Soviet Jewish emigré family]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Author Boris Fishman shares real and metaphoric recipes for healing multigenerational trauma and strained relationships as he recalls his family’s journey from Belarus to the US]( [Earth Day 2019 / Move over Big Bang: Should science take a page from religion’s Big History book?]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Holy Land [Cryptic Golan milestone found to be monument to low-born Roman emperor’s reign]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Discovered in a Moshav Ramot garden, once-indecipherable 1,800-year-old road marker near Sea of Galilee offers proof of the brief 3rd-century rule of Maximinus Thrax]( [Archaeologist: Thick wall found at Lachish indicates King Solomon’s son built it]( By [TOI staff]( [US to donate additional $500K to restore tomb of biblical prophet Nahum in Iraq]( By [TOI staff]( [David Sedley]( [A well-traveled goat]( Necessary Stories [Black hole]( By [Haim Watzman]( [Haim Watzman remembers his younger son, Niot z”l, who died in a diving accident during Passover eight years ago]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved