ToI’s weekly deep dive: Whose ’Second Holocaust’? * Israeli binary options laid bare * Revolutionary cancer research * L’high-em under the huppa * Biblical Ziklag found?

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, July 14, 2019 From our Blogs [Our anguish fell on deaf ears]( [A selection of Ethiopian-Israeli voices on the pain of feeling like second-class citizens in the country they love]( Interview [Ethiopian-Israeli community has hit boiling point, leading activist says]( By [Tani Goldstein]( Diaspora Jewry [When American Jews described their own intermarriage as a ‘Second Holocaust’]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Nearly 30 years ago, reports of a 52% interfaith household rate had some US Jewish leaders denouncing ‘assimilation’ as silently completing Hitler’s work]( [Interview / Meet Matt Brooks, the man pitching Trump to American Jews]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Interview / ‘Feh!’ Top Holocaust scholar pans Netanyahu for warm ties with Poland, Hungary]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Israel pushes back on US report spotlighting religious freedom woes]( By [Marissa Newman]( On the Ground [PA tax dispute with Israel leaves its employees struggling with slashed salaries]( By [Adam Rasgon]( Binary options [David Horovitz and Simona Weinglass]( [Ahead of fraud trial, US lays bare ‘multitude of lies’ of Israeli binary options]( [Confirming years of investigative journalism by The Times of Israel, US Justice Department describes the cynical modus operandi of crooks who stole billions from victims worldwide]( [ToI investigates / Public Defender: Cops don’t properly probe complaints about own violent conduct]( By [Sue Surkes]( Analysis [Raphael Ahren]( [Move over, Bahrain? Iraq signals interest in better ties with Israel]( [In remarkable recent comments, Baghdad’s US envoy listed good reasons for a detente with Jerusalem; though he wasn’t punished for his remarks, normalization still seems far off]( Profile [For 1st Arab head of major Israeli bank, breaking down barriers is second nature]( By [Amir Ben-David]( [Five lessons on success and excellence to learn from the story of Samer Haj Yehia, Bank Leumi’s new chairman of the board]( [Cholent and challah at happy hour: Tech co-working space caters to Haredi taste]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [A day in the (tech) life / Tailing hackers, with Israel’s help: Meet the FBI’s man in Tel Aviv]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Obituary [Former minister, veteran Labor lawmaker Ora Namir dies at 88]( By [Stuart Winer]( StartUp Israel [Technion prof seeks funds for army of cell ‘ghosts’ to battle deadliest cancers]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Marcelle Machluf, child of a Moroccan immigrant who couldn’t read or write, is looking for investors for what could be a revolutionary tumor drug-delivery platform]( [Israeli researchers say they have engineered model of ‘receptive’ human uterus]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [US company plans to build ‘Genesis’ moon landers based on Beresheet technology]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Israeli startup reinvents the wheel, by using it to contain car’s key components]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Trends [Joint in holy matrimony? At many Israeli weddings, weed is the new whiskey]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( On Show [Asylum-seeker art at desert detention center is a surprising splash of color]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Exhibit opening Thursday in Tel Aviv features four artists who painted on walls of now-closed Holot facility during their incarceration]( [‘Carmen’ meets Picasso: NYC’s Latino troupe Ballet Hispanico heads to Israel]( By [Hannah Harnest]( [Windows into Jerusalem’s history commemorate the artist who collected them]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Holy Land? [As archaeologists say they’ve found King David’s city of refuge, a debate begins]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Mere hours after team claims to have uncovered 3,000-year-old biblical town of Ziklag south of Jerusalem, two of their peers insist they most certainly have not]( [Archaeologists say they found town where future King David took refuge from Saul]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Frankincense production ‘could halve in 20 years’ because trees over-exploited]( By [Sue Surkes]( From our Blogs [Velvel Pasternak: A farewell symphony]( By [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [How and why my father’s soul’s graveside ascent to the heavens was accompanied by the strains of a niggun]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved