ToI’s weekly deep dive: Millennial model stomps for Trump * AJC’s Madame President * Prague rock with ’The Golem’ * Last word on English style * Gath’s giant architecture

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, July 28, 2019 Long-read [Rising from ashes of Arab Spring, women lead a first Muslim feminist revolution]( By [Ksenia Svetlova]( [The often violent upheaval sweeping the Middle East in the last decade has also spurred women to cling to gains earned as they fight, and rebuild, alongside men]( US Elections [Orthodox millennial model heads the drive to poach Jewish Democrats for Trump]( By [Joseph Wolkin]( [Elizabeth Pipko feared her support of the president would hurt her career, but now she’s the face of an effort to change the Jewish vote]( [Bernie Sanders says he would ‘absolutely’ mull cutting aid to pressure Israel]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Interview / Jewish filmmaker charts how American-Muslim life has deteriorated under Trump]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Interview [AJC’s first female president takes on the Israel-Diaspora gap]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( British Jewry [New UK anti-Semitism adviser: Jews are the canary in the coal mine for humanity]( By [Jenni Frazer]( [Labour MP John Mann hopes new PM will keep him in role he was given in one of May’s last acts as premier]( [Interview / Top UK rabbi’s book explains to non-Jews how anti-Semitism impacts them, too]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Analysis / Will UK’s new Tory PM Johnson pave way to Downing Street for Labour’s Corbyn?]( By [Robert Philpot]( Israeli Elections [Russians are coming… to the polls. Israeli politicians are finally waking up]( By [‎Ira Tolchin Immergluck‎]( [Stats show that a strong but overlooked demographic is beginning to wield some clout at the ballot box, but if leaders want their vote, they’re going to have to give something back]( [Interview / Lithuanian FM: Israel’s rapprochement with Russia is ‘shortsighted’]( By [Raphael Ahren]( Op-ed [Biranit Goren]( [One small step for Stav Shaffir, one large step for Israeli politics]( [Boldly abandoning Labor to form an alliance between Meretz and the Israel Democratic Party, the young lawmaker may be a ‘traitor’ now but welcomed back by colleagues later]( Binary options fraud [Israeli woman on trial for fraud called herself a ‘f-cking money-making machine’]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [FBI reveals conversations in which binary options operative Lee Elbaz took credit for allegedly fraudulent firm’s success, dished about her bosses, worried about traveling to US]( [Podcast / LISTEN: How an Israeli startup plans to use drones to visit the world]( StartUp Israel [Israel among world’s top 10 most innovative countries — global index]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [Switzerland tops list, followed by Sweden and US; Jewish state has climbed steadily in rankings since 2015]( [Sleepy Israeli town wants to reach new highs with medical cannabis]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israeli researchers say fat cells under skin help melanoma turn lethal]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Amazon cloud service said mulling regional data center in Israel]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Concert review [Benji Lovitt]( [He don’t run: Bon Jovi’s rocking return to Tel Aviv more welcome than elections]( [Comedian Benji Lovitt watches Jon Bon Jovi change the words to Livin’ on a Prayer and dedicate a song to Nasrallah. No, he didn’t, but Lovitt loved him anyway]( Cottage Industry [Former candy factory gets set to let small chefs bust out of their home kitchens]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Licensed and fully kitted out, co-cooking space Make Eat wants to make artisanal food producers’ dreams come true]( [Kosher sex store in Tel Aviv run by rabbi’s daughter sells spice for marriages]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Prague-rock [Avant-garde musician gives eerie 1920s silent film ‘The Golem’ a live soundtrack]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( People of the Books [What one US sailor did when a German ocean liner flew the Nazi flag in 1935 NYC]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [In a new book, journalist Peter Duffy tells how 84 years ago merchant marine Bill Bailey risked jail to tear a swastika from a ship carrying Rockefellers, movie stars, and nobility]( [Interview / From US to UK, veteran editor Benjamin Dreyer has the last word on English style]( By [Jenni Frazer]( [Helen Maryles Shankman]( [The moon and me]( Interview [Captain America ‘passionate’ about role as Israeli agent, says Netflix director]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Archaeology [Colossal ancient structures found at Gath may explain origin of story of Goliath]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Newly unearthed, unusually large fortifications from the 11th century BCE could be the genesis of the biblical tall tale, says Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project director]( [Archaeology / Large 3,500-year-old staircase hints at conquered Canaanite kingdom’s grandeur]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Archaeology / 6th-century inscriptions near Galilee may show Christians’ fading Greek literacy]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Wandering fashion / Multifaceted Jerusalem wears many clothes in festival of contemporary design]( By [Hannah Harnest]( Necessary stories [Saul at Ein Dor]( By [Haim Watzman]( [Haim Watzman’s new Necessary Story observes an IDF officer in crisis]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved