ToI’s weekly deep dive: 360-degree look at Trump’s Deal of the Century * Inside the real-life Anatevka * Dead Sea’s ’secret’ river? * Portraits of Holocaust survivors

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, February 2, 2020 Op-ed [What if Trump’s pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian plan turns out to be the opposite?]( By [David Horovitz]( [Are the Palestinians being punished for their refusal to compromise, or does the ‘Deal of the Century’ actually play into their rejectionist hands]( Reporter's Notebook [At Trump’s Jewish ‘enclaves,’ fear of Palestinian encirclement, plans to expand]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Settler leaders vow to enlarge the 15 West Bank settlements that under US president’s proposal would become sovereign Israeli islands in a potential Palestinian state]( [Annexation, stalled: How Trump, Netanyahu fell out of step on core part of deal]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Trump team suggests plan not entirely set in stone, but core aspects seem to be]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Martin Kramer]( [How does Trump’s partition plan compare?]( Author interview [Book on Trump-Kushner dynasty plumbs heroic and sordid histories of US ‘royalty’]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Analysis [Adam Rasgon]( [Trump ties and Iran fears: Why US’s Arab allies opting not to rebuke peace plan]( [Israeli expert says several Arab countries don’t see value in explicitly knocking initiative]( [US envoy tells Jewish leaders a Palestinian state won’t happen in near future]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Gideon Remez]( [Correction: Trump’s plan was never meant to become a deal]( [Hundreds of Arab Israelis protest US plan, blast bid to transfer villages]( By [Jacob Magid]( Live ToI Podcast [LISTEN: Are Trump, Bibi securing or ruining the US-Israel relationship?]( By [TOI staff]( [J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami takes on his old high school friend, conservative think tank JCPA’s Dan Diker, in a heated debate that cuts to the core values of both men]( [People of the Pod / LISTEN: Former MK says Trump’s controversial peace plan unites Israelis]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Vadim Kluvgant]( [Naama is free, but our joy is mixed with tears]( [The bogus charges and the court’s refusal to uphold justice were travesties that harmed my client and my country’s reputation. For us, it’s not over]( Reporter's notebook [Inside Anatevka, the curious Chabad hamlet in Ukraine where Giuliani is ‘mayor’]( By [Simona Weinglass]( Environment [The strange tale of a toxic effluent channel hailed as a great, ‘secret’ river]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Following TV visit to Dead Sea gorge carved out by briny waste from Dead Sea factories, call is issued for works there to stop, site to be opened to public]( [Energy minister says Israel foiled ‘serious’ attack on power station]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Branching out / KKL-JNF launches online ‘click and plant’ project ahead of Tu B’Shvat]( By [Sue Surkes]( Startup Israel [Researchers showcase all-optical encryption tech to keep data hidden and safe]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [‘If you can’t detect it, you can’t steal it,’ says Ben-Gurion University’s Prof. Dan Sadot; tech will be presented at the Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv]( [Israel Electric inks deal to help safeguard Tokyo Olympics from cyberattack]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Facebook touts more transparency, vigilance ahead of Israel’s elections in March]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israel, US researchers create ‘mini Human-on-a-Chip’ to speed up drug testing]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Holocaust Remembrance Day [Hundreds of photographers worldwide capture Holocaust’s last living survivors]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Photojournalists Rina Castelnuovo and Jim Hollander turned to colleagues around the globe for The Lonka Project, which has been featured as 2-week exhibit at the United Nations]( [On Remembrance Day, US House overwhelmingly passes Holocaust education bill]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Holocaust Remembrance Day / At the UN, a hidden child survivor cries victory over Hitler]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( Holocaust Remembrance Day [Church in former Auschwitz SS headquarters is ‘desecration,’ say activist rabbis]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( Author interview [Myth of Jews killing Christian children persists, says new book on blood libel]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [‘Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth’ by historian Magda Teter examines lethal canard from its roots in monastic tales to the pages of German Nazi broadsheets]( [Author interview / Teenagers helped launch the WWII French Resistance; many paid with their lives]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Holocaust film / BBC airs ‘Windermere children’: How Holocaust survivors went from hell to heaven]( By [Robert Philpot]( [CRM]( Film review [At Sundance, ‘The Dissident’ shows Saudis murdered Khashoggi with Israeli tech]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [In film which premiered January 24 at prestigious festival, director Bryan Fogel portrays just how worrisome it is when a kingdom silences masses with US complicity]( [Jewish nonprofit AJC puts ‘significant investment’ in new Arabic media platforms]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [The darkness that blinds us]( By [Elana Kaminka]( [At a solidarity visit of Jews to the vandalized mosque in Beit Safafa, what can I offer other than my tears?]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved