ToI’s weekly deep dive: Netanyahu the peacemaker? * UAE deal analysis * Young Jews for Biden * When Canada locked up Jews with Nazis * Jamie Lee Curtis goes to camp

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, August 16, 2020 Op-Ed [Taking normalization over annexation, Netanyahu poised to enter exalted company]( By [David Horovitz]( [This divisive PM, who has been so battering our democracy, acted admirably in making peace with UAE, and thus at least pencils his name on a very short list alongside Begin, Rabin]( [Protests to the left, Bennett to the right, Netanyahu troubled only if they meet]( By [David Horovitz]( From the blogs [Michael Oren]( [Stunning Israel-UAE deal upends the ‘rules’ about peace-making in Middle East]( [Setting aside a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the main impediment to peace, to work on the region’s other priorities, marks a fundamental shift that just might work]( UAE Deal [UAE Jewish community celebrates peace with Israel, excited about direct flights]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [‘This will allow Israelis to visit the UAE and share our daily experience of tolerance and pluralism,’ cheers community leader Ross Kriel]( [Analysis / Could the UAE deal save Netanyahu from a disillusioned Israeli right?]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [UAE helps reunite Yemenite Jewish family that was separated for 15 years]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Op-ed / ‘Historic’ indeed: UAE ties mark Israel’s biggest diplomatic advance since 1994]( By [David Horovitz]( Interview [Citing Europe’s dark past, minister calls for concerted sanctions on Tehran]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Amid discussions over expiring arms embargo, Eli Cohen says Iran should be kicked out of the United Nations]( [Behind the Headlines / WATCH: Meet the Labor MK opposing her own party to try to salvage its future]( By [TOI staff]( [TOI podcast interview / LISTEN: Crowdfunded ‘anti-lobby’ takes on Knesset legislation for the little guy]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel is ‘fragile, flammable,’ freshman MK warns in speech watched by millions]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( US 2020 presidential race [Jewish students mobilize young Americans — and their grandparents — for Biden]( By [Hillel Zand]( [A failed bid for student body vice president led Ethan Wolf to launch Jews 4 Joe, a push to get young Jews to vote blue, which now has hundreds of volunteers across 65 campuses]( [His kids call her ‘Momala’: Meet the Jewish husband of Biden’s pick for VP]( By [Jacob Magid]( [In New York area, a Jewish media landscape is devastated by COVID-19]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Yosef I. Abramowitz]( [Shabbat dinner with Kamala and Doug]( [CRM]( [Leading Israeli legal scholar Ruth Gavison dies at 75]( By [TOI staff]( [In WWII, an anti-Semitic Canada kept Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ in barbed wire camps]( By [Julie Masis]( [Online exhibit details how thousands of German and Austrian Jews were arrested in Britain and shipped overseas, where they were kept together with Nazi POWs in harrowing conditions]( [From Palestine to jail in Mauritius: When Britain deported 1,580 Shoah refugees]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Holocaust / After 76 years, victims of Nazi massacre in Italy identified through DNA testing]( By [Giovanni Vigna]( [Laura Kam]( [Stumbling stones for my murdered great-grandparents]( Coronavirus crisis [Small trial for COVID antibody drug, a world 1st, gets flying start in Jerusalem]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Hadassah hospital gave three people a new drug made from antibodies from people who had had coronavirus; they are all now home after ‘astonishing’ recovery]( [Deep cleaning, co-living, kids’ games: Israeli hotels pivot to survive pandemic]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Testing, testing: Indian samples boost Israeli bid for voice-based COVID check]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [As jobless soar amid virus, experts urge government to invest in training]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Start-Up Israel [Israel’s credit rating under no ‘immediate’ threat for downgrade: S&P]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Even as nation struggles to contain virus, works without state budget and may face 4th election, top analyst who sets rating says macro fundamentals strong, institutions credible]( [Fixing fat levels may be linked to lowered autism risk, Israeli-US team suggests]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Helped by coronavirus crisis, Wix becomes Israel’s second-highest valued company]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [Netafim gets $85m irrigation deal to help Indian farmers grow onions, beans]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Interview [A portal back to youth: Jamie Lee Curtis on her new summer camp mystery podcast]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Cast of tween delight ‘Letters from Camp’ includes Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Sandler’s daughter Sunny, who plays an awkward, precocious 11-year-old investigating a ghost]( [The Brighter Side / For these Talmud students, COVID-19 offers bliss of extra time to learn]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Stripped of work, their futures at stake, artists make the protests a show]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Archaeology [Neolithic cremains in Israel are Mideast’s oldest funerary pyre, claims scholar]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Levant’s first deliberate cremation occurred between 7013-6700 BCE, according to new analysis of remains of young adult discovered in northern Israel’s Beisamoun site in 2013]( From the Blogs [For the High Holidays, to Zoom or not to Zoom is not the question]( By [Eytan Kenter]( [Now is the time to focus on the value of personal prayer and how to utilize this time for a deeper personal connection with God]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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