ToI’s weekly deep dive: Eye-witness account of bloody massacre’s aftermath * Lapid says he’s still in the game * Where is Abbas? * ’Ad 120’s sci entific key * ’Thirst’

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Monday, September 21, 2020 First person [Journalist reckons with Israeli blame for Sabra and Shatila]( By [Abraham Rabinovich]( [38 years ago, hours before the Jewish new year, word arrived of bloodshed by an Israeli ally in Beirut. A reporter set off to Lebanon to seek out the truth]( Interview [Lapid: I must do better in making people see we’re the only alternative to Bibi]( By [David Horovitz]( [‘Betrayed’ by Gantz and facing a challenge inside his party, the opposition leader is nothing if not resilient, battling a PM he calls ‘the most divisive Jewish leader in history’]( [Analysis / Netanyahu earned his moment in the sun – and the public distrust that clouds it]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [The absent peacemaker]( [The US has been repeatedly inviting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to reengage and advocate for his people’s interests. Isn’t that supposed to be his very purpose?]( [Analysis / With the Israel-UAE-Bahrain deals, ‘undeniable Palestinan truths’ no longer hold]( By [Avi Issacharoff]( [Analysis / Abbas plays a misguided waiting game, as Hamas eyes his presidency]( By [Avi Issacharoff]( [Yossi Klein Halevi]( [The prerequisite for peace is Israeli power – and pragmatism]( From the blogs [Israel’s vulnerable new friends]( By [Martin Kramer]( Peace in the MidEast [Pie in the sky: Emirates airline to serve up its own kosher food]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Items produced at special production facility will have certification from the US-based Orthodox Union; move apparently intended to turn the Gulf city into a hub for Jewish travel]( [At White House ceremony, UAE Jews hail treaties as ‘epoch-making’]( By [Raphael Ahren]( From the blogs [I’m banned from the US for ‘association with a terrorist organization’]( By [Jonathan Spyer]( Obituary [Ginsburg: ‘The demand for justice runs through Jewish history’]( By [Sarah Wildman]( [The jurist, who died at 87 on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, was frank about the importance of Jewish tradition and said her roots as an outsider were building block of her perspective]( [CRM]( Author interview [Only as old as your genes: Ashkenazi ‘super-agers’ could hold key to long life]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [‘Aging as we know it shouldn’t happen,’ says Israeli researcher Nir Barzilai, whose new book studies 750 centenarians, finding that drugs may delay the onset of major diseases]( [Israel’s population up to 9.25 million, though growth rate, immigration down]( By [TOI staff]( StartUp Israel [Coronavirus may force Israeli tech sector out of ‘white boys club,’ VC guru says]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Alan Feld, Canadian-Israeli founder of investing group with $2 billion under management, says COVID-19 could be a ‘great equalizer’]( [Israeli research: Bacteria may be key to curing coronavirus and other viruses]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [New coronavirus proteins found by Israeli lab, potentially helping drug efforts]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Leaked docs: Arab Bank was involved in potential terrorist financing until 2016]( By [Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim]( Holocaust [UK broadcaster Attenborough, 94, hosts families of his Jewish refugee ‘sisters’]( By [TOI staff]( [Irene and Helga Bejach, part of the Kindertransport rescue mission from Nazi Germany, took shelter with the British family during WWII]( [Push underway to save UK church mural made by Jewish artist who escaped Nazis]( By [Stuart Winer]( Rosh Hashana [New Jersey’s Challah Back Girls raise dough for racial justice]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Finding themselves under one roof again in COVID-19 era, the Loffman sisters use ingredients at hand — flour and Jewish values — to raise funds for charitable anti-racist causes]( [Rosh Hashanah / Ring in 5781 with Jewish calendar that puts an artistic spin on time]( By [Madison Margolin]( [Photo essay / Scenes of silence: Israel marks Rosh Hashanah with 2nd lockdown]( By [TOI staff]( Mother knows best [Jewish dating app lets parents with a yen for grandkids set up adult children]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( ToI Podcast Interview [LISTEN: Purloined pottery from Tomb of Patriarchs gets 1st scientific study]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Prof. David Ben-Shlomo speaks about new ceramics study and findings from his recent excavations at Tel Hebron]( [Israel travels / Post-lockdown field trip? Visit some of Israel’s (320!) archaeological gardens]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Archaeologists say earthquake caused sudden disuse of Canaanite wine palace]( By [Stuart Winer]( Necessary Stories [Thirst]( By [Haim Watzman]( [In this Necessary Story for Rosh Hashanah, Haim Watzman tells of a father who seeks out the son he sent away, with his mother, many years before]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved