ToI’s weekly deep dive: Why it’s still too darn hot in Israel * Modern Orthodox Jews: a US swing vote? * Ultra-Orthodox talk COVID * LISTEN: Exc avating Armageddon

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, October 11, 2020 [Unholy heat: Data shows Jerusalem’s endless summer may be the fiery new normal]( By [Joshua Davidovich and Sue Surkes]( [Hot days are getting hotter, sweltering nights no longer rare and heat spells are lasting longer. Figures for Israel and the region point to a scalding trend]( US presidential race 2020 [Jacob Magid]( [In US election to be won on margins, Modern Orthodox Jews may be key demographic]( [Subset is rare group in American Judaism that doesn’t overwhelmingly vote for either party, which could give it outsized influence in November]( [Heather A. Stone]( [Ambassador Friedman, here’s the deal on Biden]( Ultra-Orthodox [Top NY Haredi rabbi: Virus compliance waned because people thought crisis passed]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Agudath Israel spokesman says Brooklyn protests sparked by anger at New York authorities, who he says bullied Orthodox Jewish community instead of engaging with it]( [Blimi Marcus]( [Defiance and rampant desecration of God’s name in my Brooklyn neighborhood]( [Liron Libman]( [What do you do when there’s a hole in the boat?]( [Menachem Bombach]( [No community is an island: The ultra-Orthodox Corona crisis]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Embarrassed and pummeled by outside criticism, Haredim despair of virus fight]( [As broad swaths of their community flout lockdown restrictions, some are calling their peers to task — and asking the rest of Israel to understand their frustration]( COVID-19 Crisis [‘But there is no coronavirus,’ shocked cynic told doctors, waking up in hospital]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Alin Zaraabel is praying for the life of her 51-year-old husband, in serious condition for a month now, at the mercy of a virus they both doubted was real]( [COVID is harming sperm, Israeli researchers say, raising infertility worries]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Faces from the frontlines: Photographer at hospital captures COVID-19 ‘angels’]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Rush young kids back to school, they’re the most virus-proof citizens — experts]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [From a family bereaved by COVID-19, a heartfelt plea for mutual responsibility]( [‘Be responsible for each other. From the neighbors to the heads of state, follow the rules,’ urge the relatives of Haim Kimchi, 59, who died last week. Is that too much to ask?]( Obituary [Eitan Haber, top aide to Rabin who, in anguish, announced PM’s death, dies at 80]( By [TOI staff]( StartUp Israel [The kids are not alright: Next generation will foot massive pandemic bill]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [While acknowledging that money, and lots of it, must be devoted to safeguarding the economy, experts rail against unwise and profligate spending and warn of the heavy toll to come]( [Interview / Australia Securities Exchange eases terms for dual listing of Israel tech firms]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Safe crossing: Israeli, Palestinian seek smoother transfer of patients and info]( By [Jake Epstein]( [Jerusalem’s OurCrowd, Dubai’s Phoenix join forces to boost Israel-UAE tech ties]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Director interview [Samuel L. Jackson joins Israeli filmmaker in docuseries on global slave trade]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Holocaust [Mystery solved: Babyn Yar massacre location pinpointed after 79 years]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [In Ukraine, Nazi war crimes expert uses 3-D simulation and aerial photography to locate Holocaust ravine beneath Kyiv city. Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center planned for 2026]( [Interview / Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Behind the Headlines [WATCH: ‘Sababa’ author Adeena Sussman on how COVID started a challah revolution]( By [TOI staff]( [Speaking with the ToI Community via Zoom, the NY Times top pick talks about her collaboration with Chrissy Teigen, Palestinian influence on Israeli food, and pandemic-era cooking]( [Israeli singer to release album of secret collaboration with Iranian artists]( By [Stuart Winer]( Interview [An Israeli soccer legend is now one of the sport’s top consultants]( By [Bernard Hacker]( ToI Podcast Interview [Digging at Armageddon: Tumultuous saga of doomed search for Solomon’s Lost City]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [LISTEN: Author Prof. Eric Cline excavates mounds of archives to paint colorful picture of cast of characters at 1920s-1930s Megiddo dig during field of archaeology’s infancy]( [Archaeology / 6,500-year-old metalworkers: Humanity’s 1st smelting furnaces found in Israel?]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Archaeology / Cave dwellers forged their tools in fire 300,000 years ago, Israeli study shows]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( From the blogs [Fragile and beautiful, impossible and possible, dreams]( By [Haviva Ner-David]( [When the world conspires to make me even more aware of how fleeting it all is, the best I can do is try to protect myself and my family from every harm that is in human hands]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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