ToI’s weekly deep dive: Anxious Ethiopian Jews mark Sigd * Israel’s not-great expectations for Biden * Viral Hitler conspiracies * Biblical Gesh urites? * Talkin’ Turkey

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, November 15, 2020 SIGD 2020 [Anxious, divided families wait to see who Israel will airlift from Ethiopia]( By [Sue Surkes]( [November 15 will mark 5 years since the government first promised to bring some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel; officials now selecting 2,000 for a January arrival]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Biden can do well in the Mideast, if only because so little is expected of him]( [Under both Obama and Trump, America seemed capricious and unable to keep its commitments; few are now willing to risk relying on its short attention span]( [Analysis / Biden’s victory prompts great expectations in Ramallah, quite possibly too great]( By [Avi Issacharoff]( [Avi Gil]( [Trump’s defeat ends the Israeli right’s long celebration]( [Analysis / Who are Biden’s potential senior appointees, and what are their views on Israel?]( By [Jacob Magid]( Kristallnacht [75 years after fall of Third Reich, Hitler conspiracy theories even more viral]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Historian Richard Evans’ new book ‘The Hitler Conspiracies’ details the revival and unparalleled propagation of falsehoods about Nazi Germany — and the dangers this poses today]( [82 years after Kristallnacht, Rivlin warns of ongoing ‘virus of anti-Semitism’]( By [TOI staff]( [Interview / Dynamite German film charts the banality of always looking for meaning in Hitler]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Interview / Jesuit Catholic priest pens book about his order’s complicity in the Holocaust]( By [Rich Tenorio]( From the blogs [The last bar mitzvah before Kristallnacht]( By [Ellen Bachner Greenberg]( #GamAni [Teens push for end to ‘toxic’ culture of sexuality in US Jewish youth groups]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Six young women who met at a Jewish Women’s Archive writing retreat co-author article criticizing objectifying chants, hookup ‘point system’ rampant at meetups]( [Behind the Headlines / How anti-Semitism and hate on social media is a chance to educate]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Jonathan Goldstein]( [Lessons from our victory over Corbyn’s anti-Semitic leadership]( Coronavirus crisis [Wally the llama’s antibodies, analyzed in J’lem, may help millions through COVID]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [‘They are highly potent,’ says Israeli researcher who scrutinized the Massachusetts llama’s ‘nanobodies’ to pave the way for an inhaler intended to help patients fight virus]( [Israel is buying up COVID vaccines — but faces huge challenge in deploying them]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Viral chic / One designer’s COVID-19 accessories find irony in symbols of pandemic]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Huge US study pinpoints top virus hubs: All the venues Israel plans to open next]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( StartUp Israel [Digitizing odors: Israelis whiff the future with ‘smellophone’ tech breakthrough]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Weizmann Institute team says it has created a molecular ‘smell map’ that can be used to recreate almost any scent on earth, potentially sending what you sniff around the globe]( [Israeli startup says it has edited cannabis plant gene to resist fungus]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israel R&D team said likely behind Apple’s ‘revolutionary’ chip for laptops]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Biden’s impact on normalization push with Israel is key for economy, expert says]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( From the blogs [Yes, Virginia, the Patriarchs really did ride on camels]( By [Joshua Berman]( Archaeology [Beit El settlement expansion threatens to bury Jewish Second Temple heritage]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [As apartment towers rise in West Bank town, remains of Jewish village conquered by Romans fight the elements — and population boom — for a chance at preservation in planned park]( [Archaeology / King David-era fort found in Golan, may be 1st evidence of Bible’s ‘Geshurites’]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Cache of gold coins from Islamic period discovered at Western Wall dig]( By [TOI staff]( [Archaeology / 2,000 years ago, a believer came hundreds of miles to erect an altar at Banias]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( Israel travels [Church towers, blooming flowers: The sights & stories of Jerusalem’s promenades]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Outdoor treks in the capital offer tales of Russian royalty, medieval monks and biblical sacrifices, alongside verdant gardens, modern monuments and stunning views]( [A message from NBN / Pioneering head of Rambam Hospital’s radiology department has an aliyah story as unique as her career]( By [TOI staff]( Film review [Even Sophia Loren as aging Auschwitz-survivor madame can’t save ‘The Life Ahead’]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Now out on Netflix, the English-language reboot of Israeli director Moshe Mizrahi’s 1977 Oscar-winner sucks the life out of its vibrant characters, coming off as flat and forced]( [Reality TV couple who met on Birthright serve as US primetime Israel ambassadors]( By [Aviva Engel]( [‘Asia’ headed to Oscars after winning Best Picture at Israel’s Ophir Awards]( By [TOI staff]( [Times of Israel Podcast / LISTEN: Talking turkey with Jerusalem’s ‘Ms. Thanksgiving’]( By [TOI staff]( From The Blogs [We have lost our greatest teacher]( By [Alon Goshen-Gottstein]( [He was a teacher who sought to frame the common ground between Judaism and other religions and to export Jewish values in the service of humanity]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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