ToI’s weekly deep dive: Chemo breakthrough * Ethiopia war victim waited 24 years for aliya * Where’s Jerusalem? * Reviewed: Soros, The Last Verm eer * Don’t bet on Bennett

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, November 22, 2020 [With new ‘elegant chemo,’ Israeli scientists edit genome to destroy cancer DNA]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Tel Aviv University team uses ‘microscopic scissors’ to pinpoint and eliminate cancerous cells; results of animal tests just published, trial in humans expected within 2 years]( [Israel’s Hadassah vies to become a regional hub for Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Interview / Israeli duo’s early Alzheimer’s detection test brings cure one step closer]( By [Robert Sarner]( Exclusive [Ethiopia conflict claims 1st Jewish victim; he’d waited 24 years for Israel move]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Girmew Gete, 36, was shot dead in the Amara-Tigray border area; his 84-year-old grandmother is mostly alone in Kiryat Gat]( where was i? [If I forget thee (part II): Closing out trip, Pompeo ‘wheels up from Jerusalem’]( By [TOI staff]( [US secretary, departing from Ben Gurion Airport, outside Tel Aviv, tweets that he is leaving from Jerusalem, Israel’s ‘eternal capital’]( [If I forget thee? Bahrain claims its minister’s Jerusalem talks were in Tel Aviv]( By [Raphael Ahren]( Op-Ed [David Horovitz]( [Israel, its new allies implore Biden: Don’t repeat Obama’s mistake on Iran]( [The president-elect has said he will ‘rejoin’ the 2015 nuclear deal. He has also stressed his ‘steadfast support for Israel’s security’. That’s a contradiction]( [Interview / Eyeing simpatico White House, J Street readies to lobby for Iran deal reentry]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Kvelling / Meet Joe Biden’s whole big Jewish mishpocha]( By [Lior Zaltzman]( from the blogs [Audrey N. Glickman]( [Garlic, chicken soup, and common sense]( [I’m a Jewish mother. I think chicken soup cures all ills. But rapid testing, N-95 masks, contact tracing, and distancing do an even better job against COVID-19]( [CRM]( Film review [Jordan Hoffman]( [Guy Pearce steals show as art forger who fooled Goering in ‘The Last Vermeer’]( [The (mostly) true legal thriller about one of history’s most talented charlatans illuminates lingering toxic anti-Semitism in post-WWII Amsterdam]( [Life of 16th-century heiress, philanthropist and crypto-Jew hits Italian comics]( By [Giovanni Vigna]( politics [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Despite soaring poll numbers, Bennett appears unlikely to unseat Netanyahu]( [As talk of elections ramps up, Yamina leader’s growing popularity is drawing attention. But is he a real contender?]( [Analysis / Netanyahu lauds his pandemic success, but key government agencies are collapsing]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Inside story / In a tiny Israeli town, Likud sought a Trumpian ‘stolen election’ failsafe]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( from the blogs [Sam Lehman-Wilzig]( [The US Supreme Court has no WASPs – and that matters for Jews]( [The waning of religiosity in the US corresponds to a rise in hyper-political partisanship, and with it a surge in political extremism]( Analysis [Judah Ari Gross]( [Latest tunnel was Hamas’s deepest; it’s not what worries Israel most about Gaza]( [The IDF regards the Strip as calm for now, but a perpetual potential powder keg]( Film review [‘Soros’ squanders an opportunity with poor picture of controversial billionaire]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( farewell tour [Raphael Ahren]( [Pompeo brought many gifts, but do they have long-term value?]( [Secretary’s visits to a settlement and the Golan, and his reversal on labeling rules, have symbolic worth, probably won’t change very much, could boost presidential ambitions]( [Netanyahu, Rivlin welcome end of Pollard’s parole, await his arrival in Israel]( By [Jacob Magid]( [‘It’s a cancer’: Pompeo says US will brand BDS ‘anti-Semitic,’ crack down on it]( By [Raphael Ahren]( Author interview [Novel revives true story of gutsy Jew who survived Nazis to marry German soldier]( By [Robert Philpot]( from the blogs [Smadar Lavie]( [Shabbat with the militias]( [’You are Jewish?!’ asked Beard One. ’Yup. I am,’ I answered, feigning confidence. ’But you said you were from Israel!’]( [Work from home raises productivity but may be blighting startup culture – survey]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Report paints dual picture as 87% of Israeli startups set up remote operations: Lower costs and a ‘flatter’ world of more opportunities, but teamwork, innovation, loyalty suffer]( [Israeli VC fund Maniv Mobility invests in Abu Dhabi electric scooter startup]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Ride Vision raises $7 million from investors in bid to make motorcyclists safer]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved