ToI’s weekly deep dive: Visit Negev ’Burning bush’ * Thanksgiving with a side of Hebrew * 1st insulin pills * WATCH: ToI panel talks US election s * Tiny Temple Mount gold

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, November 29, 2020 Reporter's notebook [Ancient rock etchings on remote Negev plateau evoke the Bible, draw new interest]( By [Sue Surkes]( [As Mount Karkom attracts increasing visitors, archaeologists try to protect a prehistoric art-filled site that a top researcher claims is Mount Sinai, complete with ‘burning bush’]( 400 years to Mayflower [Back in 1620, the Pilgrim leader behind the 1st Thanksgiving was Hebrew-obsessed]( By [Rich Tenorio]( From the blogs [Houda Nonoo]( [My first trip to Israel – when dream became reality]( [As a Jew, I yearned to come. As a committed citizen of Bahrain, I waited for circumstances to allow such a visit. That time finally arrived.]( Op-Ed [Who made the bomb? The full truth about Lockerbie is still not being told]( By [David Horovitz]( Times of Israel Podcast [ToI editorial panel sounds off on the US elections and what they mean for Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Join the ToI Community to watch this week’s installment in our exclusive Behind the Headlines video series]( [Analysis / A fourth election within two years is now a certainty]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Analysis / With submarine probe, a cornered Gantz shows he’s willing to sink the coalition]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Analysis / Pragmatism or Palestine nationalism? Arab MK forces a choice on his colleagues]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( From the blogs [Michael Melchior]( [Effi Eitam is a deplorable choice to head Yad Vashem]( [The former lawmaker has espoused views about Arabs that violate the spirit of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center’s mission]( [CRM]( Health [Oral insulin, by Israeli mom-son team, starts final trials to become world’s 1st]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [CEO says pills, which can replace many injections, will help ‘hundreds of millions of diabetics worldwide,’ sending insulin directly to the liver and reducing weight gain]( [He lost his mom but survived the virus. Now ‘long COVID’ is wrecking him again]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli scientist claims to ‘reverse’ aging in blood cells]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli students’ electric car for elderly to compete in Dubai-based show]( By [Jake Epstein]( COVID-19 [US experts: Ongoing coronavirus health crisis taking toll on kids’ mental health]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Frontline workers, child therapists find anecdotal evidence for higher rates of problem behaviors, depression, and anxiety in children as adults also struggle to cope with pandemic]( [Until vaccine, make 55-plus live separately to save lives, Israeli research says]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [With school out for months, hundreds of thousands of kids face food insecurity]( By [Sue Surkes]( [ToI investigates / Coronavirus is driving thousands of people into hunger. Where is the state?]( By [Sue Surkes]( StartUp Israel [Don’t have a cow: Israel’s Remilk serves up dairy products made without animals]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Startup says it has pioneered milk proteins ‘chemically identical’ to those in cow-produced milk, for products with the same taste and texture, but no cholesterol or lactose]( [Leave your chutzpah at home, branding expert advises Israelis as UAE ties beckon]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Interview / Israel innovation chief says work-from-home could challenge tech ecosystem]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Burger-printing SavorEat holds IPO, becomes first plant-based meat firm on TASE]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Director interview [2 Holocaust survivors return to Poland to Never Forget… with a side of Klezmer]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [In ‘Saul and Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band,’ now on-demand, a pair of upbeat nonagenarians go on a journey to their trauma-filled birthplaces and end up performing to thousands]( [Fred and Julia: A family friend becomes the subject of a Holocaust art biography]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Archaeology [Gold bead, apparently lost on Temple Mount 3,000 years ago, found by 9-year-old]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [When Binyamin Milt uncovered the bead as he sifted earth for Temple Mount Sifting Project, it was so well-preserved that archaeologists initially didn’t realize its unique nature]( [Archaeology / Ancient forgers? Israeli researchers ID ‘dirty currency’ from 3,000 years ago]( By [TOI staff]( Give it a whirl [Up your Hanukkah game with this new spin on dreidel]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [From the makers of the Jewish Wisdom Ball comes Dreidel Revolution, a twist on the holiday classic that introduces skill, speed, and even bluffing for more dynamic gameplay]( [Stick around / Introducing the Sufganyeta, the jelly doughnut popsicle]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( From the Blogs [‘Tis the season to celebrate (coronavirus and all)]( By [Sara Wolkenfeld]( [After nearly a year of coronavirus Jewish holidays, we wanted to share what we’ve learned about how to do festivities at a distance, as we start this winter holiday season]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved