ToI’s weekly deep dive: Mossad shadow warrior as next PM? * In Khartoum, pragmatic peace * Jewish-Muslim coexistence in gay Marseille * LISTEN: Medieval poop chute

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, December 6, 2020 Author interview [Miniskirted no more: Jewish woman charts 8 years of oppression under Iran regime]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In award-winning memoir ‘From Miniskirt to Hijab,’ Jacqueline Saper explains how watching her 6-year-old daughter don a hijab for 1st grade forced her to finally flee her homeland]( Op-Ed [David Horovitz]( [Gantz claims Netanyahu duped the Israeli public. That’s not what happened at all]( [Now backing new elections, the Blue and White leader asserts ‘It’s not me Netanyahu duped; he duped all the citizens of Israel.’ His formulation is doubly inaccurate]( [Analysis / Why Mossad’s Yossi Cohen, shadow warrior against Iran, is PM’s chosen successor]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Analysis / As elections loom, center-left must contend with its loyalty problem]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( Reporter's notebook [In Khartoum, Sudanese tell ToI reporter: Prosperity better than hungry idealism]( By [Ziv Genesove]( Middle east [Ex-Syria envoy felt Trump was unqualified. Now he’s sad to see administration go]( By [Jacob Magid]( [James Jeffrey signed a 2016 letter warning Trump would put national security at risk, but after serving under him, longtime diplomat says president’s policies made the region safer]( [Bahrain minister says he took a stroll around Jerusalem, felt its holy ‘spirit’]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [In backtrack, Bahrain won’t import settlement and Golan goods as made in Israel]( By [TOI staff and Raphael Ahren]( [Killing scientist batters, but doesn’t shatter, Biden plans to reenter nuke deal]( By [Jacob Magid]( Diaspora [Work, history and dialogue keep Jews, Muslims happy together in sunny Marseille]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [France’s diverse second city is home to the 3rd-largest Jewish population in Europe and 250,000 Muslims. Community president Michel Cohen Tenoudji says relations couldn’t be better]( [Homeless youth build America’s 1st Tiny House shelter village]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Charles Bronfman and Irina Nevzlin]( [We’ve established a new alliance for the Jewish people]( Never Again [Along with row over its next head, Yad Vashem faces cash crunch due to pandemic]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Squabbling politicians leave famed Holocaust memorial and research center without funding — and, come January, without a director]( [Lisa Bachman]( [My Holocaust museum’s fitting exhibit on response to George Floyd]( [Efraim Zuroff and Yossi Klein Halevi]( [Effi Eitam appointment would negate Yad Vashem’s core message]( [EU urges ‘strong and systematic judicial response’ to rising anti-Semitism]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [CRM]( Coronavirus Crisis [On land and sea, US presidential-honored scientist works toward home virus test]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Serial start-upper Jonathan Rothberg aims to turn tide of pandemic with a coronavirus testing kit he devised while isolating with vulnerable family members aboard his superyacht]( [Israeli medical delegation enters Gaza to provide essential COVID-19 care]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Joshua Hammerman]( [God prefers parishioners who aren’t dead]( [Interview / Expert: 6 vaccine hurdles mean we’re ‘nowhere near’ Israel-wide immunity in 2021]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( StartUp Israel [6 Israeli creations get showcased in TIME’s 100 Best Inventions for 2020]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Smart beehive, folding booster seat, shrinking electric car, AR headset, sweeter sugar, medical data miner said to change how ‘we live, work, play and think about what’s possible’]( [Israeli tech gives Intel breakthrough in market dominated by competitor]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [OECD sees Israel economy grow 2.3% in 2021, below global average]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Startup unveils ‘new generation’ rocket engines with ‘PowerGel’ fuel]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Don’t divorce her: Rabbi’s letter to Henry VIII at heart of British Library show]( By [Robert Philpot]( Times of Israel Podcast [LISTEN: Medieval poop chute exposed in renovations at Jerusalem’s Tower of David]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Go behind the scenes onsite at the excavation of the Old City landmark with archaeologist Amit Re’em as the Crusader fortress turned museum undergoes a massive renewal project]( [Israel travels / Crowns, crusaders and murder: On Jerusalem’s ramparts, tales of love and lust]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Hannah Senesh archives, including handwritten poems, come to National Library]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( First Person [My own Queen’s Gambit, back in the USSR]( By [Ira Tolchin Immergluck]( [Netflix’s hit took me back to my childhood, playing competitive chess in Russia. But unlike the TV fairytale, girls don’t compete with world champions. They get shunted to piano…]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved