ToI’s weekly deep dive: President Biden on the Golden Rule * Vaccinating thy neighbor * Mounting COVID deaths is ’blood on rabbis’ hands’ * Buzz over new Israeli bee

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, January 24, 2021 Director interview [Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned]( [‘Maybe we should bomb Damascus?’: Yom Kippur War deliberations declassified]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Joe Biden, his mother, and the Golden Rule]( [America would appear to be fortunate that a veteran conciliator is the president now charged with healing the nation. Israel, too, has cause for relief and appreciation]( [Times of Israel Podcast / PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – Biden’s one-legged Talmudic inaugural speech]( By [TOI staff]( [‘Erratic’ or ‘Strategic Clarity’: What to make of Trump’s Middle East legacy?]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Analysis / At odds on Iran and settlements, Netanyahu and Biden can still avoid a brawl]( By [Lazar Berman]( Profile [Netanyahu’s envoy Dermer departs US, but to Democrats he’s been gone for years]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Ambassador’s close relationship with the PM and willingness to bet it all on Trump paid handsome dividends, but many on other side of aisle say strategy will haunt Israel]( [Analysis / Joe Biden wants to erase the last four years. In the Mideast, that won’t be easy]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Dennis C. Sasso]( [Donald Trump as a messianic cultic figure]( [Inside story / Born on the 4th: Israeli parties look to US playbook for pandemic-era campaigns]( By [Tal Schneider]( From The Blogs [American Yizkor]( By [Arnold M. Eisen]( Crisis of faith [Blood on rabbis’ hands, Haredi emergency chief says after mom’s COVID death]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Yehuda Meshi-Zahav pleaded with his family not to hold a party, but with Haredi leaders not taking the virus seriously, the ZAKA rescue group leader says he didn’t stand a chance]( [Father of ZAKA emergency rescue chief dies of COVID-19, days after his mother]( By [TOI staff]( [Hasidic rabbi calls for reopening ultra-Orthodox schools, then backtracks]( By [TOI staff]( [‘We feared for our lives,’ says cop attacked by ultra-Orthodox mob]( By [TOI staff]( Vaccination [Israeli immunity hinges on Palestinians getting COVID shots too, doctors say]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Nathan Jeffay]( [Epidemiological interest is clear, say officials, warning that herd immunity cannot be reached otherwise, but legal experts conflicted over whether Israel is ultimately responsible]( [Editor's Note / Vaccinating the Palestinians * Michael Leven’s philanthropy campaign]( By [David Horovitz]( Times Will Tell [PODCAST: After 5 years, anti-Semitism czar says no improvement for EU Jews – yet]( By [TOI staff]( [EU Commission’s first Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein on the controversial IHRA definition and ‘deeply rooted’ hatred against European Jewry]( [Nazis' largest mass grave / World’s largest Holocaust memorial planned for Ukraine’s Babyn Yar ravine]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Poll: Nearly half of UK Jews avoid visible signs of Judaism due to anti-Semitism]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( Startup Israel [Israeli researchers find a new bee species, amid worries about declining swarms]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Little known about Lasioglossum dorchini, found in Alexander Stream National Park during research into best ways of rehabilitating habitats stunted by planted eucalyptus trees]( [Diet said to bust liver fat with plant goodness unveiled by Israeli academics]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Directors interview / For world’s 1 billion migraine sufferers, COVID a major headache, new film shows]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( ToI investigates [Questions on arms sales, funding bring 2nd Israeli astronaut back down to earth]( By [Simona Weinglass]( Racism [The 1920s white supremacist influencer beloved by president Harding – and Hitler]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Historian Lothrop Stoddard helped found ‘Nordic’ movement to battle ‘the rising tide of color’ in US and abroad, but was laughed off stage in debate with Black thinker Du Bois]( [Author interview / Dating, zits and bigotry: UK’s 1st YA novel to cover anti-Semitism gets it right]( By [Jenni Frazer]( Sabra Style [With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Actors Erez Drigues and Noa Koler, a one-time real-life couple, bring their fictionalized break-up to Kan for a surprise runaway hit that’s an ode to the shuttered theater world]( [Speak da language / Who needs English? It’s all Hebrish, anyway]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Archaeology [‘Christ born of Mary’: 1st proof of early Christianity found in Galilee village]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Greek inscription provides evidence of a hitherto-unknown 5th century Byzantine-era church; the find ‘closes a circle’ on Christian settlement in small Jezreel Valley village Taibe]( [Early humans used prehistoric tool to chop bones, eat the marrow: Israeli study]( By [Stuart Winer]( From the blogs [A eulogy for lost truth within the Torah community]( By [Chaya Lester]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved