ToI’s weekly deep dive: World observes Holocaust Remembrance Day * Gideon Sa’ar and Merav Michaeli interviews * What’s cooking in Turkey * COVID wonder drug that works?

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, January 31, 2021 First person [Why a year after the Holocaust, my parents are happy in DP camp photos]( By [Bernard Dichek]( [Survivors were largely overlooked by post-war officials following the genocide. Unable to go to North America or Israel, Jews spent a few carefree years in idyllic settings]( Interview [‘Netanyahu plays a dirty game,’ says challenger Sa’ar, ‘but he doesn’t scare me’]( By [David Horovitz]( [PM’s actions are ‘a danger to the people,’ his attacks on law enforcement are unconscionable, and much of the media’s in his pocket. So says the ex-colleague determined to oust him]( [Interview / Back from the brink? Merav Michaeli has two months to save the Labor Party]( By [David Horovitz]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Ultra-Orthodox COVID extremists betray Judaism’s emphasis on sanctity of life]( [How to understand the sometimes violent defiance of life-preserving lockdown rules by a substantial minority of the Haredi community, and what Israel should do about it]( [Analysis / Enfeebled and enraged, Haredi society feels forsaken on all sides]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [The Daily Briefing / PODCAST: Ultra-Orthodox extremists rage on and the politics of Eurovision]( By [TOI staff]( [Francis Nataf]( [The real threat of COVID-19 to the religious community (and to our humanity)]( US Politics [Biden breaks from predecessors by taking it slow on Israeli-Palestinian peace]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Like Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton, US president says ultimate goal is 2-state solution; unlike them, he’s not interested in launching a high-stakes initiative to get there]( [Analysis / Biden’s first phone calls show where he’s looking — and it’s not at Israel]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Elias Rosenfeld]( [I’m a Jewish DACA recipient. Joe Biden has already changed my life]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Boxed-in Turkey tries to rekindle ties, but Israel can now play hard to get]( [Erdogan is eager to turn the page, as old antagonist Biden assumes office, but Jerusalem, sitting pretty with gas alliances and new Arab friends, will have some demands]( [Analysis / Picking a fight with US over Iran deal, IDF chief baffles even accord’s critics]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Interview / Arriving in UAE, Israeli envoy sets sights on budding trade bonanza]( By [Lazar Berman]( [The Daily Briefing / PODCAST: Talking Turkey (and Iran): What’s cooking beyond Israel’s horizons]( By [TOI staff]( Holocaust Remembrance Day [Four Italian Holocaust survivors tell how they escaped death on ‘Black Saturday’]( By [Giovanni Vigna]( [Ahead of a January 27 online preview of the Rome Shoah Foundation Museum’s new exhibition, volunteers who usually travel Italy speaking to schools share their stories with ToI]( [Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day to focus on 1.5 million children killed by Nazis]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Times Will Tell / 29-year-old composer releases ‘Kaddish’ for survivor grandfather on top label]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( From the blogs [Fatal liberations – 1945 and 2021]( By [Adam S. Ferziger]( Times Will Tell [PODCAST: Yad Vashem head pleads for truth to be sole guide in Holocaust research]( By [TOI staff]( [The retiring chair of Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Avner Shalev, speaks about cynical political use of Shoah history and increased virtual commemorations in the COVID era]( [Without these queer MPs, the UK would never have gone to war with Hitler]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Interview / The secret maritime route that brought Holocaust survivors to pre-state Israel]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Efraim Zuroff]( [An 80-year search for ‘the student K,’ murderer of Jewish babies]( First person [Wonder drug that works? Monoclonal antibodies ‘cured’ my grandparents from COVID]( By [Julie Masis]( [US government health bodies warn there’s not nearly enough data to prove efficacy, but doctors report no deaths among thousands of high-risk patients prescribed the new treatment]( [Israeli expats weigh returning home for vaccine, but few will give it a shot]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Vaccine found 92% effective in Israel, in first controlled result outside trials]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [CRM]( Tu Bishvat [Erupting with flowers before spring, almond tree a bounty of Jewish symbolism]( By [Sue Surkes]( [The subject of a biblical miracle and a sign of industriousness, the almond tree blossoms in time for Jewish arbor day, while most other plants are still locked in winter’s embrace]( [Olive the above / Olive voted as national tree to mark Tu Bishvat]( By [Sue Surkes]( [The Daily Briefing / PODCAST: On Tu Bishvat, Israel’s carbon footprint and which tree to hug]( By [TOI staff]( [Humans destroying basis of our existence, ‘ecological footprint’ expert warns]( By [Sue Surkes]( StartUp Israel [Ancient cloth with Bible’s purple dye found in Israel, dated to King David’s era]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [3 scraps from 1,000 BCE, earliest such finds in region, point to Edomite kingdom described in Bible; vibrant and lasting ‘royal’ dye, mark of the elite, comes from murex sea snails]( [Israel-led team creates a ‘Google Map’ of brain RNA; may help Alzheimer’s fight]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Antibiotics stunt growth, impair weight gain in infant boys: Israeli researchers]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli scientists unveil ‘powerful tool’ advancing personalized cancer medicine]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Author interview [World’s 1st female rabbi led a 16th century Mosul yeshiva for Kurdish Jewry]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Journalist and novelist Sigal Samuel honors her Iraqi Jewish heritage with picture book about Osnat Barazani, whose life was a real-life early Yentel story set in the Middle East]( [Helping make obstacles for TV ninjas, a mom shows girls how to defy life’s tests]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [With Israel closed, a chef fills cravings through its food]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [A real mensch / Famed young adult author walks hours across London to surprise bar mitzvah boy]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Behind the Headlines [Join ToI Community to catch two authors who are redacting modern Jewish history]( By [TOI staff]( [In this week’s Behind the Headlines, for ToI Community members, Drs. Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin discuss Judaism’s recent transformation and their book ‘The New Jewish Canon’]( Israel travels [A breath of fresh air: 5 invigorating nature walks to cure what ails you]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved