ToI’s weekly deep dive: Diplomacy in post-Netanyahu era * Eytan Fox on gay mecca TA * Unhappy marriages are deadly * Podcast: NYT India reporter on horrific Delta variant

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, June 27, 2021 [How a Ouija board sprung two British officers from a WWI Ottoman prison camp]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In new book, ‘The Confidence Men,’ author Margalit Fox delves into spiritual trends and psychological mechanisms that enabled brilliant buddies to hoodwink Turkish captors]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Can the Haredi parties afford a long stay in the opposition?]( [The ultra-Orthodox community depends on government largesse; the narrow coalition needs Shas and United Torah Judaism to assure its hold on power. So why won’t they work together?]( Analysis [Netanyahu’s ouster creates diplomatic openings for Israel, if government holds]( By [Lazar Berman]( [World leaders eager to get to work with Bennett and Lapid, but support comes with strings attached and the vast experience of the longtime leader could be missed]( [Lapid works to fill long-vacant posts of ambassador to France, Canada, Australia]( By [Lazar Berman]( [‘Abbas never said no’ to 2008 peace deal, says former PM Olmert]( By [Lazar Berman]( Holocaust [Israel slams new Polish Holocaust law as ‘immoral’ and ‘a disgrace’]( By [Amy Spiro]( [The legislation, which must still be approved by Poland’s senate, sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property]( [‘Poland will not pay’: Polish PM hits back at Lapid criticism of restitution law]( By [TOI staff]( [David Harris]( [Letter from a forgotten Jew]( Obituary [Tzvi Tal, ex-Supreme Court justice who headed Haredi IDF draft panel, dies at 94]( By [Michael Bachner]( Coronavirus [Back in COVID mode, Binyamina residents fear new wave starting under their noses]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [As Israel returns to post-pandemic life, in this small town quarantine orders keep arriving and masks are back in use amid concerns that celebrations were premature]( [Israeli town turns ‘red’ due to COVID outbreak – the first in months]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Israel reimposes indoor mask requirement as daily cases top 200]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel delays reopening of borders to vaccinated tourists until August]( By [TOI staff]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: NYT India correspondent on ‘nightmarish’ Delta variant COVID wave]( By [TOI staff]( [No stranger to danger while reporting, Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times’s South Asia bureau chief, talks about the challenges and horrors of covering a deadly pandemic]( [CRM]( StartUp Israel [Unhappy marriages can be fatal, increasing male death rate by 19%: Israeli study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Misery during marriage is ‘risk factor just like smoking,’ say Tel Aviv researchers, leaving men 69% more likely to die from a stroke]( [Cutting back sugar from juices, startup seeks to tackle oversweetness]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Agtech startup Edete brings tech to wind-pollinated crops for better yield]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Flurry of tech IPOs buoys renaissance for Tel Aviv Stock Exchange]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Interview [In Eytan Fox’s ‘Sublet,’ gay mecca Tel Aviv serves as set for generation clash]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Two gay men, one an older American, one a cocky young Sabra, explore Tel Aviv in the Israeli director’s newest release, out now in select US theaters and via on-demand from July 9]( [Lapid orders pride flag displayed at Foreign Ministry, sparking ire on far-right]( By [TOI staff]( [100,000 at Tel Aviv Pride Parade, Israel’s largest event since start of COVID]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Eran Globus]( [A new LGBT agenda for the government of change]( [Award-winning movie ‘Asia,’ set in Jerusalem, to hit Israeli theaters]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Jerusalem art collective’s 1st post-COVID solo show opens to a new world order]( By [Elie Bleier]( [HaMiffal bounces back and inaugurates its new second-floor gallery with ‘Moving,’ an exhibit from local artist Kobi Vogman dealing with his father’s death, running through July 29]( Slogan's heroes [T-shirts inspired by Gaza conflict let Gen Z wear Jewish pride on sleeves]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [Pro-Israel advocate Shoshana Weiss says her Tik Tok-infused fashion is more than cool – it can give young Jews confidence to stand up against antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric]( [Take a bow / In first, Israeli archer to compete in Tokyo Olympics]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Inglourious mamzers / Tarantino shows off his Hebrew skills to Kimmel]( By [Stuart Winer]( From the blogs [Natan Sharansky, Un-Hero]( By [Ori Weisberg]( [How can someone of such inspirational courage, wit and humanity label those seeking to advance full equality between Jews and Palestinians as ’Un-Jews’?]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved