ToI’s weekly deep dive: Sheikh Jarrah unravelled * UN climate crisis report & Israel * Maimonides the pothead? * Podcast: From Kuwaiti Muslim to Israeli Jew

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, August 15, 2021 ToI investigates [In Sheikh Jarrah, anonymous actors and an absent state have created a powder keg]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Israel sees a real estate dispute hijacked by propagandists; Palestinians say it’s part of an Israeli policy to erase them in Jerusalem. Who’s right? And why does it resonate so?]( Exclusive [Eye on statute of limitations, alleged victim of US youth group leader speaks up]( By [Jacob Magid]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Global warming, the story that matters most]( [We need to change habits that exacerbate the crisis, and demand that our governments take the strategic steps to offer coming generations a realistic prospect of, put simply, life]( [Pace of global warming ‘quicker than we thought’ says only Israeli on UN panel]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Explainer / What can Israel do to fight the climate crisis? An expert names the top 5 steps]( By [Sue Surkes]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing August 11 – Climate crisis and hot spot Sheikh Jarrah unpacked]( By [TOI staff]( United states [Dozens march to Ben & Jerry’s Times Square shop demanding it ‘end Jew hatred’]( By [Jacob Magid]( [As confused bystanders look on, pro-Israel demonstrators chant ‘shame’ at settlement-boycotting ice cream firm, while Neturei Karta activists stage counter-protest across street]( [Zvika Klein]( [Peter Beinart: ‘The Palestinians are suffering more than the Israelis’]( [Zvika Klein]( [Liel Leibovitz on the ‘progressive threat’ to Jews]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [With government facing growing trials, Lapid shines spotlight on Morocco ties]( [As COVID-19 spirals and some diplomatic appointments are questioned, FM uses personal charm and mutual interests to make progress in Rabat]( [Major crisis as Israel recalls envoy to Poland after WWII restitution law okayed]( By [TOI staff]( [Analysis / Will a PM choice for Jewish Agency head be nixed by nominating committee, again?]( By [Tal Schneider]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: How a Kuwaiti Muslim now lives in Jerusalem as a Jewish Israeli citizen]( By [TOI staff]( [His father was a colleague of Yasser Arafat. His mother was born into a British Mandate marriage between a Jew and a Muslim. Hear how Mark Halawa recently became an Israeli citizen]( [CRM]( Interview [Did Maimonides ignite the cannabis craze? Book probes roles of Jews in medicine]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Health [Freezing tumor instead of cutting, Israelis pioneer new bladder cancer approach]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Tumors removed from 4 patients using Co2 at Rambam Hospital in Haifa; doctors monitoring to check method keeps cancer away; if it does, process heralds great advantages, they say]( [Addis Ababa man battling heart defect gets second free treatment in Israel]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Analysis / Hospitalizations are spiraling. Is a fourth COVID lockdown at our doorstep?]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [As government struggles with rising COVID cases, IDF rejoins fight]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Environment [Butterfly experts aflutter over arrival of foreign species at Dead Sea]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Western pygmy blue, native to Americas, has made its home in the Persian Gulf over last 30 years. Nobody knows how specimens, first spotted a week ago, reached Israel]( [Massive deep-water shark nursery discovered off Tel Aviv coast]( By [TOI staff]( [Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles seen in Eilat for first time]( By [TOI staff]( [Michael Eisenberg]( [Have more children!]( [Sculptor, painter Igael Tumarkin dies aged 87]( By [TOI staff]( [Tumarkin was an Israel Prize recipient known for the large monument at Rabin Square, as well as artworks displayed around the country and the world]( Holocaust [New book dredges up Warsaw Ghetto ‘police’ who sent fellow Jews to their deaths]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Polish historian Katarzyna Person quotes firsthand accounts to reveal the bleak reality that set the stage for the creation of the infamous Jewish Order Service]( [Last known surviving fighter of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising dies at age 97]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Deaf actress and activist Marlee Matlin on landing her ‘dream role’ in ‘CODA’]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( From the blogs [Why I stopped wearing tefillin]( By [Stacey Goldman]( [I was going to be a Conservative rabbi when I grew up; instead, a stint of intensive Torah study in the Orthodox world set me on a different path]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved