ToI’s weekly deep dive: ’Silent mutations’ help detect cancer * Adtech startup’s dark side * IDF head’s plea for resilience * No refuge for migrants? * Judo’s full Nelson

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, September 5, 2021 [Israeli study proves ‘silent mutations’ can help detect cancer, predict survival]( By [TOI staff]( [Peer-reviewed research at Tel Aviv University shows previously overlooked genome alterations can be used to help identify cancer types and predict patients’ chances of survival]( [Study: COVID recovery gave Israelis longer-lasting Delta defense than vaccines]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Side effects feared from vaccine are more common in COVID cases — Israeli study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Number of Jews worldwide hits 15.2 million — Jewish Agency]( By [TOI staff]( [On eve of Rosh Hashanah, figures show 45.3% of Jews live in Israel; 25.3 million eligible for Law of Return]( [Op-ed / Amid COVID and other challenges, hoping for a year of energy, humility, health]( By [David Horovitz]( [Portugal, Sweden slap COVID entry ban on Israelis, including those vaccinated]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Jews of the former USSR [Tel Aviv’s 1st Russian-speaking congregation says ‘da’ to young progressives]( By [Alex Surin]( [Cutting-edge and open-minded, Jewish Point challenges clichés that Israelis from former Soviet states don’t embrace spirituality, as it celebrates its ribbon cutting this week]( ToI investigates [Simona Weinglass]( [For feted adtech startup, a meteoric rise partly fueled by alleged fraudsters]( [Until recently, Webpals was one of Israel’s fastest-growing tech firms. But leaked documents show links to clients with questionable business practices, and worse]( Interview [The Israeli Olympic medalist putting judo competition in a full Nelson-Levy]( By [Amy Spiro]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Actor on the spectrum seeks job through reality show]( By [TOI staff]( [Bryan Friedland, a 38-year-old Jerusalemite on the autism spectrum, talks about his experience participating in ‘Tnu L’avod’ on Israeli TV]( Reporter's notebook [Lazar Berman]( [Getting to know the PM: Our unexpected Shabbat in a DC hotel with Bennett]( [ToI’s diplomatic correspondent describes the weekend the media, Bennett and his team spent ‘capsuled’ together in Washington, after Biden summit was delayed by Kabul’s deadly blast]( [In boon to Bennett, Knesset fully okays 2021-2022 budget in its first readings]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett to Jewish leaders: I won’t meet PA chief Abbas; he took Israel to ICC]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Fighting criticism, IDF chief says Israel must support troops or won’t have any]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Amid ongoing debate over death of border guard in Gaza border riot, Kohavi issues highly irregular public missive, saying society must be able to accept losses to have resilience]( [IDF chief visits home of slain Border Police officer amid criticism from family]( By [TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross]( [‘I tore up PM’s letter’: Family of slain border cop wades into politics]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Why the Nazis allowed a Jewish cancer scientist to remain in Berlin during WWII]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Sam Apple’s new book ‘Ravenous’ tackles the fascinating scientific nexus between cellular metabolism and oncogenes, warning of a link between excessive sugar consumption and cancer]( from the blogs [Melissa Hoffman]( [The shemitah year calls us to repair a broken food system]( [As industrialized nations produce more and more food each year, the earth itself is in peril, for true abundance requires rest]( [Are online sales of pre-Holocaust communal records their doom or salvation?]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [After decades of silence about eastern European Jewish community documents ‘abandoned’ during World War II, the issue has started to ruffle feathers, from Brooklyn to Budapest]( [Headstone for long-forgotten Black cantor unveiled in NJ cemetery]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [With support of friends and interested strangers, researcher Henry Sapoznik dedicates memorial for lauded Yiddish performer Thomas LaRue Jones, who was buried in a potter’s field]( inside story [Aaron Boxerman]( [Stuck in limbo, undocumented Palestinian spouses live shadow lives]( [Those seeking permits to reside in the West Bank face a strict Israeli system and a PA that may be burying their applications, making them prisoners in their own adopted homes]( [Gantz announces plans to legalize thousands of undocumented Palestinian spouses]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( from the blogs [Blimi Marcus]( [Until it was his time to die]( [How a needle phobia surely saved my patient’s life, though it couldn’t protect him from cancer]( [Offered little hope, African migrants despair of Israel as a refuge]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Unable to deport asylum seekers, Israel has instead left them in limbo with few rights; the new government has signaled it has no plans to change those policies anytime soon]( [After six years on the run, Israeli man arrested over divorce refusal]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Ronen Vital found sitting in his car in south Tel Aviv; is still refusing to give a religious bill of divorce after 13 years, but advocates are optimistic]( Israel Travels [Get into the trenches of Israeli history at the revamped Mt. Zion supply tunnel]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [When Jordanian snipers threatened supply lines before Israel unified Jerusalem, IDF engineers built a secret trench now renovated and open to visitors after lying dormant for years]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved