ToI’s weekly deep dive: A prophet’s tomb saved, as Islamic State lurked nearby * Dara Horn interview * Leonard Cohen’s lost ’brothers’ * Media review: 3 shots, 2 escapees

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, September 19, 2021 Exclusive [Tal Schneider]( [Saving Iraq’s Tomb of Nahum, a secret mission resurrects Kurdistan’s Jewish past]( [With IS just miles away, a US army vet, 2 Israeli engineers and the head of a preservation group carried out an audacious plan to restore an ancient shrine of the biblical prophet]( [Bennett defends booster shots, says US to soon follow Israel with widespread use]( By [TOI staff]( [PM to limit Green Pass to those who’ve received 3rd dose despite FDA move to only give it to Americans over 65 and high-risk; Israel FDA panelist explains its decision]( [Israel said worried FDA limit on booster shots will hamper its 3rd shot campaign]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Study: COVID booster recipients 20 times more protected against serious illness]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( Israel media review [Joshua Davidovich]( [Boosted and busted: What the press is saying about 3 shots and 2 caught escapees]( [And perhaps bested… as questions continue to dog officials following the Gilboa escape and a US rebuff of Israel’s vaccine booster blitz]( [Israeli forces nab final 2 Palestinian fugitives in Jenin, ending jailbreak saga]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [Bennett hails ‘sophisticated’ operation that caught last 2 Palestinian fugitives]( By [Amy Spiro and Judah Ari Gross]( Interview [‘People Love Dead Jews,’ says Dara Horn, but the living ones don’t fare as well]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [The acclaimed novelist pivots to non-fiction, explaining the myriad ways Jews have been — and still are — forced to erase their particularistic identity when living among non-Jews]( [Israeli ‘antibacterial weapon’ arms good germs to kill bad germs]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Helpful bacteria fire ‘poisoned arrows’ at infection-causing microbes in Tel Aviv University lab; they ‘permeate a neighboring cell by brute force and release toxins into it’]( [Israeli scientists aim to mobilize allergy-causing cells to fight cancer]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Kushner warns against neglecting Abraham Accords at one-year anniversary event]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Former Trump senior adviser says the potential normalization deals offer to region could be wasted if they’re not nurtured; Blinken to host administration anniversary event Friday]( [Blinken pledges US backing to expand Abraham Accords between Israel, Arab states]( By [Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid]( [Bennett cheers ‘groundbreaking’ Abraham Accords on 1-year anniversary]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( from the blogs [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [A High Holiday embrace]( [My husband lay in the cardiac ICU, and of course my prayers were all for him, until I noticed a distraught young woman at our hospital service]( [Medieval manors to German villas: Jewish homes tell stories of royalty, tragedy]( By [Robert Philpot]( [An online tour of sprawling estates reveals the history of a segment of European Jewry seldom thought of today, despite its members’ opulence, philanthropy and political influence]( [UAE seeks staggering $1 trillion in economic ties with Israel over next decade]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [A year into the Abraham Accords, trade between countries hits over $600m in 1st half of 2021; investors say big opportunities still ahead]( [New Jersey moves to divest from Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever over settlement ban]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Ambassador Erdan slams Ocasio-Cortez for her bid to block arms sale to Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli firm unveils autonomous armed robot to patrol battle zones, borders]( By [Agencies]( [But life-or-death decision to open fire will remain in the hands of human controllers for the time being, Israel Aerospace Industries says of its ‘REX MKII’ vehicle]( [Mossad killed Iran’s top nuke scientist with remote-operated machine gun — NYT]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli all-electric plane maker readies for 1st flight, new ‘age of aviation’]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( Inside Story [Worse than the worst-case scenario: The dreadful hours before the Yom Kippur War]( By [Abraham Rabinovich]( [A leading chronicler of the 1973 war traces the harrowing final hours as Israeli leaders realized, far too late, that they’d refused to read the signs of imminent conflict]( [When freed after Yom Kippur War, Israeli PoWs railed at army, transcripts show]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( from the blogs [Scott Lasensky]( [Jewish soft power and Yom Kippur at the United Nations]( [The story of how the world organization pegged the Jewish fast day as a holiday embodies the long history of the ‘shtadlan’s’ behind-the-scenes diplomacy]( [Rediscovered: Leonard Cohen lyrics of fighting with ‘brothers’ in Yom Kippur War]( By [TOI staff]( [One verse of Cohen’s song ‘Lover, Lover, Lover,’ written while he played for troops battling Egypt, deeply moved the soldiers who heard it, then mysteriously disappeared. Until now]( [CRM]( [UK Muslim doctor delights in helping separate Jewish Israeli conjoined twins]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Kashmir-born Dr. Noor Ul Owase Jeelani, a world authority on conjoined twins, says he worked for months with Israeli team: ‘All children are the same, whatever color or religion’]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Bennett-Sissi meeting shows Egypt wants to expand Israel ties, but up to a point]( [Open nature of meeting sends encouraging message that cold peace could see a thaw, but Cairo remains very wary of provoking the public where anti-Israel sentiment dominates]( [Bennett, after meeting Egypt’s Sissi: ‘We laid the foundation for deep ties’]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Lazar Berman]( Israel Travels [Around the country, picturesque memorials to fallen heroes of the Yom Kippur War]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Forests, parks, promenades and overlooks in Israel often feature monuments to soldiers or units who made the ultimate sacrifice for their homeland. Here are a few such tributes]( [Rare photos show soldiers’ sukkot during Yom Kippur War]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved