ToI’s weekly deep dive: The spy who got away * Iraq peaceniks recant * My driving instructor, his pumpkins * THE Bahrain photo * World Fairs & Zion * Battle for an orphan

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, October 3, 2021 Interview [How a Jewish Manhattan Project scientist quietly helped the Soviets get the bomb]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [New book ‘Sleeper Agent’ follows George Koval, a little-known US-born Russian spy posthumously honored by Putin – and possibly one of the 20th century’s most influential operatives]( [Cabinet scraps remaining ‘red’ countries, allowing Israelis to travel anywhere]( By [TOI staff]( [Amid global COVID decline, government takes Turkey, Bulgaria and Brazil off banned list; ministers argue over requirement to scan QR codes in new Green Passes]( [Health Ministry chief: Israel’s 4th COVID wave appears to be coming to an end]( By [TOI staff]( [As COVID cases wane, Health Ministry chief drops demand for new restrictions]( By [TOI staff]( [Analysis / As Israeli kids go back to school (again), will COVID cause chaos?]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [After death threats, Iraqis who attended pro-Israel normalization summit recant]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Speaker says he didn’t mean to call for peace with Israel, others say they were misled about conference’s content; pro-Iran militia says normalizers are ‘legitimate targets’]( [US military official distances himself from Iraq event urging ties with Israel]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Analysis / Baghdad is not about to make peace, but Israel can back Iraqis’ right to dissent]( By [Lazar Berman]( Interview [Willing Israel into life: As Expo Dubai opens, a look at Zionism and World Fairs]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [The owner of the largest private collection of Herzl memorabilia shows how advocates of Jewish statehood advanced the cause through pavilions at international exhibitions from 1904]( [Dubai opens $7B Expo, including Israeli pavilion, with extravagant show of glitz]( By [Talek HARRIS]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [On Lapid’s Bahrain visit, a photo op at a US Navy base meant for Iranian eyes]( [There were many encouraging signs from Yair Lapid’s trip to Manama Thursday, but the tripartite display of unity at the US Fifth Fleet base is what Tehran will notice]( [Lapid inaugurates Israeli embassy in Bahrain]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Lapid holds landmark meetings with Bahrain’s king, crown prince]( By [Lazar Berman]( Op-Ed [David Horovitz]( [Why Israel is stepping up its planning, and its rhetoric, for a strike on Iran]( [For perhaps 3 years after the JCPOA was inked, Israel essentially discarded its operational planning and capability to decimate Iran’s nuclear facilities. That’s all changed now]( [Satellite images show alleged Iranian missile factory seriously damaged in blast]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Reporter's notebook [Jacob Magid]( [For Bennett, Sukkot in NYC is a time to stroll down memory lane, and 5th Ave.]( [PM and his massive security entourage walk 25 blocks through midtown after celebrating Shemini Atzeret festival at the synagogue that welcomed him and his wife two decades ago]( [Analysis / In warm, empathetic talk to US Jews, Bennett sounds very different to Netanyahu]( By [Ben Sales]( [A judgment more wrenching than Solomon’s: No imposters in the battle for Eitan]( By [Federica Sasso]( [The custody fight for Eitan Biran, 6, orphaned in May’s cable-car tragedy, is seen in opposite terms in Italy and Israel, for it goes to the very heart of national interpretations]( [At UN, Bennett hints at action on Iran: ‘Words don’t stop centrifuges spinning’]( By [Lazar Berman]( [In first address to General Assembly, PM says Israel ‘pioneered’ COVID booster shots, hails his government as model for ‘debate without hate’; no mention of Palestinians]( [Empty speech to empty hall: Bennett UN address mocked by Likud, rapped by Meretz]( By [TOI staff]( [Analysis / Speaking to a world demanding global action, a tepid Bennett misses opportunity]( By [Lazar Berman]( Op-Ed [David Horovitz]( [Netanyahu the elephant in Bennett’s UN room, even when it comes to Palestinians]( [The new prime minister’s maiden address to the General Assembly was marked by two glaring omissions, both of them carefully planned, neither of them particularly wise]( [Neglecting Palestinians at UN, Bennett hopes that those who matter don’t mind]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Biden said to reject meeting with Abbas during UN General Assembly]( By [TOI staff]( [Talking trash: Young Nigerian-Israeli activist sparks litter-picking movement]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Sharona Shnayder grew up in Africa and the US before moving to her dad’s native Israel. Along the way she started Tuesdays for Trash, a grassroots effort now seen in 23 countries]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Home chef Shaily Lipa describes the power of an active kitchen]( By [TOI staff]( [The lifestyle personality talks about her latest book ‘Hakol Beseder,’ translated in English as ‘KitcheNeat’]( [Lawyer who fought Chevron gets 6-month sentence for contempt]( By [AP and Sue Surkes]( [Jewish Steven Donziger, under house arrest for the past 2 years, faces prison for violating federal judge’s orders related to his battle against the energy giant]( [UN group blasts ‘staggering’ bias of judge against lawyer fighting Chevron]( By [Sue Surkes]( Top Ops [Idit Codish]( [My driving instructor Yossi and his Ethiopian pumpkins]( [He says, ’Look at how tall that tree was!’ I think this is part of the test and say, ’No, I can’t look at a phone, I’m driving!’ He says, ’Nu, I’ll take the wheel…’]( [Menachem Bombach]( [Thou shalt love your child who leaves religion]( [Just as God accepts us regardless of our weaknesses, so must we ultra-Orthodox accept our children when they choose a different way of life for themselves]( [Naomi Chazan]( [3 ways to reduce the Israeli-Palestinian divide]( [The conflict is already roiling, so, Bennett’s plans for the status quo notwithstanding, both sides should start exploring just, equitable ways to share the land]( [Rachel Hartman]( [My militant sister campaigns against intermarriage. I’m engaged to a gentile.]( [It’s painful to hear her say my actions are a threat to the Jewish nation, but hating her for saying hateful things will result in nothing but more hate]( [Family’s battle to recover Nazi-looted art paints auction house into a corner]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Vienna-based seller im Kinksy is at the center of a dispute between grandchildren of a couple murdered in the Holocaust and a 2008 buyer whose anonymity it is sworn to maintain]( Interview [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [A courageous American woman led the largest resistance group in Nazi Germany]( [In the bestseller ‘All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days,’ author Rebecca Donner recounts the true story of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, who gave her life to fight fascism]( [A slaughter long ignored / Newly revealed photos from 1966 show early efforts to document Babi Yar massacre]( By [Amy Spiro]( [80 years after Babi Yar, lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( Short film review [‘Downton Abbey’ actress ‘maid’ for film on Holocaust survivor trauma in 1960s UK]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [CRM]( [Gardeners give land a sabbatical, as composting (and other activities) continue]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Shmitta, a year of rest for earth, arrived with Jewish New Year, along with opportunities for learning about planet Earth, say permaculturists]( More Headlines [Berlin soccer club sorry for antisemitism at Maccabi match in Nazi-era stadium]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Survivor’s photo wrongly used as pic of the Nazi suspect she testified against]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [California man gets life sentence for 2019 Poway synagogue shooting]( By [Elliot Spagat]( [Former Nazi death camp secretary, 96, remanded in custody after going on the run]( By [Yannick Pasquet]( [US ‘strongly condemns’ settler assault on Palestinians in South Hebron Hills]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Wounded soldier’s father says a bullet hit his grenade, but it didn’t explode]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [US VP aides tell Jewish groups she’s pro-Israel after unrefuted ‘genocide’ claim]( By [TOI staff]( [UK Labour members approve motion accusing Israel of ‘ongoing Nakba in Palestine’]( By [TOI staff]( [Officials mourn ‘unfathomable tragedy’ of family, bus driver killed in crash]( By [TOI staff]( [First EgyptAir flight between Cairo and Tel Aviv lands at Ben Gurion Airport]( By [TOI staff]( [The real thing: Gilboa jailbreakers may have used cola to weaken slab under cell]( By [TOI staff]( [First commercial flight between Israel and Bahrain lands at Ben Gurion Airport]( By [Lazar Berman and AFP]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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