ToI’s weekly deep dive: Hospital cyberwars * Female Jewish Agency head? * Maimonides’ Nobel * Genius of Einstein’s dad * Who can play a Jew onscreen? * Nuclear word games

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, October 17, 2021 [Hospital has ‘no idea’ of scale of cyberattack havoc; recovery could take months]( By [Ricky Ben-David and Nathan Jeffay]( [Day after major ransom attack identified at Hadera center, doctors report minimal progress on solving problem; experts unsurprised, predicting normality is at least 3 months away]( [Multiple cyberattack attempts on Israeli hospitals thwarted, officials say]( By [Emanuel Fabian and TOI staff]( [New report suggests Israel is country most affected by ransomware since 2020]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( [With Elazar Stern out of running, Jewish Agency eyes first-ever female chair]( By [Tal Schneider]( [Several members of the agency’s nominating committee are now considering electing a woman to head the organization for the first time in its history]( [Tzipi Livni could join race to head Jewish Agency, potentially backed by Lapid]( By [Shalom Yerushalmi and Tal Schneider]( [‘Didn’t even own a shredder’: Stern’s wife says he used ‘metaphor,’ got raw deal]( By [TOI staff]( [Amateur Palestinian beekeepers bring a new buzz to East Jerusalem rooftops]( By [Sue Surkes]( [In two years, the Sinsila project in East Jerusalem has taught almost 100 women how to cultivate bees for saleable honey and grow plants and vegetables at home]( nobel win [TOI staff]( [Maimonides in the classroom: The research that led Angrist to the Nobel]( [Much of the US-born economist’s work has focused on Israel’s education system, in particular its classroom sizes, which are based on a Talmudic theory]( [US-Israeli Nobel laureate missed phone call telling him he had won]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Israeli-American Joshua Angrist among trio to win Nobel Prize in Economics]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [UK actor faces ‘relentless’ abuse for playing Jewish character in BBC series]( By [TOI staff]( [Eddie Marsan, who is not Jewish, portrays leader of anti-fascist group in ‘Ridley Road’; Twitter users claim he supports ‘apartheid’ and the show is ‘favoring Zionists’]( [‘Holocaust was a scam’ projected on Swedish synagogue during antisemitism summit]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Antisemitism is reaching ‘younger audiences’ via social media, new study shows]( By [AFP]( [How the hydroelectric genius of Einstein’s dad lit up an Italian town in 1899]( By [Giovanni Vigna]( [The mill in Canneto sull’Oglio is again generating green energy, over a century after Hermann Einstein made the village one of the first in its region with electric streetlamps]( Top Ops [Nancy Cahners]( [On a mission… in a sex shop]( [When a salesperson offered to help, I was glad I’d looked up the Hebrew for ’Do you sell comfortable bondage?’ I was, of course, asking for a friend]( [Nathan Lewin]( [A US consulate in Jerusalem states that Jerusalem is not in Israel]( [The US would ’deepen ties with Palestinians’ if it provided accessible consular services in Ramallah, but there’s no practical need for new services in Jerusalem]( inside story [Amy Spiro]( [Who can play a Jew? Celebs claim double standard over onscreen representation]( [With the role of Golda Meir going to Helen Mirren and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg to Felicity Jones, more voices are asking why identity politics in casting doesn’t seem to apply to Jews]( [Kirk crosses final frontier: Shatner hails ‘most profound experience’ in space]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [After flying on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket, becoming oldest man ever to leave Earth, Jewish actor who taught many to dream of the stars tears up over his ‘unbelievable’ trip]( [Mars attracts / Six ‘astronauts’ on month-long mission in Israeli desert to prepare for Mars]( By [Alexandra Vardi]( [Drones deliver sushi, beer in Tel Aviv as Israel tests commercial UAVs]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Israel National Drone Initiative enters third phase as momentum builds for government-led drone delivery network]( [Israeli tech firms raised staggering $17.8b this year, almost double 2020 total]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Funding rounds of over $100m account for more than half the total sum for first 3 quarters of 2021; tech exits reach over $18b]( [Interview / Regulation takes time but it’s coming for Facebook, says Israeli law expert]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Word games: What does Lapid mean when he pushes ‘other options’ on Iran?]( [Vague terms, including ‘nuclear threshold’ state, are less frightening to Tehran than Israel would hope, leaving Jerusalem with a range of flawed approaches in the nuclear standoff]( [Blinken and Lapid discussed options for Iran not previously on table — official]( By [Jacob Magid]( [‘Iran becoming a nuclear threshold state,’ Lapid tells Biden aide in Washington]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Blinken and Lapid talk publicly of ‘other options’ to stop Iran nuke program]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Top virologist says Delta defeated, predicts 6+ months of COVID quiet for Israel]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [New variants will be held at bay for now, says Rivka Abulafia-Lapid, whose optimism comes as number of new serious COVID cases per day almost halves over two weeks]( [To fight childhood obesity, Israeli docs prescribe app that gamifies weight loss]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [CRM]( Interview [After killing hundreds of Italian civilians, a brutal SS division evaded justice]( By [Robert Philpot]( [UK author Christian Jennings’ new book ‘Anatomy of a Massacre’ examines the infamous murders at Sant’ Anna di Stazzema to highlight Nazi war crimes that went unpunished]( Interview [Jacob Magid]( [Frustrated with US, but reluctant to fight, PA envoy looks elsewhere for help]( [Ramallah’s man in New York, UN ambassador Riyad Mansour, tells ToI he appreciates what Biden administration has done but recognizes that Washington won’t push Jerusalem into talks]( [US returns to UN rights council after 3-year absence, says it will defend Israel]( By [AFP and Jacob Magid]( [Israel signs deal doubling water supply to parched Jordan]( By [AFP]( Film review [Velvet Underground documentary omits band’s Jewish roots, but is still very cool]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Out on Apple TV+ October 15, ‘The Velvet Underground’ dives into the countercultural phenomenon started by queer Jewish musician Lou Reed and rocketed to fame by Andy Warhol]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [81 years later, Chiune Sugihara’s humanity continues to enable new lives]( [A Jerusalem ceremony highlights the ever-widening impact of the only Japanese citizen honored as Righteous Among the Nations… and the folly of obtuse adherence to bureaucracy]( Israel Travels [Discover an unsung hero’s many imprints on the holy city of Jerusalem]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Rabbi Yaakov Mann was a scholar-turned-contractor who felt Israel should be built up with the work of its residents’ own hands. His influence continues to benefit the capital today]( More Headlines [Terror suspect in murder of British MP David Amess identified]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Smotrich at Knesset: Ben-Gurion should have ‘finished the job,’ thrown out Arabs]( By [Amy Spiro]( [After snub, Bennett says Netanyahu ‘dangerously’ delegitimizing his government]( By [TOI staff]( [Archaeology / Unhappy spirit: Oldest ever drawing of ghost found on ancient Babylonian tablet]( By [TOI staff]( [Poll shows scant support for Edelstein in Likud leadership battle with Netanyahu]( By [TOI staff]( [New US Jewish group aims to normalize not circumcising, wants synagogues to help]( By [Ben Harris]( [Ancient alcohol: World’s largest Byzantine winepresses uncovered in Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Shock of their life / Woman laughs off million dollar electric bill; husband ‘nearly had heart attack’]( By [TOI staff]( [Van Gogh stolen from Rothschilds by Nazis to be auctioned in New York]( By [Karen Matthews]( [Palestinian olive pickers attacked by large group of settlers, PA says]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive]( By [Michelle Krasovitski]( [‘Fiddler’ meets ‘Sopranos’: Gritty Sholem Aleichem novel in English for 1st time]( By [Penny Schwartz]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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