ToI’s weekly deep dive: Reversing diabetes * IAF to start training for Iran hit * Germany takes on online fraudsters * Tree of Life rabbi int’w * Israel’s climate warning

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, October 31, 2021 [Diabetes reversed in mice for 4 months, after one-time implant from Israeli lab]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Blood glucose levels drop by an average of 26% after tissue grown at the Technion is transplanted; researchers hope to develop method for humans]( [Israel to recognize fibromyalgia, a chronic muscle pain illness, as a disability]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [‘Feels like dying’: Israel leads world by recognizing sorrow of chronic pain]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [IAF to start training for strike on Iran nuke program in coming months]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Some parts of attack plans for Tehran’s nuclear sites will be viable shortly, others could take over a year, ToI learns; raids on Iranian proxies in Syria getting more difficult]( [IDF fighter jets escort American bomber through region, in tacit threat to Iran]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [German photographer spills the beans: Jordan flew in IDF aerial drill]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [In landmark visit, UAE air chief in Israel to observe ‘Blue Flag’ exercise]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Top Ops [Galit Palzur]( [Prime Minister Bennett, Israel’s climate policy can be your legacy]( [With more and more countries setting net-zero emission targets for 2050, Israel can no longer claim we’re too small to make an impact]( [Shai Franklin]( [Are you racist, or just anti-anti-racist?]( [Jews who have jumped on the anti-Critical-Race-Theory bandwagon are not only paving the way for racism – they are also opening the door to Holocaust denial]( ToI investigates [Simona Weinglass]( [In major shift, Germany begins targeting platforms driving Israel’s online fraud]( [A rash of raids in 6 countries points to a new strategy: Going after the trading programs that allegedly allow scamsters to keep pushing crypto and other investment cons]( [ToI investigates / October surprise: Who’s who in the unprecedented wave of investment scam raids]( By [Simona Weinglass]( Interview [Tree of Life rabbi: ‘We can’t let evil win, and it won’t go away on its own’]( By [Danielle Ziri]( [3 years after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh that claimed 11 lives, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers speaks about grieving, life after the tragedy and serving as an example to the world]( [Biden vows to combat antisemitism in honor of synagogue shooting victims]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Neo-Nazis hang ‘Vax the Jews’ banner near Texas JCC, synagogues]( By [Shira Hanau]( [Ahead of world climate meet, watchdog says Israel over-polluting, underpreparing]( By [Sue Surkes]( [In report described as ‘warning light,’ ombudsman slams lack of government focus, failure to budget and implement decisions, rising emissions and too-modest targets]( [Israel joins growing number of countries pledging to be carbon neutral by 2050]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Activists fight Netanya hotel plan they say will harm nature reserves]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Award-winning Israeli photographer urges wildlife protection through his lens]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Tel Aviv-based Roie Galitz, who is drawn to frozen landscapes, warns that the disappearance of polar bears is the world’s ‘canary in the coalmine’]( [Podcast: Capturing nature, one photo at a time]( By [TOI staff]( [Learning from May war, IDF simulates Hezbollah battle alongside domestic strife]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Military, Defense Ministry lead week-long national exercise, testing response to massive barrages of rockets, precision missiles, multiple chemical attacks]( [5 pro-Iran fighters said killed in alleged Israeli strike near Damascus]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Analysis / Putin will maintain ties with Israel, as well as its enemies]( By [Lazar Berman]( inside story [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Yearlong program helps US colleges find and fix overlooked campus antisemitism]( [Hillel’s Campus Climate Initiative assesses Jewish life at participating schools; whether kosher food is available, Jewish holidays accommodated, and if bigotry is tolerated]( [US study: 1/3 of Jewish college students experienced antisemitism last year]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Antisemitism fears made 40% of US Jews change their behavior last year – survey]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( [Coalition holds bonding event to squelch infighting, as budget test looms]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett urges MKs to stop airing dirty laundry and solve differences behind closed doors; Shaked reported to apologize for trash talk aimed at Lapid and Gantz]( [Lapid dismisses ‘background noise’ after PM quoted predicting coalition collapse]( By [TOI staff]( [In leaked recording, Shaked calls Lapid ‘shallow,’ doesn’t commit to PM rotation]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Jacob Magid]( [‘Playing with fire’: By building deep in the West Bank, Israel risks DC’s wrath]( [Latest settlement approvals have US officials doubting Gantz’s claim that he can limit scope of construction, and jeopardize ‘spirit of goodwill’ Biden hoped to build with Bennett]( [Biden administration issues harshest critique yet on Israeli settlement building]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Explainer / Which 6 Palestinian rights organizations has Israel declared as terror groups?]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Exclusive / Biden administration won’t prevent settlement expansion, says source close to PM]( By [Shalom Yerushalmi and TOI staff]( [Diaries show literary giant Stefan Zweig’s inner turmoil as Nazis stormed Europe]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Unearthed journals reveal how the Jewish novelist who died by suicide in 1942 foresaw ‘dangerous, embattled times’ in the 1930s, his mental health declining with Hitler’s advance]( Interview [Award-winning Israeli doc on camera-hungry Nazi Albert Speer opens in NYC and LA]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In ‘Speer Goes to Hollywood,’ Vanessa Lapa uses uncovered audio and never-before-seen archival images to show how Hitler’s confidant tried to make a movie to whitewash his past]( Exhibition [How Vincent van Gogh helped Jews break into the world of art — and vice versa]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [High-tech ‘Immersive Van Gogh’ exhibitions are touring the globe 120 years after a Jewish art collector helped launch the Dutch painter to stardom]( Interview [Amy Spiro]( [The new head of Israel’s Reform movement is cautiously optimistic]( [Anna Kislanski, who took the helm of the organization after Rabbi Gilad Kariv was elected to the Knesset, believes the new government could revive the Western Wall compromise deal]( [Plan for major kashrut reform advances through Knesset committee]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Trials for Israeli COVID-19 vaccine pill set to kick off in South Africa]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Oral inoculation intended to be effective after just one dose, and could also provide easy-to-distribute solution to growing need for boosters, inventors say]( [With tourists set to return November 1, are Israel’s COVID gains at risk?]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [With 1.75 million unvaxxed or not boosted, Israel risks dropping ball – expert]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [CRM]( [Intel officially launches ‘most significant’ chip lineup sired in Israel]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Semiconductor giant’s new offerings include ‘world’s best gaming processor’; over 1,000 Israeli engineers worked on ‘largest-ever’ chip hardware development project]( [Israel announces hard-fought deal with EU on joining flagship R&D program]( By [Lazar Berman]( [AT&T opens new R&D center in Tel Aviv, to focus on cloud solutions]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( More Headlines [President attends Kafr Qasim memorial, apologizes for 1956 massacre]( By [TOI staff]( [Suspected Iranian hackers publish user information from Israeli LGBT site]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Iran official blames Israel, US for cyberattack that crippled gas stations]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Maghar becomes Israel’s first Druze city]( By [Stuart Winer]( [Season of the Jewitch: The occultists reviving Jewish witchcraft and folklore]( By [Rachel Román]( [Analysis / Sudan coup puts Israel ties on backburner, but unlikely to derail normalization]( By [Lazar Berman]( [The last, last Jew? Simentov relative flees Afghanistan after Taliban takeover]( By [Ilan Ben Zion and LLAZAR SEMINI]( [Greece’s top court nixes ritual slaughter permit, calls for alternative solution]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [Joan Rivers series that sparked ‘Jewface’ debate scrapped by Showtime]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Detailed images of sensitive Israeli sites, including nuclear plant, now online]( By [TOI staff]( [Former Obama adviser: Straightforward Bennett a ‘healthy break’ from Netanyahu]( By [TOI staff]( [Fatal flaw / Facebook’s new Meta handle means ‘dead’ in Hebrew]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved