ToI’s weekly deep dive: Horovitz op-ed – It’s all about ’turpitude’ * An Iran nuke deal cometh? * New on Israeli TV * Podcast: Bereaved mothers on mourning and renewal

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, January 16, 2022 ToI investigates [A deadly trash trade is poisoning Palestinians in the West Bank]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [Burning Israeli scrap for valuable raw metals is a lethal livelihood for thousands of Palestinians, sending cancer rates skyrocketing in villages near Hebron]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [It’s all about ‘turpitude’: Making sense of the Netanyahu plea bargain reports]( [The former PM wants to stay out of jail. The departing AG wants to secure a conviction. The sides can agree on all that. But there’s one crucial issue that’s dividing them]( [Op-ed / When a 4-year-old is shot dead in a playground]( By [David Horovitz]( [Analysis / Why tree planting in the Negev sparked protests, riots and a coalition crisis]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( Interview [Israel’s new man in NY: Bring on the broad — but legitimate — criticism of Israel]( By [Jacob Magid]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Expectations grow for a deal to emerge from Iran nuclear talks]( [After months of pessimism, both sides are speaking of progress and showing signs of flexibility, but time is short]( [Shin Bet arrests 5 Jewish Israelis suspected of spying for Iran]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Analysis / Biden administration not waiting for nuclear talk denouement to begin damage control]( By [Jacob Magid]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Jan. 13 – Who are the Israelis spying for Iran?]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Hamas claims of Israeli killer dolphins are easy to mock, but not so farfetched]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( COVID-19 [WHO spurns boosters. That’s not the blow it may seem to be for jab-friendly Israel]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Strategy based on repeated boosters ‘unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable’ warns global body. But data shows it is working for people in Israel, which led on 3rd and 4th shots]( [1st kids’ Omicron ward opens with classes, clowns, and doctors bracing for ‘war’]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Interview / View from a COVID ward: With Omicron, even the sickest patients are breathing easier]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [COVID vaccine for Israeli babies, toddlers expected by April, says health official]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Tech Israel [Israel’s Trigo challenges Amazon on its own turf, with US debut of shop-and-go tech]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Computer vision startup to pilot frictionless shopping tech with Wakefern, largest retailer-owned grocery co-op in America]( [8 tiny satellites built by Israeli students launched into space]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Israeli consumer goods prices rose by 2.8% in 2021 — highest increase in 13 years]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Bereaved mothers portray mourning and renewal in Koby Mandell play]( By [TOI staff]( [A conversation with writer and mother Sherri Mandell, along with director Yael Valier and actress Rebecca Sykes, about their production of ‘The Blessing of a Broken Heart’]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Jan. 11 – You calling me crazy? Two former PMs face off in court]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Jan. 12 – Negev tree crisis puts coalition out on a limb]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Elazar Stern]( [They are not ‘others’ – they are a part of us]( [Israel thankfully accepted my request to apply the status of Extended Jewish Population for immigrants who identify as Jews, though their mothers are not Jewish]( [Ori Golan]( [When I was 7, Aliza was my savior. I just learned who she really was.]( [I was about to switch off the clip after watching the horrific story of a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland, but decided to read the credits]( [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [What to eat during Armageddon]( [Omicron has made it impossible to plan and impractical not to worry. But my life necessitates both preparation and heavy denial, so how am I to proceed?]( [Yitzhak Santis]( [When fathers weep]( [A Bedouin child’s violent death. His family’s extra bitter coffee of mourning. And my effort to share the pain in an embrace that said what I couldn’t in words]( Interview [How Nazi Germany’s ‘most diabolical’ SS officer evaded postwar justice]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [In ‘The Hidden Nazi,’ author Dean Reuter asks whether SS general Hans Kammler, who oversaw the construction of death camps, exchanged V-2 rocket secrets for freedom]( Interview [Everyone can kvetch and kvell at the hybrid in-person/online NY Jewish Film Festival]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Sabra screens [Repositioned news channel 14 aims for mainstream while keeping pro-Netanyahu script]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [The former Channel 20 is trying to make itself into a true conservative alternative to news channels 12 and 13, but critics say doing so will mean breaking with the former PM]( [Norwegian bingin' / Netflix series ‘The Girl From Oslo’ brings drama, twists and turns]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Sign up / ‘Fauda’ creators sell production company to former Disney executives]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [To catch a role / Gal Gadot to step into Grace Kelly’s shoes in Hitchcock remake]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [An actor and a rabbi teamed up to make a Jewish podcast that’s not just for Jews]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [In the new weekly ‘Chutzpod,’ Sixth and I’s Rabbi Shira Stutman and ‘West Wing’ star Joshua Malina make light work of life’s heavy questions for Members of the Tribe – and friends]( Israel Travels [Ancient and not-so-ancient history meet in the blossoming Neve Ilan Forest]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved