ToI’s weekly deep dive: Tel Hai’s hidden US history * President Herzog on Israel at 74 * Excavating ’Jewish Hitler’ saga * Podcast: Chat with filmmaker Mayim Bialik

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, May 8, 2022 Memorial Day [The hidden American history of one of Zionism’s foundational battles: Tel Hai]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Two of those killed in the 1920 clash were veterans of the American 39th Jewish Battalion, Jacob Tucker and William Scharff, but for years their roles, and even names, were unknown]( Interview [Tal Schneider and David Horovitz]( [Herzog to ToI on Israel at 74: Celebrate, unify, seize moment for regional dialogue]( [President hails ‘amazing’ achievements of ‘zestful’ Israelis, urges global Jewish unity while predicting further antisemitism surge, sees no prospect of permanent Palestinian deal]( [Op-ed / Israel, heed the president’s plea for unity. Our future depends upon it]( By [David Horovitz]( ToI Podcast [Daily Briefing May 5: On Independence Day, digging up the roots of Israeli society]( By [TOI staff]( [Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur takes time out from his family BBQ to elucidate what it was like for Jews the days before and after May 5, 1948]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 4: Memorial Day in Israel; Russia doubles down on antisemitism]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 3: President on his ‘soft power’; Elite and the chocolate factory]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 2: Opposition flexes at the Knesset]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Lavrov’s ‘Jewish Hitler’ comments are latest manifestation of an old, dangerous myth]( [Rumors about Nazi leader’s ancestry go back to the 1920s, but are dismissed by Holocaust scholars; plainly, the idea remains useful for some, including Putin]( [Putin apologizes for Russian FM’s ‘Jewish Hitler’ remarks, Bennett’s office says]( By [TOI staff]( [Exclusive / Top Zelensky aide: Lavrov shows Russia a threat to Jews, Israel can’t stay on fence]( By [Lazar Berman]( Interview [She helped get hundreds to safety in Ukraine; now she lights a torch in Jerusalem]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Elizaveta Sherstuk was chosen to represent the Diaspora at Israel’s main Independence Day ceremony. ‘This is the acknowledgment of the importance of what we do’]( Top Ops [Dana Levinson Steiner]( [Millennial Jews are choosing between Israel and social acceptance]( [An alarming number of young, non-religious Jews say they’ve had to hide their identity because of the anti-Israel climate]( [Jacob Herber]( [Deplorable politicians, AIPAC and safeguarding Israel’s precarious security]( [In today’s broken Washington, the crucial efforts to strengthen US-Israel ties must include working with Republican members who are anathema to me]( [Talya Woolf]( [74 reasons to love Israel]( [From Yom Kippur bike-riding to sea turtles, the meditative power of the Negev and good-looking men, Krembos, hummus, wine, and how simply everyone helps everyone else]( [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [Women’s independence: We’re not there yet]( [My daughter’s experience of Orthodox Judaism is richer than mine could have been, but even now, women’s participation and representation have a long way to go]( [CRM]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Mayim Bialik on her debut film, being a Jew in Hollywood & missing Israel]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [With the release of ‘As They Made Us,’ Bialik she wrote and directed, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ alumna has just added the credit ‘filmmaker’ to her already unbelievable resume]( Health [The demise of fireworks: How PTSD awareness changed Israel’s Independence Day]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Widely considered a ‘must’ for Israel’s birthday until now, fireworks canceled this year in many cities and towns out of respect for military veterans suffering from post-trauma]( [Israeli researchers warn of new international COVID wave, driven by Delta comeback]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israel opens world’s most protected blood bank, rocket-proof and underground]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Tech Israel [‘Bio’ food, precision oncology to take center stage at biomed summit in Tel Aviv]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Three-day annual conference, marking 20th year, brings together thousands of participants for newest innovations in medical and heath tech]( [Israeli balloon tipped as world’s 1st affordable, scalable method for carbon capture]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Former Israeli NBA player Omri Casspi steps onto high-tech court as VC investor]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Interview / Spanish telecom giant Telefonica scouts Israeli startups for disruptive tech]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Espionage tangos with terror in Amazon series about Argentina’s unresolved bombings]( By [Igal Avidan]( [Daniel Burman’s ‘Yosi, the Regretful Spy’ is the true story of a cop who went undercover as a Jew for decades, and how he may have inadvertently aided in Jewish community attacks]( [The appetizing history of Zabar’s, a New York City culinary icon]( By [Amy Spiro]( Diplomacy on canvas [Artist offers small glimpses of Israeli life in dreamy oil paintings]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Zavi Apfelbaum’s impressionistic works capture places and people in Israel, now exhibited in Turin, Italy]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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