ToI’s weekly deep dive: Temple Mount prayer goes mainstream * Eye on Africa * Birthright’s LGBT Pride * Podcast: Nancy Spielberg & Tal Inbar on ’Closed Circuit’

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Monday, June 6, 2022 Reporter's notebook [There’s no place like Homesh: The West Bank’s most politically charged hilltop]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Jewish sovereignty, religious imperative, and security arguments meet on the road to an illegal outpost]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Visiting Israel, Iranian anti-regime activists see another 2009 moment, seek support]( [With Iranians’ anger at the ayatollahs again erupting into protests, the international community has a chance to atone for its failure 13 years ago – and every interest in doing so]( Religion [Fighting rabbinic ban, Jewish activists push Temple Mount prayer toward mainstream]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [How a group of determined activists has been reinterpreting Jewish law, shifting public discourse and challenging the status quo]( [In milestone, Israeli government to pay salaries of female religious authorities]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Through Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter, a triumphalist march by Orthodox-nationalist men]( [For many, though certainly not all, participants, decades of Jerusalem Day celebrations have morphed into something darker]( [Racist chants and clashes as tens of thousands march in Old City for Jerusalem Day]( By [Aaron Boxerman and Emanuel Fabian]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 30: Smoke still clearing after contentious Jerusalem Day march]( By [TOI staff]( Eye on africa [181 Ethiopian immigrants land in Israel as aliyah from African nation restarts]( By [Amy Spiro]( [After more than a year without immigration flights from Addis Ababa, the first of what are promised to be 3,000 new olim greeted with festive ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport]( [Ethiopian Jews mourn the thousands who died on the journey to Israel]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Reporter's notebook / ‘Israel is back’: Revitalized ties in Africa touted at Paris conference]( By [Lazar Berman]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing June 2: Israel’s new Ethiopian immigrants & historic ties with Africa]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz]( [Ruth is the right model for Israel’s conversion rules]( [Israel’s new plan allows each convert to choose an officiating rabbi and a community to join, just as Ruth’s decision to join Naomi was a personal one]( [Ari Hart]( [Walking with God after Uvalde]( [The Bible warns against a world where hearts are closed and cool, numbing us to the kind of grotesque, chaotic evil that takes the lives of children]( Pride month [Double mitzva? Birthright’s gay participants embrace Jewish, queer identities Â]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Once jokingly dubbed ‘Jewish baby-makers,’ Birthright Israel trips have evolved to ‘respect diversity’ among young Jews, say staff and participants]( [CRM]( Interview [Pope Pius XII was not ‘neutral’ on Holocaust, fumes Pulitzer-winning historian]( By [Matt Lebovic]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Spielberg-produced documentary dissects 2016 Tel Aviv terror attack]( By [TOI staff]( [Nancy Spielberg and filmmaker Tal Inbar discuss ‘Closed Circuit,’ which uses security camera footage to understand how events unfolded at the Sarona Market on that fateful night]( Interview [‘Tehran’ creator channels mom’s Holocaust survival when writing thriller series]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Moshe Zonder, known for his ripped-from-the-headlines TV shows, tells ToI what inspires him, and reveals the wonders of working with Glenn Close in season 2]( [Casting agency / Spy drama meets real-life espionage on the set of TV hit ‘Tehran’]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Interview [Can jihadists truly deradicalize? Jewish author speaks with terrorists to find out]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Tech israel [Wolt launches grocery delivery from new Market store in Tel Aviv]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Finnish delivery giant opens first grocery store in Neve Tzedek neighborhood, as Israel joins 17 other countries where company operates food retail and delivery logistics]( [Israel, UAE ink ‘groundbreaking’ free trade deal, in 1st with Arab state]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 31: UAE & Israel sign free trade agreement; more Knesset chaos]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing June 1: Israeli market expands with UAE deal, NFTs and Wolt groceries]( By [TOI staff]( Obituary [Former film personality Uri Zohar dies at 86, after decades as ultra-Orthodox rabbi]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Interview [The ‘ordinary’ Jewish retirees behind a $160M art heist – and who knows what else]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Alison Otto’s documentary ‘The Thief Collector’ posthumously examines the lives of Jerry and Rita Alter, who were found to have a priceless missing painting. But it gets stranger]( [Going, going, gone: First Israeli NFT art heads to auction block]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Family-owned auction house Tiroche dips toe into metaverse of digital creations]( Interview [Is God circumcised? How people in ancient times viewed the Heavenly Body]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [In new book, Francesca Stavrakopoulou displays God as portrayed by His early worshipers: with genitals, passions, powers – and a penchant for the monstrous]( [Archaeology / Do not open: Odd 1,800-year-old grave marker for Jacob the Convert found in Galilee]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Archaeology / New segment of Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old Low-Level aqueduct revealed]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [On friars and flowers]( By [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [British and Israeli veterans square off in fierce but friendly sports competition]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Games held for second time at Tel Aviv’s Beit Halochem center for wounded veterans; 65 UK participants and their families tour the country as part of the week-long event]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved