Israel seeks to calm Russia crisis * Fallen soldier’s US family deepens its Israel ties * Proto-sperm potential fertility breakthrough * Kushner reveals cancer treatment

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Presented by [Meir Panim]( [Israel moves to reduce Russia tensions: ‘The less we talk about it the better’]( By [Tobias Siegal and Judah Ari Gross]( [‘Some things are better left unsaid,’ President Herzog says, noting that he’s cooperating with Lapid to solve the issue; Russia sending Jerusalem mixed messages]( [Ex-Jewish Agency head, analyst back firm stance on Russia: ‘Not a time for weakness’]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Amid diplomatic spat with Russia, Israel to expand assistance to Ukraine]( By [TOI staff]( Inside story [8 years later, fallen soldier’s family returns to Israel, now with deep connections]( By [Jacob Rivkin]( [The parents of US-born lone soldier Max Steinberg, killed in Gaza in 2014, didn’t know anyone in the country at his funeral; now they are embracing the nation that showed its love]( [Israeli lab grows proto-sperm from stem cells, in potential fertility breakthrough]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Scientists’ work on sperm-less mice could help treat human problems in the future]( from Meir Panim [Helping Israeli women enter the workforce, one application at a time]( [A famous Chinese proverb says: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”]( Live updates [LIVE: As tensions escalate, Lapid says Israel always open to dialogue with Russia]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Amid ongoing dispute over Jewish Agency activities in Russia, prime minister says Moscow-Jerusalem ties are based on ‘heritage, continuous connection and mutual interests’]( [Kushner reveals he had cancer treatment while in White House, but kept it quiet]( By [TOI staff]( [In excerpts from upcoming memoir provided to New York Times, Trump’s son-in-law says he kept news of thyroid surgery from the president, who found out anyway and was supportive]( [Trump returning to Washington for first time to deliver policy speech]( By [Jill Colvin]( [‘Hotter than an oven’: Rhode Island bar apologizes for online joke about Anne Frank]( By [TOI staff]( [Atlantic Sports and Bar says employee behind heatwave post didn’t know who Holocaust victim was and quickly deleted meme upon realizing]( [In condolence phone call, PA chief says gunmen slain in fight with IDF are ‘martyrs’]( By [TOI staff]( [Mahmoud Abbas speaks with fathers of men killed in Nablus clash, says they ‘will reach heaven… We must make sacrifices for the homeland’]( [IDF demolishes West Bank homes of Palestinians who gunned down Ariel guard in April]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [IDF: Palestinian man detained with loaded homemade gun in Gush Etzion]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [19-year-old Palestinian arrested after stealing car, ramming into police vehicle]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Laura Kam]( [Abortion rights clash bodes ill for US Jews and Israel ties]( [With most Jews squarely on one side of a battle that splits America, fueling rising antisemitism, Israel had better be paying close attention]( [Lawrence Goodman]( [Is intermarriage good for the Jews?]( [Demography is not destiny: Children of intermarriage are rethinking what it means to be Jewish in powerful and creative ways]( Interview [Relics of a USSR both maddening and sweet emerge in blockbuster Jewish memoir]( By [Julie Masis]( [Yelena Lembersky’s ‘Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour’ is a surprisingly even-handed tale of escape from the Iron Curtain with her grandfather’s famous Babyn Yar massacre paintings]( [Government bans gender-separation barriers at Western Wall egalitarian plaza]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( [After series of disturbances, Prime Minister’s Office tells director of site to block anyone seeking to bring a ‘mehitza’ into prayer space]( [Nasrallah: No Israeli target, on land or sea, is beyond range of Hezbollah missiles]( By [TOI staff]( [Terror chief issues new threats against backdrop of ongoing maritime, gas field disputes, claims Iran not asking for anything in exchange for its support of Hezbollah]( [Gantz declares Israel can ‘seriously harm and delay’ Iranian nuclear program]( By [TOI staff]( [Jerusalem panel advances new Jewish neighborhood that would bisect Palestinian areas]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( [District Planning and Building Committee approves project in Lower Aqueduct that breaks up contiguity between Sur Baher and Beit Safafa, complicating prospects for 2-state solution]( [US-Israel camaraderie; not a bird, not a plane, but an eVTOL]( [listen to the podcast]( [Axed senior cop claims judgment of top brass was clouded by pursuit of Netanyahu]( By [TOI staff]( [Moshe Saada, ex-police internal investigations unit No.2, says former AG, top prosecutor knew then-top cop Alsheich tampered with probe to incriminate a Bedouin man killed by cops]( [Likud activist says state prosecutors should be ‘executed,’ draws Likud condemnation]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Gantz urges Eisenkot, his successor as IDF chief, to join his party: ‘We’re waiting’]( By [TOI staff]( [Federal probe opened into alleged antisemitism at University of Southern California]( By [Luke Tress]( [US Department of Education to investigate college after Jewish student government leader forced out of position due to harassment]( [Explainer / Are algorithms fueling antisemitism on social media?]( By [Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher]( [Memorial at Buchenwald concentration camp site vandalized twice in a week]( By [AFP]( [CRM]( [Government inks plan to clean part of Jordan River, make it fit for swimming again]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Greenlit by Water Authority last year, program will end pollution, channel more freshwater into stretch of iconic river south of Sea of Galilee]( [Yahoo to expand Israel-based R&D centers under new local leadership]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Company runs sites in Tel Aviv and Haifa with about 150 programmers, engineers and researchers]( [Israeli AI robotic companion for elderly launches in US market]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [CRM]( [Uri Orlev, acclaimed author of children’s Holocaust books, dies at 91]( By [TOI staff]( [Polish native wrote dozens of books capturing his experiences as a youth in the Shoah, and later during the early years of Israel; Lapid eulogizes ‘one of the greatest writers’]( More Headlines [Teachers reject Treasury proposal to end strikes: ‘Worse’ than existing conditions]( By [Tobias Siegal and TOI staff]( [Poll indicates Netanyahu-led bloc inching toward majority with 60 seats]( By [TOI staff]( [Israelis gear up for extreme temperatures as heatwave hits]( By [TOI staff]( [Government agrees to limit rise in bread prices, end price controls by April 2023]( By [TOI staff]( [Extremists riot against expansion of Jerusalem light rail into Haredi neighborhoods]( By [TOI staff]( [Port infrastructure said hit as Russia aims new airstrikes at Black Sea coast]( By [susie blann]( [Hundreds of Palestinian lawyers hold rare protest against Abbas’s ‘rule by decree’]( By [AFP]( [Car covered with Nazi symbols raises alarm in China, leads to arrest of local]( By [Jordyn Haime]( [Russia detains opposition figure with Israeli citizenship after his return to Moscow]( By [AP]( [Stone pillar in southern India may shed new light on region’s oldest synagogue]( By [Jordyn Haime]( [Despite safety concerns, ministries back deporting Congolese migrants — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Moshe Hogeg, suspected of massive fraud, rearrested for not paying bail]( By [TOI staff]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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