Berlin probes Abbas for ’50 holocausts’ incitement * Lapid urges West to walk away from Iran nuke talks * When Ukrainian refugees face Gaza rockets * MK Jonathan Pollard?

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, August 19, 2022 [Berlin police investigate Abbas for incitement to hatred over ’50 holocausts’ remark]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Police launch preliminary probe since downplaying the Holocaust is a criminal offense in Germany, but Abbas would be immune from prosecution]( [Likud assails Lapid for seeking peace deal with ‘Holocaust denier’ Abbas]( By [TOI staff]( [World must ‘walk away’ from Iran nuclear talks, Lapid tells Western leaders]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Senior Israeli official says continuing to negotiate shows weakness after Tehran gave noncommittal response to ‘take it or leave it’ offer]( [Iranian hardliners say US set to make concessions for nuclear deal — report]( By [TOI staff]( [With nuclear deal tantalizingly close, Iran murder plots pose new hurdles for US]( By [Matthew Lee]( [For Ukrainian refugees in Israel, Gaza operation rekindles still-smoldering trauma]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Many fleeing the Russian invasion already have difficulty accessing child care and medicine while facing an uncertain future in the Jewish state. And then add falling rockets]( [Ben Gvir said considering offering ex-spy Pollard a place on his Knesset slate]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Far-right MK meeting military, religious figures and influential women in bid to build a new political roster after saying he will run separately in November elections]( [Leaked Lapid campaign document lists photo ops neglected by Netanyahu]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [Israel to allow 1,500 more Palestinian workers to enter from Gaza on Sunday]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Military liaison to Palestinians stresses, however, that expansion of permit quota — to an eventual 20,000 — contingent on ‘security stability’]( [US says concerned by Israel’s raid on Palestinian NGOs, not convinced by prior intel]( By [Jacob Magid]( [State Department says Israel pledged to provide new information justifying office closures, says ‘high bar’ needed to act against civil society]( [UN says Israeli raids on Palestinian NGOs ‘cannot be taken lightly’]( By [Luke Tress]( [Palestinians say man killed by IDF gunfire during West Bank raid]( By [TOI staff and AFP]( Interview [Graphic memoir paints wild tale of a stranded UK Jew who fought for the US in WWII]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In ‘The English GI,’ Jonathan Sandler brings to life an unlikely series of events starting with a class trip to America that led to his grandfather fighting Nazis in a US uniform]( [Top doctors denounce government decision to shut Israel’s American medical schools]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Head of Education Ministry’s own expert committee opposed move meant to alleviate doctor shortage; former Health Ministry chief calls closures ‘unnecessary and wretched’]( [Podcast: ‘Just like in the movies,’ say Israeli counselors of US sleepaway camp]( By [TOI staff]( [Two shlichim — emissaries — working at Camp Ramah talk about their two months in this very Jewish American experience]( Top Ops [Naomi Graetz]( [These are my unfavorite things]( [The first prevailing challenge is in the transitions, for I must pretend to love everything new, when really I want it all returned to how it was before]( [Cori Shalit]( [A new set of eyes and Herzl’s prophecy fulfilled]( [Israel is the intense altercation of Jewish history with the rest of the world, and the magic of its reality may explain why it is home to me like nowhere else]( [Herzog speaks to Erdogan after restoration of ties, hopes for ‘future progress’]( By [TOI staff]( [Talking after countries agreed to return ambassadors, Turkish president thanks Israeli counterpart for his ‘significant efforts’ in promoting bilateral relations]( [Erdogan warns of ‘another Chernobyl’ after talks with Zelensky, Guterres in Ukraine]( By [Dmytro Gorshkov and Thibault MARCHAND]( [GOP candidate who called for AG Garland to be ‘executed’ says remark was ‘facetious’]( By [AP]( [Carl Paladino later clarifies that he wants Garland removed from office, accusing him of authorizing raid on Trump home for publicity]( [Antisemitic threats persist following the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago]( By [MADELINE FIXLER]( [Biden to host domestic unity summit against hate-fueled violence]( By [Zeke Miller]( [Russian court postpones verdict in Jewish Agency case by 30 days]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [Defense asks for additional time to gather evidence, indicating that the Israel-immigration organization hasn’t violated any laws]( [Israel in final push for deal with Russia as Jewish Agency trial opens]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [CRM]( [Amid outcry, Texas school says Anne Frank adaptation will be back on shelves soon]( By [Andrew Lapin]( [Superintendent says version of Holocaust diary temporarily removed as district implements new policy for reviewing challenged books]( [For Arab authors, stabbing of Rushdie rekindles old fears]( By [AFP]( [The publication of ‘The Satanic Verses’ in 1988 sparked mass protests in India and Pakistan, partly for depicting Prophet Mohammed in casual and familiar language]( [Rushdie’s stabber Hadi Matar denied bail; judge tells lawyers not to speak to press]( By [CAROLYN THOMPSON]( Comedian-in-residence [Adam Sandler spends 6 weeks at Toronto shul shooting bat mitzvah film]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Sandler, Idina Menzel and SNL actor Sarah Sherman get friendly with the rabbis, Beth Tzedec’s Steven Wernick and Robyn Fryer Bodzin]( [Jesse Eisenberg’s next film tracks 2 cousins exploring grandmother’s Holocaust story]( By [CALEB GUEDES-REED]( [CRM]( Interview [Jacob Rivkin]( [Jerusalem Film Fest prizewinner seeks ‘cure’ for Russian-Israeli family’s divide]( [In debut documentary, Artyom Dubitski delves into a family mystery leading to an emotional reunion in Russia, as Ukraine war strains ties]( Reporter's notebook [BlenderBot, Meta’s AI chatbot, really, really wants you to check out its synagogue]( By [PHILISSA CRAMER]( More Headlines [Scientists alter kidney blood type, potentially increasing transplant availability]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Top Israeli modeling agent accused of sexual abuse arrested in Amsterdam]( By [TOI staff]( [Iran art museum calls in pest control after bugs seen crawling on world-famous work]( By [AP]( [‘Nation crying with you,’ Lapid tells parents of soldier slain by friendly fire]( By [TOI staff]( [80-year-old man suspected of abusing partner’s granddaughter, 10]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [10-year-old boy among 4 injured in separate shootings in northern Israel]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Police arrest man for threatening, assaulting Beilinson Hospital staff]( By [TOI staff]( [Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg takes deal, pleads guilty to tax evasion]( By [Michael R. Sisak]( [AG rejects Gantz’s bid to appoint new Army Radio head before elections]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Petah Tikva mayor released to house arrest amid bribery suspicions]( 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? [Subscribe here]( [Unsubscribe]( from this List © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved