ToI’s weekly deep dive: Wacky UK plots to kill Hitler * Ukrainian refugees under Gaza rocket fire * 38-hour road-trip from Dubai * Podcast: Israelis at US summer camps

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, August 21, 2022 [How a Catholic-born Peruvian villager led hundreds to Jewish conversion – and Israel]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [In ‘The Prophet of the Andes,’ author Graciela Mochkofsky documents unlikely tale of Segundo Villanueva, whose revelations and efforts brought the ‘Inca Jews’ to the Promised Land]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Mahmoud Abbas’s lifelong falsification of Jewish history]( [The PA president’s remarks in Berlin reconfirm his abiding rejection of Jewish history – ancient and modern, in Israel and in exile. It’s why he has failed his people and ours]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing August 17: Abbas claims ’50 holocausts’ against Palestinians]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinians aim to gain full UN member state status, but US law stands in their way]( By [Jacob Magid]( [US says concerned by Israel’s raid on Palestinian NGOs, not convinced by prior intel]( By [Jacob Magid]( State of the campaign [Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman]( [Why this campaign will be the toughest yet for Avigdor Liberman]( [His core base of FSU voters is dwindling, he’s left the Netanyahu bloc and partnered with Arab and left-wing parties. It’s hard to see where Yisrael Beytenu can draw fresh support]( Ukraine [For Ukrainian refugees in Israel, Gaza operation rekindles still-smoldering trauma]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Many fleeing the Russian invasion already have difficulty while facing an uncertain future in the Jewish state. And then add falling rockets]( [Interview / Kyiv mayor to ToI: Huge mistake for Israel to stay neutral, ‘we’re defending Europe’]( By [Lazar Berman]( Diplomacy [Israel’s top diplomat in Turkey: ‘We’re not going into a perfect marriage’]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Irit Lillian, who’s served as charge d’affaires throughout Israel-Turkey reconciliation, says ties designed to quietly handle disagreements, including over Hamas office in Istanbul]( [Analysis / With reset, Turkey and Israel look to build durable ties that can reshape the region]( By [Lazar Berman]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Aug. 18: Turkey & Israel mend relations; defensive defense minister]( By [TOI staff]( US politics [Hosted by GOP Jewish group, Dr. Oz makes case for becoming first-ever Muslim senator]( By [Jacob Magid]( Interview [Making inroads: An unlikely 38-hour drive from Dubai to Jerusalem, via Riyadh]( By [Tal Schneider]( [Jewish US businessman Bruce Gurfein is on a three-week round-trip between the UAE and Israel to promote partnerships in food and desert technology. He’s doing it all in his car]( Obituary [Iconic Israeli singer-songwriter Svika Pick dies at 72]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [The classically trained musician collaborated on 1970s hits and later on Eurovision songs, including 1998 winner ‘Diva’; is eulogized as a ‘pillar of Israeli pop’]( [Ami Palant, war hero who stopped Syrian advance during Yom Kippur War, dies at 71]( By [Tobias Siegal]( Top Ops [Ali Deilami]( [Rushdie and me: A Persian tale]( [We studied the death sentence and argued with our teachers: how could it be permissible in Islam for Khomeini to order this killing?]( [Orly Erez Likhovski]( [Israel is doing a poor job of stopping Jewish hate speech]( [When Jews incite against Arabs, the Israeli legal system takes too long to prosecute, which both discriminates and risks adding injury to insult]( [Joshua Hammerman]( [A moonshot for Planet Earth]( [New US legislation that provides massive investment for tackling climate change has launched humankind on a profoundly spiritual rescue mission]( [Habtom Ghebrezghiabher]( [Lapid’s gift to the Eritrean dictator]( [In closing its embassy in Asmara, Israel loses touch with a country that controls a vast portion of the Red Sea coast – and has a population inspired by Zionism]( Times will tell [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]( [CRM]( [A lost comedy cabaret from the Terezin ghetto is reconstructed and finally staged]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Originally banned by the camp’s Jewish leadership after dress rehearsal due to its boldness, Nazi victim Karel Å venk’s ‘The Last Cyclist’ is now getting its turn in the limelight]( Holocaust [A sniper in the woods, a hypnotized insider: UK spooks’ secret plans to kill Hitler]( By [Robert Philpot]( [In his new book ‘Britain’s Plot to Kill Hitler,’ author Eric Lee examines the top-secret Operation Foxley, which envisioned some of the wilder plans to assassinate top Nazis]( [Interview / Lost for decades, 3 minutes of pre-Holocaust life becomes a full-length documentary]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Interview / Graphic memoir paints wild tale of a stranded UK Jew who fought for the US in WWII]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Tech Israel [Ricky Ben-David]( [A correction, not a burst bubble: Israeli tech sector grapples with market realities]( [A global economic slowdown is hitting companies at home and abroad; but there is cause for optimism, experts say]( [Three Israeli universities rise in prestigious global rankings]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [Israeli space tech startup Helios partners with Eta Space to make oxygen on Moon]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( Real Estate [Luxury living: Design guru plans dream homes for Orthodox clientele in Jerusalem]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [Gittie Perl has become the go-to designer for observant Jewish households with means that are looking to call the capital home]( [Plan shelved to turn historic Arab village at Jerusalem entrance into luxury housing]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Inflation and housing prices continue to climb, breaking new records]( By [Danielle Nagler]( Sports [ToI tale about soccer hero saving German Jew will be studied by Premier League youth]( By [Sue Surkes]( [UK’s Holocaust Education Trust will integrate into its program Football Remembers the Holocaust the story of Tottenham player Bert Sproston saving Ralph Freeman from the Nazis]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Aug. 16: Tweet leads to UN dismissal; UK soccer adopts survivor story]( By [TOI staff]( [Punching up / ‘Winning against prejudices’: Bid to tackle homophobia in sports]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [No missed steak here / Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan with new sponsor]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Israel Travels [In unassuming Rishon Lezion, a treasure trove of Israeli history comes alive]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [With museums boasting lifelike reproductions of life in the olden days and a seemingly endless number of historically significant sites, one of Israel’s oldest towns is a must-see]( [Archaeology / Hera help us! Rare knucklebone dice with names of gods show gaming in ancient Israel]( By [TOI staff]( From the blogs [45 years on, Elvis Presley’s Jewish mystique lingers]( By [Larry Luxner]( [In Tennessee, I happily followed the King’s (Jewish) story: from his mother’s headstone and his philanthropy to the suit he wore to perform in New York]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved