Lapid: Deal won’t stop nuclear Iran, but Israel will * DNA solves survivor’s 80-year ID mystery * Reality TV meets immigration * Hitler wine corked * ’Crazy Eddie’ booked

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Live updates [LIVE: Lapid says deal won’t prevent nuclear Iran, gives Tehran $100b a year to fund terror]( By [TOI staff]( [Suggesting emerging agreement breaches Biden’s own red lines, PM calls it a ‘bad deal,’ stresses Israel not bound by it and ‘will act to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state’]( [Gantz heads to US, vowing Israel will do ‘everything it can’ to sway Iran deal]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Defense minister to meet CENTCOM chief, US national security adviser before flying to Japan; ex-PM Bennett issues last-minute appeal to Biden not to sign new nuclear agreement]( [Analysis / Creeping toward nuke deal, US and Iran face gauntlet of critics, sticking points]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Report: Israeli F-35s penetrated Iranian airspace repeatedly during war drills]( By [Ash Obel]( [London-based Saudi news outlet says drones and mid-air refueling aircraft took part in exercises, managed to avoid Russian and Iranian sensors]( [US airstrikes target Revolutionary Guard-backed militias in eastern Syria]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [Iran denies links to groups hit in US Syria strikes; 10 reported killed]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [UK man who survived concentration camp as baby finally learns his family’s identity]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Jewish genealogist duo solves 80-year mystery, builds a family tree and locates living relatives after reading a ToI article about octogenarian Jackie Young’s search for his roots]( [Speed round of political inside baseball; managing monkeypox]( [listen to the podcast]( Top Ops [Danny Danon]( [The new Iran nuclear deal ensures a nuclear Iran – and soon]( [The deal is more dangerous for Israel and its neighbors than for the P5+1 – which is reason enough for a collaborative regional defense network against the threat]( [Joel Rubin]( [Israelis should support American diplomacy on Iran]( [The world leaders know that Iran is trouble in many arenas beyond nuclear weapons – and without the deal, it would be that much more dangerous in all of them]( [Abigail Leibowitz]( [When is a popsicle a sign of oppression?]( [Spoiler: When it’s a sign of camaraderie between settlers and the Israeli army, who together managed to turn a thriving, bustling Hebron into a ghost town]( [Alon Tal]( [Standing with Israel’s medical residents]( [The government must put the already approved labor reforms into practice – everyone knows doctors can’t provide the standard of care on 20 hours without sleep!]( [IDF suspends soldiers filmed beating Palestinian detainees in West Bank]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Combat troops from religious Netzah Yehuda battalion seen repeatedly kicking two men; military chief Aviv Kohavi condemns ‘repugnant’ assault]( [Jewish extremists accused of slashing tires, graffitiing in Palestinian town]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Ben Gvir reaches out to Smotrich amid renewed push to unite the far-right]( By [Ash Obel]( [‘Bezalel, I love you’: Cajoled by Netanyahu, Otzma Yehudit leader softens tone in bid for merger deal a day after Religious Zionism primaries]( [Religious Zionism primary keeps sitting MKs at top of Knesset slate]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [‘Can’t take the risk’: Netanyahu issues public call for union of far-right parties]( By [Ash Obel]( [Galon wins Meretz leadership race, returning to head left-wing party after 3 years]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Stepping out of retirement to run, Zehava Galon easily defeats Yair Golan, while outgoing party chief Nitzan Horowitz slips to unrealistic spot on Knesset list]( [Central Elections Committee bans Likud parody of Yesh Atid campaign ad]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Speed round of political inside baseball; managing monkeypox]( By [TOI staff]( [Gaza child dies in blast caused by weapons unsafely stored at terrorist’s home: IDF]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Hamas-run interior ministry says cause of deadly explosion in Khan Younis still being investigated]( [IDF arrests 14 Palestinian suspects, seizes guns in overnight West Bank raids]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Israeli forces foil effort to smuggle in firearms from Jordan, near Dead Sea]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [In Beirut, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad heads discuss ‘next stage’ of anti-Israel action]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Nasrallah and Nakhaleh review latest Gaza-Israel conflict and ‘the expected roles of the various parties in the axis of resistance’ going forward]( [Lavrov condemns ‘dangerous’ Israeli strikes in Syria, as relations with Russia sour]( By [Ash Obel]( [Report: Russia to use Iran to bypass sanctions and sell oil if nuclear deal clinched]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( [Israeli immigration policy takes center stage on reality TV singing contest]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Contestant on ‘Rising Star’ highlights plight of his friend, born in Israel to Filipino parents and facing deportation, and reignites longtime debate]( Interview [Amir Bar Shalom]( [Begging royal mercy: How Israel recovered from the botched Mashaal hit, 25 years ago]( [Efraim Halevy, who handled the crisis with Jordan after the failed Mossad attempt to kill Hamas leader, recalls tense negotiations with King Hussein, with agents’ lives on the line]( [Jerry Nadler, Daniel Goldman win New York primary battles against incumbents]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [The ‘dean’ of the Jewish Caucus and the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune will face off with Republican candidates in November]( [Jewish hopeful Fried loses bid to challenge DeSantis for Florida governorship]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [US Jewish lawmaker targeted by antisemitic posts on far-right platform Gab]( By [David Rullo]( [Pennsylvania’s Dan Frankel, whose district covers Tree of Life synagogue attacked by Gab user, subjected to online abuse after criticizing opponent’s links to social media site]( [Texas district that banned Anne Frank adaptation backtracks amid outcry]( By [Andrew Lapin]( Interview [New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar]( By [Stephen Silver]( [In ‘Retail Gangster,’ journalist Gary Weiss opens up one of the 20th century’s most colorful fraud stories, showing that no matter how crazy the purveyor, you get what you pay for]( [CRM]( [In his new book, Kushner says he once broke up with Ivanka because she wasn’t Jewish]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [Memoir recalls how Murdochs, Bono and Billy Joel helped rekindle romance between couple, and that Trump pressed Jared on why his daughter had to be the one to convert]( [National Archives letter reveals scope of classified documents retained by Trump]( By [TOI staff]( [Italian company that produces Hitler wines says it will put a cork in it next year]( By [Orge Castellano]( [Heir to Vini Lunardelli winery admits he is fed up with all the controversy over its ‘historical line’ of bottles featuring figures such as German Nazi leader and Mussolini]( [Anti-Israel remarks by left-wing candidates roil Italy’s election campaign]( By [TOI staff]( [Poetry still matters, especially at Metulla’s annual festival]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Quarter-century mark for Israeli poets’ event brings new sounds, voices and topics]( More Headlines [Kyiv residents wake up to air-raid sirens on 6-month anniversary of Ukraine invasion]( By [Derek Gatopoulos and Inna Varentysia]( [Tel Aviv opens $11m designer shelter for city’s unhoused population]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [NY Jewish social services organization accused of papering over sexual assault suit]( By [Luke Tress]( [US college student paper pulls anti-Israel column after author threatened]( By [Jackie Hajdenberg]( [In first, IDF appoints woman as commander of air defense battalion]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Iraq Shiite cleric’s supporters demand assembly be dissolved, new election called]( By [Qassim Abdul-Zahra]( [Supreme Court eases 10-year sentence of former MK Faina Kirshenbaum]( By [TOI staff]( [Louisville Jewish community hires ex-cop involved in Breonna Taylor killing]( By [Jackie Hajdenberg]( [Finland’s PM apologizes for photo of topless women kissing at official residence]( By [JAN M. OLSEN]( [Soccer / Maccabi Haifa advances to Champions League group stage for first time since 2009]( By [TOI staff]( [Erdogan welcomes Abbas to Turkey a week after fully restoring ties with Israel]( By [Ash Obel]( [Four years after fleeing to Morocco, Israeli fugitive arrested at Ben Gurion Airport]( 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