ToI’s weekly deep dive: Gorbachev’s Jewish legacy * Relentless settlers of Ramat Migron * Iran’s eyes are on Africa * Roger Waters, ’Jew-hater’? * Podcast: Teachers speak

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, September 4, 2022 ToI investigates [New York law on Nazi-looted art aims to shine light on lesser-known Holocaust evil]( By [Luke Tress]( [Amid widespread ignorance about genocide, state law requiring museums to label plundered art will inform public and pressure museums, but implementation remains unclear]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [On Jews and Israel, Gorbachev’s legacy is under threat]( [The last Soviet leader has passed away precisely as Putin’s Russia tangles with the Jewish Agency, moving to shut down the Israeli organization that handles Jewish emigration]( [Sharansky: Gorbachev wouldn’t have released Soviet Jews if not for global pressure]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( Settlements [Raze, rebuild, repeat: The relentless settlers of Ramat Migron]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( [The illegal outpost has been torn down again and again, but activists and residents, aided by goats and MKs, refuse to quit their quest to seize and settle as much land as they can]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Aug 30: Defiance at Ramat Migron; parties vying for the Arab vote]( By [TOI staff]( [Ramat Migron illegal settlement outpost demolished for third time this month]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( Aliyah [Switching conflicts: The Jews leaving Ukraine and Russia for the West Bank]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( [A tiny portion of the 33,000 new immigrants from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus move to settlements, fleeing war and repression to live inside one of the longest geopolitical feuds]( [Ahead of school year, most new Ukrainian and Russian immigrant kids not enrolled]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israeli schools ready for influx of Ukrainian, Russian immigrants as opening nears]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( elections 2022 [Underage TikToker running for Knesset eyes groundswell of support for protest party]( By [TOI staff]( [Fiery Youth leader Hadar Muchtar, 20, is leading a grassroots campaign harnessing anger over cost of living and state of politics, despite being too young to be elected herself]( [Interview / Cost of living can be solved by right-wing economics ‘with humane face,’ says key MK]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Interview / Decade-old Yesh Atid has evolved into a ruling party, says coalition whip Toporovsky]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Aug. 28: Why ToI continues to sound the alarm about MK Ben Gvir]( By [TOI staff]( Basel 2.0 [Herzog calls to ‘reclaim Zionism,’ turn it from a slur to a source of pride]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [President makes his remarks in headline speech at event marking 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Switzerland]( [In Basel, Herzog recreates Herzl balcony photo, urges Israel-Diaspora unity in op-ed]( By [TOI staff]( [WZO marks 125th anniversary of 1st Zionist Congress with lavish, costly Swiss affair]( By [Avner Hofstein and Judah Ari Gross]( Analysis [Experts warn: Iran widening its inroads into South Africa through Palestinian issue]( By [Steven Gruzd]( Top Ops [Emily Schrader]( [Berkeley Law must act to protect Jewish students]( [A newly-adopted BDS bylaw is nothing more than the ancient attempt to separate Jews from their religion and identities]( [Kenneth S. Stern]( [Yes it may hurt, but campus groups have the right to exclude Zionists]( [Universities should set a tone of inclusion and remind students of the importance of academic freedom, but they must let them define their politics]( [Steven E. Zipperstein]( [Back when Palestinians insisted there’s no such place as Palestine]( [Early 20th century legal positions claiming the territory was part of Syria, and later Jordan, undermine the 21st century Palestinian claim to statehood]( [Ilai Z. Saltzman]( [On Iran, Yair Lapid is practicing domestic politics]( [The PM is acting more like a politician concerned about his electability than a statesman who needs to make the hard decision even if it is unpopular]( [How Jewish communities across the US helped resettle 1,900 Afghan evacuees this year]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [On the first anniversary of the end of the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan as Taliban regained power, evacuees and Jewish volunteers reflect on the struggles of starting over]( Reporter's notebook [/ 'Enough tawkin’ Roger, sing!!']( [As Roger Waters plays politically charged NYC shows, some cry ‘Jew-hater’]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Protesters outside the onetime Pink Floyd frontman’s concert claim he spreads ‘hatred and lies.’ But despite his anti-Israel reputation, the Aug. 30 show just about toes the line]( [Rocker Aviv Geffen changes his tune with West Bank concerts for ‘brother’ settlers]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Interview [The undelivered speeches that reveal a series of unrealized alternate US histories]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Interview [In novel ‘Cyclorama,’ production of ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ conceals a cycle of abuse]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [In Forward journalist Adam Langer’s new book, a slippery high school drama teacher plays elaborate cat-and-mouse games with his unsuspecting young actors]( [Poll: 1 in 3 Germans say Israel treating Palestinians like Nazis did Jews]( By [TOI staff]( [Interview / 80 years ago, Nazis almost knocked Britain out of WWII to take the entire Mideast]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [CRM]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: What back to school looks like for two Israeli teachers]( By [TOI staff]( [Educators from Jerusalem’s Hartman and Keshet schools talk about their students and classrooms; now including the full transcript]( Interview [New biography delves into mysterious backstory of billionaire banker Edmond J. Safra]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Health [Israeli study: Western powers can protect own people by donating COVID shots abroad]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Game theory analysis finds big, vaccine-rich countries could protect citizens’ lives more effectively by dispatching spare doses to developing countries than by stockpiling them]( [Brain tumors vanish in mice after Israeli study finds and destroys ‘power source’]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Flown from Ukraine to Israel with a 1-2% chance of survival, teen recovers]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Lung fluid may provide basis for cancer-treating vaccines: Israeli research]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Tech Israel [Narcan inventor developing new overdose treatment to combat fentanyl scourge]( By [Luke Tress]( [Researcher Roger Crystal’s company Opiant is working on a more powerful opioid antidote as US deaths surge]( [Tech takes center stage as concert promoter turns to augmented reality in Tel Aviv]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Israeli systems that charge electric vehicles in 15 minutes to deploy in Europe, US]( By [Sue Surkes]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Sept. 1: NY law addresses Holocaust education; an opioid antidote?]( By [TOI staff]( Archaeology [Giant prehistoric elephant tusk uncovered in southern Israel]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [Academics seek to study rare find to learn about significance of such remains in early human culture; Antiquities Authority says fossil will go on display after preservation]( [DNA analysis suggests bodies found in UK well are victims of 1190 antisemitic attack]( By [Amy Spiro]( From the blogs [Finding yourself… at the cemetery]( By [Melanie Levav]( [A pre-Rosh-Hashanah visit to graves can remind us that our own tomorrow is never guaranteed and help us gain new perspectives on how we want to live]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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