ToI’s weekly deep dive: When UK locked up Jewish refugees * 360° elections analysis * Keep lights on for Kristallnacht * Rothschild women* LISTEN: Paralyzed Nation finale

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, November 6, 2022 First person [They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire]( By [Amy Spiro]( [A new book sheds light on the little-known story of thousands of German Jewish refugees held in internment camps in the UK during World War II – including several of my ancestors]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Netanyahu, Ben Gvir win marks the elevation of Jewish Israel above democratic Israel]( [Vote shows backlash against Bennett-Lapid coalition, especially among religious Zionists; it will take an unforeseeable shift in Israeli reality for pendulum to swing back]( Analysis [How Smotrich and Ben Gvir led an uprising, wrapped in a bear hug, against Netanyahu]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [At the ex-PM’s urging, Israel’s extreme-right factions united into an electoral juggernaut that feeds off right-wing discontent with Netanyahu himself]( [Reporter's notebook / It took 4 voting rounds to normalize Ben Gvir. By the end of the 5th, he’s a star]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Coalition timetable / What happens next: Netanyahu expected to be tasked with forming government next week]( By [Luke Tress]( [Analysis / Netanyahu won 8-seat majority over his opponents despite near-parity in raw votes]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [Allies may worry over far-right’s election gains, but few can afford to shun Israel]( [US, UK express concerns over rise of Ben Gvir, set to be minister, and some may prefer not to work with Netanyahu, but shared core interests will likely rein in diplomatic fallout]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Nov 6: How rise of far-right challenges Israel’s global relationships]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Nov. 2 – The day after: Winners, losers and where do we go from here?]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Nov. 3: Ben Gvir’s newfound fame; IDF soldier’s 9 hours in Iran]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Israel poised to have its most religious government; experts say no theocracy yet]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Anticipated coalition likely to have major impact on religion and state issues, with reforms on kashrut certification, conversion and LGBT rights expected to be rolled back]( [Analysis / Fire on the Mount? How the new government might shift policy at flashpoint holy site]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( [Analysis / Vowing to lower prices, new government could target Israel’s untamed rental market]( By [Danielle Nagler]( Reporter's notebook [Lazar Berman]( [On Israel’s northern fringes, support for Netanyahu strong among minorities]( [Voters in Ghajar on Lebanon border proudly back Likud as turnout is high; in nearby Buq’ata in Golan, Druze largely shun the ballot amid signs of slow shift to accepting the state]( [From labor to Labor: At hospital, woman casts ballot shortly after giving birth]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Reporter's notebook / Voters in mixed Jewish-Arab city Lod choose between far-right and radical left]( By [Jeremy Sharon]( Top Ops [Tal Schneider]( [All the prime minister’s men]( [As Netanyahu returns, it is his primarily male, religious and nationalist partners who will set the new government’s tenor; could they give the left a fresh flag to rally around?]( [Dennis Ross and David Makovsky]( [A narrow government with Ben Gvir and Smotrich threatens US-Israel ties]( [Shared values are a cornerstone of the relationship – appointing senior ministers that incite against Arabs would be a gift to anti-Israel progressives]( [Benjamin G. Kelsen]( [US Midterms: The election of our lifetime]( [People in the Jewish community are aligning themselves with candidates who openly espouse antisemitic rhetoric and push antisemitic tropes]( [Yael Leibowitz]( [A house divided, yet we must stand]( [When we discover that we no longer share a narrative with the very people who share our history, we must deepen and expand our identity to protect our shared future]( Holocaust [Israeli initiative asks synagogues to honor Kristallnacht by keeping their lights on]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [‘Light from the Synagogue’ organizers expect hundreds of synagogues and churches outside Israel to commemorate ‘Night of Broken Glass’ this year]( [Interview / Nearly 80 years on, the fight for Holocaust restitution continues in many countries]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [How Israel's dysfunctional electoral system still can be fixed]( [listen to the podcast]( Exclusive ToI Podcast [Paralyzed Nation no more? ToI experts break down Israel’s election results]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [No longer just pretty faces, Rothschild family women take center stage in new book]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Captivating, meticulously researched historical work brings to light myriad ways banking dynasty’s ‘silent’ mothers, daughters, and wives exerted key soft power for three centuries]( Health [Technion undergrads wow Paris meet with plan to reduce chemo-induced hair loss]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Students working toward developing synthetic method for hard-to-obtain compound shown likely to prompt hair growth win accolades at international bio-engineering competition]( [‘Medicine and peace’ conference in Morocco features Israeli docs and Shabbat songs]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli long COVID study: 1 in 3 people fail to regain regular health months later]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli artist’s vast, colorful murals bring city buildings to life]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [Moti Shemesh uses large, bold patterns to transform otherwise uninspiring public spaces across the country]( Environment [Walking on sunshine: Shoresh sandals factory converts to 100% solar energy]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Company says it created its own mini-grid with solar panels everywhere and switched its fleet to all-electric, as other firms also eye ways to go net zero on carbon emissions]( [Israel’s only glass company will get raw materials from its own CO2 emissions]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Green tech / Israeli-made vending machine offers easy sale, trade and recycling of used phones]( By [Sue Surkes]( [More than 2 million tons of microplastics pollute Israel’s coast, say researchers]( By [Sue Surkes]( Interview [A Latina-American Jew finds a kindred spirit in this romantic YA ghost story]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [When aspiring violinist Ilana is sent to stay with an aunt in Prague, she meets Benjamin. But things aren’t all as they seem in ‘The Ghosts of Rose Hill,’ a new book by RM Romero]( From the blogs [Why I find Kanye West’s hate speech exhausting]( By [Kendell Pinkney]( [To live as a Black Jew in America means to live with an awareness of just how precarious group belonging can be]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved