ToI’s weekly deep dive: Whitewashing Zohar Argov’s legacy * Onsite at COP27 * ’Nano-robot’ antibodies * Hoffman reviews ’She Said’ * Jews who served in the Union army

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, November 20, 2022 ToI investigates [Unfit to be ‘the king’: How singer Zohar Argov’s legacy continues to be whitewashed]( By [Amy Spiro]( [35 years after his death in a jail cell, the music of the legendary Mizrahi singer and convicted rapist is more popular than it was in his lifetime – even in the post-#MeToo era]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [The intolerant, unyielding would-be defense minister]( [Bezalel Smotrich’s insistence on a top ministerial position is no surprise; what should be shocking is Netanyahu’s readiness to even contemplate giving him such authority]( [Op-ed / Netanyahu’s vow to govern for all Israelis at odds with very nature of his coalition]( By [David Horovitz]( [Ambitious plan sees Israel as heart of Middle East medical supply chain for US]( By [Lazar Berman]( United States [‘Rigged’ 2020 election prevented Israel-Saudi peace, Trump tells Jewish GOP confab]( By [Jacob Magid and AFP]( [Former president tells RJC Biden doesn’t listen to ‘your leaders’ in Israel]( [Trump censures US Jews who are ‘not doing the right thing’ for Israel in ZOA speech]( By [Luke Tress]( [Addressing GOP Jews, Netanyahu says disagreements with Biden ‘within the family’]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Meeting Netanyahu, US envoy hints at opposition to naming Smotrich defense chief]( By [Jacob Magid]( Reporter’s Notebook [Egyptians keep tight leash on climate confab, muffling traditional din of protests]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Israeli activists complain that COP27 is ‘damped down,’ with only limited public dissent allowed, in contrast to cacophony of demonstrations at previous meets]( Environment [Activists smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate push]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Saying officials gathered at COP summit need to do more, Sinai Climate Partnership will seek to recruit religious leaders globally to lobby for faster action on climate change]( [Green scene / Company tries to offset carbon footprint of Israeli COP27 delegates]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Israel and Jordan pen agreement to clean up Jordan River]( By [Sue Surkes]( Top Ops [Danny Hakim]( [Running out of time]( [A message carried – literally – from Glasgow to Sharm el Sheik drove home the need for global cooperation to stem the rising tides of destruction]( [Shmuley Boteach]( [The Republican Jewish Coalition’s identity crisis]( [In spending an astounding $3 million on Dr. Oz’s failed US Senate campaign, the group proved it has abandoned its pledge to further Jewish interests]( [Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler]( [The real revolution is information chaos]( [Who needs journalism? From the king of TV ratings, Netanyahu has discredited news outlets and become a politician who knows what will go viral on social networks]( [Florence Berkowitz-Siegelberg]( [Shpilkes at shul: A confession]( [I’d like to rein in my wandering thoughts and gain proficiency in the prayers that have inspired Jewish people for centuries, but I just don’t love the synagogue]( Profile [Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, Jewish cryptocurrency CEO, brings echoes of Bernie Madoff]( By [Lisa Klug]( [After becoming a billionaire before age 30, the FTX head suffers a reversal of fortune so massive it’s setting records, decimating investors’ savings, and drawing legal questions]( Health [Cancer patients trialing world’s first ‘nano-robot’ antibodies, made in Israel]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Computer-designed antibodies can be programmed to do much more when designed from scratch than when based on animal/human antibodies, says inventor]( [Sperm counts worldwide have plunged 62% in under 50 years, Israeli-led study finds]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Escalating drug shortage poses danger to Israelis’ health, warns head pharmacist]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Running reduces chance of some cancers by 72%, Israeli scientists find]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [CRM]( Film review [Jews will breathe a sigh of relief after seeing Weinstein scandal biopic ‘She Said’]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Sabra Style [Animator’s award-winning debut mixes mediums for a Holocaust film about a savior pig]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Tal Kantor’s Ophir Prize-taking animated short ‘Letter to a Pig,’ which came from a dream she had in high school, will screen at Jerusalem’s upcoming AniNation Festival]( ['Nice to meet me' / Israeli-born singer places third in France’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Israeli pop star Noa Kirel wears ‘Kanye West’ to MTV awards in ‘message to world’]( By [Amy Spiro]( Interview [Braving bigotry and enemy fire, Jews served the Union valiantly during the Civil War]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Book ‘Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War,’ out November 15, shows how Jewish troops fought in an army that served pork, rested Sundays and was led by a general who didn’t want them]( Holocaust [Study suggests Nazis attempted to sterilize Jewish women in camps with food additive]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [New research finds it likely wasn’t just trauma and starvation that caused 98% of women to stop menstruating upon arrival at Auschwitz, and many to later struggle with infertility]( [Trove of publications by WWII Jewish soldiers from Palestine gets new home at NLI]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Theater review / An adorkable actor can’t save gimmicky ‘Camp Siegfried,’ set at Nazi retreat in NY]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [Palestinian FM visits Berlin Holocaust memorial: ‘Most heinous crime in history’]( By [Jacob Magid]( Interview [First Jewish star of ‘Love is Blind’ says antisemitic threats only make her stronger]( By [Amy Spiro]( [American-Israeli citizen Alexa Alfia found love and a husband after putting her identity at the forefront during her appearance on Netflix’s wildly popular reality dating show]( Israel Travels [Visit the Old City monastery that holds Jerusalem’s 1,700-year-old Armenian history]( By [Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am]( [A new museum at the Armenian Monastery offers displays of stunning mosaics and artworks, artifacts and architecture, going back to Armenia’s 4th-century roots in the Holy Land]( [Luxurious? Sure. But Jerusalem Waldorf’s French spa could rub some the wrong way]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( From The Blogs [Chappelle is right. There ARE a lot of Jews in Hollywood]( By [Pinny Arnon]( [The outsized role Jews play in multiple fields can be explained, and Jews – tasked with the mission of spreading light – are not above criticism]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved