ToI’s weekly deep dive: Son of Hitler’s architect & Qatar World Cup * Horovitz: Hands off Law of Return * Oped: Override Clause v. women * 2,200-year-old Hanukkah ’gelt’

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, December 18, 2022 Inside story [How the son of ‘Hitler’s architect’ helped bring the World Cup to Qatar]( By Robert Philpot Albert Speer Jr. tried to get out from under his father’s legacy, but despite his ostensibly humanitarian and eco-friendly style, he often worked for authoritarian regimes Op-ed David Horovitz [Don’t mess with the Law of Return]( Guaranteeing the right of ‘every Jew’ to immigrate to Israel and become a citizen, the law is a core obligation, and privilege, of the world’s only Jewish state World Cup [Two flags, one goal: Morocco’s historic World Cup run feeds amity with Palestinians]( By Jack Mukand Signs of Palestinian solidarity are all over Qatar, including on the field, though the Atlas Lions gave the Arab world, and an East Jerusalem bar, a second underdog to root for [Analysis / Backing Palestinians at World Cup, Qatar takes aim at pro-normalization neighbors]( By Jacob Magid [Reporter's Notebook / World Cup semifinal tests conflicting loyalties for Jerusalem’s French-Moroccan Jews]( By Lazar Berman [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Why do Moroccan soccer fans wave the Palestinian flag?]( By TOI staff [Young Israelis, Moroccans visit each other’s nations to deepen person-to-person ties]( By Judah Ari Gross Exclusive [UN Palestinian rights official’s social media history reveals antisemitic comments]( By Luke Tress Francesca Albanese tells ToI she acknowledges ‘mistakes’ in past reference to a ‘Jewish lobby’; is latest UN official probing Israel to show evidence of blatant prejudice [White House announces new inter-agency group to counter antisemitism]( By Jacob Magid [At Abraham Accords confab, Likud MK claims Saudi peace likely within a year]( By Lazar Berman Analysis [Three years after Corbyn’s defeat, UK’s Labour fights to purge lurking antisemitism]( By Robert Philpot Top Ops Susan Weiss [Four reasons the override clause should terrify women]( The Knesset would be able to pass religiously-driven laws that prop up gender separation, allow work discrimination, deny religious services, and harm property rights Yitzhak Klein [The left needs to remember – Israel’s right was voted in]( The deep divides of Israeli society are here to stay, so unless we want an absurd seesaw each election, we need to accept each other with genuine pluralism Marjan Keypour [Iran’s power-by-execution strategy will fail]( It’s time for the West to look at the Islamic Republic with clear eyes and find new policies to end its menace to humanity, once and for all Efraim Zuroff [This cog in the Nazi death machinery says she’s sorry…]( …but she didn’t know about the slaughter at the concentration camp where she worked. As Irmgard Furchner’s trial winds down, her supposed contrition rings false [The other two-state solution: Might the two Israels divorce?]( By Dan Perry Toi Live [At Times of Israel event, legal scholars debate impact of override law on democracy]( By Jeremy Sharon Experts opposed to a High Court override say existing power to strike down legislation is crucial to safeguarding democracy, scholars in favor decry court’s unchecked authority Religion [In first, women take official Jewish law tests, but activists say it isn’t enough]( By Judah Ari Gross For now, the state-issued exams represent a purely symbolic victory, granting female Torah scholars formal recognition with no practical significance [CRM]( Interview [Hallmark’s new Hanukkah movie is ‘perfect timing’ amid antisemitism spike, says star]( By Amy Spiro Israeli actor Yael Grobglas had to brush up on US Jewish traditions to play Molly Spiegelman in ‘Hanukkah on Rye,’ a kitschy romcom about dueling deli owners on the Lower East Side Health [‘New era of treatment’: Israelis among first to receive ‘game-changing’ ALS medicine]( By Nathan Jeffay Tofersen, which is injected into the spine like an epidural, is giving new hope to two patients at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center [Reducing stress can be life-changer for women with high cancer risk — Israeli study]( By Nathan Jeffay [Israelis produced some 15% of world’s top COVID vaccine studies, analysis shows]( By Nathan Jeffay [Israeli AI predicts heart failure in muscle inflammation patients with 80% accuracy]( By Nathan Jeffay [Netflix documentary about flim-flammer Gilbert Chikli gives Israeli ex the last word]( By Jessica Steinberg Environment [In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks]( By Sue Surkes Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year [Dutch retail chain buys Israeli software linking food prices to expiration dates]( By Sue Surkes [Company extracting CO2 out of air scoops $10 million investment]( By Sue Surkes [Start-up offers reusable, 100% recyclable bowls for takeout food]( By Sue Surkes Interview [UFC’s only Israeli fighter believes all Jews ‘should know how to defend themselves’]( By Amy Spiro Natan Levy made headlines for telling Kanye West to ‘come find me, bro’ in post-fight press conference earlier this month, but says the message was ‘a firm warning, not a threat’ History [How priests, prophets and kings united Israel in monotheism and codified the Torah]( By Rich Tenorio In ‘The Book of Revolutions,’ Rabbi Edward Feld analyzes three of the Bible’s main precepts, written over hundreds of years and later compiled by exiled priests in Babylon [Exhibit / In ancient Yemen, a booming economy sparked cultures rivaling the Greeks and Romans]( By Rich Tenorio Santa scenes [Christmas tree lighting brings holiday cheer to Jerusalem’s Old City]( By Jack Mukand The annual tradition in the Christian quarter sees locals and visitors of all faiths embrace the winter festivities with music, lights and food Archaeology [2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists]( By Amanda Borschel-Dan Trove of silver coins documents bloody persecution preceding the Hanukkah revolt when Jews fled to the desert, as written in I Maccabees 2:29 [Rare silver half-shekel, minted by rebels against Rome in 69 CE, found in Jerusalem]( By TOI staff [Surprise Maccabean-era arrowheads discovered while cleaning house at Tower of David]( By Melanie Lidman [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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