ToI’s weekly deep dive: Secret of Rome’s concrete cracked * Horovitz Op-Ed: Here comes the new regime * What is ’Primordial Torah’? *Podcast: Chef’s ’OCD’ is fermentation

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, January 15, 2023 [She exposed China’s crimes against the Uighurs; now she needs the world to save them]( By Tal Schneider When Rushan Abbas spoke out about disappeared in-laws from Xinjiang, Beijing took her sister away, one more person in a system of camps she says has swallowed over 3 million souls Op-ed David Horovitz [Here comes the new regime in Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘democratic dictatorship’]( The prime minister has unleashed his justice minister to neutralize the High Court, the only effective brake on government excess, and secure him unbridled power [Analysis / Constitutional crisis looms, as Supreme Court president shows she won’t go quietly]( By David Horovitz [‘A plan to change Israel’s DNA’: 80,000 rally in Tel Aviv against judicial overhaul]( By Naomi Lanzkron, Michael Horovitz and TOI staff Op-ed Haviv Rettig Gur [Battle over High Court exposes frailty of Israel’s piecemeal system of government]( The center-left’s fears are reasonable, the right’s arguments authentic; both sides should get past the current shrill debate and restructure a broken system of checks and balances Analysis [Who heads the court, and 2 other overlooked core components of the judicial overhaul]( By Jeremy Sharon Levin’s bill remakes terms for choosing High Court president [Levin unveils bills to remove nearly all High Court’s tools for government oversight]( By Jeremy Sharon Interview [Ex-justice Rubinstein warns government plans will create ‘democratic dictatorship’]( By Jeremy Sharon United States [ADL: Number of Americans believing antisemitic stereotypes nearly doubled since 2019]( By Stuart Winer Poll finds that 85% of people in US agree with at least one racist trope about Jews, while 20% believe at last six; 20% think Jews have ‘too much power’ [Police data shows antisemitic incidents in NYC more than doubled over last 2 years]( By Luke Tress Interview [Jewish Agency chief preaches unity, but readies for battle over Law of Return]( By Judah Ari Gross Top Ops Micha Odenheimer [10 precepts for a new Israeli center]( The principles uniting a solid majority of citizens would need to speak fluent Jewish, reflect patriotism, and uphold the primacy of democracy and human rights Yonatan Green [The judicial apocalypse is not upon us]( The real democratic deficit is in decades of judicial supremacy, in which the Supreme Court may ‘override’ the Knesset and has final say on any matter it chooses Jessica Lauren Walton [Stigma in the security field]( That time I trusted a mentor with a personal secret, and immediately rued the day Jeremy Issacharoff [Israeli politics must not be allowed to override Iran policy]( With the growing need for a diplomatic strategy on the Iranian threat, now is no time to alienate allies Interview [For Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Iranian death threats are all in a day’s work]( By Robert Sarner [CRM]( Times Will Tell Jessica Steinberg [Podcast: Use it all, says slow food, fermenting chef at Jaffa’s award-winning OCD]( Jerusalem-raised Shalom Elbert started with schnitzel and kube before bread miso and Sprite-scented dehydrated lime at OCD, named for meticulous care put into nightly tasting menu Archaeology [Still standing: Researchers crack the secret of ancient Rome’s self-healing concrete]( By Melanie Lidman Scientists have long wondered what made the material so durable. Now a new MIT study utilizing microarchaeology and infrared cameras gives insight into Herod’s enduring monuments [Spectacular Byzantine church mosaics uncovered near Jericho]( By TOI staff [Archaeology / 8 ostrich eggs over 4,000 years old found near excavated firepit in south]( By TOI staff [Documentary places lens on transformation from grief to reconciliation]( By Jessica Steinberg Health [Battling kids’ eye cancer in Nigeria, Israeli doctors introduce pinpointed chemo]( By Nathan Jeffay Week-long mission from Sheba Medical Center aims to teach local doctors to perform the complex procedure that spares patients the side effects of full body radiation [Israeli study: Omicron-fighting boosters cut hospitalization in over-65s by 81%]( By Nathan Jeffay [Israeli researchers able to build enzymes ‘like Lego,’ in potential boon for drugs]( By Nathan Jeffay [After five years of waiting, American convert finally granted Israeli citizenship]( By Judah Ari Gross Tech Israel [Israel raises $2 billion in its first-ever issuance of 10-year green bonds]( By Sharon Wrobel State joins sovereign green bond club in raising funds to help attain climate-related national goals [Israeli tech exits slump 54%, to lowest level since 2014, amid market downturn]( By Sharon Wrobel [For first time in 35 years, Israel posts budget surplus driven by higher tax revenue]( By Sharon Wrobel Interview [Do you see the light? Descendant of Hasidic scholar teaches ‘Primordial Torah’]( By Jen Sonstein Maidenberg From The Blogs [Could ChatGPT replace rabbis?]( By Michael Feldstein Who better than the AI bot itself to answer that question – the answer it gave might surprise you [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2023 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved