ToI’s weekly deep dive: Jews feel unsafe in France * Hezbollah’s vast tunnel complex * Harvard’s antisemitic past * Golem for today * Podcast: Court redefines its powers

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, January 7, 2024 [‘I’m afraid every day for my children’: As antisemitism soars, French Jews flee to Israel]( By Romain Chauvet With over 1,500 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and mid-November – three times the reported number in the entire 2022 – more French Jews seek to escape the climate of fear Op-ed David Horovitz [A Hamas chief’s killing, in a Hezbollah suburb, shows calculations remade post-Oct. 7]( Wanted for years by Israel, terror orchestrator Saleh al-Arouri would have figured he was untouchable in Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold. But no such assessments hold true anymore [Analysis / Despite Arouri strike in his backyard, Nasrallah is trying to avoid war with Israel]( By Lazar Berman [Inside Story / Arouri’s rapprochement: How Hamas found shelter and military support in Lebanon]( By Gianluca Pacchiani [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Jan. 4: Day 90 – Is Nasrallah’s saber-rattling a good or a bad sign?]( By ToI Staff Interview Tal Schneider [Expert: Hezbollah has built a vast tunnel network far more sophisticated than Hamas’s]( Tunnel system in south Lebanon runs hundreds of kms, up to the border and even into Israel; launchers can fire precision-guided missiles from there, then disappear, says Tal Beeri [3 months into war, IDF says it’s dismantled Hamas ‘military framework’ in north Gaza]( By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Jan. 5: Day 91 – Why is the IDF investigating Oct. 7 failures now?]( By ToI Staff Inside Story [A century before Claudine Gay, Harvard helped Nazi Germany improve its image in the West]( By Matt Lebovic Universities [Critics say US colleges’ double standards let rabid antisemitism thrive on campus]( By Cathryn J. Prince While praising the free exchange of dissenting opinions, alumni and faculty allege failure to enforce existing codes of conduct has made universities a hostile environment for Jews [UPenn faculty solidarity mission receives rock-star reception in Israel]( By Gavriel Fiske [First post-Oct. 7 Birthright Israel trip brings 17 participants; 100s more expected]( By Matt Lebovic [While war rages in Gaza, Israel’s universities finally begin delayed academic year]( By Gavriel Fiske Op-ed David Horovitz [If only the ‘reasonableness law,’ nixed by Israel’s top court, had never been initiated]( Monday’s Supreme Court decision would have plunged Israel into a constitutional crisis, were it not for the fact that we’re deep into a bitter, complex war that supersedes all else [In historic ruling, High Court strikes down key judicial overhaul legislation]( By Jeremy Sharon Top Ops Ellen Ginsberg Simon [Claudine Gay’s moral failings as a leader]( America’s universities need a new cadre of leadership: Those who aren’t afraid of debate or difficult topics, and who gladly represent everyone on campus Hannah Wacholder Katsman [Comfort among the mourners]( When Hamas murdered my son Hayim z”l, I knew the grieving would be a public affair. I did not know it would console others Benjamin Blech [Why do they hate us?]( I first asked this question when I was a young boy, fleeing the Holocaust on the last boat out of Europe. Now I have an answer Cheryl Levi [Catering to terrorists]( The US has put Israel in an impossible position, forcing it to feed Hamas in order to obtain arms it needs to fight Hamas Obituary [Zvi Zamir, the man who sounded the alarm in 1973, is dead at 98]( By Mitch Ginsburg [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Stories of civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas's onslaught on Israel]( [Read Here]( ToI podcast [What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How the court just redefined its own powers]( By Amanda Borschel-Dan ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on an unprecedented Supreme Court decision and whether it will reignite the existential debate over judicial overhaul [ToI Original Video / A birth at Alumim]( Gaza border [In rubble of parents’ home, scion of Be’eri founders not sure he can bear to move back]( By Jessica Steinberg Yuval Haran’s father was killed as seven family members were taken hostage; with six now freed, he battles to bring his brother-in-law home too [Reporter's notebook / Defying fears, freed hostages return to Be’eri to plead for the release of the rest]( By Canaan Lidor [Reporter's Notebook / Kibbutz Kfar Aza, devastated on October 7, becomes a grim place of pilgrimage]( By Sue Surkes [Reporter's notebook / Survivors of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a desert oasis, move into Kiryat Gat apartment towers]( By Canaan Lidor Tech Israel [Shield of Israel: At evacuated Kibbutz Sasa, an armor factory toils to protect troops]( By John Jeffay Despite orders to leave the Lebanon border, Plasan employees work around the clock to create and deploy innovative solutions in real time, as the IDF battles on multiple fronts [Fixing up old tanks and recruiting old reservists, a tech VP creates a new battalion]( By Sue Surkes [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( Health [High-tech medical simulation training arrived ‘just in time’ for IDF medics]( By Renee Ghert-Zand Soldiers use computer-controlled anatomically correct mannequins to learn key lifesaving procedures for use on the battlefield [Israeli med tech company’s innovative headset could reduce delirium in ICU patients]( By Renee Ghert-Zand [Sandfly-borne parasitic disease has affected at least 100 IDF troops in Gaza]( By Renee Ghert-Zand [Winter arrived late this year, so Israel only now seeing surge in COVID and flu]( By Renee Ghert-Zand Op-ed Sue Surkes [Climate change will be here long after the war, but the leadership is neglecting it]( CEO of environmental advocacy organization Adam Teva V’Din says that one year in, the current government is the ‘worst for the environment in Israel’s history’ Arts [Musicians read, sing and strum to poems of hostage Amiram Cooper, 84, as worries mount]( By Jessica Steinberg Kibbutz Nir Oz family invites singers Ehud Banai and Micha Shitrit to Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square event for their relative, hoping to raise awareness of worsening plight [Family of fallen Oct. 7 hero Tomer Nagar commissions line of beers in his honor]( By Stuart Winer [Songs of solace / Eviatar Banai sings through sorrow in new album, created after Oct. 7]( By Jessica Steinberg [Archaeologist in reserve duty near Gaza finds ancient mortar for grinding grain]( By Gavriel Fiske Interview [History has confirmed guilt of Vichy leader Petain – so why do some question it?]( By Robert Philpot From the Blogs [A golem for these troubling times]( By Richard D. Zelin Rising antisemitism may or may not spur US Jews to realign politically. What is certain is the need to beef up protection [Weekly Deep Dive]( [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? [Subscribe here]( [Unsubscribe]( from this List © 2024 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved