ToI’s weekly deep dive: Back home again, in Sderot * Biden’s Gaza pier plan * East Jerusalem hopes for a calm Ramadan * Podcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on campus antisemitism

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, March 10, 2024 Reporter's notebook [No longer a ghost town, Sderot welcomes returnees and a renewed sense of normalcy]( By Canaan Lidor Traumatized but determined, thousands have moved back to a city scarred by rocket fire and full of painful memories, where they hope to rebuild their lives [Reporter's Notebook / In Sderot, a first day of school for ‘the second time’]( By Gavriel Fiske Op-ed: Day 152 of the war David Horovitz [We’re living in the most worrying period for Jews since World War II]( And there’s rarely been a time when Israel’s existence, imperiled from without, and hobbled from within, has been so manifestly necessary [Interview / Former ADL head Abe Foxman: ‘Israel has become the Jew among the nations’]( By Jordana Horn [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing March 7: Day 153 – Oct. 7 & Meron disaster: Pattern of poor leadership?]( By ToI Staff [After deadly aid incident, Israel to try new methods of delivery to north Gaza this week]( By Lazar Berman Official says convoys could be secured by IDF and enter from northern Israel-Gaza border, days after dozens die as crowd swarms trucks delivering food, medicine [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Mar 4: Day 150 – Israel pushes aid into Gaza. So why isn’t it delivered?]( By ToI Staff [Biden says Israel will secure new Gaza pier; Pentagon: It may take 2 months to build]( By Jacob Magid and Agencies Goal is to deliver 2 million daily meals; 1,000 US soldiers set to be involved, but no boots on the ground; Israel welcomes project but hasn’t confirmed it will provide security [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Mar 9: Day 155 – Hope floats? How the US is building a dock off Gaza]( By ToI Staff Inside Story Sam Sokol [Citing IDF’s manpower ‘surplus,’ Haredim reject post-October 7 draft equality push]( Despite defense minister and IDF chief’s calls for more soldiers, UTJ lawmakers threaten to bolt coalition if even ‘one real yeshiva student has to close his Talmud’ [In East Jerusalem, hopes for a calm Ramadan mix with fears of Al-Aqsa restrictions]( By Gianluca Pacchiani Islamic holy month already marred by high death toll in Gaza war, and residents worry potential curbs on access to holy compound will lead to unrest in Palestinian parts of city [Reporter's notebook / Schoolkids in unrecognized Bedouin villages exposed to carcinogenic diesel generators]( By Sue Surkes Top Ops Robert Satloff [Another ’Palestinian babies’ story merits a WaPo apology]( Discrepencies cast doubt on when events happened and how many died, and a reporter’s conflict of interest is undisclosed Susannah Dainow [On loving anti-Israel artists]( In the midst of all this loss – lives, ideals, friends –  I cannot bear losing work I connect with, too Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky [The UN sexual violence report can help ‘bring them home’]( Pramila Patten’s flawed report offers irrefutable conclusions and can be an asset in the global push to free the hostages Stephen Daniel Arnoff [That was never the Jewish Golden Age]( I refuse to believe that we are destined to slip down the ladder and into the abyss rung by rung – a response to Franklin Foer Interview [The 4th to testify: Congressional witness Pamela Nadell on the US antisemitism crisis]( By Jordana Horn The historian, who had a front-row seat next to three university presidents during their earth-shattering testimony on campus Jew hatred, dissects the ‘sea change’ since Oct. 7 [Inaugural Columbia task force report confirms Jewish students’ claims of antisemitism]( By Jordana Horn ToI podcast [What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Campus antisemitism makes new Zionists]( By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur Just back from a speaking tour at US colleges, ToI’s senior analyst describes increased ostracism of Jewish students on campus – and an unexpected rebound effect [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Stories of civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas's onslaught on Israel]( [Read Here]( International Women's Day [Fired during war, reservists’ wives band together to battle for job security]( By Sharon Wrobel Spouses of reserve troops create forum to help each other with employment rights and petition the government to ease their economic burden as their husbands take up arms [Slamming double standard, Jewish women picket NYC office of UN Women head Sima Bahous]( By Jordana Horn [Equal but different: The specific health considerations of female combat soldiers]( By Renee Ghert-Zand [Across the religious divide, two mothers of hostages find support in one another]( By Jessica Steinberg Meirav Leshem Gonen and Ditsa Or live different lives in Israel, but feel like ‘distant sisters’ in their shared battles to bring their children home [Interview / With wife and daughter freed from Gaza, TV writer continues fight for other hostages]( By Jessica Steinberg [‘I can’t breathe anymore’: At Knesset, emotional hostage relatives beg for better care]( By Renee Ghert-Zand [How the Israel-Hamas conflict could disrupt the Paris Olympic Games]( By Romain Chauvet [After WWII, Dutch tram company demanded cash for transporting Anne Frank to the camps]( By Canaan Lidor Documents show Amsterdam’s GVB billed West Germany for the final transports of some 48,000 Holocaust victims, including the diarist and her family Interview [Physicist Haim Sompolinsky first Israeli to win largest brain science research prize]( By Renee Ghert-Zand [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( Exclusive [How an Arab country helped Israel rescue Yemen’s last Jews, and settle them in Cairo]( By Shalom Yerushalmi In 2021, nearly 100 Yemenite Jews were evacuated from a secure compound in Sana’a amid civil war. But one of them, Salem Levi Marhabi, was forced to stay; he is still held in a Houthi prison [Online Arabic schools show ‘huge leap’ in students during Israel-Hamas war]( By Gavriel Fiske Israel Travels [Learn about Reb Aryeh, the ‘Prisoners’ Rabbi’ of pre-state Israel who visited lepers]( By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am [Medieval Islamic astrolabe found to have layers of Hebrew inscriptions]( By Gavriel Fiske Device found in Italy and dated to 11th-century Spain seems to have Jewish addendums exactly as recommended by medieval sage Abraham Ibn Ezra [Rare coin engraved with the name ‘Eleazar the Priest’ found in Judean Desert]( By Gavriel Fiske [Tucked among archaeological artifacts, new pieces show artists’ reactions to October 7]( By Jessica Steinberg [Haifa museum offers artists’ views of home, new exhibits post-October 7]( By Jessica Steinberg From the Blogs [A tale of two taxis]( By Daniel Elbaum I’m a proud Jew and a public Zionist, yet even I have been wary around non-Jews recently. 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