ToI’s weekly deep dive: Interview with US ’savior-general’ Petraeus * Ripples from Schumer’s ’good speech’ * Podcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on Gazan starvation as Hamas tactic

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, March 17, 2024 Inside story [Awash in Qatari money, have US campuses become incubators for Doha’s interests?]( By Tal Schneider The Gulf kingdom has lavished billions on US higher education as it seeks soft power, but some allege the money may also be fueling anti-Israel and anti-Jewish trends at schools Op-ed: Day 159 of the war David Horovitz [And the Oscar for incendiary misdiagnosis of the cause of a massacre of Jews goes to…]( Jonathan Glazer got it wrong * Israel and its essential ally, openly and untenably at odds * 10 thoughts on the war [Analysis / ‘A statesmanlike right’: Why Gideon Sa’ar has decamped Gantz’s National Unity party]( By Sam Sokol [IDF ombudswoman report finds rise in reservists clamoring to be allowed to fight]( By Emanuel Fabian [Post-Oct. 7 antisemitism upends an Australian Jewish community with Holocaust history]( By Nomi Kaltmann Interview [With Iraq on his mind, US ‘savior-general’ points at a way to victory in Gaza]( By Lazar Berman Hamas must be destroyed, argues ex-general and CIA director David Petraeus in Tel Aviv, and then Israel must pivot to a counterinsurgency [Analysis / Relying on local clans to run postwar Gaza should be off the table, experts warn]( By Gianluca Pacchiani [Gazans reportedly charged exorbitant sums by Egyptian company to leave Strip]( By Gianluca Pacchiani [Exclusive / Qatar emir proposed expelling Hamas officials in meet with Blinken days after Oct. 7]( By Jacob Magid ToI podcast [What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas starves Gazans as a war tactic]( By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur As humanitarian aid efforts are ramped up via land, air and sea, the IDF must decide how many of its soldiers to divert to protecting the convoys – while becoming targets themselves Obituary [Salim Joubran, first Arab Israeli Supreme Court justice, dies at 76]( By ToI Staff [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Stories of civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas's onslaught on Israel]( [Read Here]( United States [Biden hails ‘good speech’ by Schumer criticizing Netanyahu, says many Americans agree]( By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff US president backs up Senate majority leader who called the prime minister an obstacle to peace and said he’d ‘lost his way’ [Full text of Senator Chuck Schumer’s speech: ‘Israeli elections are the only way’]( By ToI Staff [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Mar 16: Day 162 – Who was Senator Schumer’s ‘howler’ speech aimed at?]( By ToI Staff Interview [Former Columbia Law dean says antisemitism task force’s next report to focus on Jews]( By Jordana Horn Top Ops Eric Grossman [A knife to Canadian Jews]( The blocking of kosher slaughter is one of the most severe blows ever dealt to the community – and it’s unquestionably antisemitic Shimon Glick [The ‘settler colonialists’ of Palestine]( The anti-Israel epithet is a misdiagnosis that inverts the truth: It was the Jews who were exiled from their native land Rachel Eichler Maron [Who’s in the mood for Purim this year?]( War, rape, hostages, and the rowdiest day on the Jewish calendar? I just couldn’t face all that ’happy vibe’ – until I reread Megillat Esther Yossi Ben Ari [How the independent State of Palestine gets founded]( In a scenario from the not-at-all-distant future, the White House lets Netanyahu know that the train has already left the station [Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum finally opens, with a side of anti-Israel protests]( By Matt Lebovic and JTA Israeli president and Dutch king attend dedication of long-awaited institution that presents history in victims’ own words, opened 80 years after murder of 75% of Dutch Jews [Dances with wolves: A Tel Aviv choreographer forces audiences to face Oct. 7’s horrors]( By Jessica Steinberg Oden Ronen’s ‘The Missings’ looks at the Supernova rave massacre, while a piece by Hillel Kogan dances around the topic altogether to focus on those behind the Batsheva troupe [Raps composed by Aner Shapiro, killed on October 7, produced as posthumous LP]( By Jessica Steinberg [Dozens of bereaved girls gather for group bat mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem]( By Ariella Oldfield [Technological edge / High school engineering students create devices for war effort]( By Gavriel Fiske On show [Despite vandalism and protests, NY gallery Pace showcases Israeli artist as planned]( By Karen Chernick Exhibition of Michal Rovner’s ongoing ‘Pragim’ series opens on schedule March 7 after art houses across the city are defaced by anti-Israel protesters following Hamas atrocities [NY art museum surprised to find hidden ‘Free Palestine’ message on artwork]( By Michael Horovitz [CRM]( [Amid high demand, medical cannabis experts hail ‘game-changing’ relaxation of rules]( By Gavriel Fiske Health [Rail construction in Tel Aviv may be behind a surge in rat-related disease cases]( By Renee Ghert-Zand Patients diagnosed with flea-borne typhus and leptospirosis at area hospitals have reported seeing the rodents in their neighborhoods, and even in their homes [Surgeons in Ashdod remove remnants of twin from 12-year-old girl’s swollen abdomen]( By Renee Ghert-Zand Reporter's notebook [At Dead Sea hotels, lasting mental, physical traumas delay homecoming for some evacuees]( By Canaan Lidor Despite challenging conditions, some displaced have rejected government incentives to return, citing lingering security concerns, while others still have no homes to go back to [Rocket-damaged Sderot train station to reopen for first time since May]( By ToI Staff [Over half of southern evacuees back home as officials prep massive rehabilitation push]( By Canaan Lidor and Ariella Oldfield [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( Interview [Intricacies and wonder of prehistoric Israel accessible through an engaging new book]( By Gavriel Fiske From the blogs [A classical Jewish education to rekindle the American spirit]( By Eric Cohen and Elliott Abrams Our new school will revive the lost art of training young minds, hearts, and souls in the best that Western civilization has to offer [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? 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