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The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, June 25, 2023

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Ofri Meoded Danon and his mother celebrate his bar mitzvah at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel in May 2023. (Courtesy of Meoded Danon)

Inside Story

Red tape keeps non-Orthodox worshipers a stone’s throw from the Western Wall

By Canaan Lidor

5 years after stone collapse at holy site, authorities have yet to reopen access to Wall at egalitarian section; religious activists argue delay is deliberate

Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Courtesy Office of the President of Ukraine)

Ukraine War

Zelensky chief of staff: Only Israel can provide what we need against Iranian drones

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Andriy Yermak says Kyiv also still wants Israeli weapons to rebuff Russian invasion, ‘cannot understand’ how Netanyahu has yet to visit

Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska (second from right) and First Lady Michal Herzog (right) tour the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan on June 19, 2023. (Courtesy)

‘We cannot cope alone’: Ukraine’s first lady hopes for medical ties with Israel

By Renee Ghert-Zand and ToI Staff

Diplomacy

‘Not alone in the driver’s seat’: US thinks Netanyahu has lost control of coalition

WASHINGTON -- In just about every one of the interviews Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducted with foreign press after he returned to power six months ago, the premier has had to answer how he would manage his far-right coalition partners. "They joined me. I didn’t join them, and I direct policy," Netanyahu told CNN in... Continue Reading

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Negev Forum steering committee poses for a photo in Abu Dhabi on January 10, 2022. (Foreign Ministry)

ExclusiveMorocco cancels next month’s Negev Forum over Israeli settlement announcements

Newly elected head of the Israeli Bar Association Amit Becher at a press conference for the announcement of the election results for the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv, June 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Judicial Overhaul

Winning bar contest, Becher spoils coalition hope of controlling judge picks, for now

By Jeremy Sharon

Victorious new Israel Bar Association chair says his election will go down as ‘an important chapter in the history of Israeli democracy’

Lawyers vote in the Israel Bar Association election at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem, June 20, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hours after losing battle for Bar Association, Likud moves to void its power

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

An Arab teacher in a Jewish school. (Courtesy: Merchavim Institute)

Inside story

Jewish schools need staff, Arab teachers need jobs – but it’s not so simple

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Only 1,200 Arab educators are employed in Jewish public schools, where there are numerous vacancies. But to succeed in Jewish schools, they need a lot more than good Hebrew

The Democratic Party’s anti-Zionist wing is growing. Here’s how

Israel supporters should look carefully at the New York political scene – and they should be alarmed. Very alarmed.

Amichai Eliyahu

I had good reason to criticize the Bank of Israel governor

Prof. Yaron is welcome, and even obligated, to make tough statements about government policy – just not on CNN

Occupation is what drives Israel’s anti-democratic forces

Without addressing 56 years of undemocratic practices used to control Palestinians and expand settlements, the protest can’t win

Hussain Abdul-Hussain

The one place in the Middle East where minorities are thriving

Those who accuse Israel of ’ethnic cleansing’ should look elsewhere in the region – especially Lebanon

Yesh Atid lawmaker Orna Barbivai announces her run for Tel Aviv mayor, from an event space overlooking the Tel Aviv Municipality, June 21, 2023. (Credit: Elad Gutman)

Calling for fresh blood and liberalism, MK Barbivai launches Tel Aviv mayor campaign

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Religious supervision at a fruit and vegetable company, March 20, 2016 (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Religion

High Court says Rabbinate must review exclusion of competitor’s kosher certification

By Canaan Lidor

Court rules in favor of a petition by the Tzohar rabbinical group against its exclusion from labeling imported goods

Social worker Tami Gross, who was instructed to cover up with a cloak at the Haifa Rabbinic Court, June 21, 2023. (Mavoi Satum)

Woman says she was ‘degraded’ by rabbinic court’s order to wear a cloak to cover up

Jewish extremists from the Or l'Achim and Lehava organizations scuffle with police outside a Messianic Jewish convention in Jerusalem, June 22, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Jewish extremists try to interrupt Messianic Jewish event in Jerusalem

By Michael Horovitz

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters poses for photographers during a press conference to present 'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains,' in Rome, January 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Wish you weren’t here: In Toronto, a group takes a stand against a Pink Floyd exhibit

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of the research division in the IDF’s Military Intelligence division and former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs outside the Nomi Studios in Jerusalem, June 21, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

ToI podcast'These are wolves that were bred through incitement'

What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

Sigmund Freud's visitors' room couch. (Hertha Hurnaus/ Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung)

In Vienna, updated Freud Museum slips in an exhibition space and Holocaust memorial

By Rich Blaustein

From 'Minefield,' one of the upcoming performances at the 62nd Israel Festival, August 1-11, 2023 (Courtesy Carlos Furman)

Culture

‘The answer to what, why, how’: Israel Festival returns this summer

By Jessica Steinberg

Annual Jerusalem arts and culture event is loaded with household name performers from Israel and abroad

Stripe showAt 71, a dancer tangos with time for comeback after 30 years

By Jessica Steinberg

Restaurant reviewVegan cheese perches on dough in a pepperoni pizza for kosher consumers

By Jessica Steinberg

Closing chapter, National Library holds last hurrah in Hebrew U jewel it called home

By Jessica Steinberg

International fashion model Ellie Goldstein (Courtesy)

InterviewAt birth, doctors warned her parents she wouldn't walk, talk

How a 21-year-old UK model with Down syndrome became a global face for inclusivity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Recently seen on the cover of British Vogue and an inspiration for a new Barbie doll, at only 5 feet and born with a disability, Ellie Goldstein is not your average supermodel

Shalom and Esti Yaniv (left and center) and their daughter Kama meet with Ron Carmeli, who received a donated cornea from Hillel and Yagel Yaniv. Beilinson Hospital, June 18, 2023. (Tamar Cohen)

Health

Families of terror victims Yaniv brothers, Lucy Dee meet recipients of their corneas

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The eyesight of 6 Israelis has been restored thanks to donated eye tissue transplanted at Beilinson Hospital and Hadassah Medical Center; ‘It was incredibly emotional,’ says doctor

Illustrative image of a scientist in a lab (anyaivanova; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel Science Foundation announces new program to support physician-researchers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

(Left to right) Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, director general of Sheba Medical Center; Mohamed Al Khaja, UAE ambassador to Israel; and Rashid Al Qubaisi, group chief corporate officer at PureHealth, in June 2023. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

Sheba Medical Center enters partnership with largest UAE healthcare system

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ben Silverman plays in the first round of the Canadian Open in Toronto, June 8, 2023. (Bernard Brault/ Golf Canada)

Interview

Former underdog turned Maccabiah gold winner swings home to golf in Canadian Open

A woman checks the bill at a supermarket. (M Stock, iStock photos at Getty Images)

Environment

International review finds Israel can do more to donate surplus food to needy

Global Food Donation Policy Atlas report recommends more tax breaks, legislative support to help put to good use some of the 2.6 million tons of food lost or wasted annually

Zero-waste company delivers dry groceries without throwaway packaging

Ministry finds most electronic waste treatment sites are violating environment laws

Rare shark spotted close to Eilat beach, week after deadly attack in Egypt

By Michael Horovitz

An example of fibers dyed using the purple color from sea snails. (courtesy Jonathan Gottlieb)

ArchaeologyDye is so strong it can stay fixed for thousands of years

Purple from Holy Temple objects traced to snail guts at 3,000-year-old Haifa factory

By Melanie Lidman

Archaeologists uncover new evidence at a Phoenician dye factory that suggests the site was conquered by Israelites around the mid-9th century BCE

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