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The Weekend Edition

The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, June 4, 2023

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A British athlete competes in the CrossFit event during the 3rd Veterans Games in Tel Aviv on May 29, 2023. (courtesy Beit Halochem UK)

'Yes we compete, but the most important part is the meeting'

Wounded vets from Israel and the UK test their mettle at 3rd annual Veterans Games

By Melanie Lidman

The three-day event brings together more than 100 Israeli and British military veterans for an athletic competition, sightseeing, and a chance to bond with comrades-in-arms

Op-ed

Echoes of the Judean People’s Front: Monty Python’s in Jerusalem, and it isn’t funny

This Editor’s Note was sent out on Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. There's a scene in "Life of Brian," Monty Python's peerless messianic mistaken identity satire, in which Messrs. Cleese, Palin, Idle et al,... Continue Reading

Israelis protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2023. The banner at right reads: "It's vital to safeguard the common home"; the banner at center reads: "Freedom, equality, kinship." (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, holds a situation assessment with National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, left, Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman, and Military Secretary Avi Gil at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 11, 2023 (Courtesy)

Analysis

Casting wary eye on IAEA, Israel fears US laying groundwork for new Iran deal

Jerusalem worries Washington may be bowing to Iranian demands for a new nuclear pact, and is concerned that Saudi normalization may be used to compensate for its objections

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a conference of the Makor Rishon newspaper at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, February 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia is ‘absolutely possible,’ says ex-Mossad chief

By Lazar Berman

Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar (left) and Ashdod Mayor Yehiel Lasri unveil a memorial for the IAF's first-ever strike mission 75 years ago, at the Ad Halom Park near Ashdod, May 29, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Successful but scrappy: Air Force marks 75 years since its 1st-ever strike mission

By Emanuel Fabian

Surprise attack on Egyptian convoy marching toward Tel Aviv is thought to have changed the course of War of Independence in 1948, despite not hitting its target

50 years after the war‘Egypt, Syria are coordinating’: IDF estimates on eve of Yom Kippur War declassified

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF cyber defense system, three other classified projects win top security prize

By Emanuel Fabian

Israelis opposed to the governmnet's judicial overhaul protest outside the Tikvah Fund's offices in New York City, March 8, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Tikvah Fund alumni urge group to cut support for think tank behind judicial overhaul

In letter, 25 academics ask conservative non-profit to cut ties with Kohelet Policy Forum, saying the organization seeks to ‘subvert Israeli democracy’

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (R) shakes hands with Lord Eric Pickles, part of a delegation from the British House of Lords visiting Israel, May 29, 2023. (ELNET)

Visiting British Lords warn of potential fracture in Israel’s institutions

By Lazar Berman

Portrait of former Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel at his home in Jerusalem, April 17, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court justice Yaakov Turkel dies aged 88

By Jeremy Sharon

The IDF ‘Israel Service’ plan sounds like a good idea. It’s not.

Setting up easy enlistment tracks for Haredi and Arab Israelis would be, complicated, costly and harmful

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

What I could (and couldn’t) see from the women’s section

My year of saying Kaddish brought me and my camera into Orthodox synagogues on weekdays. This is what I saw

Belgium’s shameful, dangerous deal with Iran

The release of a jailed Iranian terrorist to free an aid worker held captive in Teheran spells the return of ‘hostage diplomacy’

Jerusalem is precisely the place for a Gay Pride parade

Proud LGBTQ+ can remind the capital’s inhabitants that acceptance and compassion are not only allowed, they are necessary

People march during the 21st annual Jerusalem Pride Parade on June 1, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

30,000 march in Jerusalem Pride Parade under tight security but without incident

By Jeremy Sharon

National Security Minister Ben Gvir jeered by participants, who shout ‘Nazis out’ at the far-right minister; marchers also call to protect democracy, hold anti-overhaul banners

A police officer blocks a road for visitors of the Kadoorie Synagogue in Porto, Portugal on May 16, 2023. (Eli Mandelbaum/EJA)

Inside story

Porto Jews decry ‘Soviet-style antisemitism’ as lucrative citizenship vetting probed

By Canaan Lidor

Jewish community in coastal Portugal city has flourished, but is now being torn by decision to attack investigation into handling of citizenship process for Jews deemed Sephardic

A French officer stands guard near a synagogue in Marseille on November 3, 2020. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)

Inside storyAs Jewish leaders debate community’s future in Europe, their kids are already leaving

By Canaan Lidor

Rachel Gur, director of public policy at Lobby 99, the public lobby. (Courtesy)

ToI podcast'The cost of living is an eminently solvable problem'

What Matters Now to lobbyist Rachel Gur: Why Israel is so #₪@$! expensive

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Monopoly isn’t just a board game for Lobby 99’s director of public policy. This week, we hear how a mere handful of powerful companies control prices in almost every sector

Dan Ahdoot, in his New York baseball cap, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2023 (DH / Times of Israel)

Interview

Comedy for Koby’s Dan Ahdoot: Why Falafel Phil and over-tipping hold the keys to peace

By David Horovitz

Robbie Williams performs in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2023. (Koko/Flash90)

Concert review

Robbie Williams at Tel Aviv show: ‘You have something incredibly f*cking special here’

By Charlie Summers

In energetic, lively concert for audience of tens of thousands, UK pop star touts his Jewish wife, kids and Hebrew tattoo, gushes about Israeli duet partner Noga Erez

British pop star Robbie Williams, right, and Israeli singer Noga Erez in Tel Aviv, May 31, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Fast friendsRobbie Williams bonds with Noga Erez ahead of Tel Aviv show

By Jessica Steinberg

Chen Zimbalista conducts a concert in Kiryat Shmona on May 22, 2023. (Leonid Novikov)

Galilee street concert offers respite from locals’ polarization surrounding overhaul

By Canaan Lidor

'My Happy Ending,' Israeli film starring Andie MacDowell and in Israeli theaters as of June 1, 2023. (Courtesy)

Andie MacDowell stars in Israeli film about life choices, based on Cameri play

By Jessica Steinberg

Almanya Narula, Nyani Totty and Sheer Aviram in the West Coast production of playwright Wendy Kout's 'Survivors,' May 2023 (Photo: Katherine Kohl)

Holocaust

Inspired by ‘Hamilton,’ diverse docudrama based on survivor testimony is touring US

By Matt Lebovic

In under an hour, ‘Survivors’ touches on Nazi racial laws, Kristallnacht, and the Kindertransport rescue. ‘The survivors in the play are warning us,’ says playwright Wendy Kout

Germany created the Warsaw ghetto to imprison and starve more than 400,000 Jews during World War II. (Public domain)

HolocaustJewish doctors’ secret study of Warsaw ghetto starvation rediscovered 80 years later

By Matt Lebovic

Installing solar panels on a roof. (Elenathewise, iStock at Getty Images)

Switch to greener economy could generate 12,000 jobs, new research says

Growth in sectors such as waste recycling, repair services likely to have a particularly positive impact in Israel, according to paper prepared for annual Eli Hurvitz confab

Israel officially recognizes Energean’s Katlan reservoir as natural gas discovery

By Sharon Wrobel

Startup guru Vardi warns ‘there will be no high-tech or foreign currency’

By Sharon Wrobel

Natural ColoringIsraeli research finds cleaning shrimps’ stripes key to better whitening agents

Woman hands burning white sage. (iStock photo/ ninelutsk)

Interview

Check yourself before you hex yourself: An expert’s guide to the evil eye

By Rich Tenorio

The interactive globe at the newly renovated Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem, reopening June 1, 2023 (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)

Modern and ancient coexist in $50 million Tower of David renovation

By Jessica Steinberg

Museum in age-old citadel becomes capital’s official gateway to the Old City

From Hilla Ben-Ari's video 'Seed,' for Videonale #1 in Haifa, through June 2023 (Courtesy Mediterranean Biennale)

Framed differentlyHaifa artworks can be seen on the way to work (or school)

By Jessica Steinberg

One of humorist Dudi Shamai's illustrations; his solo exhibit 'There IS Such a Creature' opens Holon's Beit Meirov Gallery, June 2-August 31, 2023 (Courtesy Dudi Shamai)

In the pictureCreatures large and small draw caricaturist’s attention

By Jessica Steinberg

When the words came back to me

What Clara offered was Hebrew lessons in exchange for babysitting. But what she gave me was a place that felt like home

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