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The Weekend Edition

The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, June 18, 2023

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Prof. Mona Khoury, Vice President for Strategy and Diversity, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Sharon Gabay)

ToI podcastWitnessing violence is highest predictor to perpetrating it

What Matters Now to Prof. Mona Khoury: The cycle of violence in Arab communities

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With over 100 Arab Israelis dead through violence in the first half of 2023, this academic says it’s time to stop the blame game and start coming up with a comprehensive plan

Op-ed

Netanyahu loses a key vote. Now a torn, troubled Israel waits for the fallout

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier 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. At the end of a spectacularly tense day in the Knesset, and a vote count that lasted a nail-biting two hours,... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote on the judicial selection panel in the Knesset, June 14, 2023. Tally Gotliv MK is seated at right. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

China's President Xi Jinping and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2023. (Jade GAO / POOL / AFP)

Interview

Having given up on the US, Palestinians look to China to mediate peace with Israel

PA minister Ahmad Majdalani tells ToI that Beijing can use billions in trade as leverage to coax Jerusalem to come to the table as Washington’s influence on the global stage wanes

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ExclusiveSmotrich met with two prominent US Jewish leaders during boycotted March visit

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu finds he’s lost control of the populist tiger he rode to power

Everyone knew how it was supposed to end. “One of the least dramatic days I can remember in the Knesset. You can cut the tension with a Gerber spoon,” quipped the dean of Israeli political commentators, Channel 12’s Amit Segal, on Wednesday morning. A usually simple process — selecting the parliament’s two representatives on the nine-member... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote on the judicial selection panel, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisFor Netanyahu, yesterday’s embarrassment could become tomorrow’s win

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Protesters at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City for a prayer session ahead of an anti-government demonstration, February 13, 2023 (Arie Leib Abrams/FLASH90)

Analysis

‘The more religious, the more support’: Analyzing attitudes to the judicial overhaul

By Itamar Yakir

Israel has grappled with religious tensions since its establishment, but a series of recent surveys show divide over the overhaul is more intense than anything we’ve seen in years

An Israeli soldier closes a gate leading to the Egyptian border in southern Israel, following a shooting attack on June 3, 2023. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Analysis

Wary of harming Israel ties, Egypt looks to bury popular praise for border attack

After deadly incident leaves 3 IDF soldiers dead, Cairo has attempted to prevent gunman Mohamed Salah Ibrahim from being worshiped as a martyr, with limited success

Gergely Gulyas, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, interviewed in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Interview

In Israel, top Orban aide says Russian aggression violates international law

By Lazar Berman

Hungary’s Gergely Gulyas, minister in PM’s office, meets Netanyahu and Dermer, as rumors swirl of embassy move

InterviewMuslim-majority Kosovo wants ‘strategic partnership’ with Israel — former PM

By Lazar Berman

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė's speaks at the American Jewish Committee's Global Forum event in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 11, 2023. (Courtesy of AJC)

In Tel Aviv, Lithuanian PM extols Israel alliance but sidesteps Nazi collaboration

By Canaan Lidor

Judith Colp Rubin

Dear Elizabeth Gilbert: You let me down

You convinced me to conquer my fears; how could you cave to Ukrainians protesting the Russian setting of your new novel?!

What remains of A.B. Yehoshua

The novels of the acclaimed writer who died a year ago manage somehow to offer sparks of hope amidst the chaotic despair

Let them eat rugalach

Our boycott of Angel Bakery was a spontaneous grassroots response to the trampling of our most cherished symbols

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Erasing a fallen Israeli Jewish female soldier

It’s time to see Haredi erasure of women for what it is: disrespect and devaluation of worthy human beings

Tatiana Kovler, a Jewish social worker, is one of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians who had to flee their homes following the rupture of a dam on the Dnipro river in Ukraine on June 6, 2023. (Courtesy of Tatiana Kovler)

As Kherson floods, one evacuee plans return to aid city’s hardy Jewish holdouts

By Canaan Lidor

Journalist and writer Ruth Eglash, whose debut novel, 'Parallel Lines,' launches June 15, 2023 (Courtesy Ariel Jerozolimski)

In teen-driven debut, a news veteran switches to fiction to unravel Jerusalem’s lives

By Jessica Steinberg

Ruth Eglash plumbs her experiences as a veteran reporter in ‘Parallel Lines,’ a novel about three girls whose stories cross on the tracks

Nick Taylor plays in the last round of the Canadian Open in Toronto, June 11, 2023. (Bernard Brault/Golf Canada)

'Oakdale continued to surprise us at every level'

An inconspicuous Jewish country club just became the site of Canadian sports history

Founded in 1926 when private clubs had a strict ‘no Jews allowed’ policy, Oakdale Golf and Country Club has kept a low profile until it hosted this year’s Canadian Open golf event

Members of the 2023 Special Olympics delegation from Israel meet with Israeli Olympic Committee president and past medalist Yael Arad (center), June 8, 2023. (Ben Melnik)

Israel’s 35 Special Olympics athletes are going for gold at games in Berlin

Hapoel Tel Aviv's Jordan Mcrae rises up for a dunk against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Drive-In Arena on June 11, 2023 (Yuval Daniel/Hapoel Tel Aviv BC)

Hapoel Tel Aviv ties basketball finals 1-1 in rowdy, historic beatdown of Maccabi

By Iddo Schejter

Moshe Safdie at the Albert Einstein Education and Research Center in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in 2022. (Courtesy Safdie Architects)

Interview

From Jeddah to Jerusalem, Israel-born Moshe Safdie cements his architectural legacy

By Rich Tenorio

A still from 'Concerned Citizen.' (Courtesy of the Israel Film Center Festival)

Film festival wrap-up

Grab your rugelach and check out this year’s must-watch Israeli films

By Jordan Hoffman

From June 1-8, NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival presented a selection of films that rivals Cannes or Sundance – but here you ran the chance of bumping into your Hebrew teacher

Melissa Rauch as Abby Stone in 'Night Court.' (Elizabeth Morris/NBC/Warner Bros. Television)

InterviewMelissa Rauch on why her ‘Night Court’ is different from all others

By Jacqueline Cutler

Screen capture from video of Gal Gadot in 'Heart of Stone.' (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Peace of the action

Wonder Woman to super spy: Gal Gadot previews new action flick

By Stuart Winer

Israeli actress stars in ‘Heart of Stone,’ produced with her husband, in which she plays an agent for a secret peacekeeping organization trying to save the world

File: Filming at Jerusalem's Sam Spiegel Film School, where a second round of the Series Lab with Netflix was launched in June 2023 (Courtesy Sam Spiegel)

Spiegel's spielNetflix, Jerusalem film school Sam Spiegel launch round two of Series Lab

By Jessica Steinberg

Avi Melamed's 'The Seam Line,' a five-part series about Jerusalem and the first original show for streaming platform Izzy (Courtesy PR)

Forget 'Fauda'In 1st original series, streamer Izzy plumbs Jerusalem’s depths

By Jessica Steinberg

Digital imagery of stem cell-derived embryos created by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in June 2023. (Screen capture/Weizmann Institute of Science)

In breakthrough, Israeli scientists say they synthesized human embryos from stem cells

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Dr. Haim Neria with the longest 'ilan' scroll in the world at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, June 11, 2023. (Uri Barkat)

Israel National Library unveils collection of 36 kabbalistic tree-like ‘maps of God’

By Charlie Summers

At collection opening, NLI says it seeks to illuminate new genre of Jewish research through the ancient scrolls, shed light on mystical teachings for scholars and amateurs

A rendering of the Einstein House planned for Hebrew University's Givat Ram campus; the cornerstone was laid on June 13, 2023 (Courtesy Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Relatively impressiveEinstein archives get new home at Hebrew University

By Jessica Steinberg

A selection of Akkadian cuneiform translated with AI. (courtesy, Gai Gutherz)

Archaeology

Groundbreaking AI project translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform at push of a button

By Melanie Lidman

‘Google Translate’-like program for Akkadian cuneiform will enable tens of thousands of digitized but unread tablets to be translated to English. Accuracy is debatable

A 3,000-year-old figurine of the Egyptian goddess Hathor found on the beach in Palmachim in 2023 (Yuli Shwartz/IAA)

3,000-year-old Egyptian goddess figurine, a good luck symbol, washes up on beach

IAA archaeologist Marwan Masarwah holds a 1,700-year-old anchor in front of a sign advertising the campaign to encourage citizens to return illegally-held antiquities on June 15, 2023. (courtesy IAA)

ArchaeologyNew campaign to anonymously return illegally held antiquities nets thousands of items

By Melanie Lidman

Our moral obligation to Christians in Israel

By Faydra L. Shapiro

There’s a reason Jews shouldn’t spit on Christians. It has nothing to do with where those Christians stand on Israel.

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