ToI’s weekly deep dive: UN-linked report – No famine in Gaza * Why Israel is no closer to its war goals * Earliest account of Jesus’ childhood * Podcast: Haviv Rettig Gur

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, June 30, 2024 Reporters Notebook [As their stay at the Dead Sea ends, Be’eri evacuees look to the future, with hope]( By Gavriel Fiske In August, after 10 months in hotels, most Kibbutz Be’eri members will relocate to a temporary neighborhood in a kibbutz outside Beersheba until their homes are rebuilt Op-Ed David Horovitz [Evading national service in the Jewish state is the opposite of authentic Judaism]( Belatedly outlawed by the High Court, the norm under which the Haredi community is excluded from its responsibilities is an indefensible aberration and a betrayal of Jewish values [In historic ruling, High Court says government must draft Haredi men into IDF]( By Jeremy Sharon [Key food security org finds no famine in Gaza, says previous assumptions wrong]( By Jeremy Sharon UN-linked IPC finds no mortality data to prove famine is present, but states a ‘high risk of famine’ remains, describing food insecurity situation in Gaza as ‘catastrophic’ [Israel rejects UN war crimes claim: Hamas turned ‘large parts of Gaza into combat sites’]( By Jeremy Sharon Analysis Lazar Berman [Rafah operation and Gaza war are winding down; Israel is no closer to its goals]( Netanyahu faces an unclear path to defeating Hamas, getting the hostages back, deterring Hezbollah and staying in power; US goals, and Biden’s future, are in question as well [Explainer / As war with Hezbollah looms, concerns over vulnerability of power grid generate unease]( By Sue Surkes [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing June 30: Day 268 – Is Biden up to the task of steering the Gaza war?]( By ToI Staff Inside story [US, Israel see easing of Gaza fighting as Hezbollah ‘off-ramp’ to avoid war]( By Jacob Magid IDF drawdown in Strip may suffice for Lebanese terror group to end attacks that have put sides on cusp of all-out conflict, officials say, with Gaza ceasefire still elusive [Inside story / Egypt, UAE prepared to participate in postwar Gaza security force — officials]( By Jacob Magid [Interview / Visiting US Senator Fetterman: No to any deal that leaves Hamas in power]( By Lazar Berman ToI podcast [What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The rebellion from within Likud]( By ToI Staff ToI’s senior analyst discusses the ruling party’s paralysis in the current coalition even as a new ‘fantasy’ right-wing team rises in the polls Top Ops Mark Cohn [The anguished dilemma of a Reform rabbi]( Jews are a particular people with a universal message – If we abandon our particularity, we risk losing ourselves Shervin Eli Natan [Los Angeles, you have failed us Jews]( If your mayor wants to prevent anarchy, her government cannot be lax when it comes to those who commit crimes against the Jewish community Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky [Double standards on display: Israel, the UN and children]( 4 findings that call into question the stark conclusions of the UN Children and Armed Conflict Report that blacklisted Israel for violating children’s rights Avigail Knoll [Can the Haredim and IDF peacefully co-exist?]( Let’s be honest: The army has broken promises to ultra-Orthodox soldiers, and Yeshiva students aren’t all Torah scholars Diaspora [In Chile, a pro-Palestinian campus occupation turns witch hunt for ‘Zionist’ faculty]( By Canaan Lidor Feeling abandoned by the university, at least two pro-Israel lecturers are preparing to leave UMCE in Santiago over fears for their safety amid student agitation [Some Jewish Columbia students see no end to campus antisemitism after DA closes case]( By Cathryn J. Prince Analysis Canaan Lidor [In snap election, many French Jews reluctantly endorse far right over dreaded far left]( As Macron sends voters to the polls on Sunday, unprecedented levels of antisemitism after October 7 have prominent Jews reluctantly backing a party founded by a Holocaust denier [Those We Have Lost]( [Those We Have Lost]( [Stories of civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas's onslaught on Israel]( [Read Here]( [Second Tel Aviv branch of Cafe Otef creates employment for southern evacuees]( By Jessica Steinberg [‘A wounded landscape’: New photo exhibit captures life in Israel’s south, then and now]( By Jessica Steinberg Historian and amateur photographer Dana Arieli created ‘The Photographer of Things — Southern Album,’ a new exhibit at Petah Tikva Museum of Art that tells the story of the south [Those We Are Missing]( [The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown]( [Read Here]( Science [Israeli researchers chance upon new type of glass that can fix its own cracks]( By Diana Bletter By dropping peptide powder in water, Tel Aviv University-led team says it developed a material that is easier to make, more durable and more transparent than conventional glass Inside story Harry Saunders [How a Brooklyn dentist almost formed a Jewish homeland in pre-WW II China]( Seeing a land free of antisemitism, Albert Einstein and Chinese leaders pushed plans to settle 100,000 Jews fleeing Nazis in Yunnan, the Himalayan foothills of China’s hinterland Archaeology [1,600-year-old papyrus fragment contains earliest account of Jesus’ childhood]( By Gavriel Fiske From the Blogs [Please, look now]( By Yael Leibowitz The day You hid Your face from us, God, we found ourselves. 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