ToI’s weekly deep dive: Top US rabbi says Trump good for Israel * Fabulous Tel Aviv Pride pix * Chernobyl ’liquidators’ Israeli lives * Dueling Anne Frank diaries

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, June 16, 2019 [When an ex-Fatah Palestinian ‘neighbor’ took up a Zionist author’s challenge]( By [David Horovitz]( [Yossi Klein Halevi wrote a book of ‘Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.’ Here’s what happened when Mohammed Dajani, a hardliner who later took his students to Auschwitz, wrote back]( Analysis [Raphael Ahren]( [Bahrain conference may succeed, but not at bringing Israeli-Palestinian peace]( [Economic meet will bring Israelis and representatives of 6 Arab states together, an extraordinary feat. But don’t expect the same level of support once it’s time to talk politics]( Reporter's notebook [Dancing for ‘a more tolerant world’: Revelers celebrate at Tel Aviv Pride Parade]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [Solidarity, support and a vision of a ‘free’ Israel as 250,000 enjoy Tel Aviv’s ‘biggest party of the year’]( [Interview / Social media both a blessing and curse for LGBT community, ‘Sapiens’ author says]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [How I met your city: Neil Patrick Harris hosts Friday’s Tel Aviv Pride Parade]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Avi Novis-Deutsch]( [This rabbi is flying the Pride flag — and it’s about time]( Interview [Wiesenthal’s Rabbi Marvin Hier praises Trump for being only US leader to deliver]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [About 1 in 15 IDF soldiers were jailed last year — and that’s an improvement]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Some 10,000 troops served time in military prison in 2018, most for minor offenses and the majority from poor backgrounds — and that’s better than in the past]( [38 years later, pilots recall how Iran inadvertently enabled Osiraq reactor raid]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli soldier punished for putting dairy and meat in same fridge on base]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( Op-ed [Ksenia Svetlova]( [1,500 Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ live in Israel. They are appallingly mistreated]( [A 2001 law promised housing, medical care to this group of heroes, but scandalously has never been implemented]( [‘They had no Plan A, no Plan B’ at Chernobyl, says ‘liquidator,’ now in Israel]( By [TOI staff]( Med-Tech [Technion team develops medical glue to replace stitches in serious injuries]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Applied with a glue gun, the melted polymer works both externally and internally, and is nontoxic, flexible and biodegradable, researchers say]( [Antidepressants in old age may increase risk of dementia, Israeli study finds]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli-led research team says curbing liver fat is key to reducing obesity risk]( By [TOI staff]( Inch by inch, row by row [Israeli agriculture courses help developing world students reap what they sow]( By [Emily Fishbein]( New Frontiers [Start-Up Nation Central turns to chefs and urban farming, with in-house bistro]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [L28 stands for 28 Lilienblum Street, the address of the non-profit’s Tel Aviv headquarters, and also of its for-profit restaurant that acts as a chef accelerator]( [Breaking ground, IBM Haifa team holds live robot debate fed by crowd arguments]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Renault, Nissan open innovation lab in Tel Aviv]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Car maker opens research center in Tel Aviv as ‘lifeblood of future Ford’]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( People of the Books [For Anne Frank’s 90th birthday, ‘dueling’ versions of her diary published]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Although her last journal entry was penned 75 years ago, the young writer and her works are still being reinterpreted to craft her literary legacy]( [Author interview / How Hollywood idol Audrey Hepburn helped save Dutch Jews during the Holocaust]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [On the bookshelf / A novel about an older man, told in short stories by a woman]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [How one man unraveled the mystery of his mother’s Holocaust nightmare]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( Asylum seekers in Israel [Eritrean weddings in south Tel Aviv bolster the community, spur commerce]( By [Ido Dagan]( Memorial exhibit [Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz]( By [Bernard Dichek]( [75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British]( [The future of history / Online 1938 Projekt immerses pupils in turning-point year for German Jews]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [The conductor who loves Andalusian music and has a feel for crowd favorites]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Tom Cohen grew up in Beersheba, lives in Brussels, directs orchestras in five countries and is back in Acre for the Arabesque Festival]( [David Seidenberg]( [Roger Waters claims Israeli fans nixed peace. It’s a lie.]( Blog [A mother’s prayer on the occasion of her daughter’s first cell phone]( By [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [Please God let this phone be a tool for her to do good in the world and let her never commit the sin of Duck Face]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved