ToI’s weekly deep dive: Annexation divides Israel * Soros the scapegoat * Regrettable business boom at NY Jewish funeral home * DNA study unlock s Dead Sea Scroll secrets

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, June 7, 2020 Interview [Annexation will mean apartheid, warns Mandela ally who always fought comparison]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Cape Town-born Benjamin Pogrund, an early confidant of Mandela, wrote a book arguing ‘A’ word doesn’t apply to Israel. Now he fears state will become ‘mirror of what apartheid was’]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [The Trump tweet Israel needs: A blur of thumbs to quash unilateral annexation]( [The US president unveiled a shrewd Mideast peace plan. Netanyahu is set to subvert it, turning it into a smokescreen for one-sided action, rendering it a scam. Will Trump step in?]( Reporter's NoteBook [‘It’s a war crime’: Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu annexation bid]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Meretz MK, Joint List leader says move would create ‘apartheid’; Sanders sends video message; police forcefully detain photojournalist covering event, arrest 4 demonstrators]( [Excluded from Netanyahu’s annexation plans, military must somehow prepare anyway]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Interview / A radical settler wages war against annexation — but he is far from alone]( By [Shalom Yerushalmi]( [CRM]( Analysis [Elazar Stern]( [Stop the ‘pay for slay’ payments and put the welfare of Israeli citizens first]( [For the PA, the martyrs’ payments are central to the long war against Israel; for Israel, stopping them is essential to preventing terror and breaking the cycle of conflict]( United States [In Washington, a peaceful anti-racism protest after a week of unrest]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [A few blocks from the White House, Black Lives Matter demonstrators recount their fraught experiences with the police as they demand systemic reforms]( [Rising conspiracy theory claims George Soros behind US unrest, ADL says]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [America is bleeding, I must not turn away]( [Peter Geffen]( [‘Declare a state of moral emergency’]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [At Knesset, virus restrictions keep public worryingly out of sight, out of mind]( [While pools, beaches and bars reopen, parliament remains steadfastly closed to advocacy groups and media, even as it prepares to pass the most important budget bill in decades]( [Analysis / Who runs Israel? A year of deadlock and pandemic shows it’s not the ministers]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( Photo essay [Inside a NY Jewish funeral home where COVID-19 means a regrettable business boom]( By [Jonathan Alpeyrie]( [Gutterman’s Funeral Home director Dominic Carella says he’s seen nothing like the recent doubling in deaths over his 30-year career, and he never wanted to]( [To fight viral blues, elderly in former Soviet bloc prescribed tablet computers]( By [Julie Masis]( [Coronavirus crisis / Excluded from US stimulus, undocumented Israelis afraid to tap into state aid]( By [Noam Haykeen]( StartUp Israel [Israel aiming to enable unprecedented human DNA edits, to help cure illnesses]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Genome editing is promising but imprecise, so Israel is setting up a consortium to make technology more exact; hopes to pave the way for pinpointed tweaks to human DNA]( [Interview / Coronavirus pandemic is fast-tracking a health-tech revolution, expert says]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Groundbreaking Israeli microscope can change the face of tech — scientists]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli disinfectant tunnel may lead way to safer public events during pandemic]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Cyber [In first, Israeli judge rules that binary options victims were ‘defrauded’]( By [Simona Weinglass]( [In civil judgement that could set precedent for future lawsuits from overseas victims of years of fraud, Haifa judge orders B4binary.com owner Shabtay Yaacobi to repay $600,000]( [US National Instruments to buy Israel’s OptimalPlus for $365 million]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ is coming in wake of coronavirus, expert warns]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Iraq’s Jewish sites almost all ruined beyond repair, new heritage report finds]( By [Robert Philpot]( LISTEN: Archaeology [Pioneering DNA study reveals not all Dead Sea Scrolls are from Dead Sea]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Breakthrough paleogenomic analysis of ancient parchment helps prove textual evolution in 2 versions of Book of Jeremiah in 2nd Temple era]( [Archaeology / Scientists ‘set the clock’ for ancient Jerusalem, prove who built Temple bridge]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Archaeology / 1,800 years ago, sages prohibited drinking from this ‘idolatrous’ waterspout]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [With no tourists on the horizon, tour guides scramble to adapt to a new reality]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( World Environment Day [Israeli’s crowdfunding effort seeks to save forests by buying a piece of them]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Uri Shanas provides a platform for those wanting to help the environment, letting them vote on which parcel of threatened land should be purchased for preservation]( [Environment minister unveils ‘green deal’ to kickstart economy sustainably]( By [Sue Surkes]( [New environment minister takes fresh look at contentious waste incinerator plan]( By [Sue Surkes]( [As garbage grows, Knesset committee debates failed efforts to squash litterbugs]( By [Sue Surkes]( Zoom in [Israeli composer gurgles, hums and howls at coronavirus; then his friends join]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [As Milan resident Yuval Avital rides out the pandemic in a tiny Italian village, his seclusion produces a raw expression of sound that grows into an online musical collaboration]( [Locked down? Open up to… eclectic singer-songwriter Riff Cohen]( By [Joy Bernard]( [Culture calls / Several Israeli museums reopen with new exhibits]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( From the Blogs [Farhud Day: Remembering the screams]( By [Rachel Wahba]( [79 years after Muslims rampaged against Jews in Baghdad, killing, maiming, raping and looting, the horrors have yet to be adequately memorialized]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved