ToI’s weekly deep dive: ToI in Bahrain * Amnesty officials speak in depth about ’apartheid’ report * 1.5-million-year-old child’s vertebra * Podcast: ’Camp Confidential’

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, February 6, 2022 Beijing 2022 [Israel’s small but proud Olympic delegation takes aim at the Beijing Winter Games]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Four ice skaters and two skiers will represent Israel, while Jewish athletes from the US and Canada will also take to the ice at the 2022 Olympics, starting Friday]( [Israel’s 2022 Olympic bobsled dreams are crushed. But AJ Edelman is not giving up]( By [Amy Spiro]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [The damaging final days of an admirable attorney general]( [Mandelblit worked assiduously to protect the essential interests of justice, democracy and the national good… until almost the very end of his term]( Abraham Accords [Gantz’s Bahrain visit signals to Iran the alliance against it is growing and public]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Defense minister says Israel looking to work with Manama and other ‘moderates’ in the region to combat shared threats, as US shifts focus to Ukraine and Russia]( [Israel signs security memorandum with Bahrain, its 2nd with an Arab nation]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Visiting US fleet in Bahrain, Gantz hails ties while warning of threat from Iran]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( ToI investigates [Lured by cheap prices and luxury digs, Arab Israelis are snapping up West Bank homes]( By [Tal Schneider]( Interview [Lazar Berman]( [Amnesty to ToI: No double standard in accusing Israel, but not China, of apartheid]( [Our diplomatic correspondent conducted a lengthy, mutually frustrating conversation with the Amnesty officials behind the ‘apartheid’ report. We’re publishing it in full]( [‘We do not agree’: UK rejects Amnesty report accusing Israel of apartheid]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Op-ed / Amnesty’s ‘apartheid Israel’ calumny]( By [David Horovitz]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Feb. 2: The big whoop over Amnesty’s ‘apartheid’; Holocaust and race]( By [TOI staff]( Inside story [Why a coalition best suited to fulfill the Kotel compromise has been unable to do so]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Previous lofty promises to finally resolve the dispute have encountered opposition by the government’s more religious members, as well as other realpolitik considerations]( [Biden Year 1 / Putting Mideast on backburner, Biden makes keeping lid on conflict his main goal]( By [Jacob Magid]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Feb. 1 – Who scuttled the Western Wall deal; a price hike backlash]( By [TOI staff]( Exclusive [37 members of extremist cult Lev Tahor leave Bosnia, destination unknown]( By [Yaakov Schwartz]( [Government assures ‘anxious citizens’ that group has gone; uncertain where it will now seek refuge; so-called ‘Jewish Taliban’ follow extreme and in some cases outlawed practices]( Top Ops [David-Seth Kirshner]( [Whoopi’s apology]( [The View’s undignified suspension of its regretful host teaches that owning our misdeeds has more negative consequences than ignoring them does]( [Ariel Beery]( [Six things to do before the next wave]( [National defense planning must extend to fighting a virus that has killed more Israelis than were slain by Hamas in the past 20 years of warfare]( [Mia Raskin]( [What I learned as an observant Jew on a Division I basketball team]( [I always thought keeping Shabbat would get in the way of my playing college ball. Then I hosted the whole team for a traditional Friday night dinner]( [Alon Tal]( [Drawing a line in the sand: A new law to save the seashore]( [One idealistic high school student prevented development on Palmachim Beach. Who will protect the rest of Israel’s coast?]( COronavirus [Israeli study offers strongest proof yet of vitamin D’s power to fight COVID]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Bolstering previous research, scientists publish ‘remarkable’ data showing strong link between vitamin deficiency, prevalent in Israel, and death or serious illness among patients]( [Israel’s serious COVID-19 cases hit all-time high of 1,229]( By [TOI staff]( [Vaccinated, boosted parents slash their kids’ COVID risk — pre-Omicron Israeli study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Jan. 31 – Herzog’s explosive UAE trip; uplifting COVID research]( By [TOI staff]( [CRM]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Will Netflix’s Nazi prisoner animated short become an Oscar nominee?]( By [TOI staff]( [Filmmaker Daniel Sivan talks about the discovery and making of ‘Camp Confidential,’ currently shortlisted for the Academy Awards]( [Stole their hearts / ‘Tinder Swindler’ documentary on Israeli con man hits Netflix]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Helen Mirren: ‘Utterly legitimate’ to question if a non-Jew should play Golda Meir]( By [TOI staff]( Tech Israel [Israel could do more to curb price hikes long-term, says former central bank chief]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [State should open up food market for imports, encourage price transparency, and consumer can be more proactive, suggests Dr. Karnit Flug]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Feb. 3 – No price hikes on Bamba as Osem backs down]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli ‘smart road’ startup to debut wireless charging infrastructure in US]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [ToI investigates / Israeli, German police zero in on alleged scammers behind 24Option investment site]( By [Simona Weinglass]( Religion [Enter the metaverse: Chabad pioneers the first Jewish outpost in a virtual world]( By [Luke Tress]( [Movement’s MANA house will offer education and other services in the Decentraland digital realm, combining new technology and traditional outreach]( [A new kind of chaplain? US Jewish clergy train to support social justice activists]( By [Danielle Ziri]( [In reported first, woman given rabbinical appointment at UK Orthodox community]( By [TOI staff]( Archaeology [Scientists find oldest evidence of humans in Israel — a 1.5 million-year-old bone]( By [Luke Tress]( [An ancient vertebra from an archaic hominin species child gives ‘unambiguous’ evidence of migrations out of Africa, Israeli researchers say]( [Israeli study finds early humans knew to situate hearth in cave’s optimal spot]( By [TOI staff]( [Fantastical papercuts from pre-state Israel inspire video art]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Interview [Lazar Berman]( [‘Our trip created a stronger bond’: Kraft shares memories of Tom Brady in Israel]( [Days after legendary QB retires, Patriots owner tells Times of Israel about their 2006 visit, on which the GOAT fired a gun, was baptized in the Jordan River, and danced the hora]( From the blogs [Confessions of a reluctant dish heiress]( By [Ruth Efroni]( [My mother’s demand that we all decide now what we want to inherit goes against my religion of denial – but I’ll take the pink set]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved