The Times of Israel

Elisheva Levy, Jerusalem's fairy godmother On this week's Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman who has made a home for everyone in her whimsical British tea house Read more: https://toi.li/PFNfLm

Milk from seeds: Israeli scientists produce key dairy protein from safflower plant Hebrew University researchers say beta-casein, which helps cheese melt, can be found in 'cream' pressed from seeds, eradicating need for cows, and slashing costs and livestock emissions Read more: https://toi.li/kluIa1

IDF says tank in Gaza hit by explosive device in 'grave' truce violation; no soldiers injured Read more: https://toi.li/PddG3m

3 IDF soldiers seriously wounded in overnight Hezbollah attack, PMO announces, says army responded with strike on 'terror headquarters' Read more: https://toi.li/7YK16Q

Opinion: Was the shofar born in silence? Ann D. Koffsky The sound of the ram’s horn we blow on Rosh Hashana is not only a ringing summons but also a way to all out when words fail us Read more: https://toi.li/zF3XQ0

Opinion: 83 years since the Bialystok Ghetto Revolt: We are still here Shane Shmuel My grandparents defied the Nazis and survived to pass a message of courage and pride from one generation to the next Read more: https://toi.li/BHj5nX

Opinion: The next global trade map could run through Israel — or around it Dan Perry War froze a plan to connect India, the Gulf and Europe through Haifa just as attacks on shipping made it more vital. Israel must act now to keep itself on the route Read more: https://toi.li/Sxeyt0

Opinion: Can Jared Kushner get Hamas disarmament moving? David Makovsky In a trip to the Mideast this week, the US envoy must put forward practical steps to keep the Gaza ceasefire from unraveling Read more: https://toi.li/1JRQaB

'Wizards': Does animated 1977 art film belong in the canon, or in the geniza? ToI's movie maven and deputy editor discuss the completely bizarre mixed-medium movie that wrestles with magic, boobies, evil Nazis and Hitler 5,000 years in the future Read more: https://toi.li/qIjp2O

'Annihilation through work': London exhibit highlights overlooked story of slave labor in WWII 'Nazi Slave Labor: Perpetrators and Victims,' which runs at the Wiener Holocaust Library through the end of October, explains how integral forced workers were in Germany's wartime economy Read more: https://toi.li/9NwIFT

Assailant disrupts Shabbat service at NYC synagogue, headbutts guard Read more: https://toi.li/4dUxEp

Ballot battlefield takes shape as sides tussle over voters homebound and homeward bound Experts say disputes over alleged efforts aimed at suppressing or targeting voters cut to the heart of the democratic process in a way that makes the October election among Israel's most consequential Read more: https://toi.li/VkPVxO

Police locate Israeli mother and daughter in Argentina, week after they were last seen in Vienna Read more: https://toi.li/wRtp54

Austrian police: Israeli women, who haven't been seen in a week, left country willingly Read more: https://toi.li/J8PC9h

Opinion: 7 questions to Haredi leaders on not drafting to the Israeli army Yehuda Gellman Ultra-Orthodox rabbis relate to the IDF and to the possibility of their own drafting in ways that seem to undermine the very Torah they say they are protecting Read more: https://toi.li/TZALXS

Opinion: Justice, justice shall you pursue — preferably after coffee Talyah Ginsberg Elul’s court means we must first give up our double-standards and only then demand leaders who do more than look thoughtful in photos (Shofetim) Read more: https://toi.li/IUvyOw

Bjorn Lomborg: Energy, climate, and the fight for a better world The Iran war emphasized how reliant we are on fossil fuels; a leading Danish thinker explains how we should think about energy needs, global warming, and the welfare of mankind Read more: https://toi.li/KiNxKC

Amid Qusra chaos, Katz asserts he will transfer civilian enforcement in West Bank from IDF to police Read more: https://toi.li/npyFq0