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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 19, 2018

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New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses supporters at a fundraiser on August 2, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Seymour Reich: Israeli gov't policies are costing support

As pro-Palestinian pols win primaries, US Jews ask if it’s ‘a wave or a ripple’

By Eric Cortellessa

In recent weeks, three Democratic candidates highly critical of Israel have won elections; Jewish Democratic leaders deny a broader trend

Democrat Ilhan Omar, the US's first Somali-American legislator who won her party's congressional primary, August 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)

Interview

AP and ToI Staff

Somali-born Muslim-American Congress candidate wants to ‘instill hope in people’

Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar once called Israel an ‘apartheid regime’ but more recently came out against the BDS movement and affirmed her belief in Jewish state’s right to exist

PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivering a speech on August 15, 2018. (WAFA)

Abbas: If PA not handed control of Gaza, Hamas must take full responsibility

Palestinian leader says territories must be under ‘one law,’ vows to call on UN General Assembly to condemn Israel for its nation-state law

Abbas rejection of possible Israel-Hamas truce said to create tension with Egypt

Israel closes north Gaza border crossing

Israel media reviewThe cost of quiet: 9 things to know for August 19

By Tamar Pileggi

Demonstrators hold up signs at a Tel Aviv rally demanding security for residents of Israel's south on August 18, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Protesters release balloons, lie on ground to mimic attacks

‘Not cannon fodder’: South Israel residents march to demand quiet on Gaza border

As possible cease-fire takes shape, hundreds at Rabin Square protest say they won’t tolerate continuation of airborne arson attacks torching their fields

AnalysisWhy a true long-term deal for the Gaza Strip is still a long way off

By Avi Issacharoff

Local residents of the West Bank village of Ras Karkar examine olive trees damaged by suspected Israeli extremists, August 19, 2018. (Iyad Haddad/B'Tselem)

Palestinians hit by reported wave of vandalism after apparent hit-and-run

Hundreds of uprooted olive trees found in Palestinian villages over weekend in suspected hate crimes following Israeli woman’s death on West Bank road

Ben Deri, center, a Border Police officer accused of shooting to death a Palestinian man during clashes in Betunia in the West Bank, seen during a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court doubles sentence of Israeli cop who killed Palestinian teen

Graffiti reading "Jerusalem Arabs are terrorists, Havat Gilad" is seen in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on August 18, 2018. (Ir Amin)

East Jerusalem neighborhood vandalized in suspected hate crime

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets US National Security Adviser John Bolton at the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, August 19, 2018. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu welcomes ‘true friend’ Bolton to Jerusalem for Iran talks

US national security adviser in Israel for talks on ‘how to push back against Iranian aggression in the region,’ Israel’s PMO says

6:33 pm

Iran appoints former F-14 Tomcat pilot as air force chief
6:22 pm

Jewish Labour group says leaders censored material on anti-Semitism
5:59 pm

Netanyahu welcomes 'true friend' Bolton to Jerusalem for Iran talks

Linoy Ashram of Israel performs her clubs routine during in 2017 (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

After breaking world record, Israeli gymnast Ashram bags 2nd gold medal

In World Challenge Cup in Minsk, 19-year-old talent wins clubs competition, clinches bronze in balls phase after winning all-round phase on Saturday

Linoy Ashram of Israel performs her clubs routine during in 2017 (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram sets world record at World Cup, wins gold

An Adolf Hitler lookalike attends a demonstration commemorating the 31st anniversary of the death of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, in Berlin Saturday, Aug 18, 2018. Hess died 1987 in a prison in Berlin. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)

Hundreds of neo-Nazis, including a Hitler lookalike, march in Berlin

By AP

Police remove left-wing demonstrators who stage protests along route, throwing stones and bottles

Stefanie Weisman

4 things to do before heading off to college

You can make the transition meaningful if you don't get lost in the textbooks and bed sheet sizes

Would you wear a Holocaust number around your neck?

How to transmit historical memory is not just a matter for the children and grandchildren of Shoah survivors

Mr. Lauder, you break it, you bought it

Since you helped fund Netanyahu's political career, how about putting your money where your mouth is to help fix things

Yossi Kuperwasser

Does Israel have a strategy for Gaza?

Spoiler Alert: Contrary to what everyone thinks, Israel has a strategy regarding Gaza, at least for the short and medium term

A Brainsway device in action. (photo credit: courtesy)

Israeli OCD treatment gets FDA green light for US marketing

By Shoshanna Solomon

Brainsway’s device, which magnetically stimulates nerve cells in the brain, said to provide patients with ‘another option’ when traditional treatment fails

Art photographer Ron Amir (L) and curator Noam Gal stand next to a picture from the exhibition on migrants, "Somewhere in the Desert," at the Israel Museum storage room in Jerusalem on July 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Migrants go unseen in Israeli photographer’s exhibition set to open in Paris

By Jonah Mandel

Arnold Zeligman, left, teaching Hebrew to Bella Regimov, wearing head cover, and other students at The Jewish House in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 18, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Sale of Azerbaijan’s Jewish center is a painful blow to a dwindling community

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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2018 Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai performs at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on May 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netta’s ‘Toy’ hits No. 1 on Billboard’s top dance club tracks

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, before leaving for the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Over 2 million Muslims kick off annual hajj pilgrimage

An assailant armed with a knife is seen attempting to stab a policeman in Jerusalem's Old City, August 17, 2018 (Israel Police)

Court extends detention of 3 suspects in Jerusalem attempted stabbing

Illustrative: Woods near Zichron Yaakov (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Human remains discovered in woods in northern Israel

A broker at the Tel Aviv Stock exchange. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel Securities Authority approves TASE stake sale to New York-based Manikay

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to an unidentified pilot during a ceremony to unveil Iran's newest fighter jet, the Qaher-313, in Tehran, Iran, February 2, 2013 (AP/Mehr News Agency/Younes Khani)

Iran says it will unveil new fighter jet, continue developing missiles

Illustrative: A GoFundMe fundraising page seeking to raise enough money to buy Twitter and ban US President Donald Trump from the platform. (Screen capture: GoFundMe)

Trump alleges social media ‘censorship’ of conservatives

By AFP

Destroyed houses in Khorramshahr, Iran during the Iran-Iraq War (YouTube screenshot)

Tehran museum lionizes 1980s war in which Iran took on ‘whole world’

By Marc Jourdier

File photo of former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, left, who won the Nobel Prize in 2001, with late Israeli president Shimon Peres, 1994 Nobel Prize winner, during a conference in Petra, Jordan, 15 May 2007. (AFP/Khalil MAZRAAWI)

Israel mourns late UN chief who ‘opposed attempts to delegitimize Jewish state’

By ToI Staff and AFP

An ultra-Orthodox woman is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on July 3, 2018, under charges of abusing her children by injecting them with insulin to making false claims of diabetes for National Insurance money. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Woman indicted for child abuse after allegedly injecting son with insulin

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, on August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health head says crisis ‘under control’ as number of leptospirosis cases hits 42

An illustrative image of an anaphylaxis auto injector for allergy reactions (CarrieCaptured; iStock by Getty Images)

Teva shares jump as drugmaker gets nod for generic version of allergy EpiPen

By Shoshanna Solomon

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