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What Matters Most On Monday, August 20, 2018

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Gershom Sizomu, religious leader of the Abayudaya, in 2003. (Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

Exclusive

Uganda Jews head to 1st Birthright trip, part-funded by gov’t that rejects them

By Yaakov Schwartz

Newly elected CEO of PepsiCo, Ramon Laguarta (right), and SodaStream's Daniel Birnbaum at the signing of the acquisition deal, August 20, 2018, at SodaStream's offices in Israel (Lens Productions)

US PepsiCo to buy Israel’s SodaStream for $3.2 billion in cash

By Shoshanna Solomon

Transaction is subject to a SodaStream shareholder vote, regulatory approvals; closing is expected by January

Ossuary in Peki'in cave (Mariana Salzberger, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Missing link

Anomalous blue-eyed people came to Israel 6,500 years ago from Iran, DNA shows

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Op-ed

Corbyn, who sought Israel’s demise, is an anti-Semite. Labour must kick him out

He backed a group that called ‘to eradicate Zionism’; he’s likened Israeli policy to the Nazis’; his party can’t accept the world definition of anti-Semitism because he breaches it

Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn waves as he arrives at party headquarters in London, Friday, June 9, 2017, after the general elections (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (second right) attends a 2012 conference in Doha along with several Palestinian terrorists convicted of murdering Israelis. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Labour head Corbyn sat on panel alongside Hamas terror leaders in 2012

Jeremy Corbyn addresses the crowd in Trafalgar Square in London, England, July 13, 2018. (Niklas Hallen/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jewish UK Labour group says leaders censored material on anti-Semitism

By JTA

Jordan's King Abdullah II (L) and US First Lady Melania Trump (R) listen while US President Donald Trump makes a statement for the press before a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House June 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump said to tell Jordan king: Israel will have a PM named Mohammed if no deal

Israel’s Channel 10 claims the US president made the prediction half-jokingly after Abdullah warned that many young Palestinians now want ‘one state with equal rights’

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits a Patriot missile intercepting battery stationed in northern Israel, on August 2, 2018. (Basel Awidat/ Flash90)

Defense minister: Israel’s ‘endgame’ in Gaza is the toppling of Hamas

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for US President Donald Trump, speaks at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and Democracy in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2018. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik)

Ode on a Trumpian spurn‘Truth isn’t truth’ Giuliani philosophizes, defending Trump

By AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, flanked by his two sons Yasser, left, and Tarek, right, gives a short statement before leaving a Ramallah hospital on May 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas’s son said to tell US envoy he opposes two-state solution

By Alexander Fulbright

Report quotes Tarek Abbas saying as he doesn’t believe deal for two states is possible, he prefers one state with equal rights for all

6:03 pm

Likud MK suspected of graft said to claim PM would make him police minister
5:29 pm

Abbas's son said to tell US envoy he opposes two-state solution
5:13 pm

Firefighters extinguish blaze sparked by Gaza balloon

In this April 13, 2014 file photo, Lana Del Ray performs at the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, in Indio, California. ( Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)

Singer Lana Del Rey says playing Israel is not a political act

Musician says decision to play Meteor Festival next month does not signal support for government policies, after apparent backlash from fans

Actor Gal Gadot attends the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York City on January 9, 2018. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for National Board of Review/AFP)

Gal Gadot among 10 highest-paid actresses in the world

Jake Tapper attends Politicon at The Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. (Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Interview

PODCAST: Hear how CNN anchor Jake Tapper tackles truth in the Trump era

By Eric Cortellessa

Pomegranates sold for the upcoming Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on September 8, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Preliminary study finds pomegranate juice may lower fetal brain damage risk

Haifa team finds that pregnant rats who drank the nectar showed significant reduction in susceptibility to dangerous inflammation in themselves and their embryos

Peace activisim in the West Bank

How meeting with ’the other’ is changing the lives of people on both sides

Samantha Rush Soclof

Not just for those with disabilities

The keyboard, telephone, internet, and even Siri all started out as tools of accessibility

Uri Avnery seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in 2014 (FLASH90)

Trailblazing peace activist, writer, and former MK Uri Avnery dies at 94

By ToI Staff and AP

Left-wing leaders eulogize activist, who was one of Israel’s strongest peace proponents for decades, and is believed to have been the first to champion Palestinian statehood

US National Security Adviser John Bolton (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem, August 20, 2018 (PMO screenshot)

In Jerusalem, Bolton and Netanyahu blast ‘wretched,’ ‘disastrous’ Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US national security adviser says Washington pushing Europe to take more aggressive stance on Tehran; PM: ‘Everyone in the region’ grateful for Trump’s decision to leave accord

Meeting Netanyahu, Bolton says Iran tops list of challenges facing US, world

Israel media reviewIran on the menu: 7 things to know for August 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Iranians rage against elites’ nepotism, corruption in social media campaign

More Headlines

Roni Cohen. (screen capture: Hadashot news)

Thousands get swabbed in race to save bride-to-be with leukemia

Illustrative photo of Israelis camping at a nature party in the Mount Carmel forest, June 16, 2012. (Alana Perino/Flash90)

3 suspects to be indicted over soldier’s 2017 death at rave

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians queue in front of the Interior Ministry branch in East Jerusalem, July 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

83 arrested in East Jerusalem in suspected Interior Ministry scheme

Activists and supporters of the Druze community in Israel protest against the national-state law recently passed by the Knesset for its ostensible discrimination against the community, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on August 4, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Druze protest nation-state law in seventh petition to High Court

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers guard on the border with the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli troops come under fire along Gaza border; no injuries

Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Yedioth Ahronoth editor quits amid probe into Netanyahu quid-pro-quo

In this file photo taken on May 19, 2018 Italian actress Asia Argento arrives for the closing ceremony and the screening of the film "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (AFP PHOTO / Loic VENANCE)

Weinstein accuser Asia Argento paid teen who made sex assault claim — report

By AFP

American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson (sitting R), his wife Miriam with President Reuven Rivlin (standing middle) and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L) at the ceremony for a medical school at Ariel University in the West Bank, on August 19, 2018. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Overcoming opposition to West Bank location, Ariel U inaugurates medical school

President Reuven Rivlin, left, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, right, at a conference for regional education department heads in Jerusalem on February 28, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

President, ministers flooded with calls after activist posts their phone numbers

By JTA and ToI Staff

Medics attempt to resuscitate a man at an unauthorized beach in Ashdod on August 19, 2018. (Israel Police)

Man drowns at Ashdod beach after trying to save woman

By Michael Bachner

The body of a man who tried to attack a police station is carried out of the premises in Cornella near the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona on August 20, 2018. (LLUIS GENE/AFP)

Spanish police treating Barcelona would-be stabbing as terror attack

Illustrative photo of the Yehudiya River in the Golan Heights. (Phil Sussman /Flash90)

Water company flushes northern rivers to clear leptospirosis bacteria

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