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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 16, 2019

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This February 6, 2019, satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows an empty launch pad and a burn mark on it at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province. (DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company via AP)

Iran confirms second failed satellite launch, alleges possible US sabotage

Foreign Minister Zarif tells NBC the ‘same gang’ who pushed for Iraq War are ‘at it again’ by encouraging Trump administration to confront Tehran

Vice President Pence makes first Auschwitz visit, after comparing Iran to Nazis

By Vanessa Gera

Iran general claims Israel, US behind deadly attack on Revolutionary Guards

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI

Hezbollah releases video of deadly 2015 attack on IDF convoy

A picture taken on June 18, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland, shows a general view during the opening of the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. (AFP/Alain Grosclaude)

Record number of reports criticizing Israel said to be released by UN next month

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks to the press near the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, DC on February 6, 2019. (Eric BARADAT / AFP)

EU, Germany reject US call to leave Iran nuclear deal

By David Rising

European officials hit back after Pence criticism, say salvaging 2015 accord ‘fundamental’ to continent’s security

Merkel warns US pullout from Syria risks boosting Iran, Russia

US-backed forces in Syria to declare defeat of IS in coming days

By Maya Gebeily and Rouba El Husseini

New US spending bill includes $200m increase in defense aid to Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Yair Lapid, left, and Benny Gantz. (Flash90)

Yesh Atid wants more clarity from Gantz if merger to go ahead

Members of Lapid’s party say they don’t know where ex-military chief stands on peacemaking, PM graft cases, deny main concern over tie-up is who leads it

Histadrut chairman Avi Nissenkorn seen at the National Labor Court in Jerusalem on December 5, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor union head said set for high spot on Gantz’s Knesset slate

The Labor Party's 'Shabbat Bus.' (Screen capture: YouTube)

Elections committee bars Labor from running free ‘Shabbat bus’

Spike Lee on the set of 'BlacKkKlansman' with Adam Driver, who plays Jewish detective Flip Zimmerman. (David Lee/Focus Features/via JTA)

Spike Lee: Jewish ‘BlacKkKlansman’ character added a lot of ‘complexity’ to film

By Naomi Pfefferman

Fareed Zakaria, a prominent CNN host, wrote in an op-ed that Muslims should be 'particularly thoughtful' when speaking about the Jewish state and people. (Getty Images via JTA)

Fareed Zakaria says Muslims should be ‘thoughtful’ when speaking about Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

CNN host writes that congresswomen Omar and Tlaib ‘squandered an opportunity’ to debate Israeli policies, influence of AIPAC, due to tone of their criticism

Robert-Willem van Norren promoting a boycott of Israel atop an Israel-made mobility scooter in January 2019. (Michael Jacobs via JTA)

Boycott this

Dutch activist promotes BDS on an Israeli-made mobility scooter

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Robert-Willem van Norren mocked by pro-Israel activists for holding anti-Israel protests while sitting on a scooter assembled on a kibbutz

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on local government Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

NY’s de Blasio calls BDS ‘unacceptable’ in speech on anti-Semitism

By JTA

Diana Babish, an ex-banker from the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, carries a dog at the first dog shelter in the West Bank, in the town of Beit Sahour, on August 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Musa Al Shaer)

Palestinian ex-banker’s dogged West Bank animal shelter fights for its life

By Judith Sudilovsky

Heidi Fishman holding up an op-ed she wrote about her family’s rescue from the Holocaust using a Paraguayan passport. (Courtesy of Fishman via JTA)

Researchers unlock the mystery of Polish diplomats who rescued Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

There’s no accountability in Israeli politics

Our politicians aren’t accountable to us, and there’s damn little we can do

Daniel Carmel-Brown

The underreporting of elder abuse

Care services are strictly regulated for a reason — and they’re a better bet than getting your neighbor or cleaner to help out

Signing the agreement on Jan. 24 between the American Jewish Committee and the US Conference of Mayors for AJC to host annual trips to Israel for US mayors (L to R): AJC CEO David Harris, Conference of Mayors CEO Tom Cochran, and Conference of Mayors International Committee Chair Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton. (US Conference of Mayors/ via Dayton Jewish Observer)

Mayors of US cities now have the option of joining an annual trip to Israel

By Marshall Weiss

The AJC has partnered with the US Conference of Mayors to host a yearly organized tour of the Holy Land focusing on hi-tech, education, culture and the Mideast conflict

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Al Pacino, in London on May 18, 2015. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)

American WiesenthalAl Pacino signs up for Nazi hunter series

By AFP

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is seen leaving a meeting in Jerusalem on February 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman threatened state psychiatrists into helping alleged pedophile — report

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

In this February 27, 2018, photo, Malka Leifer, center, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Alleged sex abuser’s former PR guru now working for Benny Gantz

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, on February 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Warning of ‘invasion,’ Trump declares national emergency to build Mexico wall

By Alan Fram, Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller

Police secure the area following a shooting at the Henry Pratt Company on February 15, 2019 in Aurora, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Gunman kills 5 people, wounds 5 policemen at Illinois factory

By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and AMANDA SEITZ

A guard seen outside a Jewish school and synagogue in Los Angeles before shooting the person filming the scene in the leg, on February 14, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

Security guard at LA synagogue arrested for shooting YouTube personality

In this photo from June 15, 2018 Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at US District Court on June 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Manafort faces up to 24 years in jail after breaking plea deal

By AFP

Jussie Smollett, a cast member in the TV series 'Empire,' seen at the Fox Networks Group 2018 programming presentation afterparty in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Suspects in assault on gay black Jewish actor released without charge

Illustrative: An Egyptian soldier patrols outside al-Maza military airport where the bodies of the members of security forces, who were killed in northern Sinai province during an attack the day before, had been flown on January 30, 2015 in the capital Cairo. (photo credit: AFP/ Mohamed el-Shahed)

Egypt: 7 Sinai jihadists killed, 15 soldiers dead or wounded in attack

By AFP

Illustrative: A gravestone daubed with a swastika and the words 'tolerance is weakness' at the Cherkasy Jewish cemetery, Ukraine, May 5, 2017. (Courtesy)

Anti-Semitic images painted on memorial to desecrated Jewish cemetery in Ukraine

By JTA

A group of detained Israelis speak with Ukrainian security guards at Kiev Boryspil International Airport on February 2018, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Dozens of Israelis briefly detained, refused entry at airport in Ukraine

Israeli director Nadav Lapid poses during a photocall for his movie 'Synonyms' at the 69th Berlinale film festival on February 13, 2019, in Berlin. (John MacDougall/AFP)

Israeli drama a frontrunner for top prize at Berlin film festival

By Deborah Cole

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