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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 14, 2019

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Education Minister Rafi Peretz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education minister says his comments on gay conversion therapy were distorted

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Amid outrage and calls for his dismissal, Rafi Peretz insists he ‘does not support’ controversial practice, but has referred students who asked for it and saw it was possible

Illustrative: Participants take part in the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, on August 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Calls grow for education minister’s ousting over gay conversion therapy support

Rafi Peretz, head of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, holds a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, April 16, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Backing gay conversion therapy, new education minister elicits fresh uproar

Analysis

Conversion therapy: It isn’t what it sounds like

Rafi Peretz means well when he aims to help LGBTQ Orthodox Jews who are unhappy with their sexuality, but his efforts are misguided and don’t work

Jewish Home party chief Rafi Peretz at the party's primary headquarters in Ramat Gan on February 4, 2019. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewRafi Peretz’s conversion disorder: 7 things to know for July 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Former prime minister Ehud Barak, at an event for outstanding soldiers at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 9, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Barak says he is looking to remove Epstein from business partnership

Israel Democratic Party chief writes online that he asked his lawyers to explore options to end relationship after new charges were announced

In this courtroom artist's sketch, defendant Jeffrey Epstein, center, sits with attorneys Martin Weinberg, left, and Marc Fernich during his arraignment in New York federal court, July 8, 2019. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Tax records show Jeffrey Epstein gave $50,000 to UJA-Federation in 2017

Ehud Barak on Channel 12's "Meet the Press," July 13, 2019 (screenshot)

Barak defends business ties to Epstein, derides focus on issue as political spin

US President Donald Trump signs a Presidential Memorandum withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, on May 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

UK ambassador to US cabled home that Trump ditched Iran deal to spite Obama

By AFP

In second batch of leaked cables, Kim Darroch said White House was dead set on ‘diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/POOL/AFP)

PM responds to Nasrallah threat: Will deal ‘crushing blow’ if Hezbollah attacks

By Michael Bachner

An aerial view of the Chords Bridge at the entrance to the city of Jerusalem. July 10, 2017. (Gidi Avinary/FLASH90)

3 years of jams expected as Jerusalem shuts main road near entrance

Shazar Boulevard closed to cars near Convention Center to make way for construction of tunnel and new Jerusalem Gateway commercial quarter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits under a portrait of the first Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion as he speaks during a special cabinet meeting at the Sde Boker academy to mark 40 years since Ben-Gurion's death, November 10, 2013. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu set to become Israel’s longest-serving PM on July 20

Premier will make history at week’s end by reaching milestone of 4,876 days in office, surpassing country’s first leader, David Ben-Gurion

Evan Cohen, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (GPO)

Netanyahu taps linguist and LGBTQ rights activist as foreign media spokesperson

By Raphael Ahren

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israel Prize ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said to offer to tap Bennett as UN envoy if he pulls out of election race

By Michael Bachner

Chairman of the board of directors of Bank Leumi, Samer Haj Yehia (courtesy)

Profile

For 1st Arab head of major Israeli bank, breaking down barriers is second nature

By Amir Ben-David

(L) Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends the Yakir of Jewish Law ceremony in Tel Aviv on June 12, 2019. (Flash90). Otzma Yehudit party member Itamar Ben Gvir during an election campaign event in Bat Yam on April 6, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Shaked said collaborating with Ben Gvir in effort to take over URWP

Ex-New Right co-chair believes a united front with Otzma Yehudit will allow her to demand more in negotiations with Rafi Peretz’s national religious party

6:28 pm

Milchan said to have boasted that PM arranged for Mossad to take him to Jordan via private jet
6:24 pm

Report: Cop who shot dead Solomon Teka will be released from house arrest
6:07 pm

Police said probing voter fraud in several towns during last election

Tennis champion Angela Buxton (Howard Blas/The Times of Israel)

Wimbledon champ says anti-Semitism led top UK club to snub her for decades

British Jew Angela Buxton has yet to be accepted into tennis’s All England Club, 63 years since applying, shortly after historic victory at Wimbledon

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn listens to a speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, on September 23, 2018, the official opening day of the annual Labour Party Conference. (AFP PHOTO / Paul ELLIS)

Labour whistleblower: Corbyn ally ‘took control’ of anti-Semitism complaints

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn attends the launch of his party's European election campaign in Chatham, southeast England on May 9, 2019 (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

Corbyn claims BBC report on anti-Semitism in Labour full of ‘inaccuracies’

Avi Issacharoff

Netanyahu has found the enemy and it is us

While the PM was handing out fake news awards (and also paying protection money to Hamas), guess what Gaza’s leaders were doing

Ehud Barak: National saviour or false messiah?

He has the energy, venom and gravitas to hurt Netanyahu — or he may hand the premier the voting public on a silver platter

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President Reuven Rivlin arrives for an official visit to South Korea on July 14, 2019. (Tomer Reichman (courtesy)/GPO)

Rivlin lands in South Korea, kicking off official visit

By Stuart Winer

A view of an Afula street (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Reversing allegedly anti-Arab ban, Afula says nonresidents can use city’s parks

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at Israeli security forces during protests along the border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 12, 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel said to promise Gaza medicine, goods in return for continued calm

Illustrative: A call center (iStock)

German, Austrian police raid offices, arrest suspects in Israel-linked scam

By Simona Weinglass

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the home of Carmel Mauda in the central city of Rosh Ha'ayin on July 6, 2019. (Israel Police)

2 more arrested over torching of home of daycare manager accused of child abuse

A supporter of the Greek ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn raises his fist during a preelection rally in Athens on May 23, 2014. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

Greek neo-Nazi in EU parliament defects from Golden Dawn party

By AFP

New Transport and Infrastructure Minister Makis Voridis, member of the right-wing party LAOS, arrives at the Presidential Palace holding his son in Athens on November 11, 2011. (Dimitri Messini/AP)

New Greek minister denies ‘dark’ anti-Semitic past

By AFP

Motivational speaker Tony Robbins will speak in Israel on October 4, 2019 in Tel Aviv (Courtesy PR)

Self help celebMotivational guru Tony Robbins books October date in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

A member of an international delegation sketches the site of the Bent Pyramid during an event opening the pyramid and its satellites for visitors in Dashur, Egypt, Saturday, July 13, 2019 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ancient newsEgypt opens 2 pyramids for first time since 1960s

By AP

Israel's team compete in the team technical artistic swimming event during the 2019 World Championships at Yeomju Gymnasium in Gwangju on July 14, 2019. (Photo by François-Xavier MARIT / AFP)

Making a splashIn first, Israel’s synchronized swimming team reaches World Championship final

Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 defense systems, are seen on the tarmac, after they were unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft, at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 12, 2019. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool)

US to impose sanctions on Turkey for purchase of Russian-made S-400 — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (C) confers with U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI) (2nd R) and Rep. Ayanna S. Pressley (D-MA) (R) during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing July 12, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

AnalysisPelosi-AOC spat puts spotlight on Democratic infighting over race

By Steve Peoples

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