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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 16, 2019

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US President Donald Trump gestures, during a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Liberal US Jews say Trump is weaponizing Israel to defend his racist tweets

By Eric Cortellessa

President accused of not helping Jews or Israel by injecting Jewish state into conversation after telling liberal Democrats of color to go back where they came from

US President Donald Trump takes part in the 3rd Annual Made in America Product Showcase on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 15. 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Jewish groups condemn Trump’s tweet targeting some Democratic congresswomen

By Josefin Dolsten

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks as, from left, Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Xenophobic, bigoted remarks’: Democratic congresswomen hit back at Trump tirade

By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire

US President Donald Trump speaks during a Made in America showcase event on the South Lawn of the White House, July 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: Democrat congresswomen ‘love’ al-Qaeda, use ‘anti-Semitic’ language

By ToI Staff and AP

US president says ‘many people agree with me’ that lawmakers Tlaib, Omar, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley should ‘leave the country’ if they hate it

Israel media reviewYou shouldn’t have, really: 9 things to know for July 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Republicans largely silent in face of Trump’s attacks on progressive lawmakers

By LISA MASCARO and Alan Fram

Trump demands ‘Radical Left Congresswomen’ apologize to Israelis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The huge settlement from the Neolithic Period that was discovered in the archaeological excavations at the Motza intersection near Jerusalem by the Antiquities Authority. (Eyal Marco, Antiquities Authority)

Site is the 'Big Bang' for prehistory research

A ‘game changer’: Vast, developed 9,000-year-old settlement found near Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Remains of Neolithic site near Motza, the largest ever discovered in Israel, show mix of agriculture, hunting, animal husbandry — a society at its peak, say archaeologists

Education Minister Rafi Peretz attends the opening of an ancient road at the City of David archaeological site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, June 30, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Peretz walks back conversion therapy comment, calls practice ‘invalid and wrong’

Education minister panned for saying he had recommended the dangerous treatment now tells school principals it is ‘invasive,’ ‘harmful,’ and can drive patients to suicide

6:30 pm

Baby dies after being hit by car in southern Bedouin town
6:19 pm

Peretz walks back conversion therapy comment, calls practice 'invalid and wrong'
6:12 pm

Hamas leader meets Russia's deputy FM, who urges intra-Palestinian unity

URWP chairman Rafi Peretz arrives at a gathering of the Jewish Home party in Ramat Gan on June 19, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Analysis

Preaching to the converted: Peretz’s LGBTQ comments are bad politics

The education minister’s views are pretty much mainstream among religious Zionists, but expressing them this close to the elections may not have been a good idea

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a press conference with Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel at the Prime Minister's Office, in Jerusalem on September 12, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Luxembourg PM boycotts Israeli event over minister’s conversion therapy remarks

People take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gay Israelis come forward to describe predatory, harmful conversion therapy

Illustrative image of a spy (-zlaki-, iStock by Getty Images)

Spooks with earlocks: Haredim to help Israeli spy agencies think outside the box

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Conference on Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Defunded and sidelined, Israel’s diplomats threaten to harm the state they serve

No cash for coffee: Foreign Ministry Workers Union, blaming Netanyahu for budget crisis and more, starts sanctions, vows to disrupt PM’s trips and business deals worth millions

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

PM said eyeing free trade deal with South Korea, sans West Bank and Golan

By Stuart Winer

The US embassy in Jerusalem sits on a traffic circle recently named for US President Donald Trump. The compound is in the middle of Arnona, a quiet residential neighborhood in the city’s south. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Which Democratic 2020 contenders would move embassy back to Tel Aviv?

By JTA

Lee Elbaz arrives at federal court in her trial in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jury selection to begin in landmark US trial of Israeli binary options operative

By AP, David Horovitz and Simona Weinglass

Federal trial opens Tuesday for Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Yukon Communications, accused of fraudulently bilking investors out of tens of millions of dollars

Moshe Hogeg, Israeli businessman and Beitar Jerusalem owner, seen at the team's training ground in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Flash90)

Beitar Jerusalem owner sued over hugely hyped, now defunct photo-sharing startup

By Simona Weinglass

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 11, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans face scrutiny from US lawmakers

By Marcy Gordon

Irene Rabinowitz

My gay left hand

I cried when I read of Peretz’s support for conversion therapy: Whether gay or left-handed, this is simply how we were born

‘Never Again’ means ‘Not Now!’

The concentration camp debate distracts us from the real question: Does our treatment of detainees at the border reflect our values?’

European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Netanyahu: Some in Europe won’t wake up until Iran nukes land on them

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After EU says Iran’s latest violations of nuclear deal not sufficient to reimpose sanctions, PM compares bloc’s response to pre-WWII attempts at appeasement with the Nazis

In first, Iranian FM says talks on ballistic missiles possible

By Jon Gambrell

UN expresses concern after US clamps down on Iran foreign minister

By AFP

United Arab Emirates oil tanker vanishes after drifting into Iranian waters

By Jon Gambrell

An Afghan man in Kabul passes a mural near the site of a deadly bombing, upon which are scrawled slogans reading, 'Death to Israel.' (Ezzatullah Mehrdad/ Times of Israel)

Kabul, with Jewish population of 1, still suffers from widespread anti-Semitism

By Ezzatullah Mehrdad

Former prime minister and defense minster Ehud Barak speaks during an event to launch the Reporty App in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2016. (Photo by Flash90)

Barak says he visited Epstein at home, but didn’t attend sex parties

Former prime minister defends relationship with accused US financier, says he never saw any women or girls during his time at Epstein’s New York mansions and Caribbean island

Screen capture from video of Israel Democratic Party leader Ehud Barak, right, demonstrating how to use a credit card. (Twitter)

Card-carrying DemocratBarak scolds Netanyahu with credit card, revealing numbers to all

Former PM Ehud Barak speaks during a press conference announcing the establishment of a new political party in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Barak: Lapid is the reason Blue and White didn’t win April elections

Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)

French judge rules Jewish woman’s killer not responsible because he smoked weed

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jewish group calls ruling in Sarah Halimi case ‘unsurprising but hardly justifiable,’ says will appeal to bring the accused to trial

Illustrative: Inside Nitzan Prison in Ramle, February 27, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Palestinian security prisoner found dead in his cell

PA health and foreign ministries call for investigation into Nassar Taqataqa’s death; family says he did not suffer from illnesses

Hamas official walks back call to Palestinian Diaspora to kill ‘Jews everywhere’

Israeli spy drone crashes in Gaza, reportedly after it was shot down

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF: Soldiers shoot Arab Israeli driver they thought was going to ram them

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn wears a "Free Nazanin" badge as he speaks during Prime Minister's Questions session at the House of Commons in London, June 26, 2019. (House of Commons TV / PA via AP)

Labour staffers tell Corbyn to take a hike if unwilling to tackle anti-Semitism

UK Labour Party spokesman on Middle East affairs Fabian Hamilton. (Courtesy UK Parliament/CC-SA-3.0)

Jewish Labour member says he wasn’t aware of Jordanian MP’s anti-Semitic remarks

Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian envoy to Washington, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, on February 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

PA envoy berates UK’s May for not recognizing Palestinian statehood

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, (Democrat-Michigan), center, testifies before a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, in Washington, DC, July 12, 2019. (McNamee/Getty Images/ AFP)

Palestinians denounce Trump tweets against hometown hero Tlaib

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a student town hall at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, September 17, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Betsy DeVos: Efforts to boycott Israel are a ‘pernicious threat’ in colleges

By AP

Illustrative: A woman has a HIV/AIDS blood test in a mobile laboratory in Kiev, Ukraine, on the World AIDS Day, December 1, 2017. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky)

Number of new HIV cases up for second year in a row

James Alex Fields Jr., is led out of General District Court courthouse after his sentencing on state charges, July 15, 2019, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

White supremacist gets 2nd life term plus 419 years for Charlottesville ramming

By Denise Lavoie

Screen capture from video of Golriz Ghahraman, a lawmaker for the Greens Party in New Zealand. (YouTube)

New Zealand lawmaker says Jesus’ mother was ‘Palestinian refugee’

By JTA and ToI Staff

People walk by a poster from the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) depicting a woman wearing a burqa in front of a Swiss flag upon which are minarets which resemble missiles, at the central station in Geneva, Switzerland, November 4, 2009. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone/AP)

Government restrictions on religion increasing worldwide, survey shows

A picture taken on May 9, 2019 shows the Reisfeld House, a building built in 1935 by architect Pinchas Bijonsky. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP)

As Bauhaus marks 100 years, Tel Aviv’s iconic ‘White City’ stands tall

By Alexandra Vardi

Police detain protesters as Ethiopians and supporters demonstrate against police violence and discrimination following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed few days ago in Kiryat Haim by an off-duty police officer, in Jerusalem, July 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ethiopian-Israelis protest in Jerusalem as cop who killed teen is freed on bail

Dov Kotler, newly appointed CEO of Bank Hapoalim, July 15, 2019 (Courtesy)

Bank Hapoalim taps banking veteran Dov Kotler as CEO

By Shoshanna Solomon

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