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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 17, 2019

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Firefighters try to extinguish a brush fire near Moshav Aderet, July 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Brush fires burn homes, force families to flee before coming under control

At least seven treated for fire-related ailments; several towns and a West Bank settlement evacuated as flames neared; at least 15 homes damaged amid searing heatwave

Workers from Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital protesting outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem over its funding crisis, February 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years’ more bailout payments to survive

By Avner Hofstein

Facing collapse in 2014, famed Jerusalem medical center was rescued and thrown a NIS 1.5b lifeline. Having strayed from recovery framework, its financial plight is again dire

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)

US House condemns Trump’s tweets as racist in extraordinary rebuke

By Alan Fram and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Measure carries no legal repercussions for US president; highly partisan vote in Democratic-led House unlikely to cost him with his die-hard conservative base

After House rebukes his remarks as racist, Trump says congresswomen are worse

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After tirade, Trump insists he doesn’t have ‘racist bone’ in his body

By AFP

[Sic] burn‘Alcaida’: Trump ridiculed for misspelling terror group’s name

Education Minister Rafi Peretz at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister walks back conversion therapy comments, says he opposes it ‘utterly’

In letter to educators, Rafi Peretz asserts he ‘never’ suggested treatment to homosexuals, calls it ‘wrong’

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)

Minister: I didn’t mean to hurt world Jewry with Holocaust intermarriage remark

Justice Minister Amir Ohana at the Tel Aviv Pride Parade, June 14, 2019. (Courtesy Justice Ministry)

Israel’s gay justice minister to Luxembourg’s gay PM: You shun us, but not Iran?

Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion sit in a field at the Peles Military Base, in the Northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Group launches bid for true universal conscription – Haredim, Arabs and all

By Judah Ari Gross

Pnima movement, which once included Gantz and Ashkenazi, releases proposal to require all Israeli citizens to perform some form of national service for a more cohesive society

The scene of a car hit by a missile fired from the Gaza Strip near the Israel-Gaza border on May 5, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel to plant trees near Gaza border homes to thwart anti-tank missile attacks

Screenshot of Daily Mail website showing article relating to Ehud Barak, July 16, 2019

Barak vows to sue Daily Mail for ‘sordid insinuations’ over his ties to Epstein

British newspaper reissues 2016 photos of former PM visiting disgraced financier’s NY home ‘within hours’ of several young women, in apparent hint at unsavory motives

People walk next to election poster for Ehud Barak, head of the Israel Democratic Party, in Tel Aviv, July 17, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewUp to his neck-warmer in trouble: 6 things to know for July 17

By Joshua Davidovich

In this courtroom artist's sketch, defendant Jeffrey Epstein, left, and his attorney Martin Weinberg listen during a bail hearing in federal court, in New York, July 15, 2019. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Epstein defense claims foreign passport was safety precaution against kidnap

By Jim Mustian and ALI SWENSON

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

Live updates (closed)

Barak pans ‘despicable’ Epstein article, blames Netanyahu for ‘spreading lies’

At launch of his Israel Democratic Party, longtime Netanyahu critic says PM has been mudslinging political opponents for decades

6:37 pm

Large fire outside Beit Shemesh under control; residents returning home
6:28 pm

Louvre museum removes Sackler name amid opioid controversy
6:26 pm

UN urges Israel to halt demolitions of East Jerusalem homes under PA control

Never again, Kellyanne Conway!

Don’t let the US president’s senior staff get away with pushing a reporter to wear his Jewish heart on his sleeve

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The perils of Donald Trump loving Israel just a little too much

When the US president invokes the Jewish state to defend behavior that even some Trumpists deem racist, it can’t be good news for the Jews

Sharon Nazarian

No justice 25 years after the massacre in Buenos Aires

Successive Argentine governments failed in investigating the bombing. It’s time to finally hold Hezbollah accountable

Your people will be my child’s people

Framing intermarriage as a second Holocaust is grotesque; the real question is how we can help all families keep Judaism on the table

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

US prosecutor: Israeli trained staff to lie repeatedly to binary options victims

By AP and ToI Staff

At opening of landmark trial, Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Yukom Communications, alleged to have overseen ‘massive’ fraud; her lawyer says ‘She wanted her employees to work clean’

President Reuven Rivlin visiting the Korean Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea, July 17, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Rivlin visits Korean Demilitarized Zone, calling it ‘the mouth of a volcano’

By Michael Bachner

In first, president tours fortified frontier, comes close to North Korean troops, and has brick dedicated to his late wife

$Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US national security adviser John Bolton (second left), Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council (right) and Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat (left) pose for a picture at a trilateral meeting at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton\Flash90)$

At summit with Russia, Israel and US demanded Iran leave Lebanon, Iraq — report

Discussing region’s future, Jerusalem and Washington said to have insisted Tehran’s exit from Syria would solve nothing if the problem merely moved to another Arab state

Police and rescue personnel at the scene where several people were injured after a Palestinian crashed a car into a Jerusalem light rail station, October 22, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli group seeks sale of seized Iranian tanker over damages for Hamas attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Iranian clergyman looks at domestically built surface to surface missiles displayed by the Revolutionary Guard in a military show marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran: FM’s missile remarks meant to challenge US arms sales

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks on, on the third day of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, north west England on September 25, 2018. (Oli SCARFF/AFP)

Likud minister: UK Labour leader Corbyn hates Jews and Israel

Ze’ev Elkin: Opposition leader has proven record of Jew hatred; Hotovely: This is a ‘grave matter’; a third of Labour peers take out ad saying Corbyn ‘failed test of leadership’

US Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) speaks as, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-MN)(L), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) (2R), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hold a press conference, to address remarks made by US President Donald Trump earlier in the day, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 15, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

British Jewish leader says Trump’s xenophobic tirade ‘appalling’

US-Israeli dressage rider Micah Deligdish. (Emma Miller)

US-born female rider clears latest hurdle toward representing Israel in Tokyo

By Cathryn J. Prince

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In this photo taken on Nov. 11, 2017, musician Johnny Clegg on stage at a farewell concert in Johannesburg (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

ObituaryJohnny Clegg, who fought South Africa’s apartheid with music, dies at 66

By Cara Anna and Christopher Torchia

One of dozens of reptiles found in a Tel Aviv apartment as part of an international operation against illegal trade in animals, June 2019. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Scales of justicePolice find dozens of exotic reptiles in raid on Tel Aviv apartment

By Stuart Winer

Shelly Yachimovich leads a State Control Committee meeting in the Knesset on December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Labor’s Yachimovich announces timeout from politics, laments gamesmanship

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting regarding the coalition negotiations at the Knesset, on May 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Kingmaker Liberman surges to 10 seats, left and right mergers ineffective

Electricity-generating solar panels. (Danny Shechtman)

Campaign urges Israelis to put solar panels on the roof, make money…eventually

Illustrative: A young female victim of violence (Tunatura; iStock by Getty Images)

Four boys suspected of repeatedly raping 11-year-old girl

The trailer for the new Netflix movie "The Red Sea Diving Resort." (Screenshot: YouTube)

Captain IsraelNetflix thriller film presents Ethiopian Jewish exodus to Israel

Screen capture from video of the scene where a falling branch killed a 10-year-old boy at an amusement park near to Lachish, July 17, 2019. (Twitter)

Boy, 10, killed by falling branch at southern amusement park

By Stuart Winer

Children playing on a makeshift pirate ship with Playmobil figures, at the Jerusalems Botanical Gardens, July 15, 2019. (Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

Toys will be toysAt Botanical Gardens, Playmobil plants its plastic flag

By Joshua Davidovich

Rachel Brosnahan accepts the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series award for 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' onstage during the 70th Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish jokes‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ ‘Russian Doll’ snag Emmy nods

By Josefin Dolsten

Screen capture from video of Fouad AbdelWahed, a professor at King Saud University, claiming Jews use blood in their matzah. (YouTube)

Stale ideaEgyptian scholar says Jewish people use human blood in matzah

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of entrepreneurship (teddybearpicnic; iStock by Getty Images)

Higher education council earmarks $27.7 million to boost campus entrepreneurship

By Shoshanna Solomon

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