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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 18, 2019

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Reporter's notebook

In the dark shadow of Epstein ties, Barak wages an underdog fight

At campaign launch event, Israel Democratic Party leader goes on the offensive like a guerrilla warrior leading a unlikely coup. It may be his only choice

$Ehud Barak, head of the Israel Democratic Party speaks during an election campaign event in Tel Aviv on July 17, 2019. (Hadas Parush\Flash90)$

Ehud Barak, head of the Israel Democratic Party speaks during an election campaign event in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Rejecting Barak ultimatum, Daily Mail stands by Epstein story ‘100%’

Ehud Barak, head of the Israel Democratic Party speaks during an election campaign event in Tel Aviv on June 26, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Barak charges Netanyahu behind Daily Mail ‘blood libel’ tying him to Epstein

By Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Screen capture from video of Israeli suspects in the alleged gang-rape of a British tourist in Cyprus being brought for a remand hearing at a Cypriot court, July 18, 2019. (Walla)

Victim of alleged Israeli gang rape in Cyprus had lower body wounds, court hears

Suspects’ families accuse Cypriot police of brutality; 9 of those held deny meeting British tourist who accused them of sex attack; DNA samples and phones taken from suspects

The resort town of Ayia Napa in southeastern Cyprus. (Wikipedia/Vitaly Lischenko/CC BY-SA)

12 Israelis held in Cyprus on suspicion of raping British tourist

Screen capture from video of Israeli suspects in the alleged gang-rape of a British tourist in Cyprus being brought for a remand hearing at a Cypriot court, July 18, 2019. (Walla)

Israel media reviewThrowing suspected rapists a rope: 6 things to know for July 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, listen as US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

PM to decide if BDS supporters Omar and Tlaib allowed to visit Israel — report

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ted Deutch, Democrat of Florida, questions FBI Director Christopher Wray during a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 7, 2017, on Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

US House leaders advance anti-BDS bill, sparking fears of divide among Democrats

By Eric Cortellessa

Screen capture from an interview with US Middle East Peace Envoy Jason Greenblatt with PBS News Hour, published July 17, 2019. (PBS)

Israel is the victim in conflict with Palestinians, says US peace envoy

By Stuart Winer

Kellyanne Conway outside the West Wing of the White House, January 9, 2019. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Why did Kellyanne Conway ask a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity?

Responding to a query about a recent tweet by Donald Trump suggesting four lawmakers ‘go back’ to their countries of origin, the president’s aide had a puzzling question of her own

Trump slams Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, Tlaib; crowd roars, ‘Send her back!’

By Deb Riechmann

Trump leaning on issue of race to win a second term in 2020

By Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller

US House blocks maverick Democrat’s Trump impeachment effort

By Alan Fram and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Local youth participate in the excavation of a very early 7th-8th century mosque near Rahat ahead of a neighborhood expansion, July 2019. (Anat Rasiuk/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

One of the earliest mosques in the Holy Land unearthed in Bedouin city of Rahat

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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

Live updates (closed)

Report: URWP chief Rafi Peretz being pressured to move aside for Ayelet Shaked

Party officials said tending towards accepting the former justice minister’s demand to head the slate in the September elections

6:24 pm

Katz says he and Bahraini FM discussed 'Iran, regional threats'
6:07 pm

Report: URWP chief Rafi Peretz being pressured to move aside for Ayelet Shaked
5:57 pm

Bennett won't vote to disband Knesset again: 'Israel will exist after Netanyahu'

A lesbian couple hold hands during the Tel Aviv Gay Pride parade on June 3, 2016 (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA, File)

In the US, gay conversion therapy continues in some Orthodox communities

By Matt Lebovic

Global terror

Rescued twice: The archive that survived the Holocaust and the AMIA attack

On the 25th anniversary of the deadly bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, volunteers recall rescuing a precious piece of history from the rubble

A man walks over the rubble after a bomb exploded at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (AFP/Ali Burafi)

25 years after AMIA bombing, Israeli & Argentinian envoys still hope for justice

Tributes planned for 25th anniversary of AMIA Jewish center bombing

By JTA

BlogArgentina finally blacklists Hezbollah

Iran-born blogger Neda Amin, soon after her arrival in Israel in August 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

Give Neda Amin, welcomed to Israel 2 years ago, the right to start her life here

Israel’s authorities acted admirably to bring an Iranian blogger to safety two summers ago. Since then, they’ve consigned her to limbo. Can someone in authority help?

Child's record player given to neighbor of Otto Frank on the occasion of Anne Frank's birth in Frankfurt, Germany, on display at New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage through December 2019 (Musealia/Iciar Palacios)

In first, massive traveling exhibit brings Anne Frank artifacts to North America

By Matt Lebovic

Confessions of a unicorn

Would I have wrecked my marriage and left Orthodox Judaism if I had known that sex addiction was even possible for the nice Jewish girl that I was?

If I were Israeli

I would do all I cannot do now to ensure the protection of basic human rights, and a better future for our children and grandchildren, both Palestinian and Israeli

Worka and Wbjig Tekah hold a picture of their son Solomon Tekah, 19, who was killed by an off duty police officer, at their home in the Israeli city of Haifa, on July 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Ethiopian-Israeli teen killed by cop was drinking before shooting, autopsy finds

Solomon Tekah consumed alcohol, cannabis prior to fatal incident; bullet struck ground before hitting him, medical examiner says

Ethiopian-Israelis and supporters protest police violence and discrimination in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ethiopian-Israeli parents petition against Haredi schools’ rejection of children

More Headlines

Young children play in the splash fountain at Teddy Park in Jerusalem as temperatures soar in a nationwide heat wave on July 17, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel bakes as temperature climbs to near-record 49.9°C at biblical Sodom

A patient waits for a room in the Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov in Tel Aviv. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Israel’s health system suffers from ‘systemic failures,’ report says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky takes a selfie at the first congress of his party called Servant of the People in the city Botanical Garden, Kiev, Ukraine, June 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu)

Zelensky: Two months as Ukraine’s most unusual president

By AFP

The Louvre courtyard and pyramid. (Wikipedia/Alvesgaspar/CC BY-SA)

Louvre museum removes Sackler name amid opioid controversy

By AFP

Leah Goldin in an interview with Channel 12 on July 17, 2019. (Screen capture/Channel12)

Mother of fallen soldier says PM ‘hasn’t done anything’ to retrieve son’s body

Lesser mouse-tailed bats are pictured inside an abandoned Israeli army outpost next to the Jordan River in the West Bank on July 7, 2019. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Bats hang where Israeli soldiers once stood in Jordan Valley

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of robot assistant technology, industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (Jiraroj Praditcharoenkul; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startups to play key role in the fourth industrial revolution

By Shoshanna Solomon

Baroness Hayter addresses the House of Lords during a debate on the European Union Withdrawal Bill at the UK Parliament on April 4, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube)

Labour fires peer for comparing Corbyn leadership to Hitler’s ‘bunker mentality’

Israeli model Bar Refaeli and US actor Leonardo DiCaprio at the ceremony for the 'Cinema for Peace Gala 2010' during the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, February 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Appealing tax bill, model Refaeli tells court she and DiCaprio were family unit

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of some 300,000 coins an ultra-Orthodox radio state used to pay a court-ordered fine to a feminist group, July 16, 2019. (Twitter)

Heavy penaltyRadio station pays fine to feminist group with 300,000 coins

The Young Israel synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

New Jersey police identify suspects in anti-Semitic water gun attack

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The German Bundestag (photo credit: Courtesy Whitehouse)

German Jewish group slams Speigel article on pro-Israel lobby as anti-Semitic

By JTA

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