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What Matters Most On Friday, July 19, 2019

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Foreign Minister Israel Katz and his Bahraini counterpart Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa (R) pose for a photograph at the State Department in Washington on July 17, 2019. (Courtesy)

Israel, Bahrain foreign ministers talk Iran in groundbreaking public meet

By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright

Israel Katz and Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa pose for picture, discuss regional threats and bilateral ties; US envoy calls rare meeting ‘tremendous progress’

Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, right, gestures as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves at the Al-Qudaibiya Palace in Manama, January 11, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/ AP)

Bahrain applauds Argentina for blacklisting Hezbollah as terror organization

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People hold up pictures of people who died during the bombing at the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people, on the 25th anniversary of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AMIA anniversaryMarking 25 years since Jewish center bombing, Argentina blacklists Hezbollah

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gesher party chair Orly Levy-Abekasis (L) and Labor head Amir Peretz announcing their joint run in the September election, in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

September electionsLevy: I had more enticing offers, but he's someone I trust

Labor’s Peretz joins forces with Orly Levy-Abekasis, shuns Meretz

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

At press conference, duo vow to take care of ‘sidelined populations’; Gesher reportedly to get 3 slots in top 10 of joint list; Livni said to reject offers from Peretz, Ehud Barak

Former Israeli Prime Minister and leader of Israel Democratic party Ehud Barak speaks at the Party's Election campaign event in Tel Aviv on July 17, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

September electionsBarak laments Labor-Gesher merger, hopes it’s still ‘reversible’

Gesher party chair Orly Levy-Abekasis (L) and Labor head Amir Peretz announce their joint run in the September election, July 18, 2019 (screenshot)

Israel media reviewLabor of love (for the center): 6 things to know for July 19

By Joshua Davidovich

A decorative cross from a Byzantine-period church at the El-Araj excavation, one of the sites that could be ancient Bethsaida. (Zachary Wong)

Ancient Galilee church unearthed, said to be home to apostles Peter and Andrew

By Stephen WEIZMAN

(L) US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina on July 17, 2019. (AP/Gerry Broome) (R) From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib,, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley speak at a press conference in Washington on July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ex-minister, Arab MKs slam Trump for ‘go back’ tweets, but Israeli officials mum

Yossi Beilin, Ayman Odeh and Aida Touma-Sliman among voices to speak out after US president takes aim at klatch of congresswomen

US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, North Carolina, July 17, 2019. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Trump says he’s not happy with ‘send her back’ chants at his rally

MK Aida Touma-Sliman leads a Status of Women and Gender Equality Committee meeting at the Knesset on November 21, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK sends letter of support to US congresswomen targeted by Trump

Illustrative: Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp/File)

J Street says it supports the right to boycott … and anti-BDS resolution

Liberal Mideast policy organization backs measure re-affirming the constitutional right to boycott, and another that rejects the BDS movement on principle

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. at the Capitol in Washington, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ProfileIlhan Omar, US congresswoman in eye of political storm

By Michael Mathes

Illustrative: A UH-1Y Venom helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Strait of Hormuz, July 18, 2019. (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dalton Swanbeck/Released)

US warship shoots down Iranian drone in strategic Strait of Hormuz

By AP and ToI Staff

US president says aircraft came within 1,000 yards of USS Boxer and ignored calls to stand down, calls it the latest ‘hostile’ act by Tehran

Illustrative: Head of the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh looks at debris from what the division describes as the US drone which was shot down by Iran, seen here in Tehran, Iran, June 21, 2019. (Meghdad Madadi/Tasnim News Agency/via AP)

Iran says it will release photos to prove drone not downed by US

Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of Iran, smiles as he arrives for a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at United Nations headquarters, July 18, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

In US, Zarif offers permanent scrutiny of nuclear sites for sanctions relief

By ToI Staff and AP

British author P.G. Wodehouse, left, is reunited with his wife Ethel after being released from internment in Berlin, August 13, 1941. The couple are chatting with a Foreign Office representative on the terrace of a German hotel, according to the Nazi censor-approved caption. (AP Photo)

Controversial figures

Activists ask Westminster Abbey not to honor ‘odious anti-Semite’ P.G. Wodehouse

By Robert Philpot

Students and staff of the Hebrew University Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Dr. Ruth Fine, third from left, is the first Israeli president of the International Association of Hispanists, which held a five-day academic conference in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

For the first time ever, Israel hosts a global symposium on Hispanic culture

By Cecilia Lazzaro Blasbalg

Irma Klein sold “Painting with Houses” by Wassily Kandinsky during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam)

Analysis

A Jewish family sold this painting to escape Nazis. A Dutch museum is keeping it

In controversial ruling, Netherlands restitution committee refused to return a Wassily Kandinsky painting worth millions, citing ‘public interest’

Members of an international team of archaeologists work to unearth parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius on July 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Petras Malukas)

Discovery sheds light on Jewish life in Lithuania before Holocaust

By AFP

In this zoomed picture an officer of the German Federal Armed Forces, Bundeswehr, stands in front of the serigraphy 'Hero portrait. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg' (2004) by German artist Petrus Wandrey during the press preview of the new special exhibition 'Attentat auf Hitler. Stauffenberg und mehr' (Assassination attempt against Hitler. Stauffenberg and more) in the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Shunned for decades, Germany honors resisters who tried to assassinate Hitler

By Geir Moulson

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

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Epstein lawyers claim fake passport was needed to hide Jewishness

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense team for US financier accused of sex trafficking says he never used document, which was made following advice that Jewish-Americans conceal names to avoid being kidnapped

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

Jeffrey Epstein denied bail in sex trafficking case

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

Chana Tannenbaum

Would Moses meet with the 5 daughters of Tzelofchad today?

These biblical women inherited their father’s portion, yes, but they weren’t really fighting for equal rights

Paula Mack Drill

Jewish justice: Do not stand idly by

I went to protest the detention centers because it was time to stop wringing my hands in vain, and start claiming my voice in our government

On charismatic rabbis and cults

Judaism has many models of rabbinic leadership, but none of them legitimately requires followers to stop thinking for themselves

From the time that 5 sisters asked Moses for their father’s land to the time the fairer sex was deemed too fragile for baseball, women have stood up against injustice (Pinchas)

More Headlines

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 says suspects were drunk, beat her

Firemen and civilians walk over the rubble left after a bomb exploded at the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (Ali Burafi/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

US senators push resolution to help Argentina probe 1994 Jewish center bombing

By Josefin Dolsten

Arab Joint list candidates (from L-R) MK Jamal Zahalka, Joint List leader Ayman Odeh, and MK Ahmad Tibi raise their hands at the party's headquarters in the city of Nazareth, March 17, 2015, as they react to exit polls. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

As election deadline looms, Arab parties struggle to merge lists

In this July 22, 2016 photo, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media at the Louisiana Secretary of State's office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

German envoy ‘likes’ anti-Israel tweets, including on David Duke’s page

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Football Association (PFA) head and member of the Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 3, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Palestinian soccer chief loses appeal over Messi incitement

By AP and Michael Bachner

Rabbi Denise L. Eger at the 2011 Human Rights Campaign gala in Los Angeles, where she was honored, March 12, 2011. (Brian To/FilmMagic/Getty Images via JTA)

High holidaysRabbi peeved as first weed cafe in US to open near synagogue

By Gabe Friedman

Worka Tekah speaks at a memorial ceremony for his son Solomon Tekah, who was shot dead by an off-duty police officer, in Haifa on July 10, 2019. (Flash90)

After autopsy leaks, father of Solomon Tekah says cops killing his son again

One of the local contestants competing in "Ninja Israel," the Keshet show based on the popular Japanese and American versions. (Courtesy Keshet)

Enter the ninjaNinja Park brings obstacle course challenge to four Israeli cities

By Jessica Steinberg

Howard Dean speaks in Danville, Pennsylvania, November 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Democratic chair Howard Dean: ‘Israel’s government has lost its soul’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a shooting incident. February 28, 2017. (Flash90)

2 men killed by gunfire in spate of overnight shootings in north

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