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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 14, 2019

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Minister says Temple Mount status quo should be changed so Jews can pray there

Gilad Erdan stresses new arrangement should come from ‘diplomatic agreements and not by force’; draws criticism from Jordan

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks during a ceremony for the outgoing Jerusalem police chief at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on February 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jordan protests after Israeli minister suggests changing Temple Mount status quo

In this photo from February 13, 2017, tourists point at the Treasury, in Jordan's Petra archaeological park. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil, File)

Jordan halts filming of movie that suggests Jews had a historical presence there

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

(From L-R) Benzi Gopstein, Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben-Ari from the Otzma Yehudit Party speak with the media outside the Central Elections Committee in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

AG calls for disqualifying extremist right candidates Gopstein, Marzel

But Avichai Mandelblit, in legal opinion, says no grounds to ban Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben Gvir; dismisses claims against Blue and White, Joint List

Israel media reviewGearing up for the home stretch: 8 things to know for August 14

By Tamar Pileggi

Far-right anti-gay party likens LGBT, Reform Jews to Nazis and suicide bombers

Extremist right parties nearing threshold to enter Knesset – poll

This combination of 2018 photos shows Representatives Ilhan Omar (Democrat-Minnesota), left, and Rashida Tlaib (Democrat-Michigan), in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster,)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said bracing for Temple Mount visit by US lawmakers Omar, Tlaib

‘Secret’ meeting prepares for possibility that boycott-supporting members of Congress will be accompanied by PA officials at holy site; Fatah denies Abbas snubbed Republicans

6:40 pm

Labor chief Peretz sorry for party's failure to vote to disqualify Otzma Yehudit
6:25 pm

Preschool opens at former Serbia concentration camp
6:11 pm

Elections committee approves candidacy of extremist Otzma Yehudit leaders

Avraham Avera Mengistu, who is believed to be held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Facebook)

Abbas vowed to help bring Israeli captive in Gaza back home, MK says

Issawi Frej says Abbas made the pledge in a meeting with Democratic Camp members on Tuesday; denies report that PA president expressed hope PM Netanyahu will lose upcoming vote

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Palestinian leaders at the Muqata, the PA headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 25, 2019. (Wafa news agency)

Abbas said to snub visiting Republican Congress members

Democratic Camp candidate Noa Rothman meets PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on August 13, 2019 (via Twitter)

Democratic Camp candidates, including Rabin’s granddaughter, meet Abbas

Explosions seen at a base south of Baghdad on August 12, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

Israel blamed for blast in Iran-backed militia weapons depot in Baghdad

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Unnamed security source tells Saudi-owned daily that the war that Israel has been waging against Iran In Syria has now spread to Iraq

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

Iran’s Rouhani rejects Israeli involvement in Gulf naval security

Members of the Izz-a-din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist terror group Hamas, take part in a march in Gaza City, July 25, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Hamas leader vows to shower Israel with missiles if IDF invades Gaza

Shulamit S. Magnus

The Haredi threat to constitutional democracy and equal rights

The sex discrimination against women in public spaces is just the beginning of the havoc the ultra-Orthodox are wreaking on Israeli society

Ziona Greenwald

Shutting down the show

The feminists who sued to stop a Hasidic singer’s separate seating concert stole a night of musical uplift from a crowd that would have attended happily

Optalgin: A tale of medical woe

A pain reliever was banned in the US and elsewhere in the 1970s because of potentially fatal side effects; why is it available over-the-counter in Israeli pharmacies?

The beachfront in the battle against blind hate

The UK Labour party is fueled by a virulent tribalism that unites those who hate Israel and, often by extension, Jews. Its leader could be PM within weeks.

Vered and Erez Ben Sa’adon in a vineyard of Tura Winery, which they founded in 2003 in the West Bank settlement of Rechelim (courtesy Tura Winery)

Settlers defiant after Canadian court rules their vineyards aren’t in Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Lee Elbaz, an Israeli woman convicted in August 2019 for binary options fraud, enters the Greenbelt, Maryland courthouse on July 25, 2019. Behind her is Larry Burton, an American man who testified during the trial that he lost $140,000 to the Israeli-run website BinaryBook.com (Photo credit: Times of Israel)

US commodities watchdog hits Israeli binary options company with civil suit

By Simona Weinglass

Days after conviction of Yukom Communications CEO Lee Elbaz for $145 million fraud, CFTC goes after its owners and executives with fresh legal action

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a farewell ceremony for outgoing Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at Justice Ministry headquarters in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Attorney general gives cautious backing to some gender-segregated events

Mandelblit says he will hold a meeting to outline rules; Nazareth District Court, in call for compromise, advocates separate and mixed seating areas at Afula concert

Israeli soldiers guard at a bus stop in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on October 19, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Most Israeli Jews back public buses on Shabbat and egalitarian prayer at Kotel

Newly elected State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman seen during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud: Investigate Barak for calling state comptroller Netanyahu’s ‘servant’

An earring found during an excavation at Mount Zion is cited as evidence of Babylonian conquest of city in 586 BCE (Mount Zion Archaeological Expedition)

New Jerusalem finds are evidence of Babylonian siege, archaeologists say

Jewel, arrowheads found buried in layer of ash at Mount Zion are part of jumble indicating a household ruined ‘following a raid or battle’

Brad Pitt, left, and B.J. Novak in “Inglourious Basterds.” Pitt plays a non-Jewish American soldier who leads a group of Jewish soldiers that hunt down Nazis during World War II (photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Inglourious Basterds’ came out 10 years ago. Has its legacy changed?

By Gabe Friedman

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Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido takes part in a legislative session at the National Assembly in Caracas on August 13, 2019. (Federico Parra/AFP)

Venezuelan opposition leader appoints rabbi as envoy to Israel

New immigrants from North America after disembarking from an El Al flight at Ben Gurion Airport, August 14, 2019. (Flash90)

New immigrants from North America greeted with cheers at Ben Gurion Airport

Viktor Katan appears at the Central District Court in Lod on August 14, 2019, where he is indicted for the murder of Ofir Hasdai. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Man charged with murder for deadly shooting over parking spot

Illustrative photo of child abuse. (iStock Getty Images)

‘We’ve never seen her,’ say relatives of Lod girl, 5, found tied to shower

Illustrative photo of child abuse. (iStock Getty Images)

Beersheba parents arrested on suspicion of beating 3-month-old

AnalysisThe relationship between Epstein and Jewish philanthropist Wexner, explained

Simcha Goldin, the father of slain IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, stands with a 10 meter (32 foot) tall inflatable rooster at a demonstration outside the Knesset on August 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Father of slain IDF soldier protests with giant inflatable rooster at Knesset

Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu and his wife Sara speak with the media outside the Sorek family home, in Ofra, in the West Bank on August 13, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu visits family of murdered student, vows to fight terrorism

Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, February 3, 2016. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu, via JTA)

In mock trial, Dershowitz to defend Bible figures from child trafficking charge

Dani Katz (Kan TV / YouTube screenshot)

Jerusalem official who killed self was reportedly probed over 5 parking tickets

Demonstrators carrying signs in protest to racism walk along Main Street in the Venice beach area of Los Angeles on Saturday, August 19, 2017. (AP/Richard Vogel)

Anti-Semitic slur carved into door of California synagogue

Pedestrians walk past a yeshiva in the South Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 9, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

ExplainerWhy NY Jewish schools are joining fight against increasing secular education

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