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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 15, 2019

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This combination image shows, from left, US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, July 10, 2019; Ilhan Omar, March 12, 2019; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, July 12, 2019; and Ayanna Pressley, July 10, 2019, all in Washington. (AP Photo)

Report: Israel to bar US Congress members Omar, Tlaib from visiting

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Democratic lawmakers will be turned back due to ‘suspected provocations and promotion of BDS,’ unconfirmed TV report says

Lapid: Barring Omar, Tlaib a ‘serious mistake’ and Netanyahu knows it

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Israel could bar Omar, Tlaib from visiting, official says

By Raphael Ahren

Israel said bracing for likely Omar, Tlaib visit to flashpoint Temple Mount

Yossi Cohen, then the national security adviser, is seen in a committee meeting at the Knesset on December 8, 2015, sitting behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu sees ambassador to US, Mossad chief as possible successors – report

In rare comment on country’s future leadership, Israel’s longest-serving PM said to list just two candidates, Ron Dermer and Yossi Cohen, neither from Likud

File: Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a concert featuring Haredi singer Motti Steinmetz, in a show where men and women in the audience sat separately, in the northern Israeli city of Afula on August 14, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Israel media reviewGood ol’ boys club: 7 things to know for August 15

By Joshua Davidovich

In this June 13, 2019 file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Live updates (closed)

Pelosi says entry denial to Omar, Tlaib beneath Israel’s dignity

By Michael Bachner

US House Speaker calls move ‘sad’ and ‘deeply disappointing,’ also assailing Trump for showing ‘ignorance and disrespect’ in backing decision

6:22 pm

Hickenlooper withdraws from crowded US Democratic race
6:18 pm

US lawmaker barred by Israel calls move 'chilling' insult, 'affront'
6:15 pm

Welfare Minister Haim Katz to resign tomorrow -- report

Lawsuit among crypto entrepreneurs opens window into controversial industry

By Simona Weinglass

Coin Tree and related companies allegedly helped binary options operatives launch new ventures; one firm was reportedly tapped by Trump administration to promote Mideast peace

A page from a Coin Tree marketing presentation as it appeared in the lawsuit of Elad Arad against Uriel and Daniel Peled

Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz seen at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, August 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Lawyer for Israeli diamond magnate Steinmetz denies corruption claims

By Jamey Keaten

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

Jeffrey Epstein autopsy finds multiple neck fractures – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hyoid bone breaks more common among victims of strangulation, experts say, but also possible in suicides by hanging among the middle-aged

'Parsing Bill' by Petrina Ryan-Kleid was reportedly hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's New York home (Petrina Ryan-Kleid)

House of horrorsPainting of Clinton in blue dress hung in Jeffrey Epstein’s home

Ghislaine Maxwell at the WIE Symposium in New York City, on September 20, 2013. (Laura Cavanaugh/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

Daughter of a disgraced Jewish mogul accused of facilitating Epstein abuse

By Peter HUTCHISON

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir defends his party at a Central Elections Committee debate on August 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset panel narrowly okays election run by Otzma Yehudit as Labor rep vanishes

By Tamar Pileggi

Bid to disqualify Kahanist party falls short after Labor leader’s brother-in-law disappears during vote, leaving committee tied 15-15; other left parties accuse Labor of betrayal

Stav Shafir of the Democratic Camp party speaks during a Central Elections Committee debate about disqualification of the Otzma Yehudit party from the upcoming elections on August 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Head of extremist party to again sue left-wing MK for Hitler ‘comparison’

New Right party member Naftali Bennett arrives for a meeting with United Right party chairman Rafi Peretz, after announcing their union ahead of the elections, at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, on July 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett says right-wing Yamina bloc will recommend Netanyahu as prime minister

European refugees, denied entry to the United States in New York and Mexico at Veracruz, line the rail of the Portuguese steamer Quanza and talk to relatives on the pier when the ship stopped to refuel at Norfolk, Virginia, September 11, 1940. One passenger, a German, was captured by an army guard after diving overboard in Hampton Roads. (AP Photo)

Nearly turned back, a ship of Holocaust refugees got help from Eleanor Roosevelt

By Cathryn J. Prince

Palestinian officials during the 99th session of the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva, August 14, 2019 (screenshot UN Web TV)

Pro-Israel activists cheer as UN anti-racism panel challenges Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer hails first time world body’s spotlight is ‘officially placed on Palestinian racism, discrimination and anti-Semitism’

From left to right: Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasma, PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy meeting in Ramallah on August 13, 2019. (Wafa)

Palestinians deny Abbas snubbed visiting Republican delegation

Public Security Gilad Erdan speaks at Besheva conference in Jerusalem on February 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Erdan says he turned down UN envoy job to help Likud win election

A pickup truck drives into a row of Jewish protesters sitting at the entrance to a parking lot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island on August 14, 2019. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)

Several US Jewish protesters hurt as truck rams crowd at immigration center

By JTA and ToI Staff

At least one demonstrator hospitalized; dozens doused with pepper spray; activists say driver is a US correctional officer

Satellite photo of a weapons depot in southern Baghdad controlled by a pro-Iranian militia that was hit in an alleged Israeli operation on August 12, 2019. (ImageSat International)

Satellite firm says images of bombed Iraqi site indicate it was hit in airstrike

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Israel’s ImageSat International releases pictures of weapons depot in southern Baghdad controlled by a pro-Iranian militia; attack has been blamed on Israel

In this April 24, 2019 picture, Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran general: Hezbollah strong enough to annihilate Israel on its own

Israel, be my Tu B’Av valentine

I no longer feel the toe-curling love I felt when I first met Israel as an adult, but I’ve come to realize that ’staying for the kids’ works just fine

To protect Jewish marriage, we must accept divorce

I’m a rabbi. I want Jews to keep Jewish law. That means ensuring a couple’s legal recourse when love fails, independent of the will of either spouse (Tu B’Av)

Eliran Malka, left, and the cast of 'Shababnikim.' (Courtesy HOT)

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File: Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a concert featuring Haredi singer Motti Steinmetz, in a show where men and women in the audience sat separately, in the northern Israeli city of Afula on August 14, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Too late: High Court bars gender-segregated concert, when it’s almost over

Palestinians are detained at a Jerusalem area crossing after attempting to illegally enter Israel to go to the beach on August 15, 2019 (Israel Police)

Police stop bus full of Palestinians en route to Israel to go to the beach

Participants wearing kippas at a rally in Berlin, April 25, 2018. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbi assaulted in Berlin — second such attack in as many weeks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sacha Baron Cohen, star of the Showtime series "Who Is America?" poses before an Emmy For Your Consideration event for the show at Paramount Studios, May 15, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Our man in HollywoodNetflix miniseries on legendary Israeli spy to drop September 6

Jonathan Weisman. (Screen capture/YouTube via JTA)

NY Times demotes editor for racially insensitive tweets; he wrote book on racism

By JTA

Ala Abu Rokun (center) receives his new brigadier general insignia from President Reuven Rivlin (left) and IDF chief Aviv Kohavi (right) during a ceremony at the President's Residence, on August 14, 2019 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Druze officer appointed military secretary to President Rivlin

The Savsko Obdaniste kindergarten in the Serbian capital of Belgrade is housed in a building that was part of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp. (Google maps)

Kindergarten opens at former Nazi death camp in Serbia

By JTA and ToI Staff

US Rep. Steve King, Republican of Iowa, during a town hall meeting, August 13, 2019 (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Rep. Steve King says rapes, incest helped populate the world

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE

Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, left, and Facebook's Israel General Manager Adi Soffer Teeni inaugurate the social media giant's new space for startups called 'Playground' in Tel Aviv, Aug. 14, 2019 (Sivan Farag/Times of Israel)

In Tel Aviv, Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook must ‘earn’ user trust

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A hacker at work. (supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli experts say biometric firm has exposed data of millions of people

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Palestinian youth arrested near Nablus on suspicion of raping girl in Tel Aviv

Illustrative photo of police at a crime scene in the central city of Ramle, June 1, 2015. (Flash90)

23-year-old man shot dead in Ramle park

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