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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 17, 2019

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Left, Israeli Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (AP/Carolyn Kaster); right, US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman (AP/Ariel Schalit).

House Democrats said weighing censure of Israeli, US envoys over entry ban

Report says lawmakers discussing how best to express a ‘deep lack of confidence and trust’ in Ron Dermer, David Friedman after Tlaib and Omar barred from Israel

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat- California, speaks at the Capitol in Washington, June 5, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Pelosi: We can’t let ‘weakness’ of Trump, Netanyahu harm US-Israel ties

By AP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Public Service Forum in Las Vegas, August 3, 2019. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Bernie Sanders: Israel shouldn’t take US aid if it stands by ban of Omar, Tlaib

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Contradicting PM, Omar insists she was planning to meet Israel officials on trip

By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon

Legislator says Israel not acting like ally or democracy, calls to leverage aid to stop settlements, give Palestinian rights; aide says she was coming before Tlaib for Israel talks

'Delegation to Palestine'What Omar, Tlaib were going to do on their thwarted trip to Jerusalem, West Bank

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks to reporters at the Knesset as his party submits its electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. (Flash90)

Gantz slams Netanyahu ‘zigzag’ on US congresswomen, says ban damaging for Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US Reps. Rashida Tlaib, center, and Ilhan Omar, right. (Laura E. Adkins for JTA/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

The day Netanyahu helped Israel’s loudest critics gain resonance and credibility

Barring Omar and Tlaib fuels the argument that Israel shouldn’t be treated as one of America’s greatest allies

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., speaks at a news conference calling for Senate action on H.R. 8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Top Democrat slams Israel’s ‘disrespect’ in releasing letter signed by Tlaib

Former US senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman leaves the West Wing of the White House after meeting with US President Donald Trump on May 17, 2017. (AFP/Olivier Douliery)

Joe Lieberman says Israel made ‘serious mistake’ in banning Tlaib and Omar

By JTA

US President Donald Trump reacts at the end of a speech at a campaign rally, Aug. 15, 2019, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump says Tlaib ‘obnoxiously’ turned down approval to visit West Bank

US president calls lawmaker’s request to visit her grandmother on humanitarian grounds ‘a complete setup’

US President Donald Trump reacts at the end of his speech at a campaign rally, August 15, 2019, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump mistakenly mocks his own supporter after Jewish group interrupts him

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative. An Israeli F-15 fighter jet. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

IDF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza in response to earlier rocket attack

Two underground terror structures hit by warplanes in central and northern Strip, army says

Hamas: Israeli strikes in Gaza meant to distract from West Bank attacks

Rocket fired into Israel from Gaza, intercepted by Iron Dome

Thousands of Palestinians protest on Gaza border

The 'face' of Woodstock, Jewish promoter Michael Lang. (Screenshot)

Music history

America’s iconic Woodstock festival was more Jewish than you’d think

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

UN expert: Executions in Iran among the world’s highest

By Edith M. Lederer

Report to General Assembly says that 253 Iranians believed executed last year, overall rate dropped due to sharp decrease in use of death penalty for drug offenses

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah speaks on the 13th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, August 16, 2019. (screenshot)

Nasrallah praises rash of West Bank attacks as ‘future generation of resistance’

The INS Hanit, file (Tsahi Ben-Ami /Flash90)

New Hezbollah footage purports to show 2006 strike on Israeli Navy ship

Minnesota won’t fast forget lesson on Israel barring Omar and Tlaib

Most of my fellow Minnesotans know very little about Israel; now, they know one thing, and it’s not a good thing

David Seidenberg

‘No Lives Matter’

Trump bragged that he could commit murder in broad daylight and win; perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at the loss of life on the border

Documentary 'Mrs. G' about the life and times of Gotttex creator Lea Gottlieb premiered at DocAviv spring 2019 (Courtesy 'Mrs. G')

Fashion and family clash in ‘Mrs. G.,’ a film about Gottex swimsuit doyenne

By Jessica Steinberg

Jackie Tohn recalls her family's Holocaust past in an extraordinary scene on her Netflix show. (Sela Shiloni)

Passover bash

Jackie Tohn tells us all about that seder scene in ‘GLOW’

By Emily Burack

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The scene of a car-ramming attack outside the West Bank settlement of Elazar on August 16, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Teen seriously hurt in car-ramming remains in serious condition after surgery

Photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)

Medical examiner rules Epstein death a suicide by hanging

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Larry Neumeister and Michael R. Sisak

The Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, September 30, 2016. (Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Secret Service clears DC street after ‘suspicious’ activity near Israeli Embassy

By Eric Cortellessa

A Chevron gas station offered gas for 30 cents a gallon during the Amazon Studios "Maisel Day" in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 15, 2019. (Morgan Lieberman/Getty Images via JTA)

Having a gas‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ 1950s price campaign forces brief police shutdown

By Josefin Dolsten

Luxury apartment towers are seen in the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Park Tzameret on August 24, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s richest neighborhood is just three miles away from its poorest one

In this still image from video provided by WLNE-TV, protesters blocking an entrance to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility begin to move as a pickup truck approaches, Wednesday night, Aug. 14, 2019, in Central Falls, R.I. (WLNE-TV via AP)

ICE officer who drove his truck into row of Jewish protesters resigns

By JTA

Welfare Minister Haim Katz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welfare minister resigns from cabinet as graft charges loom

From left: Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz, Moshe Ya'alon, Gabi Ashkenazi of the Blue and White party at its official campaign launch in Shefayim, July 14, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Blue and White said to hire private intel firm to sniff out leakers

Telegrass founder Amos Dov Silver speaks in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster aired on July 20, 2019, from where he was being held under arrest in Ukraine. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Telegrass founder nabbed in Ukraine after slipping police

By AFP and ToI Staff

Menny Naftali, center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, the main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Four arrested, 3 detained during anti-corruption protests near AG’s home

Israel and Kenyan lacrosse players embrace after the Israeli team gifts its opponents with new cleated shoes, August 7, 2019 (video screenshot)

Fair playIsraeli lacrosse team buys new shoes for cleatless Kenyan rivals

In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, Peter Fonda poses atop a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Glendale, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Obituary‘Easy Rider’ star, 1960s swashbuckler Peter Fonda dies at 79

By Lindsey Bahr and ANDREW DALTON

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