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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 18, 2019

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Illustrative: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (right) attends a Shabbat gathering in a Detroit park on August 16, 2019, arranged by Jewish Voice For Peace Action to show the freshman congresswoman support, after a planned visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank by Tlaib and colleague Ilhan Omar was barred by Israel. (JVP, via JTA)

Tlaib attends Shabbat event with pro-BDS group after rejecting West Bank visit

Muftia Tlaib, the maternal grandmother of US Congresswoman Rashida, is pictured outside her home in the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa West Bank, August 15, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian grandmothers trend on Twitter amid Tlaib uproar

Muftia Tlaib, the maternal grandmother of US Congresswoman Rashida, is pictured outside her home in the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa West Bank, August 15, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Tlaib’s grandmother wishes ‘ruin’ on Trump after he mocks her on Twitter

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

FM claims envoy to US sanctioned Omar, Tlaib visit without consulting Netanyahu

Israel Katz says Ron Dermer merely ‘gave his opinion’ when he announced last month that Israel would allow congresswomen to come

A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank near the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel media reviewSneaking in and staying out: 11 things to know for August 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Interview

Lapid: If there’s no clear election winner, Likud MKs will abandon Netanyahu

A month before re-vote, Blue and White No. 2 says Benny Gantz, though no natural politician, is the PM Israel needs and is going to get. For a start, he’s ‘not another drama queen’

Yair Lapid and supporters of Blue and White Party pose outside their campaign bus in Glilot, July 21, 2019. (Flash90)

Screen capture from video of Blue and White Party leader MK Benny Gantz during a tour of communities on the border with the Gaza Strip, August 18, 2019. (Channel 13 News)

Gantz says Israeli deterrence in Gaza has been ‘erased’ under Netanyahu

Culture Minister Miri Regev at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 8, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahronoth/Pool)

Regev: God, not people, will decide who is next prime minister

Telegrass founder Amos Dov Silver appears at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing on August 18, 2019, after being extradited to Israel from Ukraine. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Airport security footage shows moment Telegrass founder fled extradition

Amos Ben Silver can be seen stepping away from security officials as he briefly escaped Ukrainian police while being brought to Kiev airport for extradition to Israel

6:07 pm

Poverty-stricken Haredi man buys scratch lottery ticket on a whim, wins over $140,000
5:53 pm

PA Police says it will bar Palestinian gay rights group from holding activities
5:38 pm

Airport security footage shows moment Telegrass founder fled extradition

Dr. Salman Zarka, director of the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel, speaks with a Syrian girl to whom he gave treatment (Courtesy).

'Now they understand that we are more human than Assad'

Israeli doctor treating Syrians hopes to save hearts and win minds

By Eric Cortellessa

In 2013, Salman Zarka, then head of IDF medical corps in the north, sent injured Syrians who came to Israel’s border to a Safed hospital. Now, he’s running it

Supporters of the Hezbollah terror group wave the group's flag during a commemoration marking the 13th anniversary of the end of the 2006 war with Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on August 16, 2019. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Netanyahu says he’s ‘not impressed’ by Hezbollah chief’s threats

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians demonstrate near the fence along the border with Israel in the eastern Gaza Strip on August 16, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Three armed Palestinians killed in border strike, Gaza authorities confirm

By ToI Staff and AFP

Suspected infiltration attempt on Saturday night and subsequent Israeli fire come as tensions escalate over the weekend

A Palestinian rioter uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli forces near the fence along the border with Israel in the eastern Gaza Strip on August 16, 2019. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas says armed men killed by IDF on Gaza border were ‘rebellious youth’

File: Alon Davidi, mayor of the southern city of Sderot, attends a press conference in Jerusalem, March 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After rockets, Sderot mayor urges ground operation in Gaza to ‘eradicate’ Hamas

By Michael Bachner

Afghan men investigate in a wedding hall after a deadly bomb blast in Kabul on August 18, 2019. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)

63 killed, 182 wounded in Kabul wedding blast, official says

By AFP

Children reportedly among those injured; eyewitness says almost everyone in men’s section of event hall hurt in explosion

Afghan men investigate in a wedding hall after a deadly bomb blast in Kabul on August 18, 2019. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)

Islamic State claims bombing at Kabul wedding that killed 63

By Agencies and ToI Staff

21-year-old Aya Na'amneh, an Israeli student who went missing in the Ethiopian desert, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Body of missing Israeli student Aya Na’amneh found in Ethiopian desert

Foreign Ministry says 21-year-old likely fell to her death after becoming separated from group during hike

Laura Ben-David

Israel was right to ban Tlaib and Omar; Trump was wrong to push for it

Whatever legitimate reasons Israel may have had to bar the congresswomen was crushed under the toxic effects of the US president’s verbal onslaught.

Daniel Orenstein

On the climate crisis, those obnoxious vegans are right

We can make major environmental and health improvements if we substantially lower the amount of meat in our diet — just ask my vegan daughter

Telegrass founder Amos Dov Silver appears at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing on August 18, 2019, after being extradited to Israel from Ukraine. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Telegrass founder greeted with cheers as court orders his remand

Amos Dov Silver remanded for 12 days after being extradited from Ukraine to Israel; will face drug charges over his online marijuana marketplace

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)

Weed kingpin lands in Israel after failed Ukraine escape

By ToI Staff and AFP

Amos Silver with a cannabis plant. (Courtesy)

Telegrass founder alleges police beat him after escape gambit

By AFP and ToI Staff

Nachmani 23, then and now (Courtesy Ronna Mink)

First person

Old photo of iconic Tel Aviv hotel puts Buffalo bootlegger back in the picture

By Karen Chernick

More Headlines

French policemen stand in front of the eatery where a waiter was shot dead by a customer allegedly angry at having to wait for a sandwich, in the eastern Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand on August 17, 2019. (Tiphaine LE LIBOUX / AFP)

French waiter shot dead for being ‘too slow with sandwich’

By AFP

Filipino children carry banners during a protest against deportation in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2019. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Filipino couple and their 2 Israeli-born daughters arrested ahead of deportation

The aftermath of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City, August 15, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Cop injured in Jerusalem stabbing attack released from hospital

Screen capture of the Youngstown Jewish Community Center in Ohio. (Google Maps)

Ohio man arrested for implied shooting threat to Jewish center

By Stuart Winer

Publisher and owner of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Arnon 'Noni' Mozes arrives for questioning at the Lahav 433 investigation unit in Lod on January 15, 2017. (Koko/Flash90)

Pre-indictment hearing begins for publisher accused of conspiring with Netanyahu

Israeli attend a protest against corruption of near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 17, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Hundreds protest in Petah Tikva after claims of police brutality

Michael Eisenberg of Aleph VC, left, and Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, during the recording of the Firewall Special Israel Edition podcast (Courtesy)

PodcastLISTEN: How a young weed grower went on to found a cannabis inhaler startup

OrCam's MyEye 2 can recognize text from any surface (Courtesy)

Israel’s OrCam is one of 38 global healthcare unicorns, report says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman attends the French Institute Alliance Francaise's "After Charlie: What's Next for Art, Satire and Censorship at Florence Gould Hall on February 19, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images via JTA)

‘Maus’ creator Spiegelman says Marvel censored his Trump super-villain critique

A herd of elephants form a protective circle against a perceived threat in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, March 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Israel seeks to ban trade in woolly mammoth tusks to protect elephants

By ToI Staff and AP

Supporters of Iranian women hold a banner at a match between Morocco and Iran at the 2018 in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Iran arrests female photojournalist for attending soccer game dressed as a man

Yigal Amir, the assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, during a court hearing in 2004. (photo credit: Flash90)

Rabin assassin loses prison privileges after launching hunger strike

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