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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 20, 2019

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, right, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, at a news conference, August 19, 2019 at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, after their planned trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank was blocked by Israel. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

White House: Tlaib, Omar have history of anti-Semitism

Omar says US should halt aid to Israel until it gives Palestinians ‘full rights’

By Michael Bachner and Agencies

Tlaib likens Jewish state to apartheid South Africa, in press conference on lawmaker’s scrapped trip to Jerusalem, West Bank

Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, at a press conference on August 19, 2019 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Image North America/AFP)

Netanyahu asked US lawmakers in June to condemn Tlaib, Omar for BDS support

Palestinians wait to travel to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Israel actively pushing Palestinian emigration from Gaza, official says

By Raphael Ahren

Senior official says Jerusalem looking for other countries to take in emigres, willing to let Gazans use Israeli airport to leave

Mohammed al-Emadi, chairman of Qatar's National Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, speaks at a press conference in Gaza City on January 25, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Qatari envoy said set to visit Gaza to discuss grants, reconstruction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Babi Yar ravine, where Nazi troops murdered thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Netanyahu hints Israel behind strikes on Iraq, says Iran not immune anywhere

By Raphael Ahren

Report claims Shaked promised Netanyahu immunity if he made her justice minister

By Raoul Wootliff

Yamina leader alleged to have claimed she could force attorney general to close graft cases as she lobbied for membership in Likud; Shaked denies ‘low, ugly slander’

Former justice minister Ayelet Shaked poses for a selfie during a press conference in Ramat Gan, July 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked, left, during a vote on the 2017-2018 state budget in the Knesset plenum, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewYou scratch my back… I get you that immunity: 6 things to know for August 20

Retired judge Sara Frish attends a Labor party meeting in the Knesset, July 4, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ex-judge backs away from appointment as chair of Comptroller’s Permits Committee

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center right, and wife Sara, walk to visit a monument in Babi Yar ravine where Nazi troops machine-gunned many thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 19, 2019. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Netanyahu pushes back on critics after wife’s bread brouhaha

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

PM says Sara did not disrespect hosts, actually honored them by sporting national colors, lashes out at media for focus on gossip

Crumby movePM’s wife gets rise out of Ukrainians by spurning traditional bread

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Ukrainian Jewish man, 70, undergoes circumcision in honor of Netanyahu visit

By Raphael Ahren

PM and Ukraine president discuss possible Israeli mediation in Russia conflict

By Raphael Ahren

Let her eat cake: Deconstructing Sara’s diplomatic incident

Sara Netanyahu was having a bad day when she was nearly fed – horrors! – CARBS, during a state visit, no less. Whatever was the good woman to do?

Stacey Goodstein Ashtamker

If Israel were more like Hadassah

The mix of Jewish patients, Arab doctors, Arab patients, Jewish doctors, and therapists who speak unexpected Hebrew or Arabic makes me think peace is possible

Keeping out the huddled masses

Blocking immigration for fear of ’invaders’ who will take jobs, debase the culture, and ’replace us’ is rooted in the racism of eugenics that undermines the very essence of America

Lowering the cost of living in Israel

Household items from Hyundai, Kia, Samsung, LG, and more should cost less, once the Free Trade Zone between Israel and South Korea takes effect

US President Donald Trump looks over at the media as he arrives at the White House in Washington, July 30, 2019. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Live updates (closed)

Trump: I don’t buy Tlaib’s tears, she hates Israel and all the Jewish people

The president calls the congresswoman an anti-Semite and claims she is the face of Democratic Party; ‘I have watched her violence, craziness and WORDS for far too long’

6:12 pm

NY Rabbi drowns after he jumps in lake to save his 2 children
6:04 pm

Arab MK: Netanyahu deserves to be prosecuted in The Hague for his crimes
5:42 pm

Likud joins Otzma Yehudit petition to bar Arab parties from running in election

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)

In ultimatum, Hamas tells Israelis to ease blockade or face renewed violence

Amid surge in ‘lone-wolf’ perpetrators, Gazan terror group says assaults will escalate unless Israel ups electricity supply and permits Qatari funds to enter the enclave

Troops secure communities in Gaza border area, August 1, 2019 (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers censured for failing to act during Gaza border attack that injured 3

By Judah Ari Gross

Birthright Israel trip participants. (Courtesy)

Birthright slammed for briefly halting trips to Gaza border region after flareup

Tamir Burstein Nevo removing the the termite-ravaged roof of a traditional Portuguese farmhouse in southern Portugal on May 9, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Israelis abroad

In Portugal, Israelis search for a little slice of rustic paradise

By Melanie Lidman

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman (R) speaks with Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid at the Knesset on November 16, 2015. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Blue and White and Yisrael Beytenu ink vote-sharing deal, drawing fire

By Raoul Wootliff

Liberman insists move only technical, not a sign of ideology, after Likud slams right-wing faction for forging deal with centrists pushing to unseat Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu won’t rule out ‘broad’ government with center-left — report

By Raoul Wootliff

New Right Knesset hopeful Roni Sassover. (Facebook)

Yamina Knesset hopeful accused of anti-Arab racism over old tweet

PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 29, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed / POOL / AFP)

Abbas fires all his advisers amid financial crunch

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ramallah does not provide further details on move, prompted by tax dispute with Israel; PA president demands cabinet return raises

A Palestinian protester sets alight an America flag during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI/File)

US scraps West Bank conference over Palestinian protests

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Joseph Krauss

Israeli security forces walk past the Dome of the Rock shrine, as they arrive at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 11, 2019, after clashes broke out during the overlapping Jewish and Muslim holidays of Eid al-Adha and Tisha B'Av. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Jordan lawmakers call to ‘review’ peace with Israel over Temple Mount violence

ILLUSTRATIVE — New immigrants from North America arrive on a special aliyah flight arranged by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Leap of faith: New US immigrants hopeful, nervous, ready for adventure

Ali Shamkhani, the the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, is seen in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/ AP)

Top Iranian security official says Tehran should not have signed nuclear deal

Ali Shamkhani, military adviser to Khameni, says Trump administration policies are endangering Israel, warns of proxy war if conflict breaks out

Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammed Javad Zarif reacts during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister of Finland after their meeting at the House of the Estates in Helsinki, Finland on August 19, 2019. Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva/AFP)

Iran says foreign minister Zarif to visit Macron in France

By AFP

A stern view of the Grace 1 super tanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, seized last month in a British Royal Navy operation off Gibraltar. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Pompeo: Release of Iranian tanker ‘very unfortunate’

Latvian star Arturs Skrastins, left, portrays Latvian Holocaust hero and Righteous Among the Nations member Zanis Lipke in the new historical drama film 'The Mover.' (Courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival)

Director interview

Blue-collar Latvian ‘Schindler’ saved dozens with few resources of his own

By Rich Tenorio

More Headlines

Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit graves at the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, September 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chief rabbi halts woman’s burial until son grants wife a divorce

By Stuart Winer

Members of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, Calif., giving a Nazi salute. (Instagram screenshot/Daily Beast)

California students make Nazi salute, sing marching song at awards ceremony

Olympiakos coach David Blatt celebrates a point during a Euroleague basketball match between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos in Piraeus near Athens, on January 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Israeli-American basketball coach Blatt reveals he has MS

Illustrative image of a handshake for a bank loan. The Ogen - Israel Social Bank intends to increase the supply of affordable credit for low-income families (Pattanaphong Khuankaew; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s 1st social bank set to offer credit to those who find it out of reach

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rescue forces searching for a swimmer who went missing in the sea off Tel Aviv on August 20, 2019. (Flash90)

Body of swimmer swept away from Tel Aviv beach found

By Stuart Winer

A Nazi trooper on a street in Tunis on January 9, 1943. (AP)

Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust

By JTA and ToI Staff

Paraguay's newly-elected President Mario Abdo Benitez greets the crowd during his arrival at his inauguration ceremony at 'Lopez Palace' in Asuncion, Paraguay, on August 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Paraguay recognizes Hamas, Hezbollah as terror groups, drawing Israeli praise

By Michael Bachner

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

Records: Epstein signed will 2 days before jailhouse suicide

By Jim Mustian and Curt Anderson

A police officer (marked by red circle) fires in the air to scatter several young men attacking a Jewish driver on Salah Ad-Din Street in East Jerusalem, August 11, 2019. (Israel Police video)

Palestinian teen indicted, 2 men held in Tisha B’Av attack on Jewish driver

This undated photo provided by the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office shows James Reardon Jr, who is accused of threatening a Jewish center in Ohio. (Mahoning County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Ohio man pleads not guilty to Jewish center video threat

By AP

Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing in Case 4000, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Pre-indictment hearing held for tycoon at center of Netanyahu corruption probe

A screenshot of the deleted Instagram post by Rodrigo Zalazar. (Via JTA)

Uruguayan soccer star says sorry for birthday photo at Auschwitz

By JTA and ToI Staff

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