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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 21, 2019

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis (off frame)in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 20, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Because of 'two people that hate Israel and Jewish people'

Trump says Jews who vote Democrat show ‘great disloyalty’

By Tamar Pileggi

US president slams rival party for defending Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, saying Jews who support them show ‘a total lack of knowledge;’ rejects call to cut aid to Israel

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Jewish groups: Trump spreads anti-Semitic trope by accusing Jews of ‘disloyalty’

By Eric Cortellessa

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Netanyahu willing to stand up to Trump on peace plan, says official

By Raphael Ahren

(L) US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina on July 17, 2019. (AP/Gerry Broome) (R) From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib,, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley speak at a press conference in Washington on July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Op-ed

Dreadful symbiosis sees Israel and Jews pulled into volcanic core of US politics

Trump wants ‘The Squad’ to be regarded as the new face of the Democratic Party… and so do they. Now Israel, and US Jews, are being dangerously squeezed between partisan extremes

Op-Ed

Israel is neither Bibi nor the United States

If you evaluate Israeli politics through the prism of American democracy, you will be disappointed (and embarrassed). You will also miss what Israel is all about

AnalysisFurious Democrats take aim at two ambassadors for Tlaib-Omar fiasco

Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks during a press conference on August 19, 2019 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Image North America/AFP)

Trump ‘doesn’t buy’ Tlaib’s tears, claims she ‘hates Israel and all Jews’

Analysis

Losing bite, friendlier state watchdog is accused of being Netanyahu’s poodle

New ombudsman under fire as he mulls axing anti-corruption unit, peppering audits with compliments, refraining from real-time criticism; this after shaking up key oversight panel

Matanyahu Englman (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem shortly after being nominated for state comptroller on June 3, 2019. (PMO/Twitter)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit, right, during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mandelblit said committed to fighting any immunity bid by Netanyahu

Yisrael Goldstein, head of the KKL-JNF national workers' union. (Facebook)

Head of KKL-JNF union calls on workers to join Likud ahead of elections

Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, on June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Likud urges pollsters to classify saber-rattling settler Liberman a leftist

While liberal on social issues, the Yisrael Beytenu chief who on Tuesday signed a vote-sharing agreement with Blue and White champions hardline views on security

Liberman’s liberal credentials questioned over video with fundamentalist rabbi

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

Otzma Yehudit's Itamar Ben Gvir (L) argues with Arab Israeli candidate Ata Abu Madighem after a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 14, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Likud joins far-right appeal to bar Arab parties from running in election

9 members of ruling party, among them Netanyahu loyalist David Bitan, team up with Otzma Yehudit; Supreme Court expected to dismiss plea

Palestinians gather at the Rafah border crossing as they wait to travel into Egypt after the passage was opened for three days for humanitarian cases, in the southern Gaza Strip April 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

PA: Israel’s encouragement of Gaza emigration ‘extremely dangerous’

MK Aida Touma-Sliman of the Joint List speaks at the party's Hebrew-language campaign launch in Tel Aviv, August 20, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Arab MK calls Israeli efforts to encourage Gaza emigration ‘ethnic cleansing’

By Omer Sharvit

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival in Jerusalem on July 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin calls Pelosi to say Israel doesn’t want to be a partisan football

After Trump loyalty row, president tells America’s top elected Democrat that US-Israel ties ‘not dependent on relationship with one particular party’

6:32 pm

California school district re-opens probe of students' Nazi salute
6:14 pm

Rocket fired from Gaza toward southern Israel
6:04 pm

Rocket alert sounds at kibbutz on Gaza border, IDF investigating

Explosions at an arms depot of a Shiite militia group in Iraq, August 20, 2019. (video screenshot)

Report: US, Russia gave Israel green light to strike Iran in Syria, Iraq

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Under alleged agreement, Jerusalem allowed to conduct attacks against Iranian threats in Middle East, but can’t publicly acknowledge them

Israel media reviewBombs over Baghdad: 7 things to know for August 21

By Tamar Pileggi

Iraq probe of Baghdad blast last week says drone strike set it off

By AP and ToI Staff

Explosion rocks arms depot of Iran-backed militia near Baghdad

By AP and ToI Staff

Rashida Tlaib, Israel isn’t going anywhere

The congresswoman should work to build bridges and help Palestinians forego their fantasy of destroying the Jewish state

Avi Issacharoff

Selling the fantasy of ‘transfer’

Netanyahu talks tough to appeal to his furthest right-wing base, but his government has provided unprecedented aid to Hamas

Larry Rothwachs

Surviving and thriving without screens

We dared to take electronic devices away from all 1300 of our campers and staff members — what happened next was remarkable

World Ice Theory and the imperative of seeking truth

There’s a cautionary tale to be found in a pseudoscientific doctrine embraced by the Nazis (Parshat Ekev)

Illustrative: Ecstasy pills (AP Photo/Isidoro Pitera')

Israel seeks to beat PTSD with ‘ecstasy’ therapy

By Jonah Mandel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) stands alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as they watch marching soldiers during a welcoming ceremony in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on August 19, 2019. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Analysis

An unnecessary visit: Netanyahu returns from Ukraine with few achievements

First trip in 20 years overshadowed by wife’s gaffe at welcome ceremony; new government in Kyiv, too, has few accomplishments to boast of

PM Netanyahu places a small wheat basket at a monument the victims of the Holodomor, a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians and others, Kyiv, August 19, 2019 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Russia denies seeking to stop Netanyahu from honoring Holodomor victims

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, left, Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Reuven Azman, right, and Kyiv resident Felix Gelfer, a Ukrainian Jew who was circumcised earlier in the day in honor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 20, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

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

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli, US special forces practice ship takeovers amid high tensions in Gulf

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF says last week’s Noble Rose exercise not held in direct response to recent incidents around Strait of Hormuz

United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Mideast, Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Pompeo warns anyone who ‘touches’ Iran tanker risks US sanctions

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Anti-fascist counter-demonstrators cross the Burnside Bridge across the Willamette River from the west side of the city to the east side in search of the far-right group, the Proud Boys, in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Trump takes side in Portland far-right rally, but local Jews say it’s wrong one

By Josefin Dolsten

Yamileth Lopez with a photo of her deceased friend Javier Amir Rodriguez at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting which left at least 22 people dead, on August 6, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP

US authorities prevented multiple white nationalist attacks in recent weeks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Amazon Prime boxes are loaded on a cart for delivery, October 10, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Amazon introduces services for Israeli sellers as it grows local operations

Illustrative photo of sexual assault. (via Shutterstock)

Eight teens suspected in alleged gang rape of 11-year-old girl in north

File: A menorah and flowers are seen outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in preparation for a celebration service on the first night of Hanukkah, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, December 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Leaders of Ugandan shul named for Tree of Life synagogue pay visit

By JTA

A man walks out from Famagusta district court house in southeast town of Paralimni, Cyprus on August 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Israeli police said mulling probe into teens cleared of gang rape in Cyprus

Soldiers pose on top of a tank during the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War on October 6, 1973. (Avi Simhoni/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)

Production begins on ‘Valley of Tears,’ Israel’s most ambitious TV show ever

By JTA

A thrill ride in an amusement park in southeast Germany that looks like spinning swastikas. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Uber failGerman park to redo new ride shaped as spinning swastikas

By JTA

A protest group called Hot Mess holds up posters of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse in New York City, on July 8, 2019. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

3 women sue Epstein’s estate, citing rape, other sex acts

By Larry Neumeister and Jim Mustian

Illustrative: Taxis drivers at Ben Gurion Airport on June 12, 2017. (Flash90)

Cab driver arrested over suspected rape of American tourist

Illustration of a Porsche car equipeed with a TriEye SWIR camera. (Dr Ing.h.c.F Porsche AG)

Israeli road visibility chipmaker TriEye nabs investment from Porsche

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of police boats searching Greenwood Lake for missing swimmers on Nov. 15, 2009 in Greenwood Lake, New York. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)

NY rabbi drowns after jumping in lake to save his children

By AP and ToI Staff

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