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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 24, 2019

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Israeli troops operate in the West Bank on August 23, 2019, following a deadly terror bombing near the Dolev settlement. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF said to arrest 3 Palestinians during hunt for terrorists behind bomb attack

Israeli troops reportedly confiscate cameras, raid homes in West Bank villages near site of bombing that killed Israeli teen Rina Shnerb

Mourners carry the body of 17-year-old Israeli Rina Shnerb, who was killed by a bomb in a terror attack while visiting a spring near Dolev in the West Bank, during her funeral in the city of Lod on August 23, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP); inset: Rina Shnerb (Courtesy)

From hospital, dad of murdered teen tells funeral: ‘We’re strong, will prevail’

Rabbi Eitan Shnerb speaks to reporters from his hospital bed after being wounded in a terror attack that also killed his daughter Rina and wounded his son Dvir on August 23, 2019 (Screencapture/Ynet)

‘Rina saved us all, she absorbed it all’: Dad recalls blast that killed daughter

US Democratic Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district Rashida Tlaib attends "Shabatt in the Park with Rashida" event on August 16, 2019 in Pallister Park in Detroit, Michigan. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP)

Rashida Tlaib calls terrorist killing of Israeli teen ‘tragic’

After IfNotNow blames ‘rightward drift’ of Israeli and US governments for deadly attack, lawmaker sends condolences to Rina Shnerb’s family, urges nonviolent end to occupation

In this file photo taken on July 15, 2019 US Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) looks on during an interview at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Tlaib says Trump is attacking her because he’s ‘scared’ of women of color

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler listens as former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, July 24, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Nadler slams Tlaib, Omar for sharing drawing by Holocaust cartoon contestant

By Josefin Dolsten

Rina Shnerb, 17, who was killed in a terror attack in the West Bank on August 23, 2019 (courtesy)

US envoy suggests world should rethink PA aid after Israeli teen killed by bomb

Jason Greenblatt demands Abbas condemn ‘savage attack’ that killed Rina Shnerb, fumes that Ramallah uses donor funds to reward Palestinian terrorists

AnalysisDeadly Friday attack shows W. Bank heating up, as Hamas senses Israeli weakness

By Avi Issacharoff

A Palestinian man displays a 100 dollar bill, part of $480 million in aid allocated by Qatar, in Gaza City on May 13, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Gaza banks to dole out Qatari cash to 100,000 families starting Sunday

Aerial picture showing smoke from a two-kilometer-long stretch of fire billowing from the Amazon rainforest about 65 km from Porto Velho, in the state of Rondonia, in northern Brazil, on August 23, 2019. (Carl DE SOUZA / AFP)

Op-ed

As the Amazon burns, realpolitik demands that Netanyahu speak up

The prime minister’s bromance with Brazil’s president must take a back seat to the task of salvaging the climate for generations to come

A felled tree lies surrounded by charred tree fragments on a field left scorched by wildfires near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Bolsonaro to send army to fight huge fires in the Amazon

By VICTOR CAIVANO

Democratic Camp party member Ehud Barak speaks at a cultural event in the central town of Shoham on August 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Barak says Netanyahu cowed by Trump ‘like a puppy’

Ex-PM laments government’s lack of ‘bravery’ to reach out to both Republicans and Democrats, calls US president’s ‘loyalty’ remarks about Jews ‘unnecessary, damaging’

Yisrael Beytenu Avigdor Liberman speaks at a cultural event in the central town of Shoham on August 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Liberman: Likud will drop Netanyahu if majority of MKs don’t back him for PM

Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Gili Yaari, Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Likud tied with Blue and White, neither has clear path to majority

The Amazing Jonathan in 'The Amazing Jonathan Documentary.' (Courtesy/ Hulu)

Interview

Truth may be an illusion in this documentary on comedy’s most wicked magician

By Jordan Hoffman

In this undated photo released by Sepahnews, the website of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Gen. Hossein Salami speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard boasts of test-firing new missile

IRGC chief hails test as ‘one of the successful days of the nation,’ but gives no details on the weapon itself

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

US officials: ‘Raging heat’ may be behind Iraq explosions, not Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A supertanker hosting an Iranian flag is seen on the water in the British territory of Gibraltar, August 18, 2019. (AP Photo/ Marcos Moreno)

Iranian oil tanker pursued by US changes destination to Turkey

By Jon Gambrell

Former US President Donald Trump, right, greets Representative Lee Zeldin, center, and his wife Diana Zeldin, left, after arriving at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, New York, August 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Interview

For this top Jewish Republican, Trump’s ‘disloyalty’ jab is a bridge too far

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

Psychiatrist okayed Epstein’s removal from suicide watch

By ToI Staff and AP

Letter from assistant AG says financier was examined by expert who ruled he could be taken off suicide watch, but doesn’t state why

Jeffrey Epstein in New York City in 2005. (Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/via JTA)

France opens Epstein-linked rape investigation

By Elaine Ganley

Woody Allen onstage during the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award Gala for Diane Keaton at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, June 8, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)

New Woody Allen film has no scheduled US release

By Josefin Dolsten

Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reform leader Gilad Kariv wants to be first non-Orthodox rabbi in the Knesset

Andrew Esensten

‘We made 100!’ Celebrating a century of Judaism in Uganda

The success of the Abayudaya community is a very Jewish story — they tried to kill us, we survived, let’s celebrate!

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt

FROM THE WEB: White supremacists stole my rabbi husband’s identity

It was an explicit plot to foster infighting among conservative and liberal Jews — an old tactic, and potentially dangerously effective

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Gregory J. Melikian, a 20-year old Sergeant working in SHAEF headquarters of Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1944 and 1945, and a witness in the surrender of the high German Authorities in Reims, France, poses during an interview with the Associated Press on August 23, 2019 in Paris. (AP/Daniel Cole)

75 years later, US World War II veterans celebrate liberation of Paris

By Angela Charlton

Actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court after his charges were dropped, March 26, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Special prosecutor named to look into Jussie Smollett case

By Michael Tarm

Ann and Kenneth Bialkin attend the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center 2018 Gala in New York City, November 19, 2018. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/JTA)

Kenneth Bialkin, longtime Jewish leader and philanthropist, dies at 89

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, talks to the audience at the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate change summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

UN chief urges world to stamp out religious persecution

By Edith M. Lederer

In this December 15, 2018 photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York. (AP Photo/Rebecca Gibian)

Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for tumor on pancreas

By Jessica Gresko and MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Amsterdam has a rich Jewish history, including architecture. Pictured is the interior of Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue illuminated by candlelight. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Massimo Catarinella, Wikimedia)

Dozens of synagogues to open to public on 20th European Days of Jewish Culture

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Spanish Jews celebrate Hanukkah in Madrid, December 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Spanish city gathers descendants of Jews named after it

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A picture taken on October 13, 2017 shows a view of a street in the "Mellah" Jewish quarter of the Medina in Marrakesh. (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)

Moroccan Jews gather for pilgrimage to newly renovated Al Jadida cemetery

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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