Barak fights PM, under dark shadow of Epstein ties * Will PM let pro-BDS Omar and Tlaib visit? * Gay conversion continues in some US Orthodox areas * AMIA, 25 year later

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Thursday, July 18, 2019 Reporter's notebook [Raoul Wootliff]( [In the dark shadow of Epstein ties, Barak wages an underdog fight]( [At campaign launch event, Israel Democratic Party leader goes on the offensive like a guerrilla warrior leading a unlikely coup. It may be his only choice]( [Rejecting Barak ultimatum, Daily Mail stands by Epstein story ‘100%’]( By [TOI staff]( [Barak charges Netanyahu behind Daily Mail ‘blood libel’ tying him to Epstein]( By [Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff]( [Victim of alleged Israeli gang rape in Cyprus had lower body wounds, court hears]( By [TOI staff]( [Suspects’ families accuse Cypriot police of brutality; 9 of those held deny meeting British tourist who accused them of sex attack; DNA samples and phones taken from suspects]( [12 Israelis held in Cyprus on suspicion of raping British tourist]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel media review / Throwing suspected rapists a rope: 6 things to know for July 18]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [PM to decide if BDS supporters Omar and Tlaib allowed to visit Israel — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Democratic congresswomen, planning trip next month, could be routinely denied entry under 2017 boycott law, but Netanyahu can decide to waive the rule]( [US House leaders advance anti-BDS bill, sparking fears of divide among Democrats]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Israel is the victim in conflict with Palestinians, says US peace envoy]( By [Stuart Winer]( Analysis [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Why did Kellyanne Conway ask a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity?]( [Responding to a query about a recent tweet by Donald Trump suggesting four lawmakers ‘go back’ to their countries of origin, the president’s aide had a puzzling question of her own]( [Trump slams Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib; crowd roars, ‘Send her back!’]( By [Deb Riechmann]( [Trump leaning on issue of race to win a second term in 2020]( By [Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller]( [US House blocks maverick Democrat’s Trump impeachment effort]( By [Alan Fram and MARY CLARE JALONICK]( Archaeology [One of the earliest mosques in the Holy Land unearthed in Bedouin city of Rahat]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( Live updates [Jewish Agency head urges Corbyn to launch external probe of Labour anti-Semitism]( By [TOI staff]( [Herzog, in letter to UK politician, calls party’s handling of allegations ‘scandalous,’ urges thorough investigation]( [In the US, gay conversion therapy continues in some Orthodox communities]( By [Matt Lebovic]( Global terror [Alan Grabinsky]( [Rescued twice: The archive that survived the Holocaust and the AMIA attack]( [On the 25th anniversary of the deadly bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, volunteers recall rescuing a precious piece of history from the rubble]( [25 years after AMIA bombing, Israeli & Argentinian envoys still hope for justice]( By [TOI staff]( [Tributes planned for 25th anniversary of AMIA Jewish center bombing]( By [JTA]( [Leah Soibel]( [Argentina finally blacklists Hezbollah]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Give Neda Amin, welcomed to Israel 2 years ago, the right to start her life here]( [Israel’s authorities acted admirably to bring an Iranian blogger to safety two summers ago. Since then, they’ve consigned her to limbo. Can someone in authority help?]( [In first, massive traveling exhibit brings Anne Frank artifacts to North America]( By [Matt Lebovic]( Top Ops [A Sex Addict]( [Confessions of a unicorn]( [Would I have wrecked my marriage and left Orthodox Judaism if I had known that sex addiction was even possible for the nice Jewish girl that I was?]( [Mohammed Odeh]( [If I were Israeli]( [I would do all I cannot do now to ensure the protection of basic human rights, and a better future for our children and grandchildren, both Palestinian and Israeli]( [Ethiopian-Israeli teen killed by cop was drinking before shooting, autopsy finds]( By [TOI staff]( [Solomon Tekah consumed alcohol, cannabis prior to fatal incident; bullet struck ground before hitting him, medical examiner says]( [Ethiopian-Israeli parents petition against Haredi schools’ rejection of children]( By [Sue Surkes]( More Headlines [Israel bakes as temperature climbs to near-record 49.9°C at biblical Sodom]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel’s health system suffers from ‘systemic failures,’ report says]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Zelensky: Two months as Ukraine’s most unusual president]( By [AFP]( [Louvre museum removes Sackler name amid opioid controversy]( By [AFP]( [Mother of fallen soldier says PM ‘hasn’t done anything’ to retrieve son’s body]( By [TOI staff]( [Bats hang where Israeli soldiers once stood in Jordan Valley]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Israeli startups to play key role in the fourth industrial revolution]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Labour fires peer for comparing Corbyn leadership to Hitler’s ‘bunker mentality’]( By [TOI staff]( [Appealing tax bill, model Refaeli tells court she and DiCaprio were family unit]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Heavy penalty / Radio station pays fine to feminist group with 300,000 coins]( By [TOI staff]( [New Jersey police identify suspects in anti-Semitic water gun attack]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [German Jewish group slams Speigel article on pro-Israel lobby as anti-Semitic]( By [JTA]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved