Hadassah’s chronic deficit * Condemned, Trump insists he’s no racist * Minister moves to cool conversion therapy, intermarriage furor * Barak to sue over UK Epstein story

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, July 17, 2019 [Homes burn, families flee as brush fires rage throughout country]( By [TOI staff]( [At least five treated for fire-related ailments; several towns and a West Bank settlement evacuated as flames near; at least nine homes burn down amid heatwave]( ToI investigates [Deficit soaring, Hadassah will require years’ more bailout payments to survive]( By [Avner Hofstein]( [Facing collapse in 2014, famed Jerusalem medical center was rescued and thrown a NIS 1.5b lifeline. Having strayed from recovery framework, its financial plight is again dire]( [US House condemns Trump’s tweets as racist in extraordinary rebuke]( By [Alan Fram and DARLENE SUPERVILLE]( [Measure carries no legal repercussions for US president; highly partisan vote in Democratic-led House unlikely to cost him with his die-hard conservative base]( [After House rebukes his remarks as racist, Trump says congresswomen are worse]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [After tirade, Trump insists he doesn’t have ‘racist bone’ in his body]( By [AFP]( [[Sic] burn / ‘Alcaida’: Trump ridiculed for misspelling terror group’s name]( By [TOI staff]( [Minister walks back conversion therapy comments, says he opposes it ‘utterly’]( By [TOI staff]( [In letter to educators, Rafi Peretz asserts he ‘never’ suggested treatment to homosexuals, calls it ‘wrong’]( [Minister: I didn’t mean to hurt world Jewry with Holocaust intermarriage remark]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel’s gay justice minister to Luxembourg’s gay PM: You shun us, but not Iran?]( By [TOI staff]( [Group launches bid for true universal conscription – Haredim, Arabs and all]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Pnima movement, which once included Gantz and Ashkenazi, releases proposal to require all Israeli citizens to perform some form of national service for a more cohesive society]( [Israel to plant trees near Gaza border homes to thwart anti-tank missile attacks]( By [TOI staff]( [Barak vows to sue Daily Mail for ‘sordid insinuations’ over his ties to Epstein]( By [TOI staff]( [British newspaper reissues 2016 photos of former PM visiting disgraced financier’s NY home ‘within hours’ of several young women, in apparent hint at unsavory motives]( [Israel media review / Up to his neck-warmer in trouble: 6 things to know for July 17]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Epstein defense claims foreign passport was safety precaution against kidnap]( By [Jim Mustian and ALI SWENSON]( Live updates [In full-page ad, Labour peers say ‘toxic’ anti-Semitism festered under Corbyn]( By [TOI staff]( [Attack in national UK newspaper signed by 60 prominent Labour members, who say chief ‘failed the test of leadership’ for allowing anti-Jewish sentiment to grow in party]( Top Ops [Varda Spiegel]( [Never again, Kellyanne Conway!]( [Don’t let the US president’s senior staff get away with pushing a reporter to wear his Jewish heart on his sleeve]( [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [The perils of Donald Trump loving Israel just a little too much]( [When the US president invokes the Jewish state to defend behavior that even some Trumpists deem racist, it can’t be good news for the Jews]( [Sharon Nazarian]( [No justice 25 years after the massacre in Buenos Aires]( [Successive Argentine governments failed in investigating the bombing. It’s time to finally hold Hezbollah accountable]( [Sally Abrams]( [Your people will be my child’s people]( [Framing intermarriage as a second Holocaust is grotesque; the real question is how we can help all families keep Judaism on the table]( [US prosecutor: Israeli trained staff to lie repeatedly to binary options victims]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [At opening of landmark trial, lawyer for Lee Elbaz says ‘She wanted her employees to work clean’]( [Rivlin visits Korean Demilitarized Zone, calling it ‘the mouth of a volcano’]( By [Michael Bachner]( [In first, president tours fortified frontier, comes close to North Korean troops, and has brick dedicated to his late wife]( [At summit with Russia, Israel and US demanded Iran leave Lebanon, Iraq — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Discussing region’s future, Jerusalem and Washington said to have insisted Tehran’s exit from Syria would solve nothing if the problem merely moved to another Arab state]( [Israeli group seeks sale of seized Iranian tanker over damages for Hamas attack]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Iran: FM’s missile remarks meant to challenge US arms sales]( By [Agencies]( [Likud minister: UK Labour leader Corbyn hates Jews and Israel]( By [TOI staff]( [Ze’ev Elkin: Opposition leader has proven record of Jew hatred; Hotovely: This is a ‘grave matter’; a third of Labour peers take out ad saying Corbyn ‘failed test of leadership’]( [British Jewish leader says Trump’s xenophobic tirade ‘appalling’]( By [TOI staff]( [US-born female rider clears latest hurdle toward representing Israel in Tokyo]( By [Cathryn J. 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