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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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Sharansky: Many in Israel think Reform Judaism is some kind of hostile sect

Outgoing Jewish Agency chief laments communication failures and ignorance that complicate Diaspora ties, but speaks positively about rising aliya and strengthening Jewish identity

Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, at his office in Jerusalem on September 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Incoming Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog with outgoing chairman Natan Sharansky, at the board of governors conference of the Jewish Agency, at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, on June 24, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Stepping down, Sharansky pleads for ‘advisory Knesset’ to heal Diaspora ties

By David Horovitz

A picture taken on October 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall with machine coding symbols at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)

'No one knew this was the meaning of the bill'

Unwitting Israeli MKs almost pass law allowing sweeping internet censorship

By Raoul Wootliff

Bill that would have given state power to block content on any website stymied by Netanyahu hours before final vote, after Times of Israel queries MKs about its drastic provisions

Contentious nation-state bill clears committee ahead of final vote

Final text of Jewish nation-state law, approved by the Knesset early on July 19

By Raoul Wootliff

Caving to ultra-Orthodox, Netanyahu about-faces on gay surrogacy rights

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Incendiary balloons are flown toward Israel during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops east of Gaza City, along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, on July 13, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas said to agree to gradually decrease flaming kite attacks on Israel

Report says terror group intends to wind down airborne incendiary assaults in coming days to prevent dragging Gaza into war

Southern Israelis scurry to bomb shelters over false rocket alarm

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewGet better soon, or else: 8 things to know for July 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Army told to prepare for large-scale military operation in Gaza — report

Labour MP, Dame Margaret Hodge. (Flickr/The Institute for Government)

Veteran UK Labour lawmaker calls Corbyn a ‘racist and anti-Semite’

MP Margaret Hodge, fuming at new guidelines on anti-Semitism, accuses party chief of no longer wanting Jewish people in the party

British Labour MP resigns, citing party’s ‘tolerance’ of anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and AFP

Op-EdBritain’s Labour adopts its own controversial definition of anti-Semitism

By Robert Philpot

British teen leader sparks fresh controversy with new Israel tour job

By JTA and ToI Staff

Smoke plumes rising from reported Syrian and Russian airstrikes across the border in Syria's southeastern Quneitra province, as seen from the Israeli Golan Heights, July 16, 2018. (JALAA MAREY/AFP)

Midnight ‘false alarm’ sends Golan residents running to shelters

By Judah Ari Gross

Rocket sirens sound amid intense bombardment by Assad forces of rebel-held town on Syrian side of the border

Intense bombardment in south Syria kills over a dozen

Satellite images show building leveled in alleged Israeli strike on Syrian base

By Judah Ari Gross

Arab Israeli who glided into Syria to join Islamic State flies home, is arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)

Hungary’s controversial Orban to begin two-day Israel visit Wednesday

Hungarian PM will visit Yad Vashem and Western Wall, as well as meet with Netanyahu in a sign of burgeoning ties between the two leaders

CFTC Headquarters in Washington, DC (Courtesy)

US seeks record $75m. from marketer for steering victims to Israeli binary scams

By Simona Weinglass

Boasting of ‘ruining lives,’ Florida’s Michael Shah allegedly sent traffic to Israeli-run binary options sites including LBinary, TraderXP, Trade Rush, Banc de Binary, OptionRally

Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich with Europol Executive Director Catherine De Bolle in The Hague, July 17, 2018 (courtesy Europol)

Israel and EU ink agreement on fighting organized crime, cybercrime, terrorism

By Raphael Ahren

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi talks at a conference on international cooperation for enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards and non-profileration, at the Lincei Academy, in Rome, October 10, 2017. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Iran nuclear chief says uranium stockpile has doubled to 950 tons

By AP and ToI Staff

Ali Akbar Salehi says his country has enough nuclear material to reach its longtime goal of running 190,000 enrichment centrifuges

US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In recording, Netanyahu boasts Israel convinced Trump to quit Iran nuclear deal

By Alexander Fulbright

Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi answers the press in the capital Tehran on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran ‘preparing’ to enrich uranium if nuclear deal fails, official says

By AFP

Private security personnel with 'Aryan Brotherhood' on his T-shirt opens the gate at the venue of the 'Schild und Schwert' (Shield and Sword) neo-Nazi festival, in the small eastern German town of Ostritz on April 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)

In Germany, online anti-Semitism is going mainstream, study finds

By Marc Neugroschel

Jew-hatred on the web has risen 22% in a decade, with bigotry masquerading as anti-Israel criticism and relying on classic tropes, research reveals

Jewish professor beaten by police says he’ll keep coming back to Germany

The Daily Stormer forced to take down Pepe the Frog images

By JTA

Austrian state mulls limiting kosher meat sale to registered Jews

By JTA

Illustrative: Gazans load balloons with flammable material to be flown toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas vows to continue arson attacks ‘until blockade lifted’

By Tamar Pileggi

Gaza terror group posts video denying recent reports claiming they intend to stop launching flaming balloons and kites at Israel

6:32 pm

IDF arrests Palestinian suspected of running fake Israeli ID operation
6:12 pm

Police release video of masked settlers violently attacking troops
5:48 pm

Netanyahu denies backtracking support for LGBT surrogacy

View of a plenum session of the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Flash90)

Knesset rescinds ability of PM to declare war without cabinet approval

Amendment canceling clause says any decision to launch major military operation should be ‘adopted by as wide a panel as possible’

Netanyahu tours IDF’s Gaza Division, says Israel is ‘in a military campaign’

By Judah Ari Gross

Rights groups urge halt to ‘collective punishment’ at Gaza goods crossing

MK suspended for calling ex-Shin Bet head a murderer

An Intel Corp./Mobileye self-driving car with a human driver behind the steering wheel (YouTube screenshot)

First person

Shoshanna Solomon

I can’t even give in to cruise control. How could I cope in an autonomous car?

ToI’s tech editor doesn’t want anything taking any control of her car, and it turns out she’s not alone. Which is why experts are working on the ‘trust’ as well as the tech

Avidan Freedman

Why not to fast on Tisha B’Av

Well, do you make decisions based on realpolitik, or based on religious value commitments?

Jordanna Gessler

Why we need a definition of ‘genocide’

If the Holocaust is the prototype, then we miss the lessons of all other genocides, including how to prevent them

When ‘I hate Hamas’ means ‘I don’t hate Hamas’

An insider’s anti-Zionist lexicon: The code to deciphering what decent, reasonable-sounding phrases really mean

Who’s afraid of IfNotNow?

We Camp Ramah alum feel a lot of love for Israel — and want to stop hiding from the ugliness of the occupation

Yemen Blues founder Ravid Kahalani has recently moved to New York City. (Courtesy)

Israeli Jew and Yemenite Muslim: A musical match that could only be made in NY

By Michelle Divon

More Headlines

Composite picture of Ayelet Nachmias Verbin (L) (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and Eitan Broshi (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK touches female colleague’s rear, says it was meant as a ‘friendly gesture’

A screen capture from a video of a young woman being chased in Beit Shemesh by a group of ultra-Orthodox men over her "immodest" clothes. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Girls chased by ultra-Orthodox mob in Beit Shemesh over ‘immodest’ clothes

Illustrative: Residents of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar clash with security forces during a demolition of an illegal structure on June 25, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

2 Border Police injured by stone-throwing settlers in northern West Bank

Former prime minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, on December 22, 2017. (Flash90)

Amid comeback talk, Ehud Barak sees ‘historic possibility’ to replace Netanyahu

A brawl between families of slain Palestinian terrorists and those of Israeli victims at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 17, 2018 (Hadashot TV screenshot)

Brawl at High Court between families of slain terrorists, Israeli victims

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toasts the upcoming Jewish New Year at the PM's office in Jerusalem on September 7, 2015. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Granting tax break, Knesset boosts PM’s annual income by up to NIS 200,000

By Raoul Wootliff

Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gabbay meets with top US Democrat strategists ahead of 2019 elections

An illustrative photo of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

In first, US judge says racial discrimination law applies to Jews

By JTA

(From L to R) Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan, Chief Rabbi of Safed Shmuel Eliyahu and former Samaria Regional Council chairman Gershon Mesika. (Yossi Zeliger, Yonatan Sindel and Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Undermining elections, rabbi picks next leader of north West Bank settlements

This hand with a ring shows how the artificial reality of Inova works -- helping make choosing online jewelry a more realistic experience (Artem Soundelzon)

Startup molds artificial reality with jewelry for visual online shopping spree

By Shoshanna Solomon

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