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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 19, 2018

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Netanyahu hails 'pivotal moment in the annals of Zionism'

Israel passes Jewish state law, enshrining ‘national home of the Jewish people’

By Raoul Wootliff

After hours of furious debate, Knesset narrowly approve quasi-constitutional Basic Law, which critics say discriminates against Arabs and other minority communities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset plenary session ahead of the vote on the National Law, July 18, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu cheers Jewish state law as a ‘pivotal moment’ in Zionist history

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) with cabinet minister Tzachi Hanegbi (CR) at the Knesset plenum on July 18, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 )

Israel media reviewThe State of Israel is born again: 9 things to know for July 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat speaks during at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinians say newly passed Jewish state law ‘legalizes apartheid’

PA and Hamas officials claim ‘dangerous and racist legislation’ violates international law, will sanction discrimination against Arabs

Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Robert A. Cumins/JFNA via JTA)

Reform and AJC leaders bitterly criticize Israel’s nation-state bill

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: A picture taken from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus shows a view of the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad on February 2, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Peace Now: 99.7% of West Bank state land grants go to settlers

By JTA

Segregated-gender Orthodox prayer in the Robinson's Arch pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Courtesy)

Masorti movement slams politically motivated 'provocation'

Western Wall egalitarian area used daily for gender-segregated Orthodox prayer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Students from two Old City yeshivas bring in temporary ‘mehitza’ dividers for Orthodox crowds of up to 100 at site set aside for pluralistic prayer

US President Donald Trump (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan SMIALOWSKI)

Live updates (closed)

Trump rejects Putin’s proposal to let Russia interrogate US citizens

White House says Kremlin had offered a quid-pro-quo of permitting US justice officials to into Moscow to question 12 Russians indicted for hacking Democratic Party computers

6:43 pm

Trump rejects Putin's proposal to let Russia interrogate US citizens
6:30 pm

US Conservative movement leader says Diaspora gap with Israel is now a 'canyon'
6:20 pm

Saudi signs deal for five warships with Spain's Navantia

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)

IDF airstrike on fire balloon launchers said to kill one Hamas fighter

Palestinians say 2 others injured in Israeli drone attack in Khan Younis area; army says men were members of Hamas terror group; 2 mortar shells fired at soldiers

Rabbi Dov Haiyun (Facebook)

In pre-dawn move, police nab, grill Conservative rabbi over weddings he conducts

By Marissa Newman

Dov Haiyun says officers arrived at door of his Haifa home at 5 a.m. to haul him in; rabbinate says he officiated at wedding for Jew born of extramarital affair

LGBTs call nationwide strike in protest of surrogacy law excluding gays

By Stuart Winer

Birthright participants who walked off trip ask public to pay for ride home

US Jewish philanthropist grilled at airport after visiting Palestinian areas

Arrest me: I too officiated at non-Orthodox weddings

They came for a Conservative rabbi. How much more will it take for liberal Jewish leadership to say enough is enough?

President Rivlin, right, hosts Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in his official Jerusalem residence, July 19, 2018 (Avi Kanner)

In unsubtle dig, Rivlin warns visiting Hungarian PM of ‘neo-facism’

By Raphael Ahren

Fascist groups a ‘real danger’ to the free world, president tells Viktor Orban; also praises his support of Israel and efforts to fight anti-Semitism

In Israel, hard-right Hungarian PM hails himself and Netanyahu as ‘patriots’

By Raphael Ahren

In rare move, Foreign Ministry fetes Hungary’s Orban as he arrives in Israel

‘Shame!’ Opposition MKs cry foul as Hungarian PM visits

Illustrative image of a hacker (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers say they’ve found better way to spot malicious emails

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ben-Gurion University team claims its ‘enhanced threat detection’ is 13% more effective than existing products

In this photo taken Thursday, April 19, 2012, sausages are displayed in a butcher shop in Klagenfurt, in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia. (AP/Darko Bandic)

In Austrian tale of kosher meat ban, groups find bone to pick with far right

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli troops prepare to deliver tons of food and other humanitarian aid to southern Syria in July 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF delivers aid to displaced Syrians as rebels surrender to Assad

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says food, fuel, tents delivered; assistance comes just before opposition hands over heavy weapons, government forces return to area in country’s southwest

Israel, Russia said to work on return to 1974 deal for Syrian border area

By Stuart Winer

Syria rebels agree to surrender zone bordering Golan – monitor

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran says notion of Mossad raiding Tehran warehouse ‘laughably absurd’

Swedish parliamentary candidate Oldoz Javidi aboard a boat attempting to break the Gaza blockade. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Swedish parliamentary candidate suggests deporting all Jews from Israel

By JTA

Oldoz Javidi subsequently retracts idea of transferring Jews to US, made in interview aboard ship sailing to break Gaza blockade

Jewish Labour MP who called Corbyn an anti-Semite says she ‘was right’ to do so

American Jews lead kippah solidarity walk in heart of Berlin

By ToI Staff and JTA

Arab suspected of beating of Paris Jew sent to psychiatric review

By JTA

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets with a group of entrepreneurs and innovators during a round-table discussion at Cortex Innovation Community technology hub in St. Louis, November 9, 2017. (Jeff Roberson/AFP)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg says he won’t remove Holocaust denial posts

Founder of social media giant says those denying Holocaust may be doing so unintentionally and should not be removed, drawing condemnation from ADL; later clarifies remarks

Croatian singer Marko Perkovic, also known as Thompson. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Croatian team celebrates World Cup success with performance by ‘fascist singer’

By JTA

Francine Klagsbrun

Golda was a chain smoker

The solitary struggle to perfect a sentence has turned into a whirlwind to promote my biography of Israel’s 4th prime minister

Rony Yedidia Clein

40 years in Israel

Ulpan, army, kibbutz, moshav, and the public-private life of a diplomat… Israel has changed; so have I

Naftali Bennett

UK Labour will not divide the Jewish people

When you reject the very definition of anti-Semitism, you’re trying to drive a wedge between Jews and Israel

Why liberal Jews should embrace Tisha B’Av

Gaining fluency in the ugliness of our past is no longer optional; here’s time to do just that

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

Zionist Union MK accepts apology of colleague who touched her rear

A Border Police officer after she was hit in the head by a stone thrown by Israeli settlers at an outpost adjacent to the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on July 17, 2018. (Israel Police)

Ministers lambaste ‘barbarian’ settlers who hurled stones at security forces

Illustrative image of people walking in Jerusalem's Zion Square on August 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab woman says she was tasered, beaten by Jewish girls in Jerusalem

A previous free, summer opera performance at Tel Aviv's Ganei Yehoshua (Courtesy Yossi Zwecker)

Parkside propheciesIsraeli Opera sings tale of ‘Nabucco’ at free August 9 Tel Aviv show

By Jessica Steinberg

An expert in the US restoring one of the books rescued from the Iraqi Jewish community in Baghdad. (Courtesy: US National Archives and Records Administration)

Bipartisan bill seeks to keep Iraqi Jewish archive in US

By Josefin Dolsten

Judge Ronit Poznansky-Katz leaves the Supreme Court in Jerusalem after appearing before the justices as part of the disciplinary process against her, March 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Judge who conferred with prosecutor in texting scandal is dismissed

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox men ((Raw Herring/Flickr via JTA)

Study finds widespread history of sexual abuse among formerly Orthodox

A sandfly (CC BY-SA Commander Applebery/Flickr)

Disease-spreading flies torment West Bank, northern Israel

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