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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 29, 2018

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Arab Israel lawmaker from the Zionist Union party Zoheir Bahloul announces his resignation from the Knesset on July 28, 2018 to protest the nation-state bill (Screenshot/Hadashot news)

Arab lawmaker from Zionist Union quits Knesset to protest nation-state law

Zouheir Bahloul announces resignation in live TV interview, saying his conscience will not allow him to sit in a parliament that passed a law that discriminates against Arabs

Arab Israeli leader says Abbas will help fight nation-state law

Arab MK predicts more resignations over nation-state law

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Left-wing lawmakers pay tribute to Arab MK who resigned over nation-state law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 29, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool Yedioth Ahronoth/Flash90)

Netanyahu dismisses criticism of nation-state law as ‘nonsense’

Prime minister calls on cabinet to ‘fight for truth’; Livni claims Likud wanted opposition to vote against law so Netanyahu would be seen as more nationalistic than Zionist Union

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Druze regional council heads at his office in Jerusalem to discuss the nation-state law on July 29, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Meeting Druze leaders, Netanyahu doubles down on nation-state law

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Op-ed

The trouble with Israel’s Jewish nation-state law

A few words could have made all the difference, but the government didn’t want them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at Kibbutz Sde Boker, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013. A portrait of the first Israeli prime minister David Ben Gurion is seen at background. (AP Photo/David Buimovitch, Pool)

Zionist Union MK Zouheir Bahloul (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewCampaigning already? 6 things to know for July 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Ahed Tamimi in Ramallah on July 29. 2018. (WAFA)

Abbas hosts, praises soldier-slapper Ahed Tamimi amid celebration of her release

PA president calls the teen, who served more than 7 months in Israeli prison after she was filmed slapping a soldier, a ‘model for Palestinian struggle’

Ahed Tamimi embraces her mother after her release from prison after an eight-month sentence for slapping two Israeli soldiers, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on July 29, 2018. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)

Soldier-slapper Ahed Tamimi, mother released from prison

By Jacob Magid and AFP

An artist paints a giant mural of prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi on part of the Israeli security barrier, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on July 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Italian graffiti artist arrested for mural of Ahed Tamimi on security barrier

Zionist Union MK Eitan Broshi is seen at the Knesset on July 18, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Zionist Union MK suspended from party following fresh harassment allegations

By Alexander Fulbright

Opposition head Avi Gabbay calls on Eitan Broshi to resign from Knesset after report alleges he harassed a woman 15 years ago

6:37 pm

Zionist Union head suspends MK over harassment allegations
6:29 pm

Zionist Union MK called on to step down after new harassment allegations emerge
6:11 pm

Greece raises death toll in fire to 91; 25 still missing

The newly exposed section of the Lod mosaic. (Niki Davidov, IAA)

While building museum to house stunning Lod mosaic, researchers unearth another

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative: The 'Freedom,' a boat headed to the Gaza Strip in a flotilla defying Israel's blockade, July 2018 (screen capture: Press TV/Twitter)

Boat trying to break Gaza blockade seized by Israeli navy

Organizers says vessel ‘hijacked’ and towed to Ashdod; IDF confirms it intercepted the boat, says it was in violation of blockade

Illustrative: The 'Freedom,' a boat headed to the Gaza Strip in a flotilla defying Israel's blockade, July 2018 (screen capture: Press TV/Twitter)

Seaborne activists challenge Gaza blockade

By AFP and ToI Staff

Explosions are seen following Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

2 killed in Gaza blast during attempted launch of projectile toward Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says two of its fighters died in the line of duty; Hamas-run health ministry had claimed they were hit by Israeli airstrike

Two Palestinian teens caught sneaking into Israel with bag of guns

Incendiary balloons from Gaza spark fires at college and kibbutz

12-year-old Gazan said shot by IDF had played a ‘martyr’ in viral film

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of a bank branch. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Analysis

Simona Weinglass

Why are Israeli banks asking customers where their money comes from?

For many years Israel was a ‘Switzerland for Jews’ when it came to tax evasion for foreigners. Then the US began cracking down

A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Leumi sells credit card unit to Warburg Pincus in $685 million deal

By Shoshanna Solomon

Micha Odenheimer

Eritrea is still deadly to those who fled

Ayelet Shaked is wrong: the peace deal with Ethiopia does not change Israel's responsibility to asylum seekers

In cartoonist's dismissal, Jerusalem Post dealt a serious blow to free journalistic expression

Paul Nehlen, a Republican, stands outside his campaign office on May 19, 2016, in Kenosha, Wisconsin,. (AP/Carrie Antlfinger)

From Nazis to supremacists, more bigots on US ballots, experts say

By Michael Mathes

Fringe ideas like Holocaust denial and white supremacy have found new lives in 21st century US politics and the era of President Donald Trump

US firm to put 3D-printed gun designs back online, sparking fears

By AP

Swastika, Iron Crosses graffitied at Indiana synagogue

By ToI Staff and AP

Black man accuses Sean Spicer of hurling racial slur at him when they were kids

By AP

Chantal Ringuet at Masada during a 2012 Israel visit. (Courtesy)

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen turned this Montreal francophone into a champion of Jewish culture

By Robert Sarner

Most of Paraguay’s 1,000 Jews live in Asuncion, where B’nai Jacob’s Torah has found a new home. (Courtesy of Erin Jones-Avni/via JTA)

Scroll saga

En route from Iowa to Paraguay, Torah scroll tells story of modern Judaism

By Victor Wishna

More Headlines

Illustrative image of hamburgers (Kesu01; iStock by Getty Images)

Dutch firm buys popular Israeli food ordering service 10bis for $158 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

The scene where a 5-year-old girl died after falling from the 9th floor of a building, July 29, 2018 (Magen David Adom)

Girl, 5, dies after falling from 9th-story apartment window

Iranian opposition leaders, Mahdi Karroubi, right, and Mir Hossein Mousavi talk in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10, 2009. (AP)

Iran approves release of protest leaders under house arrest for 7 years

By AFP

Participants of the Christopher Street Day gay pride parade walk through the streets of Berlin on July 28, 2018. (Tobias SCHWARZ/AFP)

Israel opens kiosk at Berlin pride, angering an LGBT group back home

By Stuart Winer

Oudi and Roy Antebi, the founders of Israeli startup Redkix, which was sold to Facebook for an undisclosed amount on July 26, 2018 (Courtesy)

Facebook acquires Israeli startup Redkix

By Shoshanna Solomon

Breaking the Silence co-founder Yehuda Shaul after being punched in the face by a right wing activist in Hebron on July 27, 2018. (Breaking the Silence)

Right-wing activist arrested for punching Breaking the Silence guide in Hebron

In this June 25, 2018, photo, Laura Schulmann, center right, and Sophie Steiert, center left, listen to questions from students about Jewish daily life in Germany during a lesson as part of a project about religions at the Bohnstedt Gymnasium high school in Luckau, Germany (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Eylon Shalev-Amsalem, who was killed in a car accident on July 28, 2018. (Courtesy)

13-year-old killed by suspected drunk driver in northern Tel Aviv

Ivanka Trump, center, and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, listen to US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House, in Washington, November 20, 2017. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Fantasy footballTrump reported deflated that Ivanka chose Jared over Tom Brady

By Stuart Winer

Memorial to late president Shimon Peres unveiled in Tirana, Albania on June 26, 2018 (GENTI)

Memorial to Shimon Peres unveiled in Albanian capital

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