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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 31, 2018

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President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the annual memorial service for the victims of the Altalena attack, in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Rivlin said to vow he will sign nation-state law in Arabic

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Activist says president, who is opposed to legislation that downgraded language’s status, told him he will make protest gesture; president’s office refuses comment

Illustrative: A training exercise of the IDF's Sword Battalion, made up mostly of Druze soldiers, in 2011. (CC-BY SA IDF/Wikimedia Commons)

IDF head to Druze soldiers fuming at nation-state law: Keep politics out of army

Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg speaks to supporters after being elected as the new party head, March 22, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Meretz petitions High Court to overturn ‘anti-equality’ nation-state law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks with President Reuven Rivlin during the Israel Prize ceremony at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

If Rivlin signs in Arabic, does that mean Jewish nation-state law isn’t binding?

Since Arabic is no longer an official tongue in Israel, what would become of legislation signed into law in that language?

Op-edNetanyahu’s new nation-state law doesn’t even serve his own stated goals for it

By Raphael Ahren

Eight former police chiefs urge government to change nation-state law

Catholic Church in Jerusalem slams nation-state law, urges Christians to protest

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks in London on June 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

Top Labour official: ‘Jewish Trump fanatics’ are inventing anti-Semitism claims

By Stuart Winer

Calls grow for Peter Willsman to be expelled after tape emerges of his remarks at meeting on anti-Semitism guidelines, but party declines to discipline him, accepts apology instead

Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

British Labour Party looking into 250 complaints of anti-Semitic abuse

By JTA

Yahya and Khaled Yousef, family members of Mohammed Yousef, who stabbed three Israelis, killing one. They are pictured in the village of Kobar in the West Bank on July 29, 2018 (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Israel questioned Adam stabber 2 years ago over Facebook posts, family says

Shin Bet security service declines to confirm if Mohammed Yousef, terrorist who killed Yotam Ovadia last week, was summoned to a meeting at its offices

File: Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp, in a photo released on July 23, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

Policewoman lightly hurt by Molotov cocktail in West Bank

A picture taken from Kibbutz Nahal Oz across the border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli soldiers in position as Palestinians gather along the security fence, on May 14, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Army said probing whether same shooter behind Gaza sniper attacks

Mendy Klein provides strategic direction and motivation during an Amudim meeting. (Courtesy, Amudim)

Ultra-Orthodox group looks to banish stigma from community’s sex abuse victims

By Yaakov Schwartz

Palestinian poet Tatour (Screen capture: YouTube)

Arab Israeli poet given 5-month sentence for poems deemed incitement

By AP and ToI Staff

Galilee resident Dareen Tatour, who says her ‘Resist My People, Resist’ is not a call to violence, ascribes her arrest to the fact that she is a Palestinian

Ahed Tamimi, center, surfs the internet with her friends at the family house in the West Bank village of Nebi Saleh, near Ramallah, Monday, July 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Released Palestinian teen sees a ‘political future’ for herself

By AP

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a joint press conference with Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz following a meeting on July 4, 2018, at the Chancellery in Vienna. (AFP Photo/Alex Halada)

As Iran rebuffs US talks, Rouhani says Europe must save nuke deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Iranian president says ball is in Europe’s court after ‘illegal’ US pullout, as Tehran officials rule out talks with Trump as a ‘humiliation’ unless he rejoins nuclear accord

As rial crumbles, Iran rebuffs ‘speculation’ it may hold talks with US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump says he’s willing to meet Iran’s leaders without preconditions

By Eric Cortellessa

Israel media reviewTweet, then meet: 7 things to know for July 31

By Joshua Davidovich

Interview

Leaving Knesset for Jewish Agency, Herzog vows to bridge Israel-Diaspora divide

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

Live updates (closed)

Norway wants answers on Israeli seizure of boat trying to break Gaza blockade

By Alexander Fulbright

Oslo calls for Israel to provide legal basis for its interception of Norwegian-flagged ship as IDF defends its handling of operation

6:08 pm

Firefighters battle 4 fresh blazes sparked by Gaza balloons
5:57 pm

IDF defends use of force in seizure of Gaza blockade-busting boat
5:49 pm

Norway wants answers on Israeli seizure of boat trying to break Gaza blockade

World's oldest mancala board?

Spa and game room found at 1,700-year-old pottery workshop in Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Old-time work and play: With 20 hot and cold baths and a kitted-out break room, an ancient ceramics factory near Gedera could teach employee-friendly Google a thing or two

BDS for dinner?

The inclusion of anti-Israel speakers at a South African Limmud event is wreaking havoc

Bougie Herzog, president of the Jewish people

Here's how the new Jewish Agency chairman can be a crucial bridge between Israel and the whole Jewish people

Eliezer Finkelman

Portrait of Elman as a young mentor

As a teenager, the renowned Talmud professor was a fan of Scottish Ballads, Luis Borge and Babylonian mythology

Professor Yaakov Elman, in memoriam

The late Talmud scholar set out to analyze the glorious messiness, complexity, and depth of thousands of years of human endeavor

An Israeli soldier guides a mobile artillery piece near the border with Syria in the Golan Heights, July 25, 2018. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Amid Assad offensive, Israel said to close border to Syrians seeking treatment

Operation Good Neighbor reportedly frozen for first time in five years as regime forces complete takeover of area from rebel groups

Russian ambassador to Israel: We can’t force Iran to leave Syria

Israel said to be trying to prevent massacre of Syrians on Golan Heights border

Syria boots IS from Golan Heights, retaking full control of frontier with Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

A musical performance at the Tower of David Museum, during the 2016 Mekudeshet (Courtesy Noam Shognovsky)

Interview

Summer culture festival packs surprises in ‘social innovation lab’ Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

The defendant accused of a bombing at the Dusseldorf-Wehrhahn station targeting Jewish immigrants in the year 2000 hides his face behind a folder and sits next to his lawyer as he waits for the start of his trial on January 25, 2018 in Dusseldorf, western Germany. (AFP Photo/dpa/Federico Gambarini)

Outrage as German man acquitted over 2000 bombing targeting Jewish immigrants

By Richard HEISTER and Deborah Cole

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Zuckerberg’s stance on Holocaust denial is ‘dangerous,’ Trump appointee says

By JTA

TeNiya Jones was a sophomore at the University of Kentucky. (Facebook)

Tourist found dead off Israeli coast named as University of Kentucky student

Historian, professor and author Yuval Noah Harari. (Courtesy)

Sapiens author said boycotting Israel event in LA to protest discriminatory laws

Airbnb removes Chicago listing that would not tolerate Zionism

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon tries the "Kiki challenge." (Screenshot/Twitter)

Epic failKahlon tries ‘Kiki challenge,’ gets smacked as bad example

Ultra-Orthodox men (illustrative photo: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Israel boosts funding for ultra-Orthodox tech entrepreneurs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Israelis walking past the Knesset during the annual gay parade in Jerusalem, July 29, 2010. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

LGBT groups put protest on hold ahead of Jerusalem Pride Parade

Tom Furstenberg, right, and a member of the Jewish community of Deventer carries out the Torah ark of their former synagogue, July 30, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Restaurant owner evicts Dutch Jewish community from synagogue

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A masked Palestinian prepares a balloon that will be attached to flammable materials to be launched into Israel near the Israeli Gaza border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Police investigate if ‘suspicious balloon’ in Beersheba came from Gaza

The IDF General Staff visits the F-35 stealth fighter jet squadron on the Nevatim air base in southern Israel on July 10, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Photo revealing Israeli F-35 secrets reportedly posted online by IDF soldiers

By Stuart Winer

Labor Party MK Eitan Broshi, of the Zionist Union faction, is seen during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor MK set to sue party leader for calling him a ‘sex offender’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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