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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 4, 2018

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Activists and supporters of the Druze community in Israel at a protest tent against the nation-state law passed by the Knesset in July 2018, in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on August 1, 2018. In the background is a five-colored Druze religious flag representing five wise prophets of Al-Mowahideen (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Druze leader: Rally is for state of Israel, not against it

Tel Aviv readies for Druze-led mass protest over controversial nation-state law

Organizers say tens of thousands expected in Rabin Square to demonstrate against legislation criticized as discriminatory toward Israel’s minorities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c-r) meets with leaders of the Druze community on July 27, 2018. (Haim Tzach)

Druze leader, cabinet minister trade versions over ‘apartheid’ accusation

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, May 18, 2018. (Susan Walsh/ AP)

Kushner said pushing to close UNRWA, end refugee status for Palestinian millions

Report quotes Palestinian official saying US peace envoys asked Jordan to move toward halting UNRWA’s operations there as part of wider apparent efforts to shutter agency

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

'Awful' article, says Jewish Chronicle editor

Corbyn under fire again for ‘vague, meaningless’ article against anti-Semitism

Observant Jews unable to respond to opinion piece published by UK Labour leader just before start of Sabbath; critics note he appears to have copied section from earlier article

Jeremy Corbyn at a Labour event in Stretford, England, March 22, 2018. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Corbyn rejects charge Labour is threat to Jews, vows to drive out anti-Semitism

Undated picture of Scottish student Yoni Jesner, who was killed in a 2002 terror attack in Tel Aviv. (screen capture: YouTube)

British teen visits Israeli city where terrorists killed her uncle

By JTA

A group of protesters chant slogans at the old grand bazaar in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 25, 2018. Protesters in the Iranian capital swarmed its historic Grand Bazaar on Monday, news agencies reported, and forced shopkeepers to close their stalls in apparent anger over the Islamic Republic's troubled economy, months after similar demonstrations rocked the country. (Iranian Labor News Agency via AP)

Iranian protesters blame their government, not US, for failing economy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Religious school attacked near Tehran as opponents slam regime; rial has slipped to record lows ahead of sanctions restarting Monday after Washington pulled out of nuke deal

Israeli soldiers walk past vehicles of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) near the town of Majdal Shams, on the Golan Heights, April 27, 2015. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

As it returns to border, UN looks to reopen crossing between Israel and Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

David Reinert holds up a large “Q” sign, representing QAnon, a conspiracy theory group, while waiting in line to see President Donald Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 2, 2018. (Rick Loomis/Getty Images via JTA)

About QAnon, the rare conspiracy theory that’s only slightly anti-Semitic

By Charles Dunst

Pro-Trump fringe group which spreads unfounded rumors, some of which involve anti-Jewish stereotypes, is becoming increasingly popular, raising fears of real life consequences

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)

IDF strikes second Gaza cell launching incendiary balloons

The military says it targeted two separate groups in the northern and southern parts of the Palestinian enclave

In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Ismail Haniyeh, right, the head of the Hamas political bureau, shakes hands with his deputy Saleh el-Arouri upon his arrival in Gaza from Cairo, Egypt, in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (Mohammad Austaz/Hamas Media Office via AP)

Hamas reportedly agrees to Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel

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

Israel seizes boat trying to break Gaza blockade

In this July 17, 2018, photo, Israeli farmer Ofer Moskovitz checks soil in his field near Kfar Yuval, Israel (AP Photo/Caron Creighton)

5-year drought raises questions over Israel’s water strategy

By CARON CREIGHTON

Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh, the two designers whose works form the basis of 'Sagmeister & Walsh: A Retrospective,' currently at the Holon Design Museum (Courtesy Holon Design Museum)

A prism for the emotions: Holon museum spotlights visual communication duo

By Jessica Steinberg

Bruce Lee with Chuck Norris in 'Way of the Dragon.' (Courtesy Matthew Polly)

Kung Fu Jew?

Mixed martial artist: Uncovering Bruce Lee’s hidden Jewish ancestry

By Rich Tenorio

Donors: Do you know what you’re paying for?

When you crusade with the claim that Israel does no wrong, you drive students into the arms of BDS

Zahava Wesfield

The day I realized the chauvinist was me

I'm an open-minded person who doesn't buy into stereotypes — except about those closest to myself

Locals getting wet at Ein Lavan, a natural spring near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Time to get wet: A guide to five pool options around Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

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Illustrative: A board showing stock fluctuations at the Tel Aviv stock exchange (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Credit scoring agency gives Israel its highest-ever rating

Illustrative: Israeli police officer checks driving licenses (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

Baby driverKid caught behind wheel says he was driving brother to bathroom

Cecily Wright, chair of the Spokane County Republican Party in Washington state offered a defense of James Allsup during a July 11, 2018 meeting (YouTube screenshot)

Washington state Republican official resigns after hosting white supremacist

By JTA

Moshe Mizrahi (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israel’s sole Oscar-winning director dies at 86

Minister of Communications Ayoub Kara holds a press conference on moves to shut down the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem, August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister slams public broadcaster document rating journalists’ looks, skills

Sen. Cory Booker is shown posing with attendees at the Netroots Nation 2018 conference in New Orleans, August 2018. (@US_Campaign/Twitter via JTA)

New Jersey senator poses with sign linked to pro-Palestinian movement

By JTA

President Reuven Rivlin, center, with Mariano Rivera and other members of his church delegation in Jerusalem, July 31, 2018. (Office of President Rivlin)

The Sandman ComethRetired Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera in Israel on interfaith mission

By JTA

Liel Levitan (Screenshot via Hadashot TV)

Tunisia, under pressure, lets 7-year-old Israeli girl in for chess tourney

By JTA and ToI Staff

Robert Meeropol and Rabbi Efraim Mintz dance at a conference of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. (Mendy Moskowitz/Rohr Jewish Learning Institute via JTA)

Son of executed Rosenbergs celebrates belated bar mitzvah

By JTA

Ursula Haverbeck, accused of hate speech, arrives in the court room of the District Court in Detmold for a appeal hearing, Germany, on November 23, 2017. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP, file)

German court rejects case of Holocaust-denying ‘Nazi grandma’

By AFP

A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)

US school prescribes book claiming Holocaust victims didn’t ‘tap’ inner strength

By JTA

Researchers prepare to scan a mass grave at Ponar, outside Vilnius, Lithuania. (Ezra Wolfinger, NOVA)

Jewish groups in Lithuania say national hero killed Jews, should not be honored

By JTA

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