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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 5, 2018

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Tens of thousands participate in a Druze-led protest in Tel Aviv against the Jewish nation-state law, on August 4, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Druze-led rally against nation-state law in Tel Aviv draws at least 50,000

Waving Israeli and Druze flags, demonstrators call for equality; Likud minister says people with political agenda are ‘stirring divisions’ in Israeli society

Two major Israel-backers join criticism of nation-state law

By JTA and ToI Staff

Labor: Likud spreading ‘fake news’ to stymie protest against nation-state law

Israel media reviewSplit the difference: 7 things to know for August 5

By Joshua Davidovich

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)

Pushing back against Druze protest, PM insists nation-state law is vital

After Tel Aviv rally draws over 50,000, Likud minister Yariv Levin says legislation necessary because Israel’s Jewish identity ‘being eroded’ by High Court

Labor chair Avi Gabbay, right, and Hatnua chair MK Tzipi Livni attend a Zionist Union faction meeting at the Knesset on July 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition vows to enshrine Declaration of Independence as Israeli Basic Law

David Ben-Gurion, flanked by the members of his provisional government, reads the Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall on May 14, 1948. (GPO)

Israel’s Declaration of Independence — May 14, 1948

Yossi Klein Halevi

Letter to my Palestinian Israeli neighbors

For all the mutual ambivalence and fear, I believe a sense of shared citizenship between Jewish and Arab Israelis is both essential and possible

Elie Wiesel's childhood home in Sighet, Romania was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on August 3, 2018. (Screenshot via Realitatea.net)

‘In hell with Hitler’: Anti-Semitic graffiti at Elie Weisel’s childhood home

Police in Romanian town of Sighet say investigators combing through security camera footage to identify perpetrators

Zehava Shaul, mother of late IDF soldier Oron Shaul, speaks during a press conference ahead of a cabinet meeting on August 5, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

'Netanyahu was livid and pounded on the table'

Bereaved mother says Netanyahu yelled at her two years ago, called her a ‘liar’

By Michael Bachner

PM denies claim he confronted Oron Shaul’s parents, as families accuse government of failing to insist on return of Hamas captives under terms of ceasefire shaping up in Gaza

Illustrative: Firefighters extinguish a blaze near the southern city of Sderot caused by an incendiary balloon launched from the Gaza Strip on July 31, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Gaza incendiary balloons spark 40 fires in southern Israel over weekend

Illustrative: A masked Palestinian man launches a balloon loaded with flammable materials toward Israel from the southern Gaza town of Rafah on June 17, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

IDF fires at balloon launching cells in Gaza; 4 said wounded

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

An Israeli and a Croatian pilot pose together in a video released by the Croatian Ministry of Defense on August 4, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

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Serbia angered as Israeli fighter jets fly in Croatian victory parade

By Raphael Ahren

Israel said to be first foreign nation to celebrate 1995 Operation Storm; Belgrade ‘deeply disappointed’ at Jewish state for feting ‘pogrom’

Aziz Azbar (via Facebook)

Head of Syrian chemical arms research center said assassinated

Aziz Azbar, whose CERS center is thought to be linked to gas attacks and Iranian missile development, reportedly killed in car bombing

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, mourners from the Druze community attend a mass funeral of people killed a day earlier by a series of suicide bombings launched by the Islamic State's fighters on the eastern and northern countryside of the southern province of al-Sweida, Syria, on July 26, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Islamic State said to execute Druze hostage from Syria’s Sweida

By AFP

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, left, party head Jeremy Corbyn, center, during a referendum event in London on June 7, 2016. (AP/Frank Augstein)

Deputy Labour head warns party faces ‘eternal shame’ over anti-Semitism scandal

Tom Watson urges under-fire leader Jeremy Corbyn to accept international anti-Semitism definition, drop probes against MPs Hodges and Austin who have spoken out

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Tolpuddle, England, on July 22, 2018. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Corbyn-supporting group says UK Jewish leaders fabricating anti-Semitism crisis

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves the stage after delivering an address at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 24, 2018. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images via JTA)

From our partnerCorbyn ‘ready to include’ 3 of 4 missing examples of anti-Semitism in code

In this image from video released by the CIA, Hamza bin Laden is seen at his wedding. The never-before-seen video of Osama bin Laden's son and potential successor was released November 1, 2017, by the CIA in a trove of material recovered during the May 2011 raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader at his compound in Pakistan. (CIA via AP)

Osama bin Laden’s son married daughter of 9/11 lead hijacker — family

Hamza bin Laden now said to be a senior Al-Qaeda member who has urged followers to attack Israel

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)

Live updates (closed)

Security cabinet wraps up talks on Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu discussing terms of Gaza ceasefire with ministers; officials say Israel won’t accept a deal that does not include return of civilians, bodies of soldiers held in Strip

6:19 pm

Cities to appeal Interior Ministy's ruling on Shabbat commerce
5:55 pm

Son of top Hamas commander said injured in Gaza border clash
5:33 pm

Sara Netanyahu called bereaved mother 'ungrateful' for inviting Shaked to son's memorial --report

Detail from 'The Witch of Endor Raising The Spirit of Samuel,' by William Blake, circa 1800. Pen and watercolor on paper, 283 x 423 mm (Public domain, via wikipedia commons)

No hocus pocus

Is Kabbalah real? One scientist sees no trick in humanity’s esoteric traditions

By Jen Maidenberg

Nathan Dlusy wanted to stop Hitler

How a Canadian airman was buried in the Scottish Jewish cemetery 74 years ago

The shameful neglect of Hepatitis in Israeli jails

Government and prison authorities have shirked their responsibility to care for inmates and prevent further spread

The shortcut function of the Inpris Way, with each finger representing a different function: music, navigation, and phone (Courtesy)

Swipe right for home: Israeli startup brings finger-motion tech to car commands

By Ariella Gentin

Jerusalem-based Inpris’s technology allows drivers to control music, phone calls, messaging, and navigation without taking eyes off road

More Headlines

Illustrative: The Iranian warship Alborz, foreground, prepares to leave Iran's waters at the Strait of Hormuz, in this photo released April 7, 2015. (AP/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad)

Iran says it concluded successful naval drill in Persian Gulf

By ToI Staff and AFP

US President Donald Trump claps during a rally at Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center, Ohio, on August 4, 2018. (AFP/ MANDEL NGAN)

Trump says it ‘doesn’t matter’ if Iran meets with him

By ToI Staff and AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs the Fatah Central Committee meeting at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 29, 2018. (Majdi Mohammed/ AP)

Palestinians slam reported US plan to shutter UN refugee agency

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A vandalized Holocaust memorial in the Ukrainian town of Ternopil. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Jewish groups in Ukraine trade accusations over anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, hosts US actor Steven Seagal in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The PatriotRussia names action star Steven Seagal special envoy to US

By AP

Wall at site of Janowska camp, Lviv, Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA Adam Jones)

Rabbi says he found trash, bone fragments at Jewish mass graves in Ukraine

By JTA

In this August 2, 2018 photo, Tamara Awaisa, 17, left, Wassan al-Sayed,17, center and Massa Halawa,16, right, pose for a photo with their mentor Yamama Shakaa in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinian teens reach finals of Silicon Valley app competition

Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)

Egypt says troops killed 52 terrorists in Sinai in recent days

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An alt-right sympathizer, left, knocks the hat off an opponent's head as alt-right activists, anti-fascist protesters, and people on all sides of the political spectrum gather for a campaign rally organized by right-wing organizer, Patriot Prayer founder and Republican Senate candidate Joey Gibson in Portland, Oregon, August 4, 2018.
(AFP/Thomas Patterson)

Police clear right-wing rally in Portland as scuffles break out

By AP

Eli Bar Zakai, the driver suspected of causing the death of Eylon Shalev-Amsalem, speaks to reporters at Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on August 5, 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Suspected drunk driver who killed boy expresses ‘deep regret’

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