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What Matters Most On Monday, August 6, 2018

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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 2, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

'They're serious people; I don't believe they'll intervene'

Justice minister warns of ‘earthquake’ if High Court overturns Jewish state law

By Tamar Pileggi

Ayelet Shaked says top bench does not have the authority to strike down controversial legislation passed as quasi-constitutional Basic Law

Illustrative: Bedouin IDF soldiers in a tent they set up in a field near the Gaza border in southern Israel, on July 6, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bedouin petition High Court claiming Jewish nation-state law is illegal

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Analysis

Do latest Corbyn disclosures show the rift in Labour now too wide to bridge?

As opposition leader’s unapologetic supporters entrench themselves despite yet more anti-Semitism allegations, it’s hard to see how his hard left and Labour’s centrists can coexist

File: Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, after a memorial service to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence on April 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's Labour Party, listens to speakers during the Party of European Socialists Council in Lisbon, December 2 2017. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Corbyn posts new anti-Semitism apology as UK Jewish leaders pan his efforts

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinians prepare to fly a kite near the Gaza border with Israel, east of Jabalia, on August 3, 2018. (AFP/ MAHMUD HAMS)

Top minister signals any truce with Hamas to be limited in scope

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Refuting Hamas talk of a large-scale accord under discussion, security cabinet member Yoav Gallant says ‘There is no process toward an agreement’

Hamas seeking consensus in Gaza for ceasefire – report

No decisions as security cabinet meets for four hours over Gaza Hamas deal

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Israel releases first pictures of sea barrier to defend against Gaza attacks

Mishpetei Eretz Institute near the West Bank settlement of Ofra. (Kerem Navot)

Exclusive

State is funding settler institute squatting illegally in Palestinian home

In 2013, 10 days after court ruled Jewish center’s purchase of the site, outside Ofra, was falsified, the IDF built a fence around it, preventing owners from returning

A kite carrying incendiaries which landed in an Israeli vineyard in the West Bank, August 6, 2018. (Tura Winery)

Arson kite lands in West Bank settlement vineyard, causing fire but no damage

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

European Union Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini delivers her opening address during the ASEAN-European Union Ministerial Meeting in Singapore, August 3, 2018. (Yong Teck Lim/AP)

European Union ‘deeply’ regrets return of US sanctions on Iran

By AFP

Diplomatic chief Mogherini, along with foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany, says multi-nation alliance will work to keep ‘financial channels’ with Tehran open

Bracing for US sanctions, Iran lifts ban on exchange offices

By Nasser Karimi

Iran: It’s Trump, Netanyahu and Saudi prince who are ‘isolated,’ not us

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syrian paper blames Mossad for killing top missile expert; Israel mum

By AP and ToI Staff

MP Margaret Hodge. (YouTube screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Labour drops probe into Jewish MP who criticized party’s anti-Semitism record

Margaret Hodge says faction must deal with its discrimination problem rather than attacking her; calls Labour to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

6:10 pm

Amazon removes racist and anti-Semitic products from site
5:51 pm

Rouhani refers to US sanctions as stabbing someone with a knife
5:46 pm

Rouhani: Trump has broken first principle of negotiations -- building trust and confidence

Simone Zimmerman. (Facebook)

Former Sanders adviser and Netanyahu critic detained at Israeli border

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Simone Zimmerman, later allowed into country, says she was asked about her political activism; Shin Bet confirms they were stopped, says questioning related to West Bank violence

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu called parents of fallen Gaza soldier ‘ingrates’ – report

PM’s wife said to have told Leah Goldin if she worked with PM’s enemies it would harm the chances of returning her son; spokesman for Sara Netanyahu denies the report

Leah Goldin (front left), Zehava Shaul (front right) and other bereaved parents attend a protest memorial ceremony for soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza war outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewTruce or no truce: 7 things to know for August 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative. From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany. (photo credit: German Federal Archives / Wikipedia)

How Britain’s Nazi-loving press baron made the case for Hitler

By Robert Philpot

Illustrative image of vanilla pods. (joannawnuk; iStock by Getty Images)

Faster, cheaper, tastier: Vanilla guru wants to make the spice nicer

By Ariella Gentin

An Israeli professor at Rutgers University aims to disrupt all aspects of production of vanilla, whose expense has soared in recent years

Illustration of American sociologist Steven M. Cohen (Charles Dunst/JTA)

The fall of a top US sociologist could change the field of counting Jews

Weathering the storm

The Israelites are commanded to all go to Jerusalem three times a year as a way to keep the people from splitting apart

The Christian South Africans standing with Israel

Thousands prayed for Israel and expressed love for Israel and the Jewish people

Micha Odenheimer

The Nation-State Law is a danger to Israel

The law undermines an Israel where Jewish life is big enough to include others without seeing them as threat

New Jersey Jewish News' new homepage

New Jersey Jewish News becomes Times of Israel’s sixth local partner

NJJN launches brand-new website, customized for its needs and based on the highly successful upgraded design introduced by The Times of Israel last year

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Illustrative A nurse in a hospital, in Israel, on September 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Nurses call strike over violence against medical staff

View from the halls of the Rabbinical Court's Division for Agunot (literally, chained women), Jerusalem, September 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

For first time, Israeli rabbinic court appoints woman to senior position

By JTA

A Pewter Swastika Pendant Necklace marked "currently unavailable" at amazon.com on August 5, 2018

After complaints, Amazon removes swastika pendants, onesies with burning crosses

By AP

Tom Furstenberg, right, and a fellow congregant carrying the Torah ark out of the Great Synagogue of Deventer, July 30, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Eviction of Dutch Jews from Nazi-ravaged synagogue brings back bitter memories

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rep. Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Proud recipientCongressman still showing off bogus pro-Israel award from Sacha Baron Cohen

Leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri at a ceremony in the city of Tiberias, May 24, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

5 cities to appeal Interior Ministry cancelation of their Shabbat trading bylaws

Screen capture from video showing alleged crime lord Assi Ben-Mosh, right, on a flight after being expelled from Colombia. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Colombia issues warrant for Israeli kingpin after arrest of sex ring suspects

Illustrative: The elite Maglan IDF unit. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Elite IDF unit halts training after two accidents in two weeks, probes cover up

A female prostitute stands outside a brothel in south Tel Aviv, looking at a policewoman nearby, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Ministers approve bill for hefty fines for people who hire prostitutes

Israel's three newest F-35 stealth fighter jets on their way to Israel in April 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

UK F-35 secrets said leaked after Tinder account hacked

Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) flashes the sign for victory at the interior ministry's election headquarters in Tehran on April 12, 2017. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Nuclear hot takeIran’s Ahmadinejad weighs in on Trump, LeBron James spat

By AP

Illustrative image of an Israel Electricity Corporation worker raised by crane to a utility pole to perform maintenance works on June 10, 2013. (Flash 90)

Ministers seek to breathe life into vital, troubled fiber-optic internet project

By Stuart Winer

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