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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 8, 2018

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Activists wave copies of the Declaration of Independence during a special session about the nation-state law at the Knesset on August 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Livni: What has PM got against Declaration of Independence?

Activists wave Declaration of Independence in stormy Knesset nation-state debate

At special session called by opposition over controversial law, its leader Tzipi Livni slams coalition, calls for early elections and ‘covenant of equals’ with Israel’s minorities

Illustrative: The High Court of Justice in session. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli Arab leaders petition High Court against ‘racist’ nation-state law

By Tamar Pileggi

Israel's Ambassador to Norway Raphael Schutz (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli envoy to Norway decries ‘anti-Semitic’ swastika cartoon of Netanyahu

Israeli Druze religious leaders attend a Druze-led rally to protest against the 'Jewish Nation-State law' in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv on Aug. 04, 2018. (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)

Analysis

Druze revolt: Why a tiny, loyal community is so infuriated by nation-state law

While the Druze have been heavily integrated into Israel’s security sector, their communities have not reaped the same benefits as neighboring Jewish towns, experts say

Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni during a faction meeting in the Knesset on July 16, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Opposition chief slams justice minister for ‘terrorizing’ High Court

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

British Jewish philanthropist Vivien Duffield in Jerusalem on May 8, 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube)

From our partnerTop UK Jewish donor to be more ‘choosy’ in backing Israel after nation-state law

A Kuwait Airways airplane approaching Heathrow Airport in London, England. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Kuwait Air to compensate Israeli for refusing to fly her — report

Airline has already been forced to cancel lucrative routes over policy of barring Israelis; attorneys for Israeli plaintiff say its London flight may now be in jeopardy

Analysis

SCRAPED ‘American Idol’ star who left IDF speaks up about secret mental health battle

After being advised to hide his diagnosis of Bipolar II disorder from army psychiatrists, singer Brett Loewenstern was forced to make a hasty retreat from basic training

Former 'American Idol' star Brett Loewenstern (courtesy)

Soldiers from the mixed-gender Lions of the Jordan Valley Battalion take part in an exercise in the Tzeelim army base on February 5, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Breaking record, 1,000 women join IDF combat units this summer

By Judah Ari Gross

Military figures on unprecedented female enlistment to field units come a day after air force announces appointment of the first woman commander of a flight squadron

An undated photo of Maj. G., who on August 7, 2018, was named the first ever female pilot to command an Israel Air Force flight squadron. (Israel Defense Forces)

Air Force nominates first ever female flight squadron commander

The gold Hellenistic-era earring unearthed in the City of David's Givati Parking Lot excavations belonged to an upper class man or woman in Jerusalem. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Rare 2,200-year-old earring a goldmine for scholars of Hellenistic-era Jerusalem

Gold filigree animal-headed jewelry item illuminates an opaque era of Jerusalem’s history — and may reset ancient city borders

Remains of the Roman basilica at Sebastia in the West Bank, August 2015. (Ilan Ben Zion)

Palestinians jailed for trying to rob biblical archaeological site

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative. A police car blocks traffic along southern Israel's Route 34 highway because of a fire in the area on June 4, 2018. (Oshri Tzimmer)

IDF closes roads near Gaza over fears of revenge attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Military cites recent threats, evacuation of Hamas outposts as driving decision to block highways near the Strip

Hamas releases video to prove IDF shelled military drill

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Hamas official says truce with Israel to be inked within weeks

Spearhead of Gaza border protests says ‘We’ve lost battle for public opinion’

By Michael Bachner

Shrapnel covers the outside wall of an apartment building in the southern city of Sderot after a rocket that was launched from Gaza struck nearby on August 8, 2018. (Courtesy)

Live updates (closed)

Iron Dome shoots down rockets in fresh Gaza volley

By Alexander Fulbright

Liberman convenes top military brass at IDF headquarters after 4 projectiles fired from Strip land in Sderot, injuring 2 people

7:08 pm

Iron Dome said to intercept incoming projectiles in south
6:37 pm

Military launches airstrikes in Gaza after rocket salvo
6:33 pm

Fresh rocket warning sirens sound in south

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an interview with Iran's PressTV in 2011. (Twitter screenshot)

Footage emerges of Corbyn saying BBC ‘biased’ toward ‘Israel’s right to exist’

In 2011 interview with Iran’s Press TV, which surfaced Tuesday amid party’s anti-Semitism row, Labour leader accuses Israeli government of undue ‘pressure’ on broadcaster

Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

UK’s Boris Johnson under fire for denouncing burqas as ‘ridiculous’

By AFP

European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, December 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Analysis

Fractured union: Israel has all but given up on the EU

Netanyahu increasingly considers ties with Brussels a ‘lost cause,’ believing he can reap same benefits by improving relations with individual member states. Many Israelis agree

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini speak to the media on May 20, 2015. (AFP/POOL/DAN BALILTY)

Contradicting Netanyahu, EU says it hasn’t stopped funding left-wing association

By Michael Bachner

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 says EU has agreed to stop funding an association of left-wing NGOs

Violations of the Temple Mount status quo

When Israel does not adhere to its agreements, the Waqf does not fulfill its part either

Yossi Kuperwasser

The Iranian regime is in deep trouble

Re-imposition of American sanctions may force the Islamic Republic to make concessions for the sake of the regime's survival

Left’s anti-Israel trend is a threat to Democrats

Progressive candidates can't afford to disgust pro-Israel Dems and independents in 2020

Andrew Silow-Carroll

The non-hypocritical case for Jewish continuity

In defense of a kind of tribalism that even Michael Chabon would get behind

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens during a meeting of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho (not seen) in the capital Tehran, Iran, August 8, 2018. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)

Iran’s foreign minister says ‘no one trusts America’ anymore

Zarif claims Washington ‘has zigzagged constantly’ and that the world is now taking Iran’s side

Netanyahu to meet Trump on sidelines of UN confab

By Raphael Ahren

Experts warn Iran could answer US sanctions with cyberattacks

By Deb Riechmann

Defying Trump, EU encourages firms to increase trade with Iran

By AP

Ultra-Orthodox people walk past a “modesty sign“ in Beit Shemesh. (Sam Sokol)

Dropouts from ultra-Orthodox life battle extremists in a divided Israeli city

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Screen capture from video of a Nazi flag raised in Preble, New York, August 2018. (Spectrum News)

2 wrongs make a ReichNY man says he’s flying Nazi flag because he is being hacked

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, arrives for a meeting in Paris, France, June 6, 2018. (AP/Francois Mori)

Sara Netanyahu reportedly told mother of Hadar Goldin to stop criticizing PM

New York US House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez smiles at a progressive fundraiser on August 2, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

New York Democrat Ocasio-Cortez cheered at Jewish museum event

Ultra orthodox Jewish men protest against the army draft, at the entrance to Jerusalem on March 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court grants coalition just 3-month delay to pass law on ultra-Orthodox draft

Ilana Cohen (R), chairwoman of the National Association of Nurses, arrives for a meeting at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on August 7, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Health Ministry, nurses union reach deal to end strike

Hilton Head, South Carolina. (CC BY Chad Sparkes, Flickr)

Holocaust denier runs for mayor of South Carolina resort town

By JTA

A gas truck at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza on August 6, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

UN humanitarian agency calls on Israel to let fuel into Gaza Strip

By AP and ToI Staff

A Bank Mizrahi branch in Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank rejects $342 million US fine to settle tax evasion probe

By Shoshanna Solomon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho, July 14, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/via JTA)

How Holocaust experts want to help Zuckerberg solve Facebook’s denial dilemma

By JTA

A secular demonstration in favor of a 'Free Jerusalem' and against ultra-Orthodox coercion, outside City Hall, June 27, 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Jerusalem to reinstate fines on city center stores open on Shabbat

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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