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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 12, 2018

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30,000 oppose nation-state law at Arab-led Tel Aviv rally; Palestinian flags fly

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Dozens defying request by organizers and wave Palestinian flags, chant anti-Israel slogans; PM says display is ‘no better testament to the need’ for the law

Arab Israelis and activists protest against the 'Nation-State law' in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Nation-state law backers see Palestinian flags as banner for own argument

Illustrative: Israeli Arabs and Jews protest against the 'Nation-state Law' in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewFlagging support: 7 things to know for August 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli Arabs, some waving Palestinian flags, protest against the nation-state law' in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

PM: Many Arabs protesting nation-state law want Israel to be a Palestinian state

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says ‘PLO flags’ waved at Tel Aviv rally on Saturday underlined the need to enshrine country’s Jewish nature in law

Arab Israelis and activists protest against the nation-state law in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Opposition divided over Arab-led rally against nation-state law

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, August 12, 2018. (Jim Hollander/Pool via AP)

Netanyahu: Israel won’t accept anything less than a full ceasefire in Gaza

Hamas has paid a heavy price in recent hostilities, Israel has operational plans ready, prime minister says

Hamas officials Husam Badran (2nd-L) and Khalil al-Hayya (L) arrive for a meeting with Palestinian factions in Gaza City on August 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Minister: Toppling Hamas is an option, Israel closer to it than ever

Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi answers the press in the capital Tehran on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran taking back enriched uranium it sent out to Russia under nuke deal

Energy official says re-imposed US sanctions forcing Islamic Republic to return to nuclear fuel sources for domestic power needs

A protester confronts riot gear-clad police on the campus of the University of Virginia during a rally to mark the anniversary of last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. (AP/Steve Helber)

As Charlottesville marks year since deadly violence, anger turns toward police

By Michael Kunzelman

Vigils for woman killed during protests against gathering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists stay peaceful, but students protest presence of cops in riot gear

Counterprotesters expected to eclipse white supremacists in DC

By Michael Kunzelman

Ivanka Trump says there is no room in US for neo-Nazism

Trump marks Charlottesville anniversary with tweet condemning racism

Protesters gather in Freedom Plaza with the US Capitol in the background, on the one year anniversary of Charlottesville's "Unite the Right" rally, Sunday, August 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

Protesters against white supremacist rally gather near White House

Behind police barricades, counterprotesters insist, ‘We will be here until these fascist forces are gone, however long that takes’

6:27 pm

Protesters against white supremacist rally gather near White House
6:21 pm

Anti-racism protesters march through Charlottesville
6:17 pm

Opponents of white supremacist rally begin to gather in Charlottesville

Destroyed buildings are seen on August 12, 2018, following an explosion at an arms depot in a residential area in Syria's northern Idlib province city of Sarmada in which 12 people were reportedly killed. (AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR)

Mysterious blast at Syria weapons depot kills 12 civilians

By AFP

War monitor says dozens still missing as explosion in rebel-held town of Sarmada levels 2 residential buildings

Before and after pictures showing destruction at a Syrian missile facility in Masyaf, released on August 11 by Israeli site Intelli Times. (Photo by Intelli Times)

Satellite images show aftermath of July raid on Iran-run Syria missile facility

A child is recovered from the rubble of a building following Syrian government forces air strikes in the rebel town of Orum al-Kubra in the northern province of Aleppo late on August 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Amer ALHAMWE)

Nearly 30 civilians dead in heavy bombing by Assad forces in north Syria

By AFP

South Euclid Police SWAT Team on the scene where two persons of interest were found dead, August 11, 2018 (YouTube screenshot WKYC Channel 3)

Cleveland Jewish doctor found dead from multiple gunshot wounds

By ToI Staff and AP

Body of Dr. Richard Warn discovered in his home Thursday evening; two men described as persons of interest in investigation found dead after 12-hour SWAT standoff

And God said, ‘Let there be…the Palestinian-Israeli conflict!’

If we obsess over preparing our kids to defend Israel, when will we teach them the spiritual beauty of Jewish tradition?

R. David Harden

Kushner is right about the United Nations

It's time to hack UNRWA — the agency that subsidizes despair and continued conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians

Facebook Israel CEO Adi Soffer-Teeni gives an interview to Hadashot news that aired on August 12, 2018. (screen capture: Hadashot)

CEO of Facebook Israel says company should have predicted meddling, abuse

Hoping to regain public trust, Adi Soffer-Teeni admits social media site failed to prevent spread of disinformation, but says it doesn’t want to be the arbiter of truth

Oded Brenner, founder of the Max Brenner chain and now Blue Stripes. (Courtesy)

No sugarcoating

Barred from chocolate for 5 years, Max Brenner founder makes a sweet comeback

By Michelle Divon

In this photo provided by NASA, The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

NASA spacecraft blasts off toward sun for closest look yet

Launch comes after space agency scrapped Saturday’s launch; unmanned probe’s main goal is to unveil the secrets of the corona, the unusual atmosphere around the star

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Ben Shapiro, left, offered $10,000 to a charity of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s choice or her campaign if she agreed to debate him. (Wikimedia Commons)

Ben Shapiro challenged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a debate. Things got weird

Shahrar Ali (Screenshot from YouTube)

UK Green Party leadership frontrunner rapped for likening Gaza op to Holocaust

View of the classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair, at the Israel State Archives offices in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State told to release 300,000 unpublished files on missing Yemenite children

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Israeli runner Marhu Teferi moments after breaking the national marathon record during the European Championships in Berlin, Germany. (Sport 5)

Marhu Teferi breaks Israeli marathon record set in 2003

An Egyptian soldier mans a checkpoint in el-Arish, 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of Cairo, North Sinai, Egypt, January 31, 2015 (AP Photo)

Egyptian security forces kill 12 Islamist terrorists in Sinai

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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)

RoboCopIsrael police roll out traffic drones to catch reckless drivers

A wing of a building is seen collapsed in Salt, Jordan, August 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Bodies of 3 suspected terrorists found after Jordan shootout

Palestinian boats participate in a protest against the Israeli-Egyptian security blockade of Gaza, in Beit Lahya on the border with Israel in the northern Gaza strip on August 11, 2018. The Israeli Rutenberg power station can be seen in the background. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Gaza flotilla turns back after Israeli navy fires warning shots

A clay-fired cone returned to Iraq from the British Museum. (British Museum)

British Museum returning looted cones, other antiquities to Iraq

By AFP

The site on Ketron Island in Washington state where an Horizon Air turboprop plane crashed Friday after it was stolen from Sea-Tac International Airport is seen from the air, Saturday, August 11, 2018, near Steilacoom, Washington. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

As authorities probe how worker stole Seattle jet, family mourns ‘kind’ man

Palestinian youths play volleyball as the sun sets in Gaza City, on April 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED

Over half of Palestinian college graduates are unemployed, report finds

Police at the scene of a deadly shooting in a Bedouin town near Beersheba on August 12, 2018. (Police spokesperson)

Woman gunned down outside home in northern Negev

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