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Israeli Law Declares the Country the ‘Nation-State of the Jewish People’

By David M. Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner, 20 July 2018
A protest in Tel Aviv this month against the new law (photo credit: Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency)
A protest in Tel Aviv this month against the new law (photo credit: Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has long demanded that the Palestinians acknowledge his country’s existence as the “nation-state of the Jewish people.” On Thursday, his governing coalition stopped waiting around and pushed through a law that made it a fact.
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