Team Trump may be preparing to unveil peace plan | 8/5/18

1. Hamas said to agree to ceasefire deal
   Prime Minister Netanyahu has canceled a diplomatic trip to Colombia in order to convene an emergency meeting with Israel’s Security Cabinet. The stakes of this meeting are unusually high, following reports that Hamas has agreed to Egypt’s proposal for a long-term ceasefire deal with Israel. Details of this plan are still under wraps at the moment but it would likely require Israel to ease its blockade of the Gaza strip.
2. Criticisms continue against nation-state bill

Dr. Martin Sherman, Founder & Executive Director of the IISS speaking at ILTV Studio about the nation-state bill and how supporters say 'there's a distinction between the 'state' and the' nation.'

3. 90,000 protest against nation-state bill in TLV

Despite the government’s stance that Israel’s nation-state law does not discriminate against minorities, outrage from those minorities has boiled over into massive protests. Last night tens of thousands of Israelis led by Druze leaders rallied in Tel Aviv to protest the law, one which nearly two million minorities in Israel says downgrades them to second-class citizens.

4. Team Trump may be preparing to unveil peace plan
   There’s been a lot of mystery surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump’s still-unseen outline of a potential Middle East peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians. For a time it wasn’t even clear if that plan would ever be made public, but now it looks like it may finally be coming to light.
5. A very troubling list
   Following the closing of Israel’s ‘channel one’ last year, which was operated by the nation’s broadcasting authority, former employees were absorbed into the public broadcaster’s new channel, ‘Kan’. But before that, members of ‘Kan’s’ management allegedly put together a list of those former employees including controversial comments. A list that was just made public, igniting fierce outrage and speculation of misconduct.
6. Israel snags its highest-ever credit rating
   Hopefully you know the ins and outs of your credit score. But did you know that countries are also evaluated for an overall credit rating, too? An American financial company called ‘standard and poor’ indexes the credit scores of nations all over the world to figure out which ones are most or least likely to pay back its debts. “s and p” just gave Israel it’s best credit rating in the nation’s history.
7. AI platform, Uhura reads & understands contracts
   Djuro Stojanovic, Founder & CEO Of Uhura Solutions speaking at ILTV Studio about "Uhura" solutions that has just developed an incredible new tool that can read and understand contracts, and put it into a language we humans can actually understand.
   8. A new ‘bird’ flocks to Israel
   A U.S-based scooter-sharing company is about to launch a pilot program for their two-wheelers in Tel Aviv, which means that in the coming weeks, we’re about to see a whole lot more scooter-madness on the streets, sidewalks, and maybe even roads of Israel’s most traffic-congested city.
8. United announces direct D.C.-Tel Aviv flights
   United Airlines has just announced a historic first: direct flights between Washington D.C and the city of Tel Aviv. Believe it or not, this would be the first-ever direct flights by a U.S. Airline from D.C. to Ben Gurion. Pending government approval, the flights are scheduled to begin on May 29th of next year.
9. Who is America?
   The fourth episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new T-V series ‘Who is America’ premieres tonight. That means we still don’t know which politicians or celebrities will be apologizing this time tomorrow, but we do know that the series already has one entire county of hard-core fans. That’s right, Israelis are obsessed with the show and of course with Cohen’s portrayal of retired Israeli colonel slash captain slash General Erran Morrad.
10. Hebrew word Of The Day: KORKINET | קוֹרקִינֶט = SCOOTER

Learn a New Hebrew word every day. Today’s word is "korkinet" which means "scooter"

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