Daybreak: Six-Month Freeze on Bill
But Reform woman arrested at the Wall, and more in the news
July 23, 2010
• Prime Minister Netanyahu cut a deal under which there is a six-month freeze in the Knesset on the controversial Rotem Bill. [Haaretz]
• In Jerusalem, American Jews, led by an Orthodox rabbi, protested the arrest of a Reform woman for holding a Torah at the Western Wall. [JPost]
• Hezbollah expects a U.N. tribunal to indict its top members in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [NYT]
• Among the papers recovered from Kafka’s boxes so far includes correspendence between him and his friend, Max Brod, and between him and another great writer, Stefan Zweig. [Haaretz]
• Israel is returning the flotilla boats to Turkey. [Ynet]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
