{"id":116,"date":"2018-07-19T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/?p=116"},"modified":"2018-07-19T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:31:14","slug":"israel-a-jewish-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/2018\/07\/19\/israel-a-jewish-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel \u2013 a Jewish Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/170104_netanyahu-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/170104_netanyahu-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/170104_netanyahu.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Israel is now officially recognized within Israel as \u2018a Jewish state.\u2019 The \u201cIsrael\u2019s Knesset, by a vote of 62-55 with two abstentions, passed the contentious \u2018Jewish Nation-State\u2019 bill into law Thursday morning, July 19, making it the 14th Basic Law. \u2018122 years after Herzl published his vision, we have stated by law the basic principle of our existence,\u2019 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said from the Knesset podium. Arab [representatives] denounced the new law as \u2018racist\u2019 and declared that it heralded the \u2018death of our democracy.\u2019 The law declares Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people and codifies Jewish symbols of the state, including the Menorah on various official documents and seals, the status of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and national holidays centered around Jewish traditions and customs.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/int.icej.org\/news\/headlines\/new-law-officially-makes-israel-jewish-nation-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">int.icej.org<\/a>) This means that the political process in Israel is finally recognizing what God declared in the Bible thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is now officially recognized within Israel as \u2018a Jewish state.\u2019 The \u201cIsrael\u2019s Knesset, by a vote of 62-55 with two abstentions, passed the contentious \u2018Jewish Nation-State\u2019 bill into law Thursday morning, July 19, making it the 14th Basic Law. \u2018122 years after Herzl published his vision, we have stated by law the basic principle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/2018\/07\/19\/israel-a-jewish-nation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Israel \u2013 a Jewish Nation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics","category-prophecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptnews.org\/wpupdater2\/frontpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}