The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces an executive order to recognize the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

The order directs city agencies to use the IHRA definition to identify and address incidents of antisemitism, the mayor’s office says.

Adams’s office also says he is introducing legislation to the city council, calling on the council to codify the IHRA definition.

The IHRA definition of antisemitism has been adopted by groups and governments worldwide, but is contested because it covers some examples of anti-Israel rhetoric, such as denying the Jewish people the right to self determination.

Last month, Adams announced a new task force under his purview aimed at combating antisemitism, responding to major spikes in antisemitic hate crimes in New York City in recent years. The Office to Combat Antisemitism is the first of its kind in a major US city.

The mayor is seeking re-election in November, and has petitioned to run on an “EndAntisemitism” ballot line.

Israel and Jewish issues are prominent topics in the high-profile race for the city’s Democratic party mayoral primary later this month. Adams is running as an independent.

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Yuli Edelstein is willing to remove sanctions that would see ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers lose their property tax discounts as long as other measures can be kept in the conscription bill being debated by the panel, Channel 12 reports.

Other sanctions which would be kept in the bill include the loss of public transportation discounts, the removal of tax benefits for working women married to dodgers, exclusion from the housing lottery, and the cancellation of daycare and academic subsidies. The bill would also prevent draft dodgers up to the age of 29 from receiving driver’s licenses or traveling abroad and would open them up to the threat of arrest.

Edelstein has pledged that any law coming out of his Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee would levy sanctions on draft dodgers, leading ultra-Orthodox parties to threaten to dissolve the Knesset this week.

An official in the Degel HaTorah faction of the United Torah Judaism party tells Channel 12 news: “As of now, everything is up in the air. We want clear agreements.”

TEHRAN, Iran — Tehran warns it would reduce its cooperation with the United Nations’s nuclear watchdog if an anti-Iran resolution is passed at an upcoming meeting of the world body.

“Certainly, the IAEA should not expect the Islamic Republic of Iran to continue its broad and friendly cooperation,” Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy organization, says on state TV when asked how Tehran would respond if the resolution is passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors meeting, which is due to start Monday.

Hostage talks between Israel and Hamas remain at an impasse, two sources familiar with the negotiations tell The Times of Israel, after some of the mediators expressed optimism last week that Hamas would agree to soften its response to US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s hostage deal proposal.

Witkoff told hostage families he met with in Washington last week that he was optimistic about the chances for a breakthrough before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which began on Friday, according to a source present in the meeting. Even if such a breakthrough had been reached, though, the sides still need to hold a round of proximity talks to close final details, such as the exact parameters of Israel’s partial military withdrawal.

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