​Israeli ministers back proposed law demoting Arabic language

Parliament to consider nation state bill that would make Hebrew the lone national languageIsraeli ministers have approved the wording of a new law that would downgrade Arabic as an official language and which states that the right to self-determination in Israel “is unique to the Jewish people”, despite the country’s sizeable non-Jewish minority.The go-ahead for the nation state bill by the ministerial committee for legislation means it will now move forward to a vote by the co