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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 17, 2012

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Israelis take cover as a rocket siren sounds in Tel Aviv Saturday. (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

Live blog: Operation Pillar of Defense, Day 4, Part 2

Morsi says ceasefire may be close as relative quiet settles over Israel

Jerusalem denies it is ready to sign an agreement to end hostilities; rocket fire slows after sundown, but Saturday still saw some 100 rockets, including a direct hit in Ashdod that left 10 injured. Iron Dome shoots down missile aimed at Tel Aviv for first time

Screenshot of a building in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod that suffered a direct hit from a Gaza rocket on Saturday (photo credit: courtesy Channel 2 News)

Live blog: Operation Pillar of Defense, Day 4, Part 1

Gaza rockets hit building and three houses in the south, injuring seven

5th Iron Dome battery deploys near Tel Aviv; Tunisian FM calls for united Arab front against Israeli ‘aggression’; IAF strikes 186 terror sites overnight; Netanyahu and Obama talk de-escalation as Cabinet approves call up of 75,000 reservists

From the webTunisian minister comes to Gaza, tells Israel to halt ‘aggression’

IDF counts over 800 Gaza airstrikes, with some 180 early Saturday

Live blog: Operation Pillar of Defense, Day 3, Part 2Rocket fire slows after day of clashes that saw Hamas target Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 5, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

As Israel prepares for ground operation, Obama and Netanyahu talk ‘de-escalation’

PM updates US President on Gaza situation, thanks him for funding Iron Dome ‘that saved countless Israeli lives’

Liberman: If Israel launches a ground incursion into Gaza, IDF needs to ‘go all the way’

By Michal Shmulovich

AnalysisOperation Pillar of Defense: A clash of arms and narratives

By Dan Perry and Josef Federman

Hamas rockets burst the Tel Aviv bubble

By Ariel David and Aron Heller

Hamas – godless killers

In firing at Jerusalem, the Islamists underlined that they have no compunction about murdering absolutely anybody

Far from the home I love

His heart is in the east, where fellow reservists are getting called up, and he’s in the uttermost west

The Kiryat Malachi apartment building where three people were killed Thursday and several others were wounded, including an infant (Photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/ Flash 90)

Reporter's notebook

In a grief-stricken pocket of a southern Israeli town, Gaza’s deadly impact

By Mitch Ginsburg

The sirens wailed across Kiryat Malachi and Paz Azran, 17, told me: There is no such thing as ‘no one injured from a rocket attack’

Explosives experts examine the site where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Gush Etzion on Friday. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Jerusalemites shaken, not stirred, by ‘surprise’ siren

By ToI Staff and AP

An Israeli woman stands outside a house damaged by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Nov. 16 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Jewish Federations of North America pledge $5 million to aid Israeli terror victims

Money to go towards trauma counseling, financial assistance, portable bomb shelters and transporting children out of harm’s way

Palestinians protest in support of the people of the Gaza Strip and against Israel's military operations, at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on Friday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Activists around the world hold rallies denouncing Israel’s campaign in Gaza

By Michal Shmulovich

Protests against IDF action also planned for Ramallah, Hebron, and Nablus

Anonymous emblem (Wikimedia Commons)

‘Anonymous’ escalates cyber-war against Israel and pro-Israel groups

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In a widespread effort called #OpIsrael, hackers promise to take down 40 Israeli government and military websites; AIPAC website briefly downed on Friday

A billboard depicting slogans for Hamas in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

From the web

Suspected collaborator with Israel executed on Gaza street

NY Times: Gunmen shoot Ashraf Ouaida and leave his body beneath a billboard with a poster accusing him of cooperating Israel in the killing of 15 Palestinian leaders hung around his neck

An ibex chats up a Tristram’s grackle at the Ein Gedi nature reserve .(Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Life springs eternal at Ein Gedi

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo credit: Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service/RIA-Novosti/AP)

Putin invokes anti-Semitism while defending imprisonment of subversive rock band

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Batsheva youth dance troupe heckled in Britain

Egyptians gather at the scene of a train crash that killed at least 47 people, most of them children near Assiut in southern Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 17 (photo credit: AP/Mamdouh Thabet)

47 children killed in train collision with schoolbus in Egypt

Jordanian Protesters from the Islamic Action Front and other opposition parties hold a demonstration after Friday prayers in Amman, Jordan, Friday, Nov. 16 (photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)

Calls for ouster of Jordan’s king grow at protests

By Jamal Halaby

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague shakes hands for the cameras with head of the new Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces Mouaz al-Khatib before a meeting on the continuing conflict in Syria on Friday Nov. 16 (photo credit: AP/John Stillwell)

European nations to debate lifting Syria arms embargo

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