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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 9, 2014

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Damage caused by a missile strike in Ashdod on July 8, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)

Liveblog July 9 (closed)

Hamas rockets reach the north, Abbas charges Israel with genocide

By Ilan Ben Zion, Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

On second day of Operation Protective Edge, Dimona targeted with rockets; Peres says Gaza ground offensive ‘may happen quite soon’; PM vows to intensify conflict; another sea infiltration foiled

US slams rocket fire at Israeli civilians, urges sides to ‘act responsibly’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Cabinet approves massive call-up ahead of possible ground op

World uninterested in Gaza operation, senior official says

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli visitors at the mourners' tent of the Abu Khdeir family in Shuafat, Jerusalem, July 8, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Amid Gaza rocket fire, hundreds of Israelis console family of slain Arab teen

By Elhanan Miller

‘I may not have committed the crime, but I’m morally obligated as part of the group that did,’ says Israeli student

Israelis still searching for answers after Abu Khdeir murder

Police investigating ‘price tag’ incidents in Jerusalem

Girl says she foiled kidnap attempt near Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

An apartment building in Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv, that was hit by a rocket from Gaza, November 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Why are we fighting with Gaza, again?

By David Horovitz

Because Hamas’s hostility to Israel, as reflected in its relentless rocket manufacture and fire, is its raison d’etre

Lecturing us on security, as the rockets fly in

The White House’s Middle East coordinator gave a risible speech Tuesday, asserting that the US knows how to keep Israel safe, at a conference that was halted by a Hamas attack

Anything but a peace process

Instead of exploiting Hamas’s weakness to maneuver towards peace, Israel left them little choice but to attack

Live-blogging war with jokes (July 8)

8:31 AM Operation Protective Edge is named and launched

Ariela Rossberg

When you hear your first siren

Your stomach lurches, and your legs shake; time stops, and the world keeps spinning.

An open letter to Hamas and Arab world

Girding for battle and warning: While our nature is to love peace, we are enraged and ready for war

A portrait of David Azrieli, one of Israel’s foremost architects, developers and philanthropists, in his newly-built Azrieli mall in Modi'in on June 17, 2008. (file photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)

Holocaust survivor, billionaire Azrieli dies at 92

Philanthropist and architect who built iconic Tel Aviv towers, 13 major shopping malls passes away in Canada

Philip Gordon, White House coordinator for the Middle East, speaks at the Israel Conference on Peace in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2014 (photo credit: screen shot haaretz.co.il)

Top Obama official blasts Israel for denying Palestinians sovereignty, security, dignity

By Raphael Ahren

‘How can Israel have peace if it’s unwilling to delineate a border, end the occupation?’ asks White House Mideast chief, Phillip Gordon, in blistering Tel Aviv speech

An Israeli family sleeps in a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Sunday (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Sleep loss from Gaza rockets also harmful: study

By David Shamah

When missiles explode through the night, sleep-deprived Israelis pay a price in the morning, researchers show

A still from footage released by the IDF showing a foiled attempt by Gazan terrorists to infiltrate the Zikim military base. (screen capture/Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Frustrated Hamas seeks a ‘quality’ terrorist attack

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel thwarted an attempted infiltration from the sea and blew up a terror tunnel, but it knows Gaza Islamists are desperately pursuing other murderous options

IDF video shows thwarting of Hamas infiltrators

By Mitch Ginsburg

Relatives of 20-year-old Shelley Dadon, who was found dead in northern Israel in May of this year, grieve in the Nazareth District Court, where Yousef Hussein Halifa was indicted for the teen's alleged murder, Wednesday, July 09, 2014. (photo credit: Hagain Aharon/Flash90)

State files charges against Shelley Dadon murder suspect

Police ask court to detain Yousef Hussein Halifa for the duration of the trial, offer no motive for killing

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, left, with the organization’s head of French operations, Ariel Kandel, at a Paris synagogue, July 2, 2014. (photo credit: JTA/Alain Azria)

Tumultous times have French Jewry facing uncertain future

By Cnaan Liphshiz

With immigration to Israel and anti-Semitism on the rise, Natan Sharansky says ‘it may be the beginning of the end of European Jewry’

Rabbi Natan Levy (right) attends a program organized by the OneVoice movement in London in 2012, along with Muslim and Christian faith leaders. (photo credit: OneVoice Movement)

The rabbi who’s fasting on Ramadan

Getting the groove on at the annual Woodstock Revival concert in Jerusalem (Yehuda HaLevy)

Halted by Hamas: Clapton and Hendrix homage will have to wait

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem’s annual Woodstock Revival concert postponed to August because of security situation

The Alpha Zone accelerator (Photo credit: Courtesy)

IBM kicks off first-ever accelerator program

By David Shamah

Big data is a common denominator among the eight companies in the Israel-based project, the company said

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Chicago native Becky Kupchan arrives in Israel, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (photo credit: Sasson Tiram/Nefesh B'Nefesh)

Southern comfortChicago immigrant heads to Beersheba

Justin Bieber captures Tom Hanks dressed 'as a rabbi' at Jewish manager's wedding July 7, 2014. (Instagram screenshot)

How he does it‘Rabbi’ Tom Hanks dances on Instagram

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The last set of seven tefillin returned to their owners. (courtesy)

Last pair of unclaimed tefillin on way to owner

By JTA

Israelis in the Tel Aviv area take cover as a warning siren sounds, signaling an incoming rocket, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAn Iron Dome and nerves of steel

By Marissa Newman

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