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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 17, 2014

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Palestinian mourners shout slogans during the funeral of four boys, all from the Bakr family, in Gaza City, on July 16, 2014. The four were killed and several others were injured at a beach in Gaza in an Israeli shelling. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

Liveblog July 17 (closed)

Israel launches major ground offensive against Hamas

By Ilan Ben Zion, Lazar Berman and Haviv Rettig Gur

18,000 more reservists to be called up; PM says campaign may expand; cabinet voted unanimously for land op.; rocket barrage shot down over Tel Aviv; earlier, terror tunnel attack thwarted near kibbutz

Israel, Hamas deny ceasefire deal reached

By ToI Staff and AP

Tunnel infiltration thwarted near Kibbutz Sufa

By Mitch Ginsburg

AnalysisCairo ceasefire talks said to be at an impasse

By Avi Issacharoff and Marissa Newman

Israeli soldiers stand next to Merkava tanks positioned on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on July 7, 2014. ( photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Analysis

Who’s afraid of boots on the ground in Gaza?

By Lazar Berman

Experts may wring their hands about the high cost of a land incursion, but history shows Hamas is awful at killing IDF troops on the move

Ground incursion in Gaza said ‘very likely’

By Adiv Sterman

Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh (left) and Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz in February. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

The Mofaz plan for demilitarizing Gaza

By Mitch Ginsburg

Former defense minister, inspired by success in Syria, believes Israel can spearhead international effort to strip Hamas of rockets

FM: West Bank status quo can be model for Gaza reoccupation

By Raphael Ahren

Israel accepts five-hour ‘humanitarian truce’

By Adiv Sterman

4 children killed as Israel shells Gaza beach

By AFP

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Peter Beinart’s ‘one Gazan child’ question

Don’t forget: That much hated ‘double standard’ Israel is subject to is a standard of its own making

Talia Lefkowitz

The Koby kids are here! In a bunker

Trying, under rocket fire, to instill a sense of safety for children affected by terrorist attacks

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Hamas has my number

Thankful for a threatening text that helped avert her husband’s midlife former settler crisis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv, July 11, 2014 (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

What Netanyahu’s thinking on Day 10 of war with Hamas

By David Horovitz

Israeli security guards stand outside the courtroom where the indictment for the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, 16, is handed down. (photo credit: Flash90)

3 suspects indicted in killing of Muhammad Abu Khdeir

By Marissa Newman

Defendants confess and say that after the killing, they went home and played guitar; two have a history of mental illness

This image from an AP video shows Tariq Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian-American teen who relatives allege was beaten by Israeli authorities earlier this month addressing the media after arriving at at Tampa International Airport on Wednesday night, July 16, 2014, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/AP Video)

Slain Arab teen’s beaten cousin back home in Florida

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (second from left), Chief of Jerusalem Police Yohanan Danino, and Jerusalem Municipality CEO Amnon Merchav (in white shirt) at the controls of a Bladeworx UAV (photo credit: Courtesy)

UAV ‘eye in the sky’ protects Jerusalem light rail

By David Shamah

Rioters beware: You are being watched from up above by unmanned aerial vehicles, says Mayor Nir Barkat

Past chairman of the Conference of Presidents Richard Stone, chairman Robert Sugarman, President Reuven Rivlin and vice-executive chairman Malcolm Hoenlein at the Knesset Tuesday July 15, 2014. (photo: Avi Hayun)

Rivlin assures Diaspora leaders of commitment to dialogue

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In a briefing to a solidarity delegation from the Conference of Presidents, the president-elect says he will ‘bridge gaps’

Scarlett Johansson (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA)

Love me Jew

Americans are mad about Jews

By Marissa Newman

Pew survey shows Muslims, atheists fare poorly; Republicans rank members of the tribe higher than Democrats do

Illustrative photo of a newborn baby (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Baby boomer

Meet little Tzuk Eitan

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Tiberias couple names newborn after Operation Protective Edge

From 'Self Made,' Shira Geffen's latest film (Courtesy 'Self Made')

Religious divorce, an absent God and dancing Arabs

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative: Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. (Courtesy)

Warsaw celebrates 50 righteous among nations

By JTA

‘We had to save them, it was just a reflex,’ says one honoree

Prof. Dan Shechtman speaks at Microsoft's annual High-Tech convention, Nov, 2012. (Photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)

Tech sector continues surge with nearly $1B quarter

By JTA

First half of 2014 called best investment period in Israeli industry’s history

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Bar Refaeli (photo credit: CC BY-SA Laurent Jean Philippe, Flickr)

Stellar errorBar Refaeli boldly quotes the wrong guy

Dr. Ruth Westheimer giving her 'master class' on sex at the 2013 Israeli Presidential Conference. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)

You can’t handle the Ruth

Chelsea Handler on TLC's Who Do You Think You Are. (photo credit: screen capture/TLC)

Chelsea Handler’s Hitler comedy not funny, ADL says

By Julie Wiener

This photo of blogger "Hipster Hijabis" wearing a Mimu Maxi skirt set off a firestorm. (Courtesy)

Fashion warA Muslim models a Jewish brand

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Congregation Kol Ami's ark. (courtesy)

Utah man gets five years in prison for firing on synagogue

By JTA

Aorato screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Microsoft may buy Israeli ‘security critic’ Aorato

By David Shamah

IDF tanks and soldiers in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014. (Photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIn Gaza, looking for a way out, or a way in

By Joshua Davidovich

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