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What Matters Most On Friday, July 18, 2014

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An IDF missile hits Palestinian buildings in Gaza City on July 17, 2014. Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza late Thursday on the 10th day of an offensive to stamp out rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave, the army said. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Liveblog July 18 (closed)

IDF tackles tunnels on first full day of ground op; Livni: ‘All options open’ to fight Hamas

By Ilan Ben Zion, Lazar Berman and Haviv Rettig Gur

Obama-Netanyahu speak; IDF kills 20 Hamas men, captures 13; defiant Hamas fires 80 rockets at Israel as soldiers locate terror tunnels; Abbas heads to Turkey for ceasefire talks; Eitan Barak, 20, from Herzliya is first soldier killed

IDF soldier killed, 4 injured in Gaza ground offensive

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

Netanyahu: Israel may ‘significantly expand’ Gaza operation

US: Restrict Gaza operation to precise action against tunnels

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

An illustrative photo of an Israeli soldier flashing the "V" for victory sign from an armored personnel carrier (APC) at an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 17, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ Jack Guez)

Why the Hamas tunnels are first priority in Israel’s ground offensive

By Mitch Ginsburg

Israel’s air, sea and land supremacy is not mirrored underground, and the country could have woken up Thursday to an entire kibbutz under siege

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Buenos Aires: The other Iranian crime

20 years after the devastating attack on a Jewish center, there have been no arrests, no charges, no justice

That unbearable infallibility

Why do Israeli officials insist that responsibility for all civilian casualties lies exclusively with Hamas?

On harming innocent Arabs

What Jewish law and tradition have to say about the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir and other attacks

This image made from video shot through a night vision scope released by the Israeli military on Friday, July 18, 2014, shows troops during the early hours of a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces)

Analysis

Never mind Hamas’s demands. What about Israel’s?

By David Horovitz

Smoke from rockets fired from Gaza City is seen after being launched toward Israel, on July 15, 2014 ( photo credit: AFP/ Thomas Coex)

20 missiles found in UN-run school in Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

UNRWA apologizes to Israel, condemns a ‘flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises’ and promises investigation; Israel calls on UN to ‘act strongly’

Demonstrators throw stones at the Israeli Embassy in Ankara, as they protest against Israel's military action in Gaza, on July 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Adem Altan)

After violent protests, Israel to pull some diplomatic staff from Turkey

By Raphael Ahren and AP

FM Liberman says decision comes after attack on embassy building, speeches inciting against Israel by Turkish officials

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the parliament in Ankara, July 15, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ADEM ALTAN)

Erdogan says Israel attempting ‘systematic genocide’ in Gaza

By AFP

WATCH: IDF troops enter Gaza Strip as operation continues

By ToI Staff and AP

Netanyahu vows to expand ground offensive in Palestinian enclave, promising to deal a blow to tunnel infrastructure

IDF soldier takes to Reddit for quasi-hasbara.

IDF soldier illegally answers Reddit’s questions from near Gaza

By Gideon Grudo

Saying he thinks ‘it’s important’ to participate in the website’s Ask Me Anything forum, 21-year-old faces jail time if caught

An Iron Dome missile defense battery set up near the southern Israeli town of Ashdod fires an intercepting missile on July 16, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

The tragic self-delusion behind the Hamas war

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, weakness is power, and power — well, it’s complicated

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his inauguration ceremony at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on June 8, 2014. (AP/MENA)

Analysis

Hamas’s war is ultimately with Egypt

By Avi Issacharoff

The terror group started a fight with Israel to get Cairo to make concessions, especially at the Rafah Border Crossing, but who remembers that now?

Israeli citizen Itamar Avon was among 298 people killed abroad a Malaysian Airlines plane from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over the Ukraine. (Photo credit: Facebook)

Israeli citizen among 298 killed on downed Malaysian plane

By ToI Staff and AP

Itamar Avnon, 27, served as a lone soldier and fought in Operation Cast Lead in 2009

This image taken from security video provided by the Bulgarian Interior Ministry on Thursday, July 19, 2012, purports to show the Burgas bomber, center, with long hair and wearing a baseball cap, at Burgas Airport in Bulgaria, on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (photo credit: Bulgarian Interior Ministry/AP)

Bulgaria identifies bomber of Israeli tourist bus

By AP

Lebanese-born Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, 23, blew himself up in Burgas in 2012, killing 5 Israelis, say officials

Pope Francis seen praying in front of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 26, 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Pope demands justice for AMIA Jewish center attack

By Nicole Winfield and Almudena Calatrava

Friend Claudio Epelman of the Latin American Jewish Congress shot video last month when he visited Francis at the Vatican

A view of Ramat Gan. (Shutterstock image).

In diamond business, ‘cash trust’ a thing of the past

By David Shamah

Money laundering laws shine spotlight on the under-the-table transactions precious stone dealers are known for

Kids playing in a specially designed, 21,000-square-foot indoor play space in Sderot, featuring five bomb shelters. (illustrative photo credit: Hadas Parush)

Home, safe home?

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Israelis come out of a shelter in Sderot after a rocket attack on July 10, 2014. Illustrative photo (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Women barred from bomb shelters as Hamas pounds Ashdod

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer engages in an intense Twitter Q&A on Thursday July 17, 2014. (courtesy: Israeli Embassy)

Israel’s envoy to US faces harsh criticism in Twitter Q&A

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Illustrative photo: Pro-Israel students at UCLA. (Hasbara Fellowships via JTA)

U.C. regents confirm pro-Israel student member

By JTA

'We will yet return to Gush Katif' sings this group of reserves along the Gaza border. (YouTube screenshot)

Soldiers’ anthem‘We will yet return to Gush Katif’

By JTA

Hillary Clinton speaks with Charlie Rose on Thursday, July 17, 2014, about Israel's imminent ground invasion into Gaza. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

J'accuseClintons put blame on Hamas

By JTA

Map shows area of coverage of a DSIT system (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Gaza frogmen invaders face Israeli high-tech barrier

By David Shamah

The latest group of American volunteer firefighters to arrive in Israel, battling fires down south (Courtesy Emergency Volunteers Project)

Blazing friendshipA brotherhood of firefighters

By Simone Somekh

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Israeli soldiers patrol along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Hebrew Media ReviewWar it is

By Ilan Ben Zion

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