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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 19, 2014

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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)

Liveblog July 19 (closed)

IDF steps up hunt for Hamas terror tunnels after two soldiers killed in raid

By Yifa Yaakov, Itamar Sharon and Ricky Ben-David

After Major (res.) Amotz Greenberg, 45, and Sgt. Adar Barsano, 20, killed in Hamas raid, IDF intensifies search for terror tunnels, says 34 found so far. Gunman killed in southern Gaza emerging from tunnel, firing on troops. 94 rockets fired from Gaza on Saturday

Livni: All options on table, including bringing down Hamas

ExclusiveQatar’s ceasefire offer adopts most Hamas demands

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

In call to PM, Obama pledges support, urges minimal Gaza civilian deaths

By AP, ToI Staff and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

IDF Armed Pesonnel Carriers seen crossing through a field near the border with Gaza in Southern Israel on July 18, 2014 (Photo credit: Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Analysis

Euphoric Hamas needs to hear that Israel will oust it from Gaza if necessary

By Avi Issacharoff

This conflict finds Israel caught between warring parties in the Sunni Muslim world. If Israel wants to end it, the gameplan needs to change, and fast

Because when you get off the bus in Sderot, Israel, the first thing you do is locate the nearest bomb shelter

When God sat shivah

A midrash: The Creator wept with despair for the humans whose behavior He had long stopped trying to control

A war made in Iran

Palestinian suicide bombers and missile warfare are both exports from Tehran

A meeting at the P5+1 talks with Iran at UN headquarters in Vienna, on July 3, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Joe Klamar)

Deadline for Iran nuke deal extended by 4 months

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Tehran agrees to additional concessions and will receive in return some $2.8 billion in frozen assets, but gaps remain

A February 2013 shot of an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev (photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)

Bedouin ‘defenseless’ as man killed, 4 injured by Gaza rocket

By Adiv Sterman and Itamar Sharon

Ouda Lafi al-Waj, 32, dies after direct hit, 3-month-old girl seriously injured, as relatives say the gov’t gives them no protection

Bedouin near Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev, August 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

‘When the sirens sound, we have nowhere to hide’

By Elhanan Miller

For the Bedouins of the Negev, the demand for concrete shelters is not just about protection, it’s about recognition

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Egypt won’t amend truce terms to appease Hamas

FM Sameh Shukri says proposal meets the needs of all parties involved, guarantees lifting of Gaza blockade

Balad MK Hanin Zoabi protesting at a Haifa demonstration against the IDF's operation in the Gaza Strip, July 2014 (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

Zoabi handcuffed as Arab Israelis in Haifa protest Gaza offensive

By Adiv Sterman

Balad MK later released; 30 held, several wounded at rally after clashes with police; protests elsewhere in north

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian Turks shout slogans against Israel during a protest rally outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, early Friday, July 18, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Emrah Gurel)

Protests worldwide as Gaza offensive intensifies

By Adiv Sterman

In Turkey, rioters attempt to storm Israeli consulate; Polish pro-Palestinian demonstrators assault Jewish tourists

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

This image made from video released by the Israeli military on Friday, July 18, 2014 shows troops after crossing into the Gaza Strip at the beginning of a ground offensive Thursday, July 17, 2014. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza on Friday to destroy rocket launching sites and tunnels (photo credit: AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces via AP video)

The treacherous task of tunnel demolition

By Mitch Ginsburg

How exactly does the IDF dismantle Hamas’s offensive tunnels, some 60-feet-deep, over a mile long, with multiple exits

Analysis Unable to kill Israelis with rockets, Hamas wants the IDF drawn deeper into Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

A Palestinian municipality worker sweeps glass from the street, as a UN vehicle drives past a damaged money-exchange post, following an overnight Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Analysis

In relentlessly battered Gaza, envying the normalcy of Tel Aviv

By Avi Issacharoff

A Palestinian journalist gives his account of life in the Strip during the conflict, and over the awful years that preceded it

This Feb. 23, 2012, photo shows a section of the 184 reels of microfilm of transferred documents of World War II criminals, which are kept in a locked room in a building near the U.N. complex in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Holocaust Museum opens UN archive on WWII crimes

By Brett Zongker

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CNN reporter Diana Magnay during a live broadcast from the southern Israeli city of Sderot (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Sderot to MoscowCNN moves reporter after ‘scum’ tweet

By AP and ToI Staff

Bill Maher arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, California. (AFP/Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/File)

Twitter warsCelebrities in the Israel-Gaza crossfire

By JTA

"Sorrowing Old Man" by Vincent van Gogh

Researchers say Parkinson’s medication may boost creativity

By Andrew Tobin

Egyptian Mehwar TV host Osama Mounir (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

Out of their minds?Egypt TV host rants at Hamas

A protester waves a Palestinian flag towards the Israeli border fence during a protest marking Land Day at the border between Israel and Gaza Strip on March 30, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)

Belgian bus company disassociates itself from Palestinian flag display

By JTA

A JetBlue plane (photo credit: JetBlue Captain Ian Duncan)

JetBlue: Jewish doc to blame for removal from flight

By JTA

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