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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 23, 2014

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Soldiers from the Givati Brigade seen at the entrance to a Hamas attack tunnel on July 23, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge. (Israel Defense Forces/Flash90)

Liveblog July 23 (closed)

Cabinet mulls expanded Gaza op as IDF toll reaches 32; FAA extends ban on Israel flights

By Ilan Ben Zion, Marissa Newman and Yifa Yaakov

Three IDF soldiers killed in Gaza; Kerry meets Netanyahu; Thai worker killed by shell; IDF finds maps, plans for terror attack in Gaza tunnel; Israeli airlines beef up after much of world suspends flights

US carriers suspend flights to Israel over rocket fears

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Two IDF tank officers killed overnight

By Stuart Winer

AnalysisWorried, weakened Abbas shows Hamas some love

By Avi Issacharoff

IDF soldiers mourning at the funeral of Sergeant Benaya Rubel, at the Holon Military Cemetery on July 20, 2014. The 20 year old paratrooper was killed by Hamas gunmen in Gaza on the second day of Operation Protective Edge. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

The terrible cost of thwarting Hamas

By David Horovitz

The Israeli national mood is now a mixture of anguish at the toll of IDF dead, anger at aspects of the international response, and confidence in the troops and (atypically) the political leadership

57% of Americans back Israel in Gaza conflict

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, center, talks with British Foreign Affairs Minister Philip Hammond, right, prior to the start of the EU Foreign Affairs Council of Ministers held at the EU Council building in Brussels, on July 22, 2014. At left is Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Didier Reynders. photo credit: AFP/Thierry Charlier)

EU calls on Hamas, Islamic Jihad to disarm

By Marissa Newman

28-country bloc defends Israel’s right to fight, says indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza is ‘criminal and unjustifiable’

Kerry lands in Israel on Gaza truce mission

By AFP

Is international support for Israel’s Gaza campaign waning?

By Raphael Ahren

British MP under fire after saying he would shoot rockets at Israel

By AFP

Haviv Rettig Gur

Did Birthright kill Max?

That time an American Jewish journalist found herself unable to imagine what could drive another American Jew to join their fate to Israel’s

Hamas’s war on women

Gaza’s leaders have invested in war, not in a better future for Palestinian women and children

The danger of demanding too much

Because the threat of a nuclear Iran is so menacing, there has been little opportunity to take on its other strategic challenges to the international system

Illustrative: Palestinian girls at a UNRWA school in Gaza. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

For second time, rockets found at UN school in Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

‘How many more schools will have to be abused by Hamas missile squads before the international community will intervene?’ Foreign Ministry fumes

Reporter's notebook

An Israeli in Istanbul wants to go home

By Melanie Lidman

Broken glass in seen in a room of the Al-Wafa rehabilitation hospital near Gaza City on July 16, 2014 following a military strike. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

WATCH: IDF targets hospital used as Hamas command center

By Stuart Winer

Video shows gunmen firing from inside Al-Wafa rehabilitation center in Shejaiya

An Al-Qassam Brigades gunman in Gaza, May 2014 photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Is prime Israel target Muhammad Deif overseeing Hamas’s strategy?

By Elhanan Miller

As Israel bombs the home of terror chief who has survived three attempts to kill him, some Israeli experts believe he’s still in charge

Magda Feldmar (photo credit: Courtesy)

When the sirens wail, the Holocaust survivors stay put

By Marissa Newman

Israeli creator of 'Homeland' Gideon Raff. (Courtesy)

Show runner

‘Dig’ pulls up Jerusalem stakes

High-profile NBC television program, set in the Holy City, declares ongoing violence too risky for filming

Illustrative: Female soldiers of the Caracal Battalion, November 2007. (Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Female reservists called up in unprecedented numbers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Operation Protective Edge poses unique challenges to the thousands of female reservists, among them pregnant women and mothers

IDF Artillery Corps seen firing shells into Gaza, near the border in Southern Israel on July 21, 2014 (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Worse may yet lie ahead

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas doesn’t want to stop the fighting without ‘an achievement’ such as the lifting of the Gaza security blockade. And neither Israel nor Egypt are in the mood to help

In the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, pro-Palestinian rioters broke shop windows and set fires on July 20, 2014. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz)

Amid riots, Jewish self-defense groups in France gain traction

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Hamas gunmen dressed as IDF soldiers targeting Israeli forces after emerging from a tunnel near Kibbutz Nir Am, July 21, 2014. (Screen capture: IDF)

16-year-old Gaza terrorist treated in Israeli hospital

Thousands of Israelis attend the funeral of IDF soldier Nissim Sean Carmeli, from Texas, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Monday, July 21, 2014. (Photo credit: FLASH90)

Soldiers arrested for leaking death notices on WhatsApp

By Stuart Winer

J Street explains pullout from Boston pro-Israel rally

By JTA

A Hamas spokesperson tells CNN that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is akin to Hitler. (screen capture: YouTube)

Hamas likens Netanyahu to Hitler on CNN

Orna Banai (left) and Eyal Kitzis of 'Eretz Nehederet.' (photo credit: Flash90/file)

Whose embarrassment?A not so wonderful war gaffe

By Jessica Steinberg

Then-Col. Ghassan Alian during a patrol in July 2013 in Jenin. Col. Alian, who heads the Golani Brigade, returned to the unit after being injured in battle two days earlier (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewGrounded flights but soaring morale

By Yossi Nachemi

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