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What Matters Most On Friday, July 25, 2014

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Israel supporters hold a rally during Operation Protective Edge in Milan, Italy, July 24, 2014. (photo credit: Elinor Betesh)

Liveblog July 25, Day 18 of war with Hamas (closed)

Israel rejects Kerry ceasefire deal, IDF death toll 35; 6 killed in West Bank

By Ricky Ben-David, Lazar Berman, Ilan Ben Zion and Itamar Sharon

Ya’alon warns ground operation may expand; heavy West Bank clashes after Hamas urges Third Intifada; IDF gen. says Hamas morale weakening

Huge Iran al-Quds Day rallies call for ‘Death to Israel’

By AFP and ToI Staff

2 Palestinians killed outside Jerusalem said to have shot at Israeli troops

By Stuart Winer

Liveblog July 24 (closed)Two killed in clashes near Jerusalem; 15 die at UN school; rocket fire on Eilat, Tel Aviv

By Lazar Berman, Marissa Newman and Yifa Yaakov

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)

Analysis

Why has the IDF lost 32 soldiers in the Gaza ground offensive?

By Mitch Ginsburg

As opposed to previous campaigns, the army has a concrete goal — finding the tunnels — which means Hamas knows precisely where to strike

Urgent lessons Israel, US must learn to counter Hamas’s clever tactics, strategy

By Alon Paz and Nadav Pollak

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

How we fight the monsters

I wish I could tell my kids that everything will be OK, but I can’t

Donniel Hartman

In the fog of war, some things are clear

Farewell to a people I love

The future is not inherited, it is built, Shimon Peres says in his farewell address

A Hamas tunnel discovered by soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade in the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Analysis

Gaza Underground, the threat Israel chose to ignore

By Avi Issacharoff

Hamas’s attack tunnels are now recognized as a major danger, but Israel would have to reconquer Gaza to make sure they aren’t rebuilt, and that would cause untenable losses

Col. Richard Kemp, Jerusalem, July 24 (Photo credit: ToI staff)

Interview

A supportive British colonel, and a bleak vision of endless costly military operations

By David Horovitz

Palestinians at an UNRWA school after fleeing their homes following an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 18, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel and Hamas blame each other for attack on UN shelter

By Mitch Ginsburg

More than a dozen Palestinians killed when UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun hit by a projectile

Distributing care packages to troops, during the current operation in Gaza. (photo credit: Nati Shochat/Flash90)

Behind the lines, Israelis help out with the war effort

By Jessica Steinberg

A range of initiatives have sprung up to aid soldiers fighting in Gaza, and the families left behind

South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein speaking at Nelson Mandela's memorial ceremony on December 10, 2013. (screen capture: Sky News, YouTube)

Despite vicious anti-Semitic rhetoric, South African Jews say daily life not disrupted

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A UN Human Rights Council Meeting in Geneva in May 2013. (photo credit: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré)

Analysis

Why nobody but the US voted against the UN’s anti-Israel resolution

By Raphael Ahren

The EU states tried to get the Palestinians to agree to a more balanced text, but eventually decided to abstain

A departure flight board displays various canceled and delayed flights in Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 23, 2014. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Europeans follow US lead in resuming Israel flights

By Stuart Winer

Aviation authorities lift ban on landings at Ben Gurion airport but disrupted schedules continue to cause delays

Incoming president Reuven Rivlin and Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein applaud outgoing President Shimon Peres at Rivlin's swearing in ceremony in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 24, 2014 (photo credit: Knesset Press Office)

Reuven Rivlin sworn in as Israel’s tenth president

By Stuart Winer

At toned-down ceremony, incoming president expresses hope for future peace, praises predecessor Shimon Peres as a ‘poet of a vision’

Two Irish entrepreneurs make a pitch at an event held last week in Dublin by the Ireland-Israel Business Network (Photo credit Courtesy)

War doesn’t faze Start-Up Nation’s foreign fans

By David Shamah

On-line, print media in India, Ireland are hostile to Israel, but criticism hasn’t affected tech business ties

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A religious Jewish father kisses his son on the forehead.

Judaism can protect against suicide: Israeli study

By Andrew Tobin

An Iron Dome interceptor rocket flies above the Tel Aviv skyline (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash 90)

Tel Avivians show their soaring affection for the Iron Dome

By Debra Kamin and Jessica Steinberg

A Eurasian Scops Owl photo credit: US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Damian Martinez)

Protective eggOwl hurt by Hamas fire recovering

By Lazar Berman

Professor Michael Harper's corrected image (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Astronaut’s ‘Gaza-Israel’ conflict photo is Tel Aviv lights

By David Shamah

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

Gaza BluesSoundtrack to the war

By Uriel Heilman

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)

Presidents Conference convenes Israel solidarity day

By JTA

Former US senator Joe Lieberman. (Public domain via Wikipedia)

Joe Lieberman’s new mission: mold young minds

By JTA

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right), on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewTruce or dare

By Marissa Newman

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