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What Matters Most On Monday, July 28, 2014

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The damage caused to a house after it was hit by a rocket in Nahal Oz, on the border with the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2014, (Photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90

Liveblog July 28, Day 21 of war with Hamas (closed)

4 soldiers killed in mortar attack, as PM says Gaza op goes on, vows to counter tunnels

By Ilan Ben Zion, Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

Netanyahu rejects UN ceasefire call; terrorists tunnel into Israel in thwarted attack; rockets shot toward Haifa; Gazans say several dead in strike on hospital, park, but IDF denies responsibility

Israel disputes US account of Kerry’s ceasefire effort

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

UN Security Council calls for Gaza cease-fire

By AP

Obama calls Netanyahu, urges immediate, unconditional ceasefire

By Raphael Ahren

US Secretary of State John Kerry, third from left, stands with from left, Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini after their meeting regarding a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, Saturday, July 26, 2014, at the foreign ministry in Paris, France. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Analysis

Kerry’s mistakes strengthen Hamas’s resolve

By Avi Issacharoff

Has the US really forsaken Egypt and Israel to join forces with the Muslim Brotherhood, or is its top diplomat merely naive?

Obama calls PM, urges immediate ceasefire, after Israel, PA slam Kerry efforts

By Joshua Davidovich, Haviv Rettig Gur and Marissa Newman

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

‘Hamas will resume tunneling as soon as we leave’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Intelligence is good ‘but we won’t find them all,’ warns ex-commander of elite unit that tackles the cross-border passageways

Satellite images show destruction in bomb-ravaged Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Israeli Arabs caught in the middle of Gaza war

Hamas official claims it rejected Egyptian deal to avoid recognizing Israel

By Elhanan Miller

Ending the conflict requires seeing the big picture and formulating a concrete vision of a workable future

Freedom without anarchy, order without tyranny

Jews have found themselves, time and again, in the front line of the defense of humanity

Dina Stone Herman

Dear Sayed Kashua, you are irrelevant

You enjoyed democratic freedoms but denied them to others by silently allowing the monster next door to grow

I’m an American kid with shaky Hebrew

The fallen soldier Max Steinberg is a Taglit-Birthright success story, but not because he moved to Israel

Palestinians pass by destroyed houses after they salvage usable things in their belongings found at their destroyed houses during a 12-hour cease-fire in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Analysis

When numbers in Gaza masquerade as fact

Many of the Palestinian death toll figures quoted by the UN and others ‘are not worth the paper they’re written on,’ researcher says

Media representative broadcasting from Israel's border with Gaza, on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, July 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas threatening journalists in Gaza who expose abuse of civilians

Reporters are bullied, have equipment confiscated, barred from sensitive sites… but they don’t report it. ‘They’re too scared,’ says Israeli official, lamenting capitulation to harassment

Comedian Danny Cohen has arrived in Israel for a week of Rocket Shelter Comedy shows. (Courtesy)

American comedians bring laughs in the face of danger

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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)

IDF: Mortar round landed in empty UNRWA yard, did not kill Gazans

By Mitch Ginsburg

Official army inquiry rejects claim that people were killed on school premises as a result of IDF operational activity

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Analysis

Truce offer may signal Hamas has reached breaking point

By Avi Issacharoff

The terror group is singing a different tune — less decisive, less fiery. This is partly due to the Gazan public, which is reeling from the destruction

Israeli Navy vessels escort the Mavi Marmara to the port of Ashdod, May 31, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Mavi Marmara group plans new Gaza aid convoy

Turkey’s IHH, designated a terror organization by Israel, says army will provide escort to protect against attack

Mosab Hassan Yousef during an interview with CNN, July 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Yaron Haklai)

Fatal attraction

Hamas defector slams ‘death worship’

By Stuart Winer

‘Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef says terror organization’s goal is an Islamic state built on the rubble of other civilizations

People in a main square in Vienna take cover during a flash mob simulating a Hamas missile attack on July 24, 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

Prone for peace

Flash mob siren staged in Vienna

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Austrian Jewish youth groups run for cover while simulating a Hamas missile attack

The homely Odessa Airport during a layover on a desperate flight back to Tel Aviv on Thursday. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Best way to get back to Israel? Ukraine

By Melanie Lidman

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Lex Luthor in the houseRockets can’t keep Jesse Eisenberg away

Tech Challenge participants working on a project (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Hackathoner makes ‘riot warning’ app

By David Shamah

A woman said she may have been the designated victim in a kidnapping attempt by a taxi driver outside the SOS market on Emek Refaim (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem woman reports possible kidnapping attempt

By Jessica Steinberg

A Chabad menora in Mumbai, India. (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Letter threatens Mumbai synagogues over Gaza conflict

By JTA

President Barack Obama holds a bobblehead doll of himself in the Outer Oval Office, May 14, 2014. (photo credit: White House/ Pete Souza)

Hebrew media review Rebuker in chief

By Joshua Davidovich

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