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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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An injured Israeli soldier is evacuated by helicopter from the area close to the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liveblog July 29, Day 22 of war with Hamas (closed)

More rockets fired at TA, Deif: Hamas fighters ‘eager for death,’ Kerry says PM discussed truce

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

Hamas military chief says no ceasefire without lifting blockade, despite reports group okays truce; military death toll at 53 after 10 soldiers killed Monday; Gaza death toll above 1,200; rocket barrage fired at central Israel

AnalysisPM wants Gaza demilitarized, and the world agrees — but how?

By Raphael Ahren

Hamas tunnel raid kills 5 soldiers in southern Israel

Third of young Americans blame Israel for Gaza conflict

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (R) and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (L) at the Command and Control Center of the 162nd Armored Division in southern Israel, July 21, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

Why Netanyahu doesn’t want to go ‘all the way’

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The PM is clear-eyed about the danger Hamas poses to Israel. So why, despite considerable pressure, is he manifestly disinclined to order a full-scale ground offensive?

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with IDF chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (standing directly behind him) and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon (seated right), monitoring IDF ground operations in Gaza during a meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

IDF at Gaza crossroads as cabinet pulls in different directions

By Mitch Ginsburg

The tunnels are being neutralized. The question now is whether Israel will order troops into the heart of the Strip, where the Hamas military wing is holed up

Gaza’s sole power plant said down after Israeli attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli leaders vow to keep up Gaza operation until tunnels destroyed

Five soldiers killed, four in mortar attack from Gaza

Even if just for a moment…

Gratified to be part of a global response that gave a mother and her children a short break from the war

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Reporting from the home front on kicking the crap out of mothers, a catocalypse and why everyone honks

Salvaging Abbas

A decade of American and Israeli missteps have undermined the Palestinian president’s message of moderation

From a 100-year-old comrade in arms

In a viral message, Great Uncle Max who fought in 1948 says today, unfortunately, it’s your turn

Weapons found inside a tunnel near Kibbutz Sufa on the Israel-Gaza border on July 17, 2014. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office/Flash90)

Could Israeli soldiers, not civilians, be the target of the attack tunnels?

By Aaron J. Klein and Mitch Ginsburg

An injured Israeli soldier is evacuated by helicopter from the area close to the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

The terrorist misfire that deepened the conflict

By Avi Issacharoff

Never mind that the deaths in Gaza’s Shati camp were caused by Islamic Jihad. The incident prompted a series of Hamas attacks on Israel

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)

Report: Hackers ‘phish’ Iron Dome plans from defense firms

By David Shamah

Chinese hackers hit top Israeli security companies using a tried and true tactic, a US company claims

Full to capacity room at the Knesset's emergency meeting on rising anti-Semitism in Europe, July 28, 2014. (Israel Bardugo / The Israeli-Jewish Congress)

Talk of feared new Holocaust at Knesset meeting on European anti-Semitism

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Incitement against Jews in Germany at levels not seen since 1933, says speaker at emergency session

National Security Advisor Susan Rice addresses a solidarity with Israel gathering in Washington, DC, organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, July 29, 2014. (photo credit: Ron Sachs)

Rice, Dermer talk up US-Israel ties, Kerry’s ceasefire efforts

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Hundreds of Jewish leaders join members of Congress at DC event showing solidarity with Israel

Right-wing Israelis wave the Israeli flag during a demonstration in Rabin square in Tel Aviv, as they rally in support of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip ,July 26, 2014. (photo credit: Danielle Shitrit/FLASH90)

WATCH: Far-right Israelis celebrate Gaza kids’ deaths

By Stuart Winer

In video from Tel Aviv demonstration, crowd can be seen chanting, ‘There is no school tomorrow; there are no children left in Gaza’

President Reuven Rivlin visiting an injured soldier in Beersheba, Monday. (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin makes plea for unity in Ramadan greeting

New president sends bilingual message of interfaith unity, urges trust between Jews, Arabs ‘in trying times’

Bundles packed for IDF's lone soldiers. (Diego Mitelberg/FIDF)

US groups provide support for IDF’s 2,500 lone soldiers

By Cathryn J. Prince

From care packages to flights to visit family, organizations scramble to meet the needs of the IDF’s immigrant soldiers

Pro-Palestinian protestor holds Palestine scarf at Parisian demonstration on Saturday, July 26, 2014. (Glenn Cloarec/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Report from the front: On scene at a violent Paris protest

By Glenn Cloarec

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One Direction star Zayn Malik. (photo credit: /JStone via Shutterstock)

Flaming the fansBrit pop star tweets Palestine support

By Stuart Winer

Spoofing the London Underground subway map with a Gaza version (Courtesy Imgur)

Red line, and blue and greenA spoof guide to Hamas tunnels

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli singer Achinoam Nini in the Israeli Knesset during a meeting between Palestinian officials and Israeli ministers and members of Knesset, July 31, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Noa knowsPolitics said to nix Achinoam Nini show

By Simone Somekh

Protesters display placards and banners as they take part in demonstration against Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in central London on July 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Carl Court)

Anti-Semitic incidents double in UK since Gaza op

By JTA

Building the Third Temple in Jerusalem (screen capture: YouTube)

Biblical proportionsWant world peace? ‘Build 3rd Temple’

An injured Israeli soldier is evacuated by helicopter from the area close to the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media review A hard day’s fight

By Joshua Davidovich

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