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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 30, 2014

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A Palestinian man looks on as flames engulf the fuel tanks of the only power plant supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip after it was hit on July 29, 2014, (photo credit: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)

Liveblog July 30, Day 23 of war with Hamas (closed)

Government resolves to intensify Gaza offensive, after 3 soldiers killed

By Itamar Sharon, Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

Army death toll rises to 56; 17 Palestinians die in market attack; British PM says war making 2-state solution ‘impossible’; UN, Washington condemn attack on school that kills at least 15

At least 15 killed after UN-run school shelled

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Rockets found in UNRWA school, for third time

By Ilan Ben Zion

IDF general: Israel did not target Gaza’s power plant

By Mitch Ginsburg

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades's chief Muhammad Deif delivering a recorded address after a Hamas terrorist infiltration into Israel, July 30, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Gal Berger)

Analysis

Deif the Islamic holy warrior unites Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Attack on IDF post that killed five soldiers is being utilized to portray terror chief as an Islamist superhero, and he won’t want the adulation to fade

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah Saturday, July 26, 2014, at the US ambassador's residence in Paris (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Qatar: American friend, Israeli foe

By Elhanan Miller

By working closely with Hamas-championing Qatar on the Gaza conflict, the US has sent Israel the wrong message, says American expert

Israel, US deny veracity of transcript of ‘hostile’ Obama call to Netanyahu

By Raphael Ahren

Our fighters are eager for death, Hamas military chief says

Netanyahu looking to US in ceasefire discussions — Kerry

By AFP

Mr. Shirtsleeves and proportionality

Pondering the ugly reason Europeans can’t abide Israel’s exercise of its right to self defense

Israel’s moral bad luck in Gaza

It’s not quite true that we are only morally accountable for things that we control

Here’s my thousand bucks, UNHRC

How about using it to investigate the abuse Hamas committed against the rights of its own children

We must deliver a knockout to Hamas

A ceasefire will just grant the terrorists time to reorganize, rearm and equip themselves anew

Yair Lapid (center), and Tzipi Livni (right), with Moshe Ya'alon (left) at a 2013 cabinet meeting. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Analysis

The war of the doves

By Haviv Rettig Gur

As Israel’s security cabinet steers the battle against Hamas, Tzipi Livni and Yair Lapid are proving solidly supportive of Netanyahu — because they want to see Abbas rehabilitated

Lynchburg, Virginia mayor Michael Gillette tours Jerusalem as part of his Hebrew language studies. (Courtesy)

Lynchburg mayor studies Hebrew in Israel while rockets fly

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Operation Protective Edge has turned Mayor Michael Gillette into a one-man Virginian Israel advocacy machine

The Tel Aviv team on their rooftop. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

The pint-size military base above the penthouse

Iranian defense adviser Amir Mousavi (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Iranian official: We’ll arm West Bank with missiles

Former Tehran defense adviser says Tel Aviv, Haifa will be much easier to hit from Judea and Samaria

Indian UN peacekeepers with their armored personnel carrier, right, stand guard next to a giant poster that shows Hezbollah fighters and the Al Aqsa Mosque with Arabic and Hebrew words reading: "We are coming," near the barbed wire that separates Lebanon from the Shebaa Farms. April 16, 2014. AP/Hussein Malla)

Hamas calls on Hezbollah to fight Israel

By Aron Dónzis

Deputy head Moussa Abu Marzouk hopes Lebanese terror group will join conflict; Nasrallah declares support for Gazans

Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Tel Aviv District Court in Israel, on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Finbarr O'Reilly, Pool)

Olmert’s prison sentence postponed

Ex-PM and other public figures convicted in Holyland affair won’t start jail time on September 1 as planned

The 2014 Tour de France during a stage near York, England, in the early days of the race. (photo credit: @Dan_A/Flickr)

Amid fighting, Europeans told to visit scenic, peaceful Israel

By Melanie Lidman

Tourism Ministry commercials during Tour de France raise ire on social media; ‘we would have liked to push it off,’ official says

Roi Sterman, a Bar Ilan University student who bartends at the Jaffa port, says business has been bad for two months, but there is a steady stream of tourists from the West Bank, celebrating Eid al-Fitr (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Gaza conflict batters business in Jaffa

By Jessica Steinberg and Simone Somekh

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A sermon by a Gaza imam calls for the extermination of the Jews (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

The Hamas goalGaza imam calls for Jews’ extermination

Dates, illustrative (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Madhif/Wikimedia Commons)

TESCO to stop selling dates from West Bank

By JTA

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)

Over 90% of Jewish Israelis say Gaza op justified

An Israeli soldier at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip, on July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBetween truce and all-out war

By Marissa Newman

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