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What Matters Most On Friday, August 1, 2014

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Dr. Simha Goldin, father of Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, speaks with the media outside the Goldin family home in Kfar Saba on Friday, August 1, 2014, after his son is reported kidnapped. (photo credit: Flash90)

Liveblog August 1, Day 25 of war with Hamas (closed)

2 soldiers killed, 3rd kidnapped as Hamas breaches truce; Obama leads calls for Hadar Goldin’s release

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

PM tells Kerry that Hamas will pay for seizing Goldin, killing 2 other soldiers, during lull; father sure IDF will ‘do everything’ to find him; IDF toll rises to 63; Egypt says invitation for talks still in place; Israel cabinet convenes

IDF searches for officer kidnapped in Rafah attack that also killed 2 soldiers

By Mitch Ginsburg

UNRWA spokesman denies handing rockets over to Hamas

US rebukes Israel, says ‘little doubt’ it shelled school

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Analysis

The trouble with UNRWA

By David Horovitz

Israel privately says the UN’s Palestinian refugee organization — now a prominent factor in the war with Hamas — is biased, hostile, and shouldn’t exist at all. So why doesn’t Israel want it abolished?

UNRWA spokesman denies handing rockets over to Hamas

She wanted to write about the kids coming home to do laundry and grill meat…and then she went to a funeral

Overheard in John Kerry’s hotel room

Don’t they know I’m coming to make peace in the Middle East?

The UN must end its anti-Israel campaign

The world body has ignored Hamas’ blatant actions that forced Israel to step up to defend itself

Once upon a future

Two boys on a beach, David and Ali, exquisitely evoked by that guy who wrote “Shalom Motherf****r”

Galaitu Kshaun, widow of slain IDF soldier Bayhesain Kshaun, speaks to Channel 2, Thursday, July 31, 2014, with her new daughter in her arms. Sgt.-Maj. Kshaun was killed by Hamas gunmen when they emerged from a tunnel inside Israel last week. (photo credit: screen capture)

Widow of soldier killed by Hamas gives birth to a girl

Galaitu Kshaun names baby Tal-Or, to bring to light the heroism of her father, killed 10 days ago by gunmen who emerged from a tunnel inside Israel

Illustrative: People wave Israeli flags as they take part in a demonstration supporting Israel in Marseille, southeastern France, on July 27, 2014. (AFP/Boris Horvat)

Is Israel’s war with Hamas a watershed moment for Diaspora Jews? Readers respond

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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)

US partisan squabbling delays Iron Dome funding

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Sources close to legislation say little chance additional $225 million will pass Congress before September

Senior infantry officer describes divine protection in Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Givati Brigade commander Ofer Winter says a mysterious cloud shrouded his troops during attack

A Gaza terrorist preparing to fire rockets into Israel from an underground launcher. (photo credit: MEMRI)

The images missing from the war with Hamas

By Uriel Heilman

In cooperating with the terrorist organization’s media blackout of its fighters, the international press is only telling half the story

The New York Times building in New York City (CC BY-Joe Shlabotnik/Flickr)

NYT answers why not publishing photos of Hamas fighters

By Uriel Heilman

Labor Party chairman MK Isaac Herzog leads a party meeting in the Knesset on February 03, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Opposition head rallies behind war: ‘It’s a battle for our home’

By Raphael Ahren

Isaac Herzog praises Israeli ‘national concensus,’ denies ‘North Korea-like level of public support’ hurts democracy

ThetaRay CEO Mark Gazit (Photo credit: Courtesy)

ThetaRay gets $10 million for infrastructure defense

By David Shamah

GE, others see Israeli start-up’s system as an important way to defend utility, water, other vital services

Demonstrators hold pro-Israel placards during a gathering in front of the Israeli Embassy in Paris, France, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

A calm Paris pro-Israel rally ahead of another Saturday storm?

By Glenn Cloarec

Prayers read and minute’s silence observed in French capital to pay homage to victims of Palestinian-Israeli conflict at French Jewry organized event

Riverside view of Antwerp, Belgium (CC BY-SA 3.0, by Bbd, Wikimedia Commons)

Go to GazaBelgian doctor refuses to treat Jew

By JTA

Fans line up for autographs from Matti Caspi, the iconic musician and singer who showed up at Kibbutz Be'eri for an impromptu concert on July 31, 2014. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

An iconic singer comes to a kibbutz on the border

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Israeli singer-songwriter Rona Kenan. (photo credit: Rona Kenan.co.il)

Israeli ‘leftist’ singer cancels show after threats

Sheik Mohamed Elimam at the Chicago Islamic Center on July, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/MEMRITV)

Chicago bullUS preacher urges jihad on Israel

By Stuart Winer

Stop Hamas Terrorism art campaign (photo credit: Courtesy/aleXsandro Palombo)

Looney Tune terrorGaza militants get Disney treatment

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative photo of ball bearings (photo credit: CC BY-NPJ/Flickr)

Israeli officials thrown by Turkish ball bearings for Gaza

Bolivian President Evo Morales. (Photo credit: CC BY/Sebastian Baryli via Flickr.com)

Bolivia declares Israel a ‘terrorist state’

By AP

A canal in Amsterdam (Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Amsterdam woman assaulted over Israeli flag

By JTA

Israeli soldiers seen at an IDF gathering point in a field near the Israeli border with Gaza, July 27, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewAnother day, another truce

By Marissa Newman

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