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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 3, 2014

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Zur Goldin (R), brother of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, and other family members talk to the media outside their home in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba on August 2, 2014. (Photo by Flash90)

Liveblog August 3, Day 27 of war with Hamas (closed)

Goldin laid to rest; UN slams Israel for hitting school; Hamas in Egypt pushing ceasefire demands

By Joshua Davidovich, Haviv Rettig Gur and Lazar Berman

US, others, issue harsh rebukes of Israel after shelling near UNRWA school; family remembers Lt. Hadar Goldin, thought captured, at funeral; Israel begins pulling troops from Gaza; rocket fire on south persists

AnalysisAs Israel withdraws troops from Gaza, a dilemma for Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Netanyahu: Forces to redeploy as tunnel task ends, but all options open

By Itamar Sharon

AnalysisIsrael says Gazans in two areas can return to their homes

By Avi Issacharoff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (C), and IDF Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz seen during a meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2014. (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Analysis

The beginning of the end of Operation Protective Edge

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu is hoping that the tunnel threat is all but over, and that Hamas will be deterred from further rocket attacks. But ‘all options’ remain open

Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed in Gaza on August 1, 2014. (Courtesy)

Soldier Hadar Goldin is dead, not kidnapped, IDF tells family

Army’s chief rabbi, defense minister bring the bitter tidings to Givati officer’s parents, siblings and fiancee, as large crowd mourns outside

Slain soldier Hadar Goldin related to defense minister

Hadar Goldin, IDF officer killed in Gaza, had stressed his commitment to Israel

Israel aims for unilateral end to Gaza operation

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

No $hit Israel has a right to exist

All that hate? It isn’t a Zionist thing, people, it’s a Jewish thing

Shirah Cashriel

When Israel doesn’t share

How did it become Israel’s responsibility to protect her enemy?

No Jews = no outrage

The Jews of Europe are merely the first victims of a rapidly spreading fascism and racial and religious supremacism

An online occupation

As the conflict rages, social media content gets more polarized: Here’s how to get back to complexity

Sister of the late Golani soldier, Moshe Malko, is held by other family relatives as she cries over the fresh grave of her brother, at the Har Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2014. Staff Sgt. Moshe Malko, 20, from Jerusalem, was killed the before during combat in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

How do you bandage the wounds you can’t see?

In New York's Village, passersby participate in the Artists 4 Israel 'Art Vigil' as a pro-Israel rally takes place in the next block. (courtesy)

New Yorkers support Israel through unique ‘Art Vigil’

By Caroline Lagnado

Artists 4 Israel invites passersby to create art for Israeli bomb shelters in effort to bring together art and prayer

A picture taken from the southern Israel-Gaza border shows a rocket being launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Friday, July 11, 2014. (photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP)

70-year-old seriously hurt by mortar shell

By Itamar Sharon

Elderly man hit in Eshkol, two soldiers injured in other incidents; around 70 rockets hit Israel Saturday

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni speaks during a Hatnua party meeting in the Knesset in May 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Livni calls for PA control over Gaza, disarmament

By Marissa Newman

Justice minister says Israel has ‘an opportunity for political change’; south is more secure, but ‘this isn’t Switzerland’

Israeli soldiers seen on top of Merkava tanks near the Israeli border with Gaza on July 24, 2014, as Operation Protective Edge entered it's 17th day. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

In Gaza, the IDF has forsaken the element of surprise

By Mitch Ginsburg

There’s no doubting the army’s devotion to its mission, but other principles have been neglected, and there have been fatal gaffes. Will the abduction of Hadar Goldin change that?

Then US secretary of state John Kerry talks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (on the phone) from his hotel room in Cairo, Egypt, on July 25, 2014. (AFP/Pool)

Israel spied on Kerry during peace talks — report

By AFP

German news weekly Der Spiegel quotes sources in the secret services to corroborate account; US, Israel decline comment

FILE: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond speaks during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 24, 2014, at the Knesset. (photo credit: Gali Tibbon/AFP)

British FM: Anti-Semitism likely to rise due to Gaza op

Philip Hammond says public ‘deeply disturbed’ by Palestinian deaths; Jewish Labour leader slams Cameron’s support for Israel

In this Friday, July 4, 2014 photo, Protestant priest Gregor Hohberg, Rabbi Tovia Ben-Chorin and Imam Kadir Sanci, from left, show a model of the planned prayer and education building House of One prior to an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin. House of One will house a synagogue, a Christian church and a mosque. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin interfaith prayer house aims to foster dialogue

By Kirsten Grieshaber

‘House of One’ visionaries hope Christians, Jews and Muslims will soon study and pray together

Prof. Amnon Shashua of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invented Mobileye, a system designed to prevent accidents by warning the driver in real time about dangerous situations and driving conditions. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Biggest-ever Israeli IPO paves way for driverless cars

By David Shamah

Nearly a billion dollars richer, MobilEye seeks to put road safety technology on hundreds of car models

Boxing robots in action at the Israel RoboCup championship (Courtesy)

Politics scuttles Israeli robot team as Iran boycotts

By David Shamah

Teens who hoped to show off their tech savvy decide to forfeit the technical victory they were entitled to

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A television reporter from the Finnish Helsingin Sanomat confirms that Hamas has been firing rockets out of the Al-Shifa Hospital (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

A Bitter PillFinnish TV: Rockets from Gaza hospital

Illustrative photo of a premature baby at a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Coming to termsPreemie births rise during Gaza op

By Marissa Newman

Police at the scene near the settlement of Beitar illit on July 27, 2014. Border Police officers stopped what they suspect was a potential terror attack Sunday, when they arrested a man at a West Bank checkpoint they said was carrying an explosive device in his car. (Photo credit: Flash90)

WATCH: In foiled attack, cop jumps through car window

Actor Jon Voight (Photo credit: Cpl. Wil Acosta/United States Marine Corps/Public Domain)

Mission: ImprobableVoight heartsick at Bardem Israel views

Leonard Bernstein at the piano, making annotations to a musical score in 1955 (Public Domain:
Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer - Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c27784)

Leonard Bernstein sculpture unveiled at Tanglewood

By JTA

Israeli soldiers take part in a briefing at an army deployment area on the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip Friday, August 1, 2014. (photo credit: Jack Guez/AFP)

Hebrew media review Known unknowns

By Joshua Davidovich

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