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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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The August 5 funeral for Avraham Waltz, killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem on August 4, in the capital's Mea Shearim neighborhood. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liveblog August 5, Day 29 of war with Hamas (closed)

IDF finishes tunnel demolitions and leaves Gaza as truce holds

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

Israeli cabinet meets ahead of expected talks in Cairo on long-term ceasefire as 72-hour truce continues; large rocket barrage minutes before lull, followed by quiet; IDF pulls out of Gaza, says it has neutralized known cross-border tunnels

As truce holds, Israelis set to negotiate long-term solution

By Raphael Ahren

900 operatives killed over Gaza campaign, IDF says

By Adiv Sterman

As fighting halts, IDF chief promises help to rehabilitate Gaza

By Adiv Sterman

Palestinians hold Eid al-Fitr prayers at al-Faruq Mosque which was destroyed the week before in an Israeli military strike on Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Defeat for Hamas, devastation for Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

If there is no rapid and dramatic reconstruction of the Strip, the main beneficiaries are likely to be the Islamist groups who make Hamas look like Boy Scouts

Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs) drive at an unspecified location next to the Israel-Gaza Strip border, after pulling back from the Gaza Strip on August 3, 2014. (Flash90)

Israel, Hamas agree to Egypt proposal for 72-hour truce

By Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren

Officials to head to Cairo for talks on long-term deal after military says all tunnels from Gaza into Israel destroyed

Gaza minister: War caused $5 billion worth of damage

By Adiv Sterman

Knesset member: Retake Gaza, put civilians in ‘tent camps’

Obama approves $225 million in Iron Dome funding

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and AP

The Times of Israel and its bloggers

Op-ed: New precautions amid the mini-conflict online

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

From a space between rockets

“We sleepwalk through the cities and through the fields, a police siren sounds and our heart thuds.”

Mr. President, this is a war of necessity

Barack Obama himself said he wouldn’t allow his daughters to live under the constant threat of rocket fire

A picture taken on August 4, 2014 shows an empty playground in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Aza (photo credit: AFP/ Gil Cohen-Magen)

Fear of Gaza tunnels empties kibbutz of children

By AFP

Stoic in the face of rockets, Kfar Aza evacuates its 250 kids amid concern over Hamas terror attacks from underground

Hamas supporters in Gaza hold Hezbollah and Islamic flags as they demonstrate against Israel during the Second Lebanon War on July 30, 2006. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas, Hezbollah and the tunnels: Who’s inspiring whom?

By Elhanan Miller

Hamas had been digging tunnels in Gaza for decades. But it was only after the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 that it saw them as part of the route to ‘liberation’

Britain’s National Union of Students approves BDS

Under new policy, groups across the UK may impose measures against Israel on their university campuses

Susan and Simcha and a picture of their son Eitan, in Channel 2's studio on Monday August 4, 2014. Eitan dashed into a tunnel in Rafah to chase gunmen who had seized the body of fellow Givati Brigade officer Hadar Goldin in a Friday 1 attack. Eitan could not stop the gunmen, but retrieved articles that led the IDF to pronounce Goldin dead. (Screen capture illustration: Channel 2)

Soldier who chased kidnappers in tunnel was ‘raised to give back’

By Melanie Lidman

American-born parents of Lt. Eitan praise split-second decision that gave closure to family of Hadar Goldin

Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade seen at the entrance to a terror tunnel. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Spain halts weapons sales to Israel

Madrid’s decision in wake of Gaza op will be reviewed again in September

The scene where a tractor driver flipped over a bus on Shmuel Hanavi Street in Jerusalem, on Monday, August 4, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In tractor rampage, a return to a familiar, and deadly, terror method

By Melanie Lidman

Four people have been killed and over 100 injured as a result of terror attacks carried out using heavy machinery in Jerusalem since 2008

Security personnel at the scene where a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire at a soldier near Jerusalem's Hebrew University on Mt. Scopus, August 4, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gunman on motorbike shoots soldier in Jerusalem

By Adiv Sterman

At the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, new security measures are being taken. (photo credit: CC0 1.0 Wikipedia)

New York’s Jewish institutions step up security

By Cathryn J. Prince

Secure Community Network provides guidance during heightened tensions and increased anti-Semitic attacks

The Huqoq synagogue's 5th century mosaic, with the upper register showing a war elephant. (photo credit: Jim Haberman)

Stunning mosaic found at ancient Galilee synagogue

By Ilan Ben Zion

More Headlines

Flash mob in support of Israel in London's Trafalger Square, August 3, 2014. (Raya Cottrell; www.rayacottrell.com)

Charing is caringSirens sound in Trafalgar Square

By Raine Marcus

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth via Shutterstock.

Deth to a concertMegabummer for Megadeth fans

Israelis stand next to a memorial for fallen soldier Roy Peles in Tel Aviv on July 31, 2014. (photo credit: Danielle Shitri/Flash90)

Man says he planned Tel Aviv terror attack in call to police

By Adiv Sterman

Israeli soldiers give the victory sign on the top of armored vehicle near the Israel Gaza border, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Kickstart thisIDF soldiers crowdfund supplies

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli police officers examine the site of a rocket landing that injured nine Border Police officers near kibbutz Yad Mordechai in southern Israel. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

US farmers get growing tech from Gaza-front start-up

By David Shamah

The scene where a tractor driver flipped over a bus on Shmuel Hanavi Street in Jerusalem, on Monday, August 4, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The tipping point

By Ilan Ben Zion

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