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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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Israeli soldiers return from the Gaza Strip on August 05, 2014. (Photo credit: Dave Buimovitch/Flash90)

Liveblog August 6, Day 30 of Israel-Hamas conflict (closed)

PM justifies IDF strategy in Gaza; Israel okays ceasefire extension but Hamas threatens renewed fire

By Itamar Sharon, Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

PM: It would be ‘moral mistake’ not to hit terror strongholds in mosques, schools; UN blasts ‘outrageous’ Israeli strikes on its sites

Israelis, Palestinians kick off ceasefire talks in Cairo

By AFP and ToI Staff

Truce means Hamas must disarm to govern Gaza, official says

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisWith Gaza war ostensibly over, Israelis ask what’s next?

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli soldiers near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, August 4, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

Israel might have won; Hamas certainly lost

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: 10 thoughts at the end (maybe) of the summer 2014 Israel-Hamas war

FILE: Adele Raemer points out an unexploded missile just 20 meters from the kibbutz playground on, August 6, 2014, at Kibbutz Nirim near Gaza. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

They thought it was rockets they had to be scared of

By Melanie Lidman

As ceasefire inspires flickers of hope in the battered towns and kibbutzim near Gaza, residents begin to internalize the new trauma of tunnels

Cabinet told purging Gaza of terror would take 5 years, cost hundreds of soldiers’ lives

By Itamar Sharon

After Hamas attack prompts heaviest shelling of war, residents return to ruined Rafah

By Hamza Hendawi

Poll: US attitudes on Gaza conflict unchanged from 2002

By JTA

Michael Dickson

The wheels came off The Tricycle

The decision by a London arts venue to ban a Jewish film festival is retrograde, ignorant and hateful

Irene Rabinowitz

The limits of loyalty

Recent events have brought into sharp relief the sense that home is not in America

Laura Ben-David

So what have we gained?

Who would have thought that Israelis would so unanimously support anything, much less a war?

As the dust settles…

Leaving the Hamas intact upholds the wisdom that a bad peace is better than a good war

Iranian politician Mohsen Rezai (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Top Iranian says Hamas should let civilians hide in its tunnels

By Itamar Sharon

Mohsen Rezai criticizes Gaza’s rulers over casualties, but stresses support for ‘resistance’ against Israel

Indian TV crew films Hamas rocket launch from Gaza City residential area, August 5, 2014 (NDTV screenshot)

Indian TV shows Hamas rocket fired near Gaza hotel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Reporter watches launch ‘bang in the middle of what is a residential area full of apartment buildings’

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem, December 6, 2013 (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Kerry, Netanyahu call ‘cut off,’ but resumed

By Itamar Sharon

State Department says no anger involved, only ‘communications issue,’ amid tensions between Israel and US

$From left to right: Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gil-ad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, three Israeli teenagers who were seized and kiled by Palestinians on June 12, 2014 (photo credit: IDF/AP)$

Analysis

Hamas funded killing of 3 teens, says ringleader

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Suspected head of the terror cell that killed Israelis tells interrogators that money for attack came from Gaza

Palestinians walk in front of buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, Monday, August 4, 2014. (Emad Nasser/Flash90)

After 29 days, Operation Protective Edge by the numbers

Hamas fires 3,356 rockets, and has about 3,000 remaining; Israel destroys 32 tunnels; hundreds said dead

Illustrative: A religious Jewish soldier is embraced by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family member after a swearing-in ceremony for the IDF Nahal Haredi unit, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2012 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Shunning taboo, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox seek to volunteer for IDF

By Elhanan Miller

‘We want to show both the army and our own public that there is a different way of doing things,’ says Haredi coordinator

Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs and his wife, Bluma, by the glass window of their home damaged in an attack on July 17, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Persecuted Dutch chief rabbi says he’d leave if not for job

By Cnaan Liphshiz

With a reputation of being a liberal bastion, why are Holland’s Jews contemplating emigration?

Golani Brigade soldiers, on the Golan Heights (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)

The other American Max in Golani

By Mitch Ginsburg

An American-born soldier, resting after a week of eerie combat in Gaza, discusses the battle in Shejaiya and how some thought he was the late Staff Sgt. Max Steinberg

Gathering with members of the larger Hand in Hand community at Jerusalem's Train Track Park for a coexistence walk (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Jews and Arabs walk in the park

By Jessica Steinberg

An effort to find coexistence and a measure of harmony during a bitter summer of strife

Cows in Israel.

How bad is beef for Earth? Scientists have number

By Andrew Tobin

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Lampshade made of Holocaust victim’s skin sold for $26,800

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Fringe reactionIsraeli hip-hop show forced outside

By Jessica Steinberg

'Bomb Gaza' game invites users to 'drop bombs and avoid killing civilians'

Iron Dome's still there‘Bomb Gaza’ game cut from app store

By JTA

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest across the street from a pro-Israel rally in Chicago, Ill., July 28, 2014. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/via JTA)

Ebbing Israel support among youth and liberals stirs alarm

Michael Lucas, kingpin of the gay porn industry, is staunchly pro-Israel (courtesy Lucas Entertainment)

Penetrative edgeA Zionist porn star shows his solidarity

Israeli soldiers near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip as they return from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on August 05, 2014. (Dave Buimovitch/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPride and discontent

By Marissa Newman

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