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What Matters Most On Friday, August 8, 2014

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Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli border guards (background) following a demonstration in support of Gaza after Friday prayers in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on August 8, 2014. (photo credit: Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

Liveblog August 8, Day 32 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Hamas ends truce, fires 60 rockets; Israel resumes Gaza strikes

By Lazar Berman, Haviv Rettig Gur and Yifa Yaakov

1 dead, dozens wounded in West Bank clashes; IDF warns Gazans of continued strikes as 51 targets hit across Strip, killing 5 Palestinians; 2 rockets shot down over Beersheba, rocket hits Sderot home; 57 rockets fired since 8 a.m

Dozens of rockets fired at Israel as Hamas ends ceasefire, IDF hits back

By Adiv Sterman and AP

AnalysisWhy is the US on the sidelines as Cairo talks collapse?

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Tunnels still intact, say Hamas, Al-Jazeera

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Michael Oren, interviewed on CNN on a screen filled with images from Gaza (YouTube screenshot)

Is journalism dead?

By Izzy Lemberg

If the shoddy reporting during the Israel-Gaza conflict is to be believed, there simply were no Hamas fighters

Protest against anti-Israel media bias is held August 8, 2014 in front of CNN headquarters in New York. (Cathryn J. Prince/The Times of Israel)

In front of CNN, hundreds protest anti-Israel media bias

By Cathryn J. Prince

Rally at NY’s Columbus Circle decries an ‘insidious double standard and media duplicity’

Boston city hall scene of 3,000-strong Israel rally

By Matt Lebovic

LA leaders hold moment of silence in solidarity with Israel

By Kelly Hartog

Attorney sues Kerry, Hagel over Israel aid

By JTA

Time now for the diplomatic offensive

Israel should rush to present a sweeping reconstruction plan for Gaza and accept the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative

Don’t give Hamas an inch

If Israel agrees to opening a port, Hamas will have achieved its stated aim of breaking the blockade

Donniel Hartman

Everything will never be OK

Israelis will have to embrace some degree of instability in order to find out what can really be fixed

Palestinians stand on top of a destroyed building in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, a Hamas stronghold from which hundreds of rockets have been launched at Israel, on August 6, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/MARCO LONGARI)

IDF indiscriminately killing in Gaza? Data says no

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Adiv Sterman

BBC, NYT and other analyses of civilian death toll reveal fighting-age men vastly overrepresented among the dead

Illustrative photo of Palestinians waiting at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Poll: Huge majority in Gaza want lasting ceasefire

A man walks past an election poster of Jacob Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) party in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, May 9, 2014. (AP/Ben Curtis)

South Africa threatens to prosecute citizens serving in IDF

By JTA

Activist group opens case against one soldier, threatens more; convicts could face jail time

Former Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha during a television interview, November 2012 (photo credit: YouTube image grab)

Top Hamas official reported executed in Strip

By Adiv Sterman and Marissa Newman

Ayman Taha was apparently killed for maintaining contact with intelligence services in Egypt, other Arab countries

The newsroom of Army Radio, which contains both conscripted soldiers and civilians who work on its programming. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90/File)

Music woven out of conflict and sorrow

By Jessica Steinberg

The Gaza tweet visualization by Gilad Lotan (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Gorgeous graphics tell big data stories on Israeli site

By David Shamah

DadaViz hosts visualizations that enable everyone to understand very complicated matters very easily

George Galloway speaks after winning his former Bradford West seat in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/PA, Anna Gowthorpe)

UK police to investigate MP’s call for ‘Israel-free zone’

Controversial MP George Galloway says residents of Bradford ‘don’t want Israeli tourists’ to come to the city

Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arabs ride the Jerusalem light train on March 15, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel to retrain workers over 45 to fill tech jobs

By David Shamah

Hundreds of jobs in high-tech sector go unfilled every year; Economics Ministry has a plan to find ‘new’ workers

Iraqi Yazidi children who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar with their family stand at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/SAFIN HAMED)

From Jerusalem, a desperate Yazidi father pleads for help

By Lazar Berman

Abu Wisam’s family is trapped on Mt. Sinjar in Iraq, facing starvation on top and death by the Islamic State below

An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)

US airdrops supplies to thousands besieged in Iraq

By Vivian Salama and Sameer N. Yacoub

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Scared senselessWhen Israelis hear siren-esque sounds

Barcelona FC players Lionel Messi (left) and Neymar da Silva Juntos, pictured at a Spanish friendly match (photo credit: AP/Manu Fernandez)

Lofty goalsMessi posts pic of wounded Gaza child

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

How can Obama and Netanyahu make up?

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal discovered her real name is Margalit. (YouTube screenshot)

She's a PearlMaggie Gyllenhaal is really Margalit

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Bundles packed for IDF's lone soldiers. (Diego Mitelberg/FIDF)

Amid Gaza-Israel conflict, some tales to warm the heart

Still from al-Jazeera's footage, broadcast on Wednesday, August 6, showing Hamas gunmen, weapons and tunnels in place ahead of Hamas's breach of the truce on August 8. (photo credit: screenshot MEMRI)

Hebrew Media ReviewOperation Protective Edge, stage two?

By Marissa Newman

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