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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 12, 2014

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Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon visits an IDF navy base in Ashdod. August 12, 2014. (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)

Liveblog August 12, Day 36 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Defense minister warns fighting could resume; UK to halt some arms sales if it does

By Itamar Sharon, Ilan Ben Zion and Yifa Yaakov

Amid conflicting reports on progress to a long-term ceaefire, Ya’alon says Hamas attacks could restart after truce ends Wednesday night; IDF ships fire warning shots at boat; UN investigator Schabas defends record; new Turkish flotilla planned

AnalysisTalk of a deal seems unduly optimistic, as time ticks away

By Avi Issacharoff

AnalysisPalestinian delegation chief: Hamas rule in Gaza is over

By Avi Issacharoff

Official: ‘Gaps very wide’ in Cairo talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Smoke and fire rise following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Has the Hannibal Protocol run its course?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Drafted in 1986 to prevent the abduction of soldiers, the order has come under intense scrutiny after being executed in full in Rafah

IDF to field-test two tunnel-seeking technologies

By Stuart Winer

Why Gazans view lifting of blockade as crucial

How much has Israel’s war against Hamas cost?

China replacing Europe’s bonsai armies

The West’s moral failures are driving Israel and China to forge a new alignment to combat global terrorism

Daphné Richemond-Barak

Tunnels as war crime

The underground warfare employed in Gaza raises uniquely challenging issues for the legal experts to tackle

ISIS, Nazis and the ideology of hate

The atrocities being committed in Iraq can no longer be viewed as terrorism, but rather as acts of state

Down with the Yellow Star

He wants to tell the world he’s here to stay

Robin Williams in 2011 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Eva Rinaldi CC BY-SA)

‘Honorary Jew’ Robin Williams, 63, found dead

By ToI Staff and AP

Oscar-winning actor was known for his larger than life roles and spectacular stage performances

An Israeli press photographer documenting the movement of IDF forces near the border with Gaza, in southern Israel, on July 23, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Foreign press group condemns Hamas intimidation in Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Reporters have been ‘harassed, threatened or questioned over stories,’ journalists association says

Josh Broomberg, captain of the South African debating team, and his colleagues, in a picture captioned "... wearing Palestinian badges and keffiyehs to show our opposition to the human rights violations carried out against the people of Palestine." (photo credit: via Twitter)

SA Jewish student’s pro-Palestine Facebook post triggers outrage, support

By JTA

Deputy head boy of Jewish school uploaded image of himself in Palestinian scarf, says he’s a Zionist who ‘stands with Palestine’ over human rights violations

William Schabas, right, and members of a Serbian delegation at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands in March. Schabas was named August 11 to head a UNHCR commission to look into war crimes during the Gaza conflict (photo credit: AP/Jiri Buller)

Makeup of UN Gaza probe panel proves anti-Israel bias, Jerusalem says

Commission to be headed by William Schabas, who has called for Netanyahu and Peres to stand trial at the ICC; George Clooney’s fiancée turns down role

Two Palestinian women ride a donkey cart past the destroyed Nada Towers residential neighborhood in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Israelis’ quandary: How to aid Gazans but not Hamas

People in Israel have made an effort to provide civilians across the border with everything from diapers to blood donations, USA Today reports

The home of Muhammad Abu Khdeir in Shuafat, Jerusalem, July 8, 2014 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Abu Khdeir murder suspect gives chilling account of killing

By Itamar Sharon

‘We said — they took three of ours, let’s take one of theirs,’ Ben-David recounts to police in his testimony

Joel Chasnoff (left) and Tim Bailey in the Golan where they served together in the 188th Brigade in the late 1990s. (Joel Chasnoff)

New support for lone soldiers who don’t call Israel home

By Cathryn J. Prince

They left their families to volunteer for the IDF. But what happens to these veterans when they go back to their countries?

Pope Francis prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Is Jerusalem’s Western Wall falling down?

By Andrew Tobin

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Flags seen during the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 7, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Same-sex gentile partners of Jews can make aliyah

By Adiv Sterman

Ashkelon mayor Itamar Shimoni (second from left) and performers who will be onstage at the city's Briza Festival during the last week of August (photo credit: Sigal Eiland)

Rocket-ravaged Ashkelon to throw its annual summer bash

By Simone Somekh

Some of the attendees at the Beersheba tech event (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Tech under fire: How one firm handles the Gaza war

By David Shamah

A promotional image for Season 4 of "Homeland," based on the Israeli series "Prisoners of War." (Promotional image)

Carrie on‘Homeland’ set to launch Season 4

Illustrative photo of Palestinian fishermen paddling their small boat a few hundred meters off the beach of Gaza City while casting their nets in search of small fish on August 10, 2014. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

Hebrew media reviewWhat fights may come

By Joshua Davidovich

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