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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 13, 2014

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Some of the more than 100 men and women who immigrated to Israel to join the IDF, Ben Gurion airport, August 12, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Liveblog August 13, Day 37 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Amid rocket fire, PA delegation chief confirms truce extended by 5 days

By Ricky Ben-David, Ilan Ben Zion and Marissa Newman

Rockets hit near Ashkelon, Eshkol; Hamas denies it fired; Israel moves troops to border as truce winds down; 5 killed by leftover IDF missile in Gaza; most ministers join Liberman’s call for boycott of UNHRC probe

Amid fears of renewed fighting, PM updates ministers on ceasefire progress

UK to halt some arms sales to Israel if fighting resumes

By Joshua Davidovich

Egypt presents new ceasefire proposal to Israel, Palestinians

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

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

Analysis

When the history of this war is written

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: It will not reflect well on Britain, journalism, and the struggle against anti-Semitism

William Schabas (screen capture: YouTube)

UN Gaza probe head says he’s not anti-Israel, will be impartial

By Stuart Winer

William Schabas, who called for Netanyahu to stand trial at ICC, says past comments won’t bias investigation

Liberman calls for spurning of UN human rights probe

By Stuart Winer and Ilan Ben Zion

State comptroller to investigate Gaza operation

By Ilan Ben Zion and Stuart Winer

Israel wants to eradicate Palestinians, Saudi minister says

By Joshua Davidovich and AFP

Territorial withdrawals strengthen terrorism

History shows that relinquishing control of land leaves a deadly vacuum

Michael Eisenberg

Lapid’s 0% VAT plan is a disaster

The finance minister is greasing the wheels of demand through blunt subsidies and misguided tax breaks

Screenshot of Palestinian ambassador to Iran, Salah Zawawi, giving an interview to Iran's Press TV.

Israel’s annihilation has begun, says PLO envoy to Tehran

Ambassador from Abbas’s PA blames US, western countries for having created ‘a fake regime in Palestine’

This April 14, 2011 file photo shows a signed photograph of Lauren Bacall at Bonhams and Butterfields in Los Angeles, California, during a preview before an auction on April 20, 2011. (Photo credit: AFP / GABRIEL BOUYS / Files)

Obituary

Lauren Bacall, Hollywood’s sultry siren, dies at 89

By Michael Mathes

Born Betty Joan Perske in New York, daughter of Jewish immigrants was a first cousin to Shimon Peres

Larry David in August 2014. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images via JTA)

Larry David airs dirty Jewish laundry in new Broadway show

Undercover Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian suspected of throwing stones in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, August 1, 2014. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

IDF nabs Hamas activist suspected of planning attack

Police and army stop nearly 60 people in West Bank and East Jerusalem suspected of rioting, other offenses, overnight

Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 20,891 stores in 62 countries. (Starbucks Image Via Shutterstock)

The grande coffee plan that failed

By Jessica Steinberg

La mort aux Juifs. (Screen capture: Google Street View)

New name, please

French hamlet is ‘Death to Jews’

By AFP

Deputy mayor of local village says the name dates back to the Middle Ages but no malice is intended

Rabbi Matthew Soffer, director of the Riverway Project, leads a Torah discussion at a Riverway Cafe gathering in Cambridge, Mass., May 2014. (Courtesy Riverway Project/JTA)

Boston initiatives reach for young Jews where they are

By Anthony Weiss

Whether it be at a ballfield or a bar, outreach efforts in Beantown are successfully drawing in unaffiliated young adults

Menahem Golan in 2014. .

Obituary

A B-movie king who set the stage for Israel’s film renaissance

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Soccer fans of the Argentina national soccer team wear masks with faces of Pope Francis and Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi during a live telecast in July of the soccer World Cup semifinal match between Argentina and Netherlands, inside the FIFA Fan Fest area on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Holy goalPope calls Messi for soccer peace match

By JTA and ToI Staff

Members of the Victor Jackson Show performing silently in Edinburgh as part of their counter protest for free speech at the 2014 Festival Fringe (Courtesy Victor Jackson Show)

Snubbed in Scotland, Israeli performers decry fringe fest protest

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of Scrabble (Photo credit: Scrabble image via Shutterstock)

Kosher Play‘Schmutz’ gets nod for Jewish Scrabble

By JTA

Plaque on a building in Belfast marking the spot where Chaim Herzog, a president of Israel, was born. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons CC A 3.0/Keresaspa)

Belfast plaque marking Herzog’s birthplace removed

By JTA

Former president Shimon Peres checks out ElMindA's technology at the 2013 Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Courtesy ElMindA)

What’s on your mind? ElMindA’s ‘helmet’ knows

By David Shamah

Hamas deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk (center) shakes hands with the head of the Palestinian delegation Azzam al-Ahmad (left) upon their arrival at a Cairo hotel after a meeting with senior Egyptian intelligence officials, August 11, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Hebrew media reviewA race against the clock

By Marissa Newman

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