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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 14, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, 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)

Washington said limiting arms transfers to Israel as ties fray

By Marissa Newman

Obama-Netanyahu hold ‘combative’ phone call; White House, State said ‘blindsided’ by Pentagon’s supply of weapons to Israel, WSJ reports

Israeli official confirms US nixed arms shipment; pols argue over who’s to blame

By Marissa Newman

Palestinians blast ‘terrible’ Israeli ceasefire proposal

By Elhanan Miller

AnalysisHamas may not return to the talks at all

By Avi Issacharoff

Illustrative photo of trucks at the Kerem Shalom Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Analysis

The unraveling of the Gaza blockade?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Restrictions on the Strip, in place since Hamas seized control in 2007, are at the heart of negotiations on a long-term deal. Hamas says it wants freedom for Gaza, but is likely to exploit any eased access to bring in more arms

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with New York Governor Andrew Mark Cuomo, at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Liveblog August 14, Day 38 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

New strains in Israel-US ties; in Tel Aviv, thousands call for end to Hamas rocket attacks

By Itamar Sharon, Yifa Yaakov and Lazar Berman

Hamas source reports breakthrough in talks for long-term quiet; senior ministers meet on ceasefire as shaky truce holds; opposition chief accuses government of ‘losing its senses’ in spat with US

Rockets hit south, Israel responds, as new 5-day truce comes into force

By Marissa Newman and AFP

US victims of Hamas terror attacks go after bank

Palestinian militants claim to take IDF ‘booty’

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, left, and Gaza's former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh wave during a news conference in the Gaza Strip in 2012. (AP/Suhaib Salem, Pool)

Analysis

US livid with Israel? Hamas can’t believe its luck

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Israel left Gaza in 2005 and now finds itself under relentless attack by the terrorists who took over. It deserves international support; instead, it’s being abandoned

Hamas cheerleaders

Western media coverage of Operation Protective Edge has been deeply biased against Israel

Bennett M. Epstein

Keeping Schabas

The new UN War Crimes investigator has admitted that the UN applies a double standard to Israel

The people on the train

On a NYC subway with her baby, when a man asked her: Are you Israeli?

Two-year-old Hala Arada with her grandmother Haniyah Shaer at Wolfson Hospital in Holon, August 12, 2014. Hala has congenital heart disease and is being treated in Israel. Two members of her family were recently killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. (photo credit: Sheila Shalhevet/Save a Childs Heart)

An hour from Khan Younis, Hala gets a new lease on life

By Elhanan Miller

Israel Consul General In LA David Siegel addresses the memorial for fallen lone soldier Max Steinberg. (Credit; Orly Halevy)

1,000 gather in LA at memorial for Max Steinberg

By Kelly Hartog

Friends and family tell of the prankster with a huge heart who laid down his life for Israel and the Jewish people

Illustrative photo of Jewish Voice for Peace 'die-in' protest in front of the Bay Area Hewlett-Packard offices. (courtesy Jewish Voice for Peace)

1,000 attend BDS rally outside Boston HP conference

By JTA

Stop the Holocaust in Gaza: A pro-Palestinian protester at a Berlin rally Friday, July 18, 2014. (Micki Weinberg/The Times of Israel)

ADL reports ‘dramatic surge’ in anti-Semitism during Gaza op

By Marissa Newman

Dozens of incidents recorded since the Israeli campaign began; director Abraham Foxman says ‘anti-Semitism was in the air’

Protesters at an unauthorized anti-Israel rally in front of Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, July 19, 2014. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Coming face to face with anti-Semites in Paris

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Riots and protests in France and elsewhere expose a previously cloistered reporter to new levels of Jew hatred

Jewish man wounded in suspected hate crime in Switzerland

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. (screen capture, Prime Minister's Office)

Netanyahu indicates Israel won’t cooperate with UN probe

PM says team should look for war crimes in ‘Baghdad and Damascus,’ not democratic Israel, charges UNHRC legitimizes Islamist terror groups

Ministers take part in a weekly Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ministers fume over lack of updates from PM

Officials say they are kept out the loop, receive word of truce’s extension in Gaza ‘from Hamas’

New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

Hard core of new immigrant soldiers is ready to serve

NBN flight this week brings 108 IDF recruits who have signed on for two-year Garin-Tzabar lone soldier program

Jonathan McKean-Litewski wearing his Star of David pendant on a recent trip to Jerusalem. (courtesy)

Scottish Jew says he was fired for wearing Magen David

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Under Scotland’s broad anti-racist laws, the incident will be investigated for anti-Semitism

UK opposition leader Ed Miliband speaking at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, April 10, 2014 (photo credit: Hebrew University)

Ed Miliband has a very Jewish problem

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Kibbutz Alumim residents paint a bomb shelter with with members of the art advocacy group Artists 4 Israel on Wednesday. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Keeping kids’ psyches safe from rockets with clay and bubbles

By Melanie Lidman

New parody video of IDF singers evokes a bygone era. (YouTube screenshot)

Nostalgic nuttinessRetro video keeps viewers guessing

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with New York Governor Andrew Mark Cuomo, at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

NY governor offers ‘total solidarity’ on Israel visit

By Yousur Alhlou

Humphrey Bogart, tough guy of the films, and his equally famous wife, Lauren Bacall, take things easy as they glide through Venice in a gondola during a visit to the Italian city of canals, May 31, 1951. (photo credit: AP Photo)

Peres: Lauren Bacall was ‘not an easy woman’

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

A night-time view of Florence (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Longino/Wikimedia Commons)

Florence’s Jewish, Muslim reps appeal for interfaith dialogue

By JTA

Azzam al-Ahmad gives a press conference at a hotel in Cairo, August 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Hebrew media reviewFive and three makes eight days of ceasefire

By Ilan Ben Zion

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