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What Matters Most On Friday, August 15, 2014

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Israelis gather at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, August 14, to take part in a solidarity rally with residents of the south, demanding peace and quiet for communities on the Gaza border (photo credit: Flash90)

Liveblog August 15, Day 39 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Israel silent, Hamas position unclear on Egypt ceasefire terms

By Ricky Ben-David, Ilan Ben Zion and Itamar Sharon

Details of Cairo’s proposal published by local newspaper; Hamas negotiators discuss deal with leaders in Qatar, while Israel says security interests must be met; some militants say fighting over

Some Palestinian leaders signal end to hostilities in Gaza

By ToI Staff and AP

Hamas TV shows Gaza missile production during war

Hamas admits intimidating foreign press who reported wrong ‘message’

Palestinian Ziad Rizk, center, sits with others in a shelter made of a blanket stretched over four poles next to one of the destroyed al-Nada Towers, where he lost his apartment and clothes shop, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Grumbling in Gaza: Bitter voices of anti-Hamas dissent surface

By Hamza Hendawi

Under the Islamists’ rule, it’s rare and dangerous to even hint at criticism with outsiders. But after weeks of war, some are starting to speak out

Thousands demonstrate support for southern towns

By Stuart Winer

Start-up Nation’s greatest challenge

Surely a country with this number of Ph.Ds can apply its formidable problem solving talents to achieving peace

Barak Bar-Cohen

Turning rockets into rugelach

When the going gets tough, Israel gets resilient, compassionate, and funny

Hamas and the Islamic State

Does the world believe a Yazdi life is worth more than the life of an Israeli Jew?

Obama’s ambush of Israel

A naive ideology of passivity has set the US president on the wrong side of history

Illustrative photo of Hellfire missiles (photo credit: CC BY-Wikipedia)

State Department confirms new review on Israel arms

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

But spokeswoman denies White House was blindsided by Pentagon weapons sale and nixed transfer of Hellfire missiles

Analysis

The new US-Israeli quarrel. How bad is it, really?

By Raphael Ahren

The withholding of a missile shipment is nothing to worry about, an ex-defense minister says. Others call it a ‘very serious rupture’

Provincial Secretary of Congress of South African Trade Unions Tony Ehrenreich (screen capture: YouTube/Live Magazine SA)

South Africa union leader under fire for urging attacks on Jews

Citing biblical ‘eye for an eye,’ Tony Ehrenreich says local Jewish community should ‘feel the wrath’ over deaths in Gaza

IDF soldiers apparently mocking a Palestinian who has just been shot in the leg. (screen capture: YouTube/
ISM Palestine)

Soldiers rapped for celebrating after shooting Palestinian

By Stuart Winer and Lazar Berman

IDF says youth was in the act of throwing Molotov cocktail when he was shot, but congratulations were ‘inappropriate’

Illustrative photo of a wedding (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Jewish-Arab wedding braces for racist protests

By Stuart Winer

Anti-assimilation group publishes details of the ceremony and calls on public to come with megaphones and banners

Robin Williams (photo credit: AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Robin Williams had early-stage Parkinson’s disease

By AP and ToI Staff

Oscar-winning actor, comedian, self-styled ‘honorary Jew’ was found dead on Monday at age 63

Leonard Fein, academic and writer. (YouTube screenshot)

Leonard Fein, liberal activist and scholar, dies

By JTA

The prominent voice of left-wing Zionism founded several organizations, among them MAZON and Moment magazine

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. (screen capture: Youtube/nzheraldtv)

Racism mars New Zealand election campaign

Political billboards for incumbent Prime Minister John Key defaced with anti-Semitic slurs; called ‘Shylock’ by rival

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (photo credit: AFP/Ness Kerton)

Second jihad suspect leaves Australia in border bungle

Hwear T-shirts (Photo credit: HealthWatch)

Israeli ECG T-shirt monitors hearts, saves lives

By David Shamah

HealthWatch’s hWear washable garments feature sensors that read vital signs, inform doctors about patient health

A view of the Kremlin from the Moscow River, in Moscow, Russia (photo credit: Pavel Kazachkov/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Uneasy about future in Russia, ‘Putin’s Jews’ seek quiet exit

By Anya Zhuravel Segal

More Headlines

Brand slamRussell Brand urges Israel boycott

Saying it’s anti-Israel, some members quit NY gay shul

From the webCan Israeli tech ‘helmet’ solve acute depression?

US President Barack Obama (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2014. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Hebrew Media ReviewTaking the temperature of US ties

By Marissa Newman

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