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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 16, 2014

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Palestinian boys with Hamas supporters hold toy guns and shout slogans during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Liveblog August 16, Day 40 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Hamas rejects Egypt ceasefire terms; thousands in TA call for peace

By Yifa Yaakov, Ricky Ben-David and Ilan Ben Zion

Hamas threatens war of attrition, says many more issues to be resolved in Cairo negotiations; Israeli, Palestinian officials say odds slim of reaching ceasefire deal

Hamas threatens war of attrition if terms not met

By ToI Staff and AFP

Schumer calls for Schabas’s removal, winning Jewish praise

AnalysisIsrael weighing how to deal with UN war probe

In this Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 photo, Lennie Gerber, left, and her spouse, Pearl Berlin, laugh while at their home in High Point, N.C. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

Together 48 years, gay Jewish couple fights NC marriage ban

By Michael Biesecker

Just ‘a couple of girls from Brooklyn’ when they met, Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin fear time is running out in their civil rights battle

When children are the target

When Hamas killed her daughter Malki and other Israeli kids, nobody launched a human rights investigation

My lesson plan for the first day of school

At a time when it’s frightening to be a Jew, how will she educate her students to love Israel?

Media representative broadcasting from the Israel Gaza Border, July 9, 2014 (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas admits intimidating foreign press who reported wrong ‘message’

Hamas supporters at a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Hamas says Egypt ceasefire deal gives Israel ‘upper hand’

By ToI Staff and AP

Unclear if Gaza’s Islamist rulers will accept 11-point Cairo document, which provides for supervised easing of blockade, pushes off talks on seaport, airport

European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton, right, speaks with then Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, second left, and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, second right, during a round table meeting of EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU offers to oversee Gaza border crossings

By AP

European ministers say terrorist groups in the Strip must disarm, return to previous status quo untenable

Islamic Jihad rockets, ready to fire, in northern Gaza. (Photo credit: Flash90/File)

Worse than Hamas? Gaza’s other terror groups

From Islamic Jihad to the Popular Resistance Committees, the Strip enclave is crawling with organizations viciously hostile to Israel

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in December 2011 (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Nasrallah: Syria war prepared us for next round with Israel

Hezbollah chief calls Islamic State a ‘monster’ threat for the region, says jihadists’ advances worrying

Palestinian children stand in the back of a truck as families leave their neighborhoods to safer locations amid continuing Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2014 (AFP/Bilal Telawi)

Jewish Chronicle responds to outcry over Gaza ad

By JTA

Editor: UK Jewish paper ‘entirely supportive of Operation Protective Edge, as our coverage has demonstrated’

Smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/ Khalid Mohammed)

Airstrikes near militant-held Iraq dam, residents say

By Diaa Hadid and Sameer N. Yacoub

Several Islamic State fighters reportedly killed, day after 80 Yazidis murdered in northern village

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position on the front line in Makhmur, some 50 kilometers south of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq where clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants are ongoing, on August 9, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/SAFIN HAMED)

Canada to send arms to Kurds in Iraq

By AP

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar Province, January 2014 (photo credit: AP)

Security Council orders Islamic State to disband

By Edith M. Lederer

UN also imposes sanctions on six men who recruited, financed foreign fighters for al-Qaeda-linked terror group

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a press statement after a round of nuclear talks between the European Union and Iran in Vienna, on July 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)

Iran: Nuclear deal by November deadline unlikely

By AP

Islamic Republic’s foreign minister says negotiations are moving ahead slowly, but progress is being made

US Secretary of State John Kerry at a press conference in Cairo with United Nations Chief Ban Ki-moon, on July 25, 2014 (Photo credit: AFP/Pool)

Report: German intel spied on Kerry, Clinton

By AP

Der Spiegel says tapping of phone conversations done by accident

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (CC BY-zeeweez, Flickr)

Anti-Semitism thriving in ways big and small

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Police attempt to secure a street after a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (photo credit: AP/Jeff Roberson)

Palestinians tweet support for Ferguson protesters

By ToI Staff and AP

Donald Sanford at the 2012 European Championships (photo credit: screen capture Mikebascombe/Youtube)

US-born sprinter wins bronze for Israel at EU championships

The Tricycle theater in London. (photo credit: Wikimedia CC-BY-3.0/Cnbrb)

London theater will host Jewish film fest after all

By JTA

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi stand behind smoke from burning debris set ablaze during clashes with security forces on a street in the Matariya neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Abdel Fattah, El Shorouk Newspaper)

Death toll in pro-Morsi Egypt protests rises to 5

An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

Anti-Semitic flyer left for LA Jewish store owner

By JTA

A view of Marseille (Jddmano/Wikimedia Commons/File)

French Jew assaulted in Marseille over Gaza

By JTA

Illustrative photo of graves in Jewish graveyard in Poland (Illustrative photo credit: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw to restore Jewish tombstones used for building

By JTA

Dutch Justice Ministry employee Yasmina Haifi's Twitter feed.

Dutch official suspended for saying Zionists created ISIS

By JTA

View of Lviv, Ukraine (photo credit: CC BY SA alexeyklyukin/Flikr)

Ukrainian court nixes controversial Jewish heritage project

By JTA

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