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What Matters Most On Monday, August 18, 2014

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20,000 pro-Israel protesters march in Kolkata, India, August 16, 2014. (courtesy Hindu Samhati)

Liveblog August 18, Day 42 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

New 24-hour truce agreed; Shin Bet reveals Hamas plot to topple PA

By Itamar Sharon, Ilan Ben Zion and Marissa Newman

Israel denies reports that outline of ceasefire agreement reached; Hamas planned to start third intifada, stage attacks on Israeli targets, Shin Bet says

Sderot trains halted until further notice

By Itamar Sharon

Agreement or no, Hamas will not shoot, Palestinians say

By Elhanan Miller

IDF demolishes homes of two suspects in killing of Israeli teens

Last week in Vienna, 99 Jewish and Muslim activists convened for the fifth annual Muslim-Jewish Conference. Here, group members recite mourning prayers in Hebrew and Arabic at the former Nazi forced labor camp Mauthausen, outside Linz, Austria (photo credit: Daniel Shaked)

In Vienna, Muslim-Jewish dialogue tackles conflict head-on

By Matt Lebovic

From dozens of countries including Pakistan and Iraq, participants talk about divisive issues while learning the ‘other’ is just like them

A sermon for troubled times

Solidarity and vigilance must be the overriding messages from the pulpit at this coming Rosh Hashana

For crying out loud, America!

16 years of inept leadership by Bush and Obama will have done incalculable damage abroad and at home

An interfaith voice that is still too small

With religious minorities under attack, people of faith must do more than show concern at a prayer service

Gideon D. Sylvester

When criticism becomes treachery

A scathing public attack by an Israeli journalist crossed a red line

Palestinians take part in a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of Fatah in Gaza, January 4, 2013 [photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hundreds of Fatah members under Hamas house arrest in Gaza

By Elhanan Miller

Their leaders may be putting on a brave face in Cairo, but Fatah members in Gaza speak of Hamas intimidation

An Israeli supporter of the right-wing Lehava organization scuffles with police during a demonstration outside the wedding hall where Morel Malka, who was born Jewish, and Mahmoud Mansour, an Arab Israeli, are getting married on August 17, 2014 in Rishon Letzion. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Over vocal protest, Arab-Jewish wedding goes ahead

By Stuart Winer and Melanie Lidman

Hundreds of police deployed to separate between demonstrations in favor of, and against, nuptials

Doctor Ali Zoabi (Photo credit: Channel 10 screen capture)

Neighbors try to block Arab doctor over son’s Facebook post

By Itamar Sharon

Residents issue racist rants, call to keep Ali Zoabi from building house in small northern community of Nurit

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and police, in a protest against a national military draft bill, Jerusalem, April 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Hundreds protest jailing of yeshiva student for evading draft

By JTA

Six arrested after demonstrators block busy roads in Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in Jerusalem on August 17, 2014. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Lawmakers call to boot Arab party after meet with suspected ex-spy

By Spencer Ho and ToI Staff

Threat comes after 3 members of Balad went to Qatar and may have met with ex-MK Azmi Bishara, according to reports

A Sainsbury's branch (photo credit: CC BY-SA Chris Talbot/Wikimedia Commons)

UK supermarket removes kosher food, fearing protesters

Sainsbury’s branch manager explains move was temporary, but many express outrage at acquiescence to threats

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

Hamas provides new info on moves to squeeze foreign media

By Elhanan Miller

Spokeswoman says pressure meant to ensure ‘fair reporting,’ block information about rocket launch sites

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (right) shaking hands with Yukiya Amano (left), chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during a meeting in Tehran on August 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Iranian Presidency website/HO/Mohammad Berno)

Iran won’t accept nuclear restraints ‘beyond IAEA rules’

By Siavosh GHAZI

UN atomic watchdog still has questions about Tehran’s past research, as world powers aim for November agreement

Former Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff is kissed by Maggie, a sea lion at the Ptitsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, in Pittsburgh. Masloff, who rose from a tax clerk to become Pittsburgh's first female mayor, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. She was 96. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Sophie Masloff, 1st female Pittsburgh mayor, dies

By AP

The Yiddish-speaker served from 1988-1994 and led two city wage tax reductions and overhaul of police disciplinary system

People may rely more than usual on traditional gender roles to cope with the uncertainty of early dating. (photo credit: Date image)

Women really don’t go for ‘nice’ guys, study indicates

By Andrew Tobin

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Skokie Hospital, Chicago (screen capture: Google Maps)

Burial blunderMan sues hospital over cremated limb

By JTA

A client seeks work at an unemployment office in Jerusalem (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Global economy, not war with Hamas, hits Israeli IT

By David Shamah

Illustrative: IAF pilot during flight (screen capture: YouTube/Israel Defense Forces)

Hasbara-ra-ah-ah-ahIDF rapped for Gaza strike mashup clip

By Stuart Winer

An Israeli supporter of the right-wing Lehava organization scuffles with police during a demonstration outside the wedding hall where Morel Malka, who was born Jewish, and Mahmoud Mansour, an Arab Israeli, are getting married on August 17, 2014 in Rishon Letzion. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Hebrew media reviewWaiting for the Hamas-Israel intermarriage

By Lazar Berman

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