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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 19, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at a visit to Ashdod Port on August 18, 2014. (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Liveblog August 19, Day 43 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Hamas breaches truce, fires at south, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv; Israel quits talks, strikes back

By Ricky Ben-David, Adiv Sterman and Ilan Ben Zion

Car burns after it’s hit by fragment in TA, but no injuries reported in series of Hamas attacks on center and south; Israel strikes Gaza, pulls out of negotiations for long-term truce

Netanyahu warns that IDF will strike hard if rockets resume

By Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

Talks resume in Cairo as clock winds down again on truce

By AP and ToI Staff

‘Israel, US secretly agreed on gradual easing of Gaza blockade’

Prof. Ahmed Eid of Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus. (Courtesy Hadassah)

Analysis

Arab doctor saves Jewish soldier hit by Arab bullets. No big deal?

By David Horovitz

Hadassah’s Prof. Ahmed Eid gets a little irritated when people ask him questions about being an Arab surgeon in Jewish Israel. ‘There’s no drama here,’ he insists. Oh, but there is…

Palestinian masked supporters of the Islamist Hamas movement take part in a demonstration in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip in August 2014. (photo credit: AFP/SAID KHATIB)

Israel says it foiled Hamas plan for massive attacks on Israel, coup against PA

By Mitch Ginsburg and AP

93 arrests made, Shin Bet says, thwarting Hamas preparations for third intifada; Abbas says revelation a threat to Palestinian unity

Abbas to meet with Hamas head in Qatar Thursday

By AFP

Abbas orders probe into Hamas coup plot revealed by Israel

By Mitch Ginsburg and AP

Ethics committee to investigate Arab MKs’ trip to Qatar

By Spencer Ho and ToI Staff

I don’t like Jews because….

…because, well, you know…global warming…

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Is Israel racist? No! And yes

On meeting a prospective landlady: “As she turned around, I saw her eyes take me in, and then…”

Lawrence Hajioff

You are getting married for the wrong reason

And you’re also dating for far too long

A night of broken glass and mended souls

In the Hungarian capital, a moment of feeling powerless and of yearning to be back in Israel

William Pollack

Jimmy, shut up! (with all due respect)

The former US president’s suggestion that the world recognize Hamas proves he should stick to peanut farming

Israeli Air Force bombings in the Gaza Strip can be seen from an IDF deployment in a field near the Israeli border with Gaza on July 25, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

New doctrine needed: How should Israel fight in Gaza?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Some call for more commando actions; others say the cycle of hostilities should be labeled and fought as wars, not ops

IDF soldier David Menahem Gordon who went missing in August, 2014. (photo credit: Facebook/Israel Police)

Police seeking missing US-born IDF soldier

David Menahem Gordon last seen on Sunday at an army base in the center of the country

Then-ambassador Daniel Taub holds up his Israeli passport in Bradford, UK, which was declared an 'Israel-free zone' by George Galloway, on August 18, 2014. (Photo credit: Evelyn Coster)

Israeli ambassador defies UK MP’s boycott in Bradford

By Raine Marcus

Daniel Taub says George Galloway’s declaration of an ‘Israel-free zone’ is not in the spirit of the city

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

UK supermarket apologizes for removing kosher food

By AFP and JTA

Sainsbury’s says products were placed in back of store as a ‘precautionary measure’ during a pro-Palestinian demonstration

Luzer Twersky, right, consulted on and plays a Hasidic character in the forthcoming film 'Felix and Meira.' (Julie Landreville/JTA)

Hasidic consultants help Hollywood get it right

By Miriam Moster

Political activist and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein (screen capture: YouTube/Missouri History Museum)

Anti-Israel Holocaust survivor arrested in Missouri protests

By ToI Staff and AP

Hedy Epstein briefly held after blocking entrance to St. Louis government building in peaceful demonstration

The flu hides from the immune system with the help of protective proteins. (photo credit: Flu image.)

Israeli-developed antibodies weaken flu’s defenses

By Andrew Tobin

Antibodies may help immune system kill flu by keeping virus from hiding in cells, research shows

Members of the Innovation Africa team dance with students at N'gozi Primary School, Malawi before the lights are switched on for the first time in their classrooms. (Courtesy)

Jewish organizations vigilant about Ebola in Africa

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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The artificial cells communicate and interact with one another like real cells. (photo credit: Cell image

Israelis design artificial cells that make things

By Andrew Tobin

Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team midfielder Maharan Radi. (screen capture: YouTube/lidor yakovi)

Three soccer fans arrested for racist jeering

By Stuart Winer

A Palestinian man drives his motorbike loaded with mattresses as he heads to a United Nations school to take refuge for the night in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun, as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was due to end, on August 18, 2014. The ceasefire was later extended for another 24 hours. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Hebrew media reviewFog machine

By Ilan Ben Zion

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