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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 20, 2014

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Illustrative. A man holds part of a rocket that exploded and fell inside the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Liveblog August 20, Day 44 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Fate of Hamas commander Deif unclear after Israeli strike; heavy rocket fire on Israel

By Lazar Berman, Ricky Ben-David and Marissa Newman

Netanyahu slams ministers who criticize his handling of Hamas war, mum on attack on Gaza terror chief; rockets shot toward Tel Aviv, airport amid day of heavy fire; Hamas spokesman says no return to talks; rocket hits home in Hof Ashkelon region

AnalysisDirection of Israel-Hamas war hinges on fate of Muhammad Deif

By Avi Issacharoff

Qatar ‘threatened to expel Mashaal’ if he agreed to Egypt deal

By Yifa Yaakov and AFP

‘Israel killed Hamas commander’s wife and daughter’

Palestinian Hamas supporters gather for a rally in Gaza City, August 7, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Analysis

Cynical, Israel-loathing Hamas cannot be easily deterred

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Hamas isn’t in the business of governing Gaza; it’s in the terrorism business — and its only goal is ensuring it survives to batter Israel another day

Why Hamas is blind to Israel’s real strength

They made the mistake of equating democracy and a love of life with weakness

Birthright saves

On the life or death value of encouragement and appreciation

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Legalization NOW!

Because if pot were legal the world would love us. Or not

In this May 27, 2011, file photo, American journalist James Foley of Rochester, NH, poses for a photo in Boston. (photo credit: AP/Steven Senne)

IS says it has beheaded American journalist

By AFP and AP

US officials reviewing video purporting to show death of James Foley at hands of Islamic State

Sinai (illustrative photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Headless corpses of four men found in Sinai

By AFP

Jihadist terrorists suspected to have abducted and killed the victims over suspected support of Egyptian army

Khaled Mashaal, political leader of Hamas (left), meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo, Egypt, December 21, 2011. (photo credit: AP)

Analysis

Hamas and Fatah: The rift

By Elhanan Miller

Before rockets again rained down on Israel, two Palestinian movements committed to each other’s destruction were scrambling to benefit from a ceasefire deal

Iron Dome missile defense batteries near the southern town of Ashdod. File photo (Photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

Conflicting worldviews mean Hamas war tests Israel-US ties, again

Relations have seen their ups and downs, but what’s different this time is the wide gap between how Obama and Netanyahu see the world

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaking at a meeting in the Knesset to discuss Operation Protective Edge, on August 4, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Liberman warns of ‘war of attrition’ with Hamas

FM says Israel should avoid getting dragged into conflict managed from Gaza; says even left-wing government would wage war against terror group

Illustrative photo of a woman shopping for produce in a supermarket. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

In UK, supermarkets the frontline to check out BDS

Former Israeli Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara (photo credit: Flash90)

Fugitive MK Bishara funded legislators’ Qatar trip, report claims

All expenses for trip by three Balad party members in Doha were paid by suspected Hezbollah spy, newspaper alleges

Deputy head of the Republic of Crimea, Georgy Muradov. (screen capture: YouTube/VestnikKavkaza)

Crimean official claims Israel interested in partnership

By Stuart Winer

Deputy head of government says several countries showing readiness for ties with controversial Russian-annexed republic

An abandoned Jewish cemetery in the city of Tarnow, Poland, on April 29, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

From the depths of Poland’s soil, Nazi victims reclaimed

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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An IsraAID worker cleans rubble from the Pateros, Washington blaze that has wrought some $28 million in damage. (Emily Alhadeff/The Times of Israel)

During Gaza conflict, IsraAID helps Washington with wildfire

By Emily K. Alhadeff

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(photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

From the webJerusalem zoo struggles to remain common ground for Israelis, Palestinians

The entrance to Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Smallbones public domain)

Philadelphia synagogue’s historian beaten to death

By JTA

Montreal Jews protesting the proposed Charter of Quebec Values, which aims to restrict public displays of religious faith. (photo credit: David Ouellette/JTA)

Quebec radio host slammed for comments on Jews

By JTA

Col. (res.) Oded Raor, who died in his sleep overnight Monday, August 18, 2014. (photo credit: Ben Avraham/Bamahane/File)

Former commander of IDF’s top elite unit dies at 46

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

Missing US-born IDF soldier found dead

Interfce of one of the SEA's malware tools (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Crooks turn war-torn Syria into cyber-battlefield

By David Shamah

Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the UN, is dowsed with ice water as part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, in a video released Tuesday, August 19, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Chilly receptionProsor answers ice bucket challenge

Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (Zack Snyder/Warner Bros)

Frozen femmeGal Gadot takes ice bucket challenge

Smoke and debris rise after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hebrew media review Deif jam

By Joshua Davidovich

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