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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 21, 2014

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Relatives of 27-year-old Widad Deif, the wife of Hamas's military commander Mohammed Deif, carry her body during her funeral procession at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Roberto Schmidt)

Liveblog August 21, Day 45 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Europe to press for UN ceasefire; rockets persist after Israel kills 3 Hamas chiefs

By Itamar Sharon, Marissa Newman and Lazar Berman

Heavy rocket fire on south throughout day, one person seriously injured; three top Hamas commanders killed in strikes; Palestinians say 19 killed Wednesday night and Thursday; Muhammad Deif’s fate remains unclear

AnalysisKilling of Hamas chiefs will spark desperate attacks against Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel confirms it killed three senior Hamas commanders

By Spencer Ho and Marissa Newman

AnalysisNetanyahu’s vital message, and his marginal one

By David Horovitz

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

The IDF’s first fully digital war

By Mitch Ginsburg

The army employed a system of information sharing during Protective Edge that streamlined responses and hopefully saved lives

IDF troops operating in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, August 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Analysis

Going ‘for the head’ of the octopus

By Mitch Ginsburg

44 days on, what is Israel’s policy for Gaza and how much war will suffice to achieve it?

Deif’s alleged death certificate sparks online debate

By Itamar Sharon and Marissa Newman

Fate of Hamas terror chief unclear after day of heavy rocket fire

By AP

Hamas says it fired rockets at offshore gas well

A fatal blind spot for sheer evil

Good people refuse to accept the possibility that human beings could use children as human shields

Yleem D.S. Poblete

For lasting peace, target Hamas allies

Iran and North Korea are among the roster of global players aiding and abetting Islamist terror in Gaza

A massive Palestinian flag hung from the Manhattan Bridge by pro-Palestinian protesters, August 20, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/CNN news RT)

Protesters hang Palestinian flag from Manhattan Bridge

New York City councilman blasts police department for failing to prevent incident

File: Planes sit on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv, on August 21, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Despite Hamas threats, it’s business as usual at Ben Gurion

By AFP and ToI Staff

Only Royal Jordanian Airlines cancels flight out of security concerns

Salah al-Arouri speaking in Turkey. (screen capture: Youtube)

Top Hamas sheikh admits to June kidnapping of Israeli teens

By Gavriel Fiske

Saleh al-Arouri, a senior official, praises action ‘carried out by the al-Qassam Brigades,’ in strongest evidence yet of Hamas link

Illustrative: A convoy of IDF tanks park at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Britain still allowing arms exports to Israel

The UK business secretary had threatened to suspend licenses if hostilities between Hamas, Israel resumed

Author Claire Hajaj (photo credit: Leanne Kinsella)

Jewish-Palestinian author embodies conflicting identities

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Claire Hajaj’s autobiographical novel is inspired by the marriage of her British Jewish mom and Jaffa-born Muslim dad

The father of Muhammad Abu Khdeir is seen in the family mourning tent in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, Tuesday, July 8, 2013 (photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

US says Israel appears to be targeting family of slain teen

By AFP and ToI Staff

State Department spokeswoman confirms another American cousin of Muhammed Abu Khdeir is under arrest

A scene from "In the Shadow." (photo credit: Czech Film Week)

A film festival where Israelis can Czech in

Czech Film Week, now in its fifth year, is a celebration of the cultural partnerships between the two countries

Thai foreign workers standing in a mobile bomb shelter at Moshav Beit HaGadi in the Southern Israel on August 20, 2014. (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Porta-shelters placed in fields to shield vulnerable farmers

119 small bomb shelters due to be stuck on farms all over southern Israel after Thai laborer killed by mortar

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement on August 20, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Netanyahu slams ministers criticizing his handling of Hamas war

PM highlights Hamas as part of network of Islamist terror groups, says its leaders are prime targets, but won’t say if Deif is dead

A young refugee who fled Nazi-occupied France to Switzerland through the Alps, is receiving food in a JDC supported facility. He was then sent to a children's home, also supported by JDC. c. 1943 (courtesy)

100 years of saving Jews depicted in NY JDC exhibit

By Rebecca Borison

More Headlines

Just 4 centimeters long and 1 millimeter thick at the tip, the awl discovered at Tel Tsaf was set in a wooden handle. (Prof. Yosef Garfinkel)

Oldest metal in Middle East found in Israeli dig

By Andrew Tobin

Getting the groove on at the annual Woodstock Revival concert in Jerusalem (Yehuda HaLevy)

Summer of war delays summer of love fest, again

By Jessica Steinberg and Debra Kamin

Aerial view of New York's financial district (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

NY woman admits to scamming $180K from Jewish National Fund

By JTA

Journalist James Foley in Aleppo, Syria, in November, 2012. (photo credit: Nicole Tung/AP/freejamesfoley.org)

UK says British fighter likely had role in Foley beheading

By AP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement on August 20, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Hebrew media review You talkin’ to Bibi?

By Joshua Davidovich

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