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What Matters Most On Monday, August 25, 2014

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Gila Tragerman, with husband, Doron, at her side, eulogizes their 4-year-old son Daniel at his funeral, August 24, 2014. Daniel was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell fired from Gaza at his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz on August 22. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liveblog August 25, Day 49 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

Hamas confirms truce talks; rockets from Lebanon fired at Galilee; PM’s poll figures crash

By Itamar Sharon, Marissa Newman and Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinians, Cairo said waiting on Jerusalem response to month-long truce offer; over 110 rockets shot at Israel Monday; family of slain 4-year-old says they won’t return to Gaza-area kibbutz

Egyptian truce bid said to garner Israeli consent

By Adiv Sterman and Marissa Newman

Israel’s UN envoy: Stop Qatari terrorism funding

Abbas to seek UN deadline for Israeli West Bank withdrawal

By AP and ToI Staff

Daniel Tragerman, 4, who was killed in his home at Kibbutz Nahal Oz by a mortar shell fired from Gaza on August 22, 2014. (Courtesy)

Analysis

Daniel Tragerman’s war

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: When all is said and done, all we want here is safe refuge — exactly what was denied to a beautiful little boy in his home on a kibbutz near the Gaza border

Smoke rises from the rubble of the al-Zafer apartment tower following Israeli airstrikes Saturday that collapsed the 12-story building, in Gaza City, Sunday, August 24, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Analysis

Ground op is still an option, but time is not on Israel’s side

By Mitch Ginsburg

One possibility would be a limited offensive to smother most of the mortar fire and cut Gaza into three sections, applying further pressure on Hamas

Half of Israeli teens agree it’s ‘good to die’ for country

By Marissa Newman and Stuart Winer

Fallen soldier’s family protests tombstone regulations

Put a Yid on itPA flag-waver booted from UK soccer game

By Stuart Winer

Yoni Cantor Wiseman

Trying to help an 8-year-old daughter make sense of the sirens

Israel’s other war: Moral attrition

Racism and intolerance have bubbled over during the Gaza engagement: The government must intervene immediately

Barak Bar-Cohen

Dear Rabbi, I hear your silence

Israel needs the vocal support of Jewish religious leaders, even if their congregations don’t want to hear it

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on August 10, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

In Israel’s cabinet, two competing strategies for Gaza

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In the heated debates over how to thwart Hamas, many see the glimmers of post-war politicking

Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, died on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. He was 90. (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

The Jewish refugee girls with whom Richard Attenborough grew up

By ToI Staff and AP

Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director, who died Sunday at 90, spent part of his childhood with Helga and Irene Bejach, whom his parents took in from Germany in 1939

Illustrative photo of an Israeli army jeep in Hebron, November 7, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Time retracts IDF organ harvesting allegation

By JTA

Magazine had quoted a 2009 Swedish paper’s unbacked accusations as fact

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arab League to ask UN to compel Israeli West Bank pullout

By ToI Staff and AP

Palestinian officials say that if international community refuses, Abbas will pursue war crimes charges against Israel

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

Foley’s family publishes letter smuggled from captivity

By Stuart Winer

Slain US journalist asked a fellow hostage, who was about to be released, to commit text to memory

April 2014 demonstration against NUMOV during an Iran conference. (courtesy Michael Spaney/Stop the Bomb)

As Hamas shoots Iranian missiles, Germans plan mission to Tehran

By Micki Weinberg

(L. to R.) : John Chan, Managing Partner of Catalyst CEL Fund; Shengyan Fan, Managing Partner of Catalyst CEL Fund; Boaz Harel, Managing Partner of Catalyst CEL Fund; Richard Tang, Managing Partner of Catalyst CEL Fund& CFO of CEL; Alain Dobkin, Managing Partner of Catalyst CEL Fund; Edouard Cukierman, Managing Partner of Catalyst CEL Fund (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel-China fund to play pivotal role in Swiss firm

By David Shamah

An investment in Switzerland’s Lamina Technologies exemplifies Israel’s role in bridging the old and the new

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Author and former Mossad agent Mishka Ben David. (screen capture: YouTube/writersreadonline)

Years after saving Mashaal, ex-spy appeals to him for calm

By Mitch Ginsburg

Illustrative photo of an overturned vehicle (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Condition of Israeli hurt in stoning attack worsens

By Adiv Sterman

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)

Hebrew media review School of hard knocks

By Joshua Davidovich

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