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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 26, 2014

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Residents and emergency services gather at the site of a damaged house in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon after it was hit by a rocket launched by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip on August 26, 2014. (photo credit:AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)

Liveblog August 26, Day 50 of Operation Protective Edge (closed)

2 Israelis killed in mortar attack, just before truce takes effect

By Ricky Ben-David, Haviv Rettig Gur and Yifa Yaakov

Four others injured; sides agree to open Gaza crossings for aid and building supplies; Hamas claims ‘victory’; Abbas announces truce in Ramallah, later confirmed by Jerusalem; 12 Gazans said killed in strikes

AnalysisOn Day 50 of war with Hamas, much diplomatic ado about nothing

By David Horovitz

Top US general in Israel for post-ceasefire talks

Massive drop in support for Netanyahu — poll

Taking shelter at London's Aldwych tube station, 1940. There were bombings almost every night during the Blitz. (photo credit: Imperial War Museum/public domain)

From V-2s to M-75s, Israel’s Blitz survivors dodge rockets again

By Lazar Berman

They lived through the WWII bombing of England, and then built their lives in Israel. Under renewed fire today, four ex-Brits reflect on childhood, humor, and leadership

Education Minister Shai Piron (center) with mayors of towns in southern Israel on a tour of school readiness due to the current security situation, on Monday, August 25, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Education Ministry)

Education minister tries to soothe south’s anxious teachers

By Melanie Lidman

Ashkelon mayor leaves meeting in disgust; teachers worried about transportation, safety, as school year to begin next Monday

Beersheba parents say school can’t start till Gaza op ends

IDF hits Gaza school used in mortar attack that killed 4-year-old

By ToI Staff and AP

Plane headed for Tel Aviv loops back as sirens wail

By JTA and ToI Staff

Welcome to the real world, Chuck Hagel

The US defense secretary needs to notice that Hamas, complies with all the traits that concern him about ISIL

Richard M. Goldwasser

Moving beyond despair to peace

A secure and democratic Israel living next to an independent Palestinian state is still the only way forward

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Inside the heart of stone

Toddlers and fiddlers, vendors and priests living, playing and praying in the ancient alleyways of Jerusalem

Volunteers scour a Jerusalem area forest for Aaron Sofer on Tuesday, August 26, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

‘Nationalistic motive’ probed in US student’s disappearance

Volunteers join police and canine units to scour Jerusalem Forest for Aaron Sofer, who vanished Friday; FBI said involved

Dani Rechamim, one of few residents of the abandoned Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel as Hamas terrorists in Gaza continue to fire rockets into Israel. August 10, 2014. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

Gaza attacks trigger Israeli exodus from border

Over 70% of the 40,000 inhabitants of communities along Gaza border have left in course of fighting, says officials

Israeli soldiers sing as they embrace each other at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, as Israeli forces prepare to pull back from the area, on August 06, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

During combat and after, lone soldiers look to each other for support

‘They become your second family,’ says Ron Gordon, who joined the IDF in 2012. ‘You don’t have anyone else here. You live with your friends’

Governor of the Bank of Israel Karnit Flug during a meeting of the Finance Committee in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 06, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Israel lowers interest rate as economy struggles amid Gaza op

By JTA

Bank of Israel chief says military operation compounds economic slowdown seen even before current conflict

Former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, seen here when still in office, heads a cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA security questions employees of Abbas rival

By Stuart Winer

Two workers for charity led by former prime minister Salam Fayyad grilled amid crackdown after coup scare

Interior of refurbished Mumbai Chabad house, which includes a synagogue, kosher food, and welcome center. (courtesy Chabad)

Mumbai Chabad center reopens to mixed reactions

By AFP

While neighbors worry Chabad House will again be terrorist target, 25 rabbis from across Asia gather to inaugurate renovated center

Illustrative photo of a vaccination. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Health workers too close to make vaccination call: study

By Andrew Tobin

Doctors, nurses may be too emotional to decide on vaccinations against disease outbreaks at home, research says

An illustration of N-Trig's sensor technology (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli tech beats out biggest pen kid on the block

By David Shamah

Microsoft has switched its pen technology provider from Japanese veteran Wacom to Israel’s N-Trig

Stop the Holocaust in Gaza: A pro-Palestinian protester at a Berlin rally Friday, July 18, 2014. (Micki Weinberg/The Times of Israel)

New anti-Semitism is bad enough, but it’s no Holocaust, says scholar

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Comedienne Sarah Silverman received an Emmy for her HBO comedy special 'Sarah Silverman: We are Miracles.' (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Smokin' SarahSilverman nabs Emmy, thanks ‘her Jews’

By JTA

Cross-genre duoRihanna, Drake said to be dating again

Teen tennis champ Noah Rubin at a August 21, 2014 benefit. (Howard Blas/The Times of Israel)

Jewish teen tennis star set to play at US Open

San Diego Chargers announcer Hank Bauer (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Cheap shotNFL announcer airs anti-Semitic canard

A photo of a decapitated doll uploaded to Twitter by supporters of the Islamic State, August 25, 2014. (photo credit: Twitter)

Doll-beheading photos surface in tribute to Islamic State

By Adiv Sterman and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media review Gaza five-o

By Ilan Ben Zion

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