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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 15, 2018

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Illustrative: Gazans load balloons with flammable material to be flown toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Israel strikes Hamas cell launching arson kites during Gaza ceasefire

Palestinians say one injured by drone strike in Beit Hanoun area; Netanyahu and Liberman vow zero tolerance to ongoing, cross-border arson attacks

Israeli leaders vow Hamas will ‘pay heavy price’ if Gaza violence continues

IDF says it leveled Hamas training facility sitting on tunnel network

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

After flareup, IDF launches drill reportedly simulating capture of Gaza City

By Judah Ari Gross

A child looks at the scene where a courtyard of a house was hit by a Gaza rocket in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on July 14, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF gives all-clear to southern residents as Gaza ceasefire appears to hold

By Judah Ari Gross

Military calls off limitation on large gatherings near Gaza border, requirement to be near bomb shelter, following flareup in which 200 rockets and mortar shells fired at south

Bennett slams ceasefire with Hamas as ‘serious mistake’

By Raoul Wootliff

IDF: Over 174 mortar shells, rockets fired at Israel on Saturday

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Hamas says Gaza ceasefire reached after international mediation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Education Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Controversial ‘segregation’ clause dropped from Jewish nation-state bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Sanctioning of Jewish-only communities struck out in favor of more generic clause that urges ‘the development of Jewish settlement’ as ‘a national value’

Thousands join a protest march against the proposed nation-state bill, in Tel Aviv on July 14, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands protest nation-state bill sanctioning segregated housing

By Raoul Wootliff

This picture taken on July 14, 2018, shows Palestinian rockets being fired from Gaza toward Israel. (AFP/Bashar Taleb)

Palestinian killed in mysterious Gaza blast identified as head of rocket unit

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Ahmad Husan, killed along with son in so-called ‘work accident,’ headed missile division for al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades offshoot, according to Palestinian report

Sderot man says family had no warning before rocket hit their home

Three Israelis wounded as rockets from Gaza hit house, synagogue in Sderot

Iron Dome downs one of two rockets fired from Gaza in second night of unrest

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Israel has Iran on the brain, and all the kites in Gaza won’t change that

Realpolitik dictates that threats from Syria trump Hamas, leaving Israelis and Palestinians on both sides of the border little hope for change beyond the cycles of flareups

A picture taken on July 14, 2018, shows a smoke plume rising following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Syrian regime shells rebels with intense fire near Israeli border

By AFP

Syria rebels begin evacuating ‘cradle’ of uprising in Daraa

By Mohamad Abazeed

Israel media reviewA Gazan knot: 9 things to know for July 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative photo of a woman with breast cancer undergoing a CT scan. (Chen Leopold/FLASH90)

Israeli handheld ultrasound could revolutionize keeping tabs on breast cancer

By Ariella Gentin

Device is brainchild of a former biomedical scientist at NASA, Yehudit Abrams, an ultra-Orthodox Jew now living in Jerusalem

Rabbi Benny Lau. (Courtesy)

Interview

Launching in English, chapter-a-day project looks to bring Bible back to masses

By David Sedley

Firefighters extinguish a fire in a field caused from kites flown by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, near the border with the Gaza Strip, June 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ministers said to complain of media coverage of Gaza border fires

‘Media reports are overblown,’ Netanyahu alleged to say in cabinet meeting, adding, ‘the media is presenting things in a warped way’

11:31 am

EU urges Trump to protect world order, dismisses foe claim
6:26 pm

Emirati prince flees to Qatar, criticizes Abu Dhabi -- report
6:24 pm

'It's wonderful,' French coach Deschamps gushes after World Cup triumph

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the La Cisterna Municipal Stadium during a visit with soccer club Deportivo Palestino, in Santiago, Chile, May 10, 2018.(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Abbas criticized for World Cup visit amid Gaza clashes

Mirroring critique of Netanyahu for similar visit, Palestinian commentators take PA president to task for plans to watch soccer match during ongoing violent clashes

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 14, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO/ Yuri KADOBNOV)

Putin hosts Abbas in Moscow, days after Netanyahu visit

By AFP

US President Donald Trump (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Netanyahu and Trump discuss Syria ahead of Putin summit

US and Israel share concerns about Iran’s growing military presence in Syria; PM says US president remains committed to Israel’s security

US President Donald Trump gestures as he addresses a press conference on the second day of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels on July 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan SMIALOWSKI)

Trump: No one can beat me in 2020 election

By ToI Staff and AP

Protesters against the UK visit of US President Donald Trump hold up flags and placards as they take part in a march and rally in London on July 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Niklas HALLE'N)

Trump’s remarks about Europe’s migrants draw charges of racism

By Jesse J. Holland and Russell Contreras

R. David Harden

A better economy is not enough, but it may stop the current cycle of violence, destruction, and despair

Bracha Goldstein

Running for your life is hard to forget

4 years ago, I ran with my children for the bomb shelter; I am terrified that we may need to again

Carinne Sjoberg peeling off a sticker that neo-Nazis left on the door of what used to be the Jewish community center of Umea, Sweden. (Courtesy of Sjoberg/via JTA)

Under neo-Nazi and jihadist bullying, Swedish Jewish communities are shuttering

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a cultural event in Ra'anana on July 15, 2017. (Flash90)

Parents of Hebron shooter berate ex-defense minister at synagogue

Israeli pop singer Kobi Peretz (C) and his wife arrive for a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on June 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pop singer Kobi Peretz released from prison after sentence halved

A man shows a picture of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha, who died when his family house was set on fire by alleged Jewish extremists in the West Bank village of Duma, on July 31, 2015. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Supreme Court okays release of suspected accomplice in Duma firebombing

This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)

Law clamping down on Facebook ‘incitement’ okayed for final vote

By Raoul Wootliff

GetTaxi app screenshot (Courtesy)

From the webUber rival Gett is said to mull sale of ride-share startup Juno

The brainchild of a 39-year-old Brooklyn Chabadnik, Wrapp enables users to find someone nearby who can lend them a set of Tefillin. (Tefillinwrapp.com)

Need tefillin? There’s an app for that

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Munib Al-Masri at his home, Beit Falasteen, overlooking Nablus, April 8, 2014. (Suha Halifa/Times of Israel)

Israel shutters PA-backed conference in East Jerusalem, top businessman arrested

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