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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 9, 2018

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A police officer inspects a crater caused by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that struck an open field north of the city of Beersheba on August 9, 2018. (Israel Police)

Beersheba targeted by rocket attack for first time since 2014 war

By Judah Ari Gross

Projectile strikes open field outside the southern city, shattering a ceasefire that lasted approximately two hours

IDF says war in Gaza approaching, communities near Strip could be evacuated

By Michael Bachner and Judah Ari Gross

Liberman: ‘We will do whatever is necessary’ to stop Gaza rocket barrages

Fresh rocket attack hits southern Israel; IDF renews Gaza strikes

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative. Children are seen in a bomb shelter of an apartment building in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on the third day of Operation Protective Edge, July 10, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Residents of rocket-hit town describe scramble to reach safety of bomb shelters

Gaza official: ‘Current round of fighting is over, calm depends on Israel’

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Over 150 rockets launched into Israel, woman seriously injured

Gunfire from Gaza hits construction vehicle near border; IDF strikes Hamas post

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a photo of an alleged Hamas rocket near children as he addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York, September 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Don Emmert)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

With no strategic change on either side, the battle in Gaza is over PR

Both Jerusalem and Hamas are primarily looking to preserve a tough public image among their political bases, rather than seeking an actual solution for their people

Israel media reviewSame flareup, different day: 9 things to know for August 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel lodges formal complaint over BBC coverage of Gaza violence

By Raphael Ahren

Summer camps in southern Israel canceled amid Gaza flareup

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A plume of smoke rises from the remains of a building west of Gaza City that was targeted by the Israeli Air Force in response to a rocket attack that hit southern Israel earlier in the day on August 9, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire agreement, deal goes into effect

Al-Jazeera says Egyptian-brokered truce started at 10:45 p.m.; Security cabinet orders IDF to ‘continue taking strong action’ against Gaza terror groups

8:23 pm

Israeli official denies Al-Jareeza report of Hamas ceasefire
8:02 pm

Israel-Gaza ceasefire goes into effect -- report
7:12 pm

Security cabinet orders military to keep up Gaza strikes

In this November 6, 2008 photo, Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, is photographed outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

West Bank relatives cheer for first Palestinian woman headed to Congress

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Family certain Democrat Rashida Tlaib, running unopposed in Michigan, will ‘serve Palestine’ in House of Representatives and oppose Trump

In a photo from July 26, 2018, US Senate Republican candidate Sandy Pensler makes a campaign stop in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Jewish businessman loses Michigan primary to Trump-backed challenger

Colombia's outgoing president Juan Manuel Santos, center, welcoming newly sworn-in President Ivan Duque at the presidential palace, after his inauguration ceremony in Bogota, Colombia, August 7, 2018. (Colombia's presidential press office/ via AP)

Colombia recognizes Palestine as a sovereign state

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

UNESCO said pushing for Israel to rethink exit, citing work to end bias

By Raphael Ahren and Michael Bachner

Audrey Azoulay invites Netanyahu to meet next month in New York to discuss a possible delay in Jerusalem leaving body after efforts to improve treatment of Israel

In this September 21, 2016 file photo, then Chilean President Michelle Bachelet speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Despite past criticism, Israel mum on new UN human rights chief

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) embraces King Abdullah II of Jordan as he arrives to meet with him at the Royal Palace in the capital Amman on August 8, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Khalil Mazraawi)

Abbas, Jordan king agree on need to support Palestinian refugee agency

Illustrative image of an optical fiber connection (alphaspirit; iStock by Getty Images)

Inside story

Shoshanna Solomon

Slowdown Nation: Israel lags on internet speeds, choked by lack of competition

Israel slides to number 70 out of 200 nations surveyed on average download speed, as the duopoly that controls the market drags its feet on fiber optics

WhatsApp is seen with other mobile apps on a smartphone (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Israeli cybersecurity firm says Whatsapp flaw allows hacking of messages

By ToI Staff and AFP

Check Point says weakness in popular messaging app enables attackers to modify and send false missives to individuals and groups

The manufacturing facility of Bio-Technology General (Israel) Ltd. (BTG), at work. The biotech firm in Be'er Tuvia was bought by Swiss multinational Ferring in 2005 (Rami Chacham)

Biotech firm in Israel makes fertility waves with genetically modified hormone

By Shoshanna Solomon

There are no pacifists in a bomb shelter

Have you ever been awakened by a 'Code Red' siren alerting you to the incoming Palestinian missile?

My inbox is full of hatred from the left and right

You can't berate me into silence in the name of free speech

A plea for discussion on Israel’s nation-state law

Why should the Jews be treated differently than the Finns and the Greeks?

They continued CPR on the way to the hospital

An EMT fights the angel of death over a child's preventable drowning

Israel's Lonah Chemtai Salpeter celebrates winning the women's 10,000 meter final race at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, August 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter wins gold at European Championships

Salpeter comes in first at 10,000-meter race in Berlin, beating Susan Krumins of the Netherlands by 9 full seconds

In this November 21, 2017, photo Massachusetts Institute of Technology robotics researcher Cynthia Breazeal, left, stands next to social robot Jibo, right, at the company's headquarters in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Robots — including Israeli-made — are getting more social. Are humans ready?

By Matt O'Brien

Ruby Rose attends the LA Premiere of "The Meg" at TCL Chinese Theatre on August 6, 2018, in Los Angeles, United States. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Bat mitzva

Ruby Rose cast as Jewish lesbian superhero Batwoman

By ToI Staff and AP

The lesbian actress says she is ‘thrilled and honored,’ but many fans criticize the fact she isn’t Jewish, say character’s narrative downplays her religious identity

The West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad, January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State plans to use nation-state law to defend outpost legalization

Attorney defending Regulation Law in High Court says basic law’s encouraging of ‘Jewish settlement’ allows for preferential treatment to wildcat Israeli towns over Palestinian ones

Ehud Barak slams justice minister as ‘proto-fascist’ for threat to Supreme Court

State planning to triple size of new settlement for Amona evacuees

Knesset speaker refuses to sign Arabic resignation letter from lawmaker

By JTA

A visitor looks at a photograph documenting Jewish life in Poland from the 1970s, in Warsaw, Poland, August 8, 2018. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Photo exhibit documents revival of Polish Jewish life

By Vanessa Gera

More Headlines

Cofounders of Taglit-Birthright Michael Steinhardt (L) and Charles Bronfman, in Jerusalem on June 4, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Birthright co-founder slams walk-off protesters abusing free trip

By JTA

A view of New Middle School Zurndorf (YouTube screenshot)

Austria probes school students over Nazi role play

By AFP

Illustrative: A white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag into Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber/File)

Virginia declares state of emergency ahead of Charlottesville anniversary

By JTA

Illustrative: Religious soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion pray while completing the final stages of a 40 kilometer journey in 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Religious paratroopers under fire for turning backs on female instructor

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-British foreign secretary Boris Johnson (L) and then-British prime minister Theresa May in May 2017. (Thierry Charlier/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s May says Boris Johnson should apologize over burqa comments

By AFP

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is seen in front of a Nazi flag in the video game "Wolfenstein II." (Screen capture: YouTube)

Germany says video games can now include Nazi symbols

By AFP

Suzanne Vega, 2013, photographed at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts located in Katonah, New York (Courtesy Suzanne Vega)

Luka hereSuzanne Vega returns to Israel for 2 back-to-back performances

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Iranian Navy exercise in 2011. (CC BY, Mohammad Sadegh Heydari, Wikimedia Commons)

Iran naval drills designed to send message to Washington, US general says

By AFP

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma Assad, in July 2010. (AP/Hassene Dridi)

Wife of Syrian leader Bashar Assad diagnosed with breast cancer

By AFP

Brazil's Presidential pre-candidate and conservative lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro, speaks during a meeting of the "In Defense of Muncipalities" congress, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil presidential front-runner vows to close Palestinian embassy

By Marcus M. Gilban

Illustrative: A police vehicle in Brussels, Belgium, on April 8, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Jewish couple in Belgium targeted with death threats

By JTA

Jason Kipnis celebrating in a game against the Oakland Athletics at Progressive Field in Cleveland, July 6, 2018. (Jason Miller/Getty Images via JTA)

Hora scorerCleveland Indians celebrate home run with ‘Hava Nagila’ dance

By JTA

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