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What Matters Most On Friday, August 10, 2018

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File: The head of the IDF's Southern Command Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, center-left, speaks with Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi, center-right, during a visit to the southern town, which was hit repeatedly with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on August 9, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Negev council head: Hamas controls the fire, isn't deterred

Southern mayors say Gaza truce a ‘mistake,’ call for long-term solution

Residents who spent two days in bomb shelters want government to secure a permanent end to rocket fire; Sderot leader calls for military operation

Palestinian protesters at the Israel-Gaza border, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 3, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Amid lull in fighting, Hamas says Gazans will resume border protests

People stand next to a car that was damaged after a rocket fired by terrorists from the Gaza Strip fell in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on August 9, 2018. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

Security restrictions removed in south as tense calm sets in

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar attend a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group's founding in Gaza City, on December 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Egypt said to warn Hamas: Israel will renew assassinations if fire persists

Terror group’s leaders have reportedly turned off their phones, gone underground over fears of targeted killings by Israeli military

Goldin family: Truce without soldiers’ return ‘a capitulation to Hamas’

No rockets or airstrikes as fragile Gaza truce lasts through the night

Security cabinet instructs IDF to ‘act forcefully’ against Gaza violence

By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon

After Gaza rocket hits Beersheba, IDF levels an alleged Hamas HQ

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

As high-level security cabinet convenes to discuss violence in south, Israeli jets flatten five-story building near Gaza City the army says was used by Hamas internal security

A member of the Hamas terror group walks through rubble at a site in Gaza City hit by Israeli airstrikes on August 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israeli official: Hamas dealt a ‘severe blow’ in Gaza airstrikes

A picture taken on August 9, 2018, shows people inspecting the rubble of a building targeted by the Israeli Air Force in response to a rocket attack that hit southern Israel earlier in the day on August 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel media reviewFight, truce, repeat: 10 things to know for August 10

By Joshua Davidovich

A fake rocket warning app allegedly designed by Hamas to hack Israelis' phones (Screencapture/ClearSky)

Hamas tries to hack Israelis with fake rocket warning app

Israeli cyber security firm warns that software that mimics the Code Red alert takes control of mobile phones and can’t be deleted

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US condemns Hamas rocket attacks, supports Israel’s right to defend itself

By Eric Cortellessa

The site where a mortar shell from the Gaza Strip hit an apartment building and cars in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on August 9, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli envoy calls on UN to condemn Hamas over Gaza rocket fire

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State Comptroller probing why gas platform being built close to Israeli coast

As protests grow, watchdog opens inquiry into government’s use of security argument to justify putting Leviathan processing facility only 10 km from shore, rather than out at sea

Workers seen on the Tamar natural gas processing platform, 23 km (14 miles) off the southern coast of Ashkelon, October 11, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Ortal Yaakov struggles to get her baby carriage onto the train at Hadera station. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Mother sues Israel Railways after baby knocked onto tracks

Ortal Yaakov was struggling to get her stroller into the train car when the door closed, separating her from one-year-old infant

Analysis

The muy curioso tale of Colombia’s shock recognition of Palestine

A day after Netanyahu cancels Bogota trip, outgoing president Santos secretly recognizes Palestine; Why? And will the new government reverse his decision?

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (C) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas during an official welcoming ceremony in Ramallah, June 4, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at a press conference in Jerusalem on June 11, 2013. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Israel ‘surprised’ by Colombian recognition of Palestinian state

By Raphael Ahren and Agencies

Winner Israel's Lonah Chemtai Salpeter celebrates on the podium with her medal during the medal ceremony of the women's 10000m event during the European Athletics Championships in Berlin on August 9, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

For Israel’s 1st European Athletics champ, it’s been a very long run to victory

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Kenyan-born Lonah Chemtai Salpeter fought for years to gain Israeli citizenship; now she’s brought home the gold for her adopted country in the women’s 10,000-meters

Illustrative: Hapoel Beersheba's Israeli midfielder Daniel Einbinder reacts after scoring during the UEFA Europa League football match between Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC and FC Lugano on September 14, 2017 at the Turner Stadium in Beersheba. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Beersheba’s European soccer game goes ahead in shadow of rocket attack

Pick one toy to take home

Sometimes, it takes decades to understand the father you thought you knew

The real message of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal

The ceremony that receives more Torah coverage than Creation, the Exodus, or the revelation at Mount Sinai (Re'eh)

The conversation about the birthrate conversation

Nobody wants to pry into others’ complex lives, but if non-Orthodox Jews don’t have babies, their Judaism won’t survive

Andrew Freedman

Labour: The Musical

I want a new Labour Party that champions Jews' rights, protects us, and knows that, even as we love Israel, the UK is home

Kids at a trip to Ein Gedi and Masada, early 1950s. (Efraim Ilani)

New exposure needed for photographer of Israel’s birth and Eichmann’s capture

By Cathryn J. Prince

In this photo from August 6, 2018, crocodiles rest at a a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Israel faces crocodile conundrum with 700 stranded reptiles

By ISAAC SCHARF and Alon Bernstein

Hundreds are housed at a defunct tourist attraction and they are multiplying; official warns that a loose croc in the Jordan River could spark ‘an international incident’

Alan Rabinowitz (c) colalring a jaguar in Brazil. (Steve Winter/Panthera)

Alan Rabinowitz, who dedicated his life to protecting jaguars, dies

A visitor inspects the interior of a ruined cottage in the abandoned village of Tyneham, in Dorset, England, July 8, 2018. (Jerry Harmer/AP)

Ghost town: Visiting a tiny English village where history stopped dead in WWII

By JERRY HARMER

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Alt-right activists, anti-fascist protestors, and people on all sides of the political spectrum face off during a campaign rally organized by right-wing organizer, Patriot Prayer founder and Republican Senate candidate Joey Gibson in Portland, Oregon, August 4, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas Patterson)

A year after deadly protest, white nationalists to rally outside White House

By Thomas WATKINS

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani smiles during a meeting with the North Korean foreign minister in the capital Tehran on August 8, 2018. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Iran aide doesn’t see ‘any reason’ for Trump-Rouhani talks

By AP

Hip hop artist Grandmaster Flash returns to Israel in September (Courtesy Grandmaster Flash Facebook page)

Here comes my DJHip hop DJ Grandmaster Flash to perform in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of Netherland's Beth Haim cemetery where headstones are normally covered by grass. (CC BY-SA Marcelmulder68, Wikimedia Commons)

Heatwave kills grass at Holland’s oldest Jewish cemetery, exposing layout

By JTA

Indian film actor-turned-politician Naramalli Sivaprasad arrives at parliament dressed as Adolf Hitler to press for government funding for his home state of Andhra Pradesh, in New Delhi on August 9, 2018. (AFP)

Neo-DelhiIndian lawmaker dons Hitler costume to criticize Modi

By AP

Conservative Rabbi Dov Haiyun seen arriving at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 19, 2018. Haiyun had been detained by police early that morning (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Conservative rabbi detained for performing wedding to run for Haifa city council

By JTA

Labour MP John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor, speaks ahead of the Grenfell fire one-year anniversary solidarity march organized by Justice4Grenfell and the Fire Brigade's Union, in Westminster in London, June 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Leading Labour MP slammed for accusing Israel of trying Gaza ‘genocide’ in 2012

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

An illustrative image of a Star of David. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish groups fight US plan to make synagogues pay taxes on employees’ benefits

By JTA

Illustrative: A participant wears a kippah during a 'wear a kippah' gathering to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the Jewish Community House on April 25, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

German police record sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks, mostly by far-right

By Tamar Pileggi

Employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and their families protest against job cuts announced by the agency outside its offices in Gaza City on July 31, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Hamas vows support for UNRWA workers staging ‘mutiny’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Stefan Abrahamsson (Screencapture/Youtube)

Swedish Christian Zionists to sail to Israel on solidarity mission

By JTA

Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

US academic group decries BDS… and legal attempts to squelch it

By JTA

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