The 29th day of Operation Protective Edge is over. The Tower today reported on the initial hours of the latest 72 hour ceasefire. One of a last minute barrage of rockets fired towards Israel from Gaza hit a house in the Palestinian town of Beth Sahour. Israel withdrew its remaining ground...

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Israeli media is reporting the arrest of Hussam Kawasme, the leader of a Hamas cell in the West Bank responsible for the kidnapping and murder last month of teenagers Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Fraenkel, and Gil-Ad Shaer. According to The Jerusalem Post: Hussam confessed not only that he gave the orders, but also that he collected weapons...

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Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip late Monday officially accepted a three-day Egypt-sponsored truce, effective 8 a.m. local time Tuesday and designed as a first step in ending roughly a month’s worth of fighting in the Gaza Strip. The proposal is almost identical to one that Israel accepted weeks...

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When TV’s talking heads ask serial entrepreneur and investment guru Jon Medved whether the current conflict with Hamas is harming Israel’s high-tech sector, he points out some surprising facts: Investors poured $920 million into Israeli startups in the second quarter of 2014. Mobileye, ReWalk Robotics, MapiPharma and three other Israeli...

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Today was the twenty-eighth day of Operation Protective Edge and the seventeenth day of ground operations in Gaza. RT @IdoAharoni: How to meet Hamas halfway? Maybe Israel only exists Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays? – Amos Oz http://t.co/4J0ysYAnd5 — Israel in New York (@IsraelinNewYork) August 4, 2014 In The Tower today,...

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The IDF today released an annotated aerial map of the Shuja’iya neighborhood in Gaza City showing all of the terror positions located in this residential area. Two weeks ago, in response to 140 rockets fired from that neighborhood, including from locations adjacent to civilian structures, the IDF warned its residents to leave...

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Citing the destruction of the last known terror tunnels, Israeli sources said that both the Israeli government and Hamas had agreed to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire. Ynet reports: Political sources in Jerusalem said Monday night: “Israel supports the Egyptian initative, Israel wanted a ceasefire without preconditions; today the tunnel demolition was completed.” The...

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An IDF soldier was shot near Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus late this afternoon. The suspected terrorist responsible was clad in all black and fled on a motorcycle. The Jersualem Post reports: An IDF soldier was shot in the stomach by a suspected terrorist in a tunnel in Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus...

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The Times of Israel reported yesterday that last week’s initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange of Mobileye, an Israeli startup that makes automobile accident avoidance systems, raised $890 million, a record for an Israeli company in the United States. The previous record is held by Partner Communications...

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An analysis by Jerusalem Post diplomatic correspondent Herb Keinon of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Saturday night speech about Operation Protective Edge observed that Netanyahu made a veiled reference “to key Sunni countries in the region, particularly Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.” The significance of this reference, according to...

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