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Gaza Ceasefire Holds as Hamas Declares Jerusalem the Ultimate Goal

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas

At a news conference in Doha Qatar on Thursday, Khaled Meshaal described the latest Gaza conflict as being only “a milestone to reaching our objective.” That objective includes taking Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. Another statement after the truce announcement by Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri confirmed Jerusalem was among the long term goals: “The time has come for us to say that the true war is not aimed at opening border crossings. Our true war is aimed at the liberation of Jerusalem.”

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Canaanite Wine Cellar Found in Galilee

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A recently released study by archaeologists who last year unearthed what was thought to be a Bronze Age royal wine cellar at the northern Galilee site of Tel Kabri confirmed that the bottles originally contained wine. “The presence of both tartaric and syringic acids in relative abundance as biomarkers indicates that all of these vessels originally held wine and that we may be confident in identifying this space as a wine storage room—that is to say, a wine cellar,” they said.

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Parasha Shoftim (Judges): Exercising Judgment and the Knowledge of Good and Evil

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This week’s Torah reading, called Judges (Shoftim in Hebrew), discusses the issue of justice according to a Biblical perspective. God commanded Moses to instruct the people of Israel to appoint shoftim (judges), a word derived from the word shafat, meaning to judge or to govern, and shotrim (officials or official books, and in modern Hebrew, police officers) to rule at the gates of the cities so that justice would prevail. These appointed leaders were expected to judge the people with fairness, equality and wisdom. They were forbidden from perverting justice in any way, such as showing favoritism or taking bribes.

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At Risk Israeli Farmers Get Bomb Shelters and 500 Helping Hands

A farm hand in Israel maintains greenhouse legumes.

Many of the rockets that are fired from the Strip fall in agricultural fields. Until now, no farmer has been hurt, but the crops and fields have suffered. The government has committed to assisting those farmers who have suffered losses to crops and livestock. The director of Yofi Shel Yerakhot (Beautiful Vegetables) a cooperative of farmers in the Negev, said that their members as well as their workers (many of whom are Thai foreign workers), are committed to working the extra hours needed to assure a steady supply of vegetables to Israeli tables despite the crisis of Hamas bombing. Another group of foreign workers—500 Christian volunteers—will be arriving over the next three months to help farmers in Judea and Samaria. They have come as a part of a trip organized by the American Christian organization HaYovel (the Jubilee).

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Elul and the Days of Awe: The Season of Judgment, Mercy, Repentance, and the Return of Yeshua‏

The Hebrew month of Elul begins the season of blowing the shofar (ram's horn) and seeking God in sincere repentance.

Today is the first day of Elul, the last month of the Jewish civil calendar that ends on Erev Rosh Hashanah, the evening of the Jewish New Year (September 24, 2014). Elul leads up to the Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe), a time of intensely focusing on repentance and forgiveness. The Days of Awe begin with Erev Rosh Hashanah on September 24 and end with the close of Yom Kippur on the night of October 4 (1–10 Tishrei).

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School Year Opens in Israel Despite Gaza Rockets

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Despite the continued barrage of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, the school year will start on September 1. In order to help students who are suffering from the stress of continually being bombed by Hamas, Israel’s teachers have been directed to lead discussions in which students talk about what they have experienced during the ongoing Gaza conflict.

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Hamas Executes Suspected Collaborators with Israel in “Operation Strangling Necks”

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In recent days, Hamas operatives have executed at least 25 Gazans suspected of collaborating with Israel in what Hamas calls "Operation Strangling Necks." (JP) On Friday morning, 11 alleged informants were shot at the Gaza City police headquarters. Two of the 11 were women. Later in the day, masked gunmen wearing black openly shot seven alleged in formants, lining them up against a wall with their heads covered with bags. They then sprayed them with automatic rifles fire in front of worshippers emerging from the al-Omari Mosque.

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Four-Year-Old Israeli Murdered By Hamas Laid to Rest Sunday

Hamas mortar Daniel Tragerman

On Sunday morning, four-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was the victim of Hamas' Friday afternoon rocket attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was laid to rest. Daniel was critically wounded by rocket shrapnel in his family home as he ran to the safe room when the code red siren sounded. With only seconds to reach the room, he didn't make it. He died shortly after.

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Hamas Hits Israeli Kindergarten and Synagogue

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What began with three Gaza rockets on Tuesday hitting Be’er Sheva and Netivot escalated to about 70 by 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. A civilian home was hit Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday morning, a 33-year old man who shielded children with his body was seriously hurt in Eshkol. An empty kindergarten was also struck and several cows were also killed when a rocket kit a cowshed. By Thursday evening, Hamas had unleashed more than 300 rockets. On Friday, four-year-old Daniel Tragerman was killed when a Hamas rocket landed near his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

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