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What Matters Most On Monday, June 16, 2014

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

DAY 4: The search for the three kidnapped Israeli teens

Abbas calls Netanyahu, condemns kidnapping

By Elhanan Miller

In first conversation for a year, PM asks Palestinian leader to help locate missing teens; Ramallah speaks out against abduction as well as Israeli response

Fatah-linked terrorists claim abduction of three teenagers

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel mulls expulsions, demolitions to press Hamas into freeing teens

By Raphael Ahren

IDF arrests top Hamas MP, dozens others in West Bank raids

Illustrative: Men, women and teens all hitchhike at the side of Route 60, but they look for familiar faces and looks in their drivers (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

How hitchhiking became the norm

By Jessica Steinberg

Even though a manhunt is underway for three teens kidnapped while ‘tremping’ home, other ‘trempistim’ are confident it won’t happen to them

Blame terrorists, not hitchhiking students, Liberman says

Over 30,000 pray for kidnapped teens at Western Wall

By Adiv Sterman and Marissa Newman

Facebook page: Kill a convict every hour

By Lazar Berman

A young woman lights the Shabbat candles during preparation for setting a Guinness World record of the largest Shabbat dinner in the world, organized by "White City Shabbat" and held at the Tel Aviv port on June 13, 2014. (Photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

As Israelis fear for missing teens, a rent in the fabric of joy

Celebratory events feature a new guest: the elephant in the room

The joy and pain of loving Israel

What do you do when you are scheduled to make people laugh on the saddest of days?

The quadrennial frenzy

Whether you relish — or suffer through — the Mondial, the World Soccer Cup affects every aspect of life

Adin Steinsaltz

Add more holiness

The founder of the yeshiva where two of the kidnapped teens studied calls on Jews to pray for their safe return

A pathway through the desert to peace

As climate change degrades the land and causes wars, Israel can be a world leader in battling desertification

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show Islamic State militants leading away captured Iraqi soldiers dressed in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (Photo credit: AP Photo via militant website)

ISIL posts pictures of mass killings of Iraqi soldiers

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub

Terrorists herd troops onto trucks, execute them in desert, as group continues brutal offensive

Al-Shabaab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2011. (AP/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Islamist gunmen kill at least 48 in Kenya attack — officials

By AFP

Witnesses in Mpeketoni say attackers were flying Al-Shabab flag, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’

Syrian residents running in the street after a government warplane dropped barrel bombs on the al-Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, April 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center, AMC/File)

NGO: Syrian regime kills 27 in barrel bombing

By AFP

11 dead after rebel shelling on government-held area Sunday night; children among casualties in both attacks

EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen (photo credit: Yossi Zwecker)

Israel summons EU envoy over ‘blatantly one-sided’ declaration

By Raphael Ahren

Union stands behind joint statement with Arab League, which slams Israel but hails ‘Palestine’s commitment to democracy and human rights’

The entrance to the tunnel along the road from Jerusalem to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, February 22, 2009 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Shots fired at soldiers near Jerusalem, rockets at Ashkelon

No injuries reported in incident at military checkpoint on road to Etzion bloc; Iron Dome downs two of four rockets fired in south

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 14, 2014, as they search for three teenagers who went missing near Gush Etzion (Phot credit: Hazem Bader/AFP)

IDF confirms Palestinian killed in clashes near Ramallah

By AFP

Military says unit came under attack during raid from rioters throwing blocks and bricks; 3 soldiers lightly injured

Masked Palestinian militants in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, June 12, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

Analysis

In bid for Palestinian street, Hamas gambles all

By Avi Issacharoff

The Gaza-based group ended the unity pact with Abbas — and risked Israel’s wrath — when it kidnapped the three youths

The arrest of Hassan Yousef by IDF troops following the abduction of three Israeli teenagers, June 15 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/video line)

WATCH: IDF soldiers arrest senior Hamas offical

By Stuart Winer

Hassan Yousef detained in Hebron amid arrests of terror organization’s members

Hamas cabinet headquarters in Gaza City hit by an IAF airstrike in November 2012 (screen capture: Reuters video)

IAF strikes targets in Gaza Strip

By Lazar Berman

Move comes after rocket fire Sunday evening; military spokesman reports direct hits

Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002. (Courtesy Francis Alÿs and David Zwirner, New York)

Censorship or sanctions? Traveling art exhibit faces BDS

By Caroline Lagnado

A cellphone recharging on a Powermat Spot at a California Starbucks (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Starbucks puts Israeli phone charging tech in shops

By David Shamah

The coffee chain is set to deploy thousands of Powermat’s wireless charging pads, thanks to a new partnership

Pizza Hut's redesigned web site (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Expert: Confusing apps, sites lose businesses cash

By David Shamah

It’s not you, it’s the app or web site that’s dumb. User interface guru Barak Danin wants to ‘smarten’ them up

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Lebanese-Brazilian Jewish banker Edmond Safra (R) and his brother Joseph Safra in 1991. photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

From the webMoise Safra, Brazilian billionaire banker, dead at 79

Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/ AFP/File)

Israel, Germany to cooperate on Nazi-looted art

By AFP

Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower. (photo credit: CC BY joelpk, Flickr)

Men, apparently armed, threaten Paris cops outside synagogue

By JTA

Iraqi men board military trucks to join the Iraqi army at the main recruiting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June. 14, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. (Photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)

US reportedly mulling collaboration with Iran in Iraq

By AFP and ToI Staff

$The three Israeli teens, from L-R: Eyal Yifrach, 19; Naftali Fraenkel, 16; and Gil-ad Shaar, 16 (photo credit: Courtesy)$

Hebrew media reviewThe drama and the anguish

By Ilan Ben Zion

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