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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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$Rachelle Fraenkel, mother of kidnapped Israeli youth Naftali, speaks to the press outside her house on Tuesday, June 16, 2014. She is flanked by the parents of two other teens kidnapped with her son, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)$

'All we want is to hug our children'

Families of kidnapped teens come together, ask for prayers

By Gavriel Fiske and Raphael Ahren

Group receives call from Netanyahu, who says Israel is ‘doing everything’ to bring their sons home; ‘We feel deeply embraced by the entire Jewish nation,’ says Racheli Sprecher Frankel

AnalysisPA taking steps to halt reconciliation with Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Five days on, EU condemns teenagers’ kidnapping

By Raphael Ahren

Mass arrests in West Bank as search for teens continues

Ouria and Iris Yifrah, the parents of kidnapped teenager Eyal Yifrah, speak to the media outside their home in Elad, on June 16, 2014. (Photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Analysis

A nation united in foreboding

By David Horovitz

A burning sense of solidarity, helplessness and grievance as we brace for developments in the kidnapping of three teenage Israelis

Gideon D. Sylvester

Vengeance is an un-Jewish response

Judaism teaches that suffering, even if necessary, should be a source of profound regret not unseemly gloating

Victory is the only solution for Iraq

Power-sharing arrangements usually fail and the U.S. is best off teaming up with Iran to prevail over ISIS

Edward Grossman

Too soon to say

The Middle East map is being redrawn, a natural result of earlier regroupings that loosed anarchy upon the world

This is the danger of occupation

Israel’s all-out efforts to find the three kidnapped boys will push more and more Palestinians towards extremism

One of the many scenes ripped from history in Bethesda Softworks' popular new videogame. (courtesy: Bethesda Softworks)

Major new game set at Nazi concentration camp is top seller

By Jordan Hoffman

‘Wolfenstein: The New Order’ has two versions: the ‘safe’ version for play in Germany, and the Holocaust imagery-ridden one for the rest of the world

Balad MK Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK assailed for saying kidnappers not terrorists

Politicians call for Hanin Zoabi’s removal from the Knesset; Balad lawmaker later says she doesn’t support perpetrators

Mohammad Zoabi (screen capture: YouTube)

Threats against Israeli Arab teen who slammed kidnapping

By Gavriel Fiske

Police arrest 3 relatives of Mohammad Zoabi, 17, who posted pro-Israel video; MK Hanin Zoabi, another relative, says kidnappers aren’t terrorists

PA President Mahmoud Abbas poses with prisoners released on October 30, 2013 as part of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Mahmoud Abbas’s prisoner dilemma

By Elhanan Miller

The president of the Palestinian Authority stands alone in the face of bipartisan support for the kidnapping of Israelis

Naftali Bennett speaks to students at the Mekor Chaim yeshiva in Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, which two of the kidnapped teens attend, on June 16, 2014. (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Bennett promises ‘ticket to hell’ for Hamas members

By Gavriel Fiske

Senior minister says we must stop releasing prisoners in exchange for kidnap victims or cycle will never end

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers comments on ongoing Israeli efforts to locate three Israeli teenagers abducted by Hamas, Monday, June 16, 2014. (screenshot: Channel 2 News)

Netanyahu: Returning kidnapped teens ‘will take time’

By Stuart Winer

PM decries those ‘who condemn every balcony that’s built in Gilo’ but remain silent over abductions

Israel's next president, Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Flash 90)

Rivlin: We don’t need to be fearful in our country

By Stuart Winer

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)

Analysis

As the US stalls on Iraq, opportunity for the Kurds — and Iran

By Lazar Berman

European Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (left), and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), before the closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Senior US official: Iran wants to meet July 20 deadline

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Deputy Secretary of State Burns likely to discuss Iraq with Iranian counterparts as talks open in Vienna

A bountiful crop of peaches, waiting for recipes (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Top five

Everything’s coming up peaches

By Jessica Steinberg

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The NowForce app in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

ExclusiveKidnappings prompt new Israeli smartphone SOS system

By David Shamah

Henry Dreyfuss, Princess Phone, 1959. Photograph: Johnna Arnold.

Bad callSoldier makes prank kidnap claim

British Foreign Secretary William Hague (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90/File)

UK to reopen embassy in Iran

By AP

Among the Jewish meet-ups at this year's World Cup: a Saturday soccer game on the beach in Rio de Janeiro. (Courtesy Turismo Judaico)

Brazil 2014: The Jewish Guide 6 Jewish things about the World Cup

By Diego Melamed

Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi in 2014 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police question ex-IDF chief in succession scandal

Sinead O’Connor during a live performance in 2013 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Pymouss)

Sinead's dilemmaO’Connor wants to cancel Israel show

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers on an arrest operation in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMaking Hamas hay

By Joshua Davidovich

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