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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 18, 2014

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An Israeli army tank is seen stationed on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on March 13, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Analysis

As IDF sweeps West Bank, Gaza residents prepare for war

By Avi Issacharoff

Coastal enclave widely accepts that Hamas was involved in the kidnapping and braces for a harsh Israeli response; Shin Bet said to threaten Gaza man allegedly linked to abduction with a missile strike

Abbas: Kidnapped youths ‘must be returned’

By Aron Dónzis

Hamas bashes Abbas for cooperation with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel rearrests 51 Palestinians freed under Shalit deal

By Aron Dónzis and Spencer Ho

An image of the three-finger salute on Facebook Wednesday (photo credit: Facebook image)

Pro-kidnapping salute gains steam on Palestinian, Arab social media

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinian ‘creativity’ circulates widely in support of teens’ abduction, despite PA President Abbas’s condemnation

Mohammad Zoabi’s mother defends son, scolds critics

Tony Blair: World is repulsed by kidnapping

Hamas embraces MK Zoabi for saying kidnapping not terror

By Aron Dónzis

Hamas for Dummies

10 ways the Palestinian terror group has shot itself in the foot by kidnapping 3 Israel teenagers

Growing up un-absurd

Yeshivah boys like the kidnapped teens are part of this Land just as it is part of them

Shmuley Boteach

We need Europe like a hole in the sheet

The Europeans will believe any anti-Semitic nonsense and it’s our obligation, however daunting, to challenge the lies

The UN and Syria: Business as usual

The United Nations has repeatedly rewarded the Assad regime despite its ongoing atrocities against its civilians

Leon Klinghoffer, 1916-1985 (screen capture: Youtube)

Fearing anti-Semitism, Met nixes ‘Klinghoffer’ opera broadcast

By Marissa Newman

‘The Death of Klinghoffer,’ based on the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, is said to justify Palestinian terrorism; live shows to run as planned

Jewish and Muslim clerics pray for the safe return of the three kidnapped teenagers, Gush Etzion, June 17, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy/Yossi Zamir)

At kidnapping site, Jews and Muslims join in prayer

By Elhanan Miller

In heart of West Bank’s Etzion bloc, sheikh, rabbi, activists and others gather to issue joint call for three teens to be returned safely

Demonstrators rally outside the Israeli consulate in Manhattan to express solidarity with three Israeli teens who were abducted in the West Bank, June 16, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Moster/JTA)

American Jews take up cause of missing Israeli teens

By Uriel Heilman

Palestinians in the West Bank wave green Hamas flags during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on May 30, 2014. (photo credit: Musa al-Shaer/AFP)

ZOA: US policy on Palestinians ‘a diplomatic Kristallnacht’

By JTA

American Zionist group condemns Obama administration for not cutting ties with Hamas-backed Palestinian Authority

Left to right, Mariano Schlez and Paola Salem, with Damian Beker and Maxi Klein, organized efforts to bring together Jewish soccer fans at the World Cup's seven sites in Brazil. (Courtesy Paola Salem/JTA)

At World Cup, couple kicks Jewishness into high gear

By Hillel Kuttler

The poster for the revived UNESCO exhibit on Jewish ties to the Holy Land (photo credit: courtesy SWC)

UNESCO vetoed display on Jewish refugees from Arab lands

By Raphael Ahren

Organizers of revived exhibition on Jews’ ties to Holy Land, which deleted ‘Israel’ from title, agreed to remove controversial section, saying Arab states would have blocked entire show

Fighters from Islamic State seen marching in their stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, June 2014. (AP/Militant Website, File)

Rattled by ISIL, Iran ripe for pressure on nukes, official says

By Raphael Ahren

International community urged to leverage Tehran’s fear of a hostile entity on its border to make gain on nuclear front

CollPlant's Vergenix product (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Plant-based wound repair tech set for human trials

By David Shamah

Israeli firm CollPlant is set to test its tobacco-derived human collagen solution at Maccabi health clinics

Screenshot of some of the over 400 parameters BioCatch checks (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Mouse movement cyber-security firm BioCatch raises $10m

By David Shamah

The system offers banks and finance sites a way to keep away fraudsters, even if they have the right password

Black Francis of the Pixies, who steamed through a 32-song set to his Tel Aviv audience (photo credit: Orit Pnini)

Concert Review

Pixies steam through 33 songs without so much as a Hello or Thank You

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

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

Praying for three boys whose plight hits close to home

Protesters rally in support of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers during a demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in New York on June 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ Brigitte Dusseau)

#BringBackOurBoys meets #BringBackOurGirls

By Miriam Moster

Texas Governor Rick Perry (Rick Perry via Shutterstock)

Lonestar of DavidRick Perry, the Jew

By Julie Wiener

Viral villaA mansion with its very own mikveh

By Jessica Steinberg

Ex-CFO of NY charity gets 4 months for kickback scheme

By JTA

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

Hebrew media review Hugs and thugs

By Joshua Davidovich

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