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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 19, 2014

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IDF soldiers in Hebron on June 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Analysis

Israel treads a fine line with West Bank operation

By Raphael Ahren

While the world has been backing the search for the kidnapped youths, that support has its limits

Hamas chief may have given green light for kidnappings

IDF arrests 30 Hamas men throughout West Bank

Amid search for kidnapped teens, US calls for restraint

By AFP

Eyal Yifrah, one of three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank (reproduction image: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Pain and brotherhood at kidnap victim’s Hebron yeshiva

By Mitch Ginsburg

Friends of Eyal Yifrach at the Shavei Hevron Yeshiva discuss emotion, logic and a deeply missed ‘big personality’

Teens’ parents hear recording of call reporting kidnapping

Peres tells parents Israel doing ‘everything’ to find kidnapped teens

By Spencer Ho and Stuart Winer

Soldiers thwart attempted attack near Bethlehem

Cry out

A rendition of Psalm 142, the words being recited by the thousands who are praying for Eyal, Gil-ad, and Naftali

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Hitchhiking is a loaded gun

Like guns in America, hitching in Israel is here to stay — what’s needed are measures that reduce risk

Sherwin Pomerantz

Israel’s economic impact on the US

Bilateral trade is more than $40 billion, and that’s before looking at the impact of Israeli founded companies

Kenneth Waltzer

Portrait of a divestment activist

Robert Ross of the Presbyterian Divestment Movement sees just one side to the issue; the rest is all apologetics

People gather for a vigil for the three missing Israeli teens outside of the Israeli Consulate on June 16, 2014 in New York City. (Photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Kidnapped teen’s US cousin to hold vigil at White House

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Manny Halberstam hopes ‘to send a strong message to President Obama that what is going on in Israel touches and concerns us in America’

Illustrative photo of young ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in a yeshiva in Jerusalem, September 2, 2013 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Paper blames kidnapping on ultra-Orthodox draft

By Stuart Winer

In different theological interpretation, settler rabbi blames laws that ‘chip away at’ the state’s Jewish character

Ofer prison near Ramallah. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

No World Cup TV: Israel toughens conditions for Hamas inmates

Measures also include reduced visiting hours and ban on canteen purchases, newspapers

An F-15I fighter jets flies over the air force's Hatzerim base. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

IAF strikes Gaza after rocket hits home in southern Israel

Direct hits confirmed on several Hamas positions including ‘terror infrastructure site, concealed rocket launcher’

The UN General Assembly (photo credit: CC BY linh.m.do, Flickr)

Over Arab objections, Israel to vice-chair UN panel on Palestinian refugees

By Spencer Ho and ToI Staff

Arab states claim Israel’s track record ‘rife with murder’ and occupation, but are defeated in vote

Former Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski in the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday, March 31, 2014 (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Ex-Jerusalem mayor gets 6 years for taking bribes

Uri Lupolianski funneled hundreds of thousands into charity, was convicted alongside former PM Olmert in the Holyland affair

Avaham Shalom, the Shin Bet deputy chief of the operations that lead to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's capture, seen here on the 50th anniversary of the mission, 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90 )

Former Shin Bet chief Avraham Shalom dies

By Stuart Winer

The man who helped bring Adolf Eichmann to justice later resigned over controversial slaying of bus terrorists

Screenshot of the very un-PC 'Angry Jew' (courtesy)

Game called ‘Angry Jew’ is kosher, says ADL

By Jeff Moskowitz

Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man accused of faking sign interpretation next to world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial, during an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg, South Africa,Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Live video streams worth money with Israeli app

By David Shamah

The Livelens application lets anyone ‘sell’ experiences to online viewers, promoted by a ‘top celebrity’

Graduate student and Kaye Innovation Award winner Michael Brandwein (L), and his mentor, Prof. Doron Steinberg from the Hebrew University’s Biofilm Research Laboratory. (Photo credit: Hebrew University)

Hebrew U researcher targets dangerous food ‘slime’

By David Shamah

Genetically blocking bacterial biofilm in packaged produce prevents disease, promotes health

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Yeshiva University President Richard Joel (photo credit: Yeshiva University)

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FEMEN Israel members protesting on the street. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Elhay Helman/CC BY-SA)

Bare activismTopless protesters make Israel debut

By Aron Dónzis

12-year-old Josh Orlian on "America's Got Talent" (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Working blue at 12Jewish tween wows America’s Got Talent

By ToI Staff and JTA

TV by phone (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Cellcom set to offer television over the Internet

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

Hebrew media reviewRespect my authority

By Yossi Nachemi

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