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What Matters Most On Friday, June 20, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embracing Ophir Shaar, father of kidnapped Israeli teen Gilad Shaar, Friday, June 20, 2014, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem. (Photo credit: GPO/Kobi Gideon)

PM meets with teens’ families as West Bank tensions simmer

Youths’ mothers thank Netanyahus for ‘warm welcome,’ urge government to apply ‘other pressure points’ to bring sons back

AnalysisA week of raids and arrests, but no hard lead to the kidnappers

By Avi Issacharoff

IAF strikes 5 sites in Gaza Strip after rocket attacks

2 Palestinians killed, 2 wounded in West Bank clashes

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Hamas operative Saleh al-Arouri, the Turkey-based head of Hamas operations in the West Bank (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

Israeli official names Hamas leader abroad as suspect behind kidnappings

By Avi Issacharoff

Three Israelis still believed to be held in Hebron area; deported terrorist Saleh al-Arouri, who reports to Khaled Mashaal, said to have been directing West Bank terror cells for years

IDF mulls reducing Ramadan entry permits for Palestinians

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinian FM: Israel overreacting on missing teens

By AFP

Peri: West Bank operation may take a long time

Rachael Risby-Raz

The land of the suckers

Anguish and frustration over a country that releases killers and provides medical care to its enemies

A point of light in downtown Jerusalem

Passersby were quick to open hearts and wallets to show love for IDF soldiers hunting for the missing teens

Lynette Nusbacher

The kidnapping is all win for Hamas

Israel’s display of impotent fury signals to the Palestinians that Hamas is as formidable a force as ever

Sherwin Pomerantz

Israel’s economic impact on the US

A report on American-Israeli economic cooperation, on the heels of the annual Chamber of Commerce gala

The 5 most lopsided prisoner swaps in Israeli history

A patient uses the NaNose breathalyzer (Photo credit: Courtesy Technion)

With a breath, Technion device finds lung cancer

By David Shamah

The 90%-accurate nanotech-based detection system is ready for the market, based on the results of a study by researchers

US President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq on Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama sends 300 military advisers to Iraq

By Julie Pace and Hamza Hendawi

US president inches back into fight he tried to leave behind, but stops short of sending military into combat

President Shimon Peres at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 28, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Peres to meet Esther Pollard ahead of final US visit

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

President set to raise issue of spy Jonathan Pollard’s release as he receives Congressional medal, meets Obama

High school students take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Summer break begins for 673,000 high schoolers

Vacationing teenagers to be joined by elementary school students July 1; Education Ministry publicizes summer program offerings

Portrait of head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, David Blatt, April 08, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

David Blatt poised for NBA dream job with Cavaliers

By Anthony Weiss

Israel’s championship-winning coach set to become the first in European basketball history to move directly to an NBA head coaching role

Attendees at a rally in Toronto in support of kidnapped Israeli teens, including Israeli Consul DJ Schneeweiss (center left), hold up #BringBackOurBoys signs in English and Hebrew for photos to be sent to the teens' families. (Courtesy UJA Federation of Greater Toronto)

Toronto Jews rally for kidnapped Israeli teens

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Known for its abiding support for Israel, largest Canadian Jewish community comes out in force

Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)

Claims Conference weighs shutting down vs. Holocaust education

By Uriel Heilman

Panel appointed after $57-million fraud scandal recommends that the organization shift its long-term focus to remembrance

Rabbi Rick Jacobs (photo credit: URJ via JTA)

Reform head urges Presbyterians not to support BDS

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Rabbi Rick Jacobs warns church before vote: ‘BDS undermines two-state solution’; invites leaders to meet Netanyahu

Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul line arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. (AP Photo)

UN: Number of world’s displaced over 50 million

By John Heilprin and Barbara Surk

Crises in Syria, Sudan, Somalia and elsewhere push refugee figures to highest level since World War II

In this June 6, 2014 photo, American clown David Clay, a member of "Clowns Without Borders," performs for children at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern town of Chtoura, in Bekaa valley, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

For Syria’s children, clowns know laughing matters

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Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Rebel with a causeIran rapper strips for prisoners’ rights

Sadegh Zibakalam, a professor at the University of Tehran (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

Iran professor faces jail for ‘propaganda’ letters

By AFP

A nano-satellite made in Israel (photo credit: CC BY-SA Royroy903 Wikimedia Commons)

Tiny satellite designed by Israeli students launched

A flatworm. (screen capture, Story of Life)

Irrigation infestationAncient parasite egg spotted in Syria

US Secretary of State John Kerry (right) with former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice during a ceremony to unveil the official painting of her that will hang in the State Department, June 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Paul J. Richards)

Didn't we do wellRice, Kerry laud each other’s peace efforts

Josh Orlian (center) sits with his parents before taking the stage on 'America's Got Talent,' June 17, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/America's Got Talent)

Kid's got spunkRacy humor, like father like son

By JTA

Prof. Amnon Shashua of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invented Mobileye, a system designed to prevent accidents by warning the driver in real time about dangerous situations and driving conditions. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the webMobileye files for US IPO

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

Hebrew Media ReviewWaiting for the boys

By Marissa Newman

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