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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 21, 2014

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A Caterpillar tractor clearing land for Israeli homes in the West Bank, in 2012. (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

‘We cannot profit from the destruction of homes and lives,’ Presbyterians say

By ToI Staff, Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and AP

Church leaders explain decision to divest from 3 US companies they say profit from Israeli occupation, as Jewish leaders condemn vote

Several attendants of the Presbyterian General Assembly in Detroit form a prayer circle and sing for Israeli-Arab peace. Two are seen wearing shirts which read: 'Another Jew supporting divestment.' (screen capture: YouTube)

Presbyterian Church votes in favor of divestment

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

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

‘Noose tightening around kidnappers, teens still in West Bank’

Troops searching house-to-house in Hebron area; official says abductors unsuccessful in moving abducted youths out of territory

Fire trucks called in to help with West Bank search for teens

Lapid: We want kidnapped teens home by next Shabbat

Palestinian FM: No 3rd Intifada as long as Abbas in charge

Dexter Van Zile

PA to pro-Israel Christian: Time to Go

Brian Schrauger, a writer living near Bethlehem, was told that his safety could not be guaranteed

Why I hate(d) my birthday

On starting to stop asking ‘How did it get so late so soon?’

Kenneth Waltzer

Meet the Finklers

On the ‘brazen few’ progressive Jews who say that all in Israel/Palestine is completely Israel’s fault

Rachelle Fraenkel, mother of one of the kidnapped Israeli teens, speaks to CNN. (screen capture: CNN)

Mother of missing teen appeals for world help

After 8 days, Rachelle Fraenkel tells CNN she barely sleeps or eats while her son’s whereabouts uncertain, calls on ‘any decent person’ to help

Harbin's Main Synagogue today. (photo credit: Erica Lyons/Times of Israel)

105-year-old Chinese synagogue reopens to public

By JTA

After a year-long restoration project, Harbin’s Main Synagogue looks as it does when first completed in 1909

The Reading Power Station in Tel Aviv (Photo Credit: Public Domain Ori/Wikimedia Commons)

Father, daughter drown near Tel Aviv’s Reading Power Station

The two were apparently sucked in by the station’s pumps after their boat overturned

Seth Galena and Hindy Poupko, on his right shoulder, celebrate the birth of their son Akiva at his bris, June 15, 2014. (Piha Studio/via JTA)

Bereaved parents find joy with new baby, thanks to NIH

By Uriel Heilman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with mayors from cities all over the world, at the 29th International Mayor Conference, on June 18, 2014 (photo credit: Haim Zach / GPO/Flash90)

20 world mayors condemn kidnapping of Israeli teens

By JTA

Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri, one of group at Jerusalem conference, was abducted himself in 1991

Illustrative photo of two Kassam rockets heading toward Israel shortly after they are fired by Palestinians in Gaza. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Southern residents wake to rocket sirens

Saturday calm broken by alarms as rocket launched from Gaza, with no casualties or damage reported

Palestinian authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)

Palestinian FM: No 3rd Intifada as long as Abbas in charge

Riyad al-Maliki says if Hamas behind kidnapping of three Israeli teens, ‘drastic’ consequences for Fatah-Hamas unity process

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iranian child bride who killed husband faces execution

Human rights groups call for pardon of Razieh Ebrahimi, who says she was forced to marry abusive man

An Islamic State recruitment video calls on others to join in their holy war (screen capture: Youtube)

British Jihadists urge their ‘brothers’ to join war

In recruitment video, young Arab men call on their brethren in the West to join ISIL militants in Iraq, Syria

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, arrives for a press briefing for Iranian journalists after the closed-door nuclear talks at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Friday, June 20, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Envoys report minor progress in Iranian nuclear talks

By AP

Iranian FM says ‘general framework’ agreed upon, though details must be worked out; next round slated for July 2

An olive press at Yad Hashmona (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

A Holocaust memorial and a village, harking back thousands of years

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Illustrative photo of Iraqi Shiite fighters parading with their weapons in Baghdad (Photo credit: Ali al-Saadi/AFP)

Baghdad: Shiite fighters parade in show of force

By AFP

ISIL militants seize control of one of Iraq’s three official border crossings with Syria

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Former Maccabi Tel Aviv coach David Blatt is now headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Former Maccabi TA coach David Blatt heads to Cleveland

Illustrative photo of a tanker carrying crude oil (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Oil tanker from Iraqi Kurdistan arrives in Israel

A Boeing 747 El Al plane (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Jews leaving France, Ukraine boost immigration by 50%

By JTA

Illustrative photo of captive Nazi troops marching as American forces advance in Belgium, December 1944. (photo credit: US Signal Corps/public domain)

SS war criminal lived in Britain for 66 years

By JTA

A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Czechs condemn Nazi-like child euthanasia proposal

By AP

Extra police deploy in Belgium after a May 2014 attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels. (Joods Actueel/Flash90)

Belgium to spend $4m on Jewish institution security

By JTA

The director-general of investment promotion, Simon Galpin, introduces the launch of Invest Hong Kong's 2014 StartMeUpHK Venture Program (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Hong Kong offers Israeli start-ups ‘soft’ China landing

By David Shamah

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Georgia governor visits Israel on trade mission

By AP

Jews from all over the world, including Israel, at a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Birthright tech intern program begins fourth year

By David Shamah

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