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What Matters Most On Friday, June 27, 2014

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Rachelle Fraenkel speaks to the Times of Israel, June 26, 2014. (Photo and video credit: Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)

Interview and VIDEO: Rachelle Fraenkel

A mother’s plea for ‘prayer, positive energy, whatever it takes’ to find kidnapped teens

By David Horovitz

WATCH: ‘Somewhere, probably in the Hebron area, there is a very good hiding place with three teenagers,’ says Rachelle Fraenkel. ‘We need people condemning the kidnapping, requesting, pressuring. Any leverage…’

Marwan Kawasme (left) and Amer Abu Aysha (right), suspected by Israel of kidnapping and killing three Israeli teens. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Analysis

Israel names suspects in kidnapping of three teens

By Avi Issacharoff and Adiv Sterman

Hamas operatives Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme have been absent from their homes in Hebron since youths went missing

Israeli jets strike car, killing 2 Palestinians in Gaza

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

IDF arrests 9 in overnight operations

By Lazar Berman

Gush Etzion residents hold nighttime prayer session for youths

Things we tell ourselves so we can sleep

The kidnapping of the 3 teens raises profound questions for parents raising their children in Israel by choice

An underground fortress of healing

The new Sammy Ofer Emergency Hospital at Rambam Medical Center is an engineering triumph for a grim scenario

President Obama, say something

The silence is deafening, considering lofty promises that the US will pursue those who harm American citizens

To our Presbyterian brothers and sisters

Turn from the path of delegitimation and join us in working for a just peace for two peoples in two nations

Prototype of a Tracense bomb detecting device (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli nanotech innovation can ‘smell’ bombs

By David Shamah

Available next year, Tracense device detects all types of explosives electronically, better than dogs, CEO Dr. Ricardo Osiroff says

French Jewish Defense League activists demonstrate in Paris, 2011 (illustrative photo credit: Ligue de Defense Juive via JTA)

2 French Jews jailed for assaulting anti-Israel reporter

By JTA

Jewish Defense League members were found guilty of placing a bomb under car of anti-Zionist journalist

Former US special envoy Martin Indyk. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

US Mideast envoy Martin Indyk quits after peace effort fails

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

Following collapse of US-brokered talks between Israel, Palestinians in April, Indyk to return to Brookings Institution

President Shimon Peres addresses the US Congress after being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, July 26, 2014 (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

Peres honored by Congress, calls for ‘start-up region’

By Adiv Sterman

90-year-old statesman lauded by American leaders as a ‘force of nature’ and inspiration

Jordan's ambassador to the United Nationas, Prince Zeid al-Hussein, speaks to the media during a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

For Israel at the UN, a Jordanian ‘ray of light’?

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem quietly hopes that as Human Rights Council chief, Prince al-Hussein will curb the UN body’s famously strident criticism — but some voices are raised in protest against him

Six Reform rabbis pose outside the jail in St. Augustine, Florida, where they spent a night after being arrested protesting for civil rights 50 years earlier. Standing (from left to right), are Allen Secher, Israel Dresner, Jerrold Goldstein and Richard Levy. Sitting are Daniel Fogel, left, and Hanan Sills. (photo credit: Dina Weinstein/JTA)

Rabbis jailed in civil rights protest 50 years ago return to Florida

By Dina Weinstein

EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen (photo credit: Yossi Zwecker)

Europe ‘losing patience’ over settlements, says envoy

Spain and Italy issue warnings against commercial ties with West Bank, while EU ambassador warns more will follow

Israeli security forces take part in the operation to locate the three Israeli teenagers they believe were abducted by Islamist movement Hamas, on June 22, 2014, in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank town of Hebron. (photo credit: AFP/Hazem Bader)

Analysis

In Hebron, the IDF discovers, it’s all too easy to disappear

By Avi Issacharoff

Nitzan Solan (L) and Mendi Pollak (R) flank Dr. Aliza Belman Inbal, who presents them with the $20,000 Pears Challenge award for Livingbox (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli ‘mini-farm’ could feed third world hungry

By David Shamah

Livingbox, a system for landless urban dwellers to grow their own food, is the $20,000 winner in the Pears Challenge competition

Intel Vice-President Mooly Eden (L) and Education Minister Shai Piron at the Intel Israel STEM Conference (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Tech education crisis pushes Intel, Israel to partner

By David Shamah

If the state doesn’t encourage more kids to study tech, the ‘Start-Up Nation’ will soon be history, say executives

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Diner En Blanc in Tel Aviv, June 25. (photo credit: Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld)

It's all whiteA pop-up picnic in the White City

Dylan and Michael Douglas at the City of David tour (Courtesy City of David YouTube)

Stones and bonesDylan Douglas digs the ancient sites

By Jessica Steinberg

British Jewish group sells London HQ for nearly $10 million

By JTA

12-year-old Josh Orlian on 'America's Got Talent' (screen capture: YouTube)

Orthodox school unamused by student’s raunchy routine

By Miriam Moster

The Dead Sea (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Kiosk selling Dead Sea products ejected from New Zealand mall

By JTA

Actor Shia LaBeouf poses for photographers, with a paper bag over his head that says 'I am not famous anymore,' on the red carpet for the film 'Nymphomaniac' at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, on February 9, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Axel Schmidt)

LawlessShia LaBeouf kicked out of NYC theater

By AP

Marwan Kawasme (left) and Amer Abu Aysha (right), suspected by Israel of kidnapping and killing three Israeli teens. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Hebrew Media ReviewPortraits of a kidnapper

By Marissa Newman

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