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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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East Jerusalem Arabs clash with border police in the neighborhood of Shuafat following the discovery of a dead Palestinian teen in the Jerusalem forest, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Liveblog (Now closed)

Tensions spiral amid suspicions of revenge killing by Jewish extremists

By Yifa Yaakov and Marissa Newman

Kerry condemns ‘despicable murder’ of Jerusalem Arab teen; PM calls for swift probe, as Israelis mourn on day after three slain Israeli teens laid to rest; rockets slam south

Arab teen killed in capital; revenge attack suspected

By Ilan Ben Zion and Lazar Berman

IDF said to zero in on hideout of teens’ killers

Hamas chief asks Erdogan to help prevent Israel assault on Gaza

By Elhanan Miller

Men placing rocks on the grave of three slain teens. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liveblog (closed): Teens laid to rest

Israel’s three murdered teens buried side-by-side amid national outpouring of grief

By Yifa Yaakov and Marissa Newman

PM says Israel will expand action against Hamas if need be; missiles hit Eshkol region; tens of thousands mourn teens at joint burial service, separate funerals; Israel vows to apprehend killers ‘dead or alive’; US warns Israel against ‘heavy-handed’ response

Teen’s phone transmitted for over an hour after abduction

By Adiv Sterman

AnalysisGaza invasion or house demolitions, Israel still likely to come under fire

By Raphael Ahren

Reporter's notebookAn entire community joins the Mourner’s Kaddish

By Melanie Lidman

Hovav Landau, left, along with two soldiers in the Halhul region Monday (photo credit: Binyamin Tropper/ courtesy)

Thinking like kidnappers, a group of volunteers ends the search

By Mitch Ginsburg

Some two dozen outdoorsmen, employing some army intel and common sense, marked up a few possible sites to search; on their second day in the field they found the bodies of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel

Tears in the Square

At an impromptu vigil in New York City, there were no words or answers, just being together as a global family

Gabriel Sassoon

Rethinking the punishment policy

Israel has repeatedly caved in to terrorists while failing to reward Palestinian moderation

Itamar Rabinovich

Israel in a Middle Eastern china shop

Calling on leaders to hold their tongues about Kurdish independence and military assistance to Jordan

We need one another

On the need to truly love thy neighbor as thyself (eulogy for Gil-ad Shaar)

So, how many Palestinians should we kill?

The ‘light unto the nations’ is allowing the worst of its enemies to take away its humanity

Israeli soldiers transport a burnt car which may have been connected to the disappearance of three teenagers near the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, June 13, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Recording of teen’s emergency call released: ‘They’ve kidnapped me’

By Lazar Berman

In tape, kidnappers can be heard yelling at teens to put heads down, then loud noises ring out, and a groan

Leehy Shaar in front of a photo of Gil-ad at a June 19, 2014 vigil at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles. (Photo credit: Marvin Steindler)

Aunt of slain teen Gil-ad Shaar mourns at Los Angeles vigil

By Kelly Hartog

I see the flag covering Gil-ad’s body and I still say, ‘That can’t be Gil-ad. He’s such a fine boy. He’s so cool,’ says Leehy Sha’ar

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, stands next to Avi Fraenkel, left, and Ofir Shaar (2nd left), fathers of two of the three Israeli teenagers killed in the West Bank, during their funeral on July 1, 2014 in the cemetery of Modiin in central Israel. (photo credit: AFP/POOL/BAZ RATNER)

US says Israel accepted offer to help hunt down teens’ killers

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

The NowForce app in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

60,000 Israelis download app to notify of abduction

By JTA

Mobile application, designed by NowForce, lets users in trouble contact rescue services with the swipe of a finger

Muhammad Abu Aysha, uncle of suspected kidnapper Amer Abu Aysha (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

At ransacked homes of suspects, disbelief that killings took place

By Elhanan Miller

Standing in their devastated abodes, family members of the two suspected kidnappers find it hard to accept the Israeli account

African migrants from the Holot detention center seen in their makeshift tent city in the Nitzana forest, June 29, 2014. (photo credit: Flash 90)

Exodus to Egypt? Why African migrants marched on Israel’s border

An image grab taken from Iraqiya channel shows Iraqi Primi Minister Nouri al-Maliki delivering a televised speech in Baghdad on June 18, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP photo / Iraqi TV)

Kurds and Sunnis walk out of 1st Iraqi parliament session

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sinan Salaheddin

Move dashes hopes for speedy formation of new government as fighting with ISIL continues

California Governor Jerry Brown, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. (AP/Eric Risberg)

Israel, California sign major tech cooperation deal

By David Shamah

Under the agreement, companies are invited to submit R&D projects – which could get funding from both sides

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Men pray at the gravesite of the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson on the 20th anniversary of his death in Queens, New York, July 1, 2014. (Adam Ben Cohen/Chabad.org)

Chabad still carving its path 20 years after leader’s death

By Uriel Heilman

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Israeli dance trio TripL. (photo credit: courtesy image)

Musical powerPop song is joint Iranian-Israeli effort

Iran's heavy-water nuclear facility near the central city of Arak, Iran, January 15, 2011 (photo credit: AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

US, Iran hold their ground even as deadline looms

By Simon Sturdee

Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Texas. (screen capture: YouTube/JewsOnTelevision)

Man sentenced for bomb threat to Houston synagogue

By JTA

Colombians in Israel celebrate on Tel Aviv's Allenby Street after Colombia's victory over Uruguay. (photo credit: JTA/Diego Melamed)

El PresidenteColombia’s Jewish soccer star

By JTA

Rachelle Fraenkel crying over the body of her son Naftali at his funeral, July 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGrieving and aggrieved

By Joshua Davidovich

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