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What Matters Most On Friday, July 4, 2014

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Relatives and friends of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, 16, carry his body to the mosque during his funeral in Shuafat in East Jerusalem on July 4, 2014 (Photo credit: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Tense calm returns to Jerusalem after Arab teenager’s stormy funeral

By Adiv Sterman and AFP

13 policemen, 35 demonstrators lightly injured in day of rioting surrounding burial of slain 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir

Vandals paint swastikas on road to Western Wall

From the webMurdered Palestinian teenager’s family says new footage shows his abduction

Netanyahu condemns murder of Palestinian teenager

By Stuart Winer

Abu Ubeida (right), the official spokesperson of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas, at a press conference on July 3, 2014, in Gaza City (photo credit: AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Analysis

Through Egypt, Hamas and Israel move close to cease-fire

By Avi Issacharoff and Lazar Berman

‘Ball is in Hamas’s court,’ says official, as Jerusalem offers ‘quiet for quiet’

Gaza rockets hit deeper, but Israel still limiting its response

AnalysisHamas smells Israel’s fear of escalation, and so the rockets keep coming

By Avi Issacharoff

AnalysisIn Gaza, preparing for war, hoping for calm

By Mitch Ginsburg

Adin Steinsaltz

God will find the right way to make our enemies pay for what they did — our task is to ’do’ Kaddish

The first time I heard a woman say Kaddish

When Rachel Fraenkel stood up it all fit so well and was so appropriate that it was impossible not to cry

Michael Melchior

Rabbi Noam Perel, go home!

The Secretary General of World Bnei Akiva must be dismissed for using words of Torah to incite to violence

An Israeli soldier patrols near the area where the bodies of three Israeli teenagers were found, in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Analysis

How did the Shin Bet fail to spot the Hebron kidnap cell in time?

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel’s intelligence services have a remarkable record of success in the West Bank. Not this time. Hard lessons will have to be learned about the failure to thwart the killings of the three Israeli teens

IDF soldiers assemble in the Palestinian village of Halhul, north of Hebron, after the bodies of three Israeli teenagers were found nearby, Monday, June 30, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

ExclusiveIsrael hunting third Hamas operative missing since night teens were killed

By Avi Issacharoff and Adiv Sterman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting, on June 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Analysis

Arab teen’s killing limits PM’s options against Hamas

By Raphael Ahren

Three marathon sessions later, the cabinet still hasn’t decided, and as time passes, a massive campaign seems increasingly unlikely

Pope Francis waves goodbye as he leaves Israel after a regional visit in May 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Pope calls Rome chief rabbi to offer condolences for slain teens

By JTA

Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni said he originally thought call was a prank

Members of the Parents Circle, who have lost a loved one in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, demonstrating in Tel Aviv, July 3, 2013. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman)

Thousands protest ‘wave of hate’ in Tel Aviv

By Melanie Lidman

Peace activists and bereaved families call for an end to Jewish-Arab violence as nation seethes over slain teens

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. (photo credit: Flash90)

Livni calls for action against ‘homegrown’ terrorism

More than 600 Boston-area Jews attended a Memorial Service for Our Boys outside Boston Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Boston memorial service: ‘Break the silence’ about Israel

By Matt Lebovic

Amid calls to support the State of Israel in its response to terrorism, Congressman Stephen Lynch reminds attendees Naftali Fraenkel was also a ‘son of the US’

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

Serious doubts arise on triplets named for slain teens

Israeli flag on street: Rabbi Pessach Kauffman of São Paulo and his friend Fabio Steinecke pose outside of Rio's Maracanã Stadium before the France vs. Ecuador game on June 25, 2014. (courtesy: Pessach Kauffman)

Brazilian Jewry’s World Cup soccer Shabbos goyim

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

European Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (left), and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), before the closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

US team staying in Vienna in bid to make July 20 Iran deal deadline

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Time is running out for Tehran to take the necessary decisions on its nuclear program, says US official

Volunteers sort produce at the warehouse of Leket Israel, the country's largest food-rescue organization. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Virtual food basket site triples donations to hungry

By David Shamah

Leket Israel relies on volunteers to collect unused food, and its new online ‘supermarket’ enables more people to help

Retro camping on the Kinneret, where the living is easy (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Leave your tent at home

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Aaron Teitelbaum (YouTube screenshot)

Someone needs to repentSatmar head blames parents for murders

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ophir and Bat-Galim Shaar in Talmon on July 3, 2014 (photo credit: Courtesy Michal Avior)

Unnamed donor flies Torah to Israel for slain teens

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative: A Palestinian worker speaks with his Jewish employee at the SodaStream factory in the Mishor Adumim industrial park, February 2, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

BDS protests force SodaStream affiliate shutdown

A photograph of Hessy Taft as a baby that was used by the Nazi's as an example of an ideal Aryan baby. (screen capture: YouTube/USC Shoah Foundation)

Here's looking at Jew, BabyNazi’s Aryan poster baby was Jewish

By Stuart Winer

Prototype of the interactive rear-view member developed by Robin Labs and Pioneer (Photo credit: Courtesy)

With Israeli tech, talking car tells you joke’s punchline

By David Shamah

Ofer Sinai (L) and David Mezuman (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli app lets you HopOn the bus, hassle free

By David Shamah

Israeli security forces point their weapons toward Palestinian protestors during clashes in the Shuafat neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on July 2, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Hebrew Media ReviewIsrael on edge

By Marissa Newman

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