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What Matters Most On Friday, November 30, 2012

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appeals to all nations to vote in favor of the Palestinians "as an investment in peace," in a statement before the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: Richard Drew/AP)

Analysis

Like it or not, the state of Palestine is semi-officially on the map

By Raphael Ahren

Nearly unanimous support for Abbas’s UN bid shows that even some of Israel’s closest allies blame the Netanyahu government for the impasse in the peace process

Liveblog (now closed)UN General Assembly votes 138-9, with 41 abstentions, in favor of nonmember status for ‘Palestine’

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Joshua Davidovich

International Criminal Court to consider implications of UN vote on Palestine

By AP and ToI Staff

‘It’s a first step to a country,’ says elated young Palestinian journalist

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Labor chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich casts her vote in Labor party primaries, November 30, 2012 (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

New Labor list brings in fresh faces, party leader says government is ‘blind’ to what’s happening in region

By Yoel Goldman

Party’s slate includes former head of IDF’s most elite commando unit, Kadima defectors and leaders of the social protest movement; Likud describes roster as ‘extreme leftist’

National Student Union chairman Itzik Shmuli, right, one of the leaders of the summer 2011 social justice protests, shakes hands with Shelly Yachimovich as he joins the Labor Party on October 17, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Full results of Labor Party primaries

Michael Melchior

They had a choice and they chose evil: on the murder of Norway’s Jews

The key issue of anti-Semitism and every form of racism is the danger to democracy, civilization and the future of humanity.

Natan Odenheimer

Our disputes must be ‘for the sake of heaven’

By changing Israel-related discourse from polarizing to unifying, we are bringing a new way to engage with Israel.

Members of the constitutional assembly attend a session to vote on a final draft of a new Egyptian constitution in Cairo on Thursday, November 29, 2012. (photo credit: Mohammed Abu Zaid/AP)

Egypt’s Islamists hurriedly approve new constitution

By Hamza Hendawi and MAGGIE MICHAEL

Provisions could bring restrictions on freedom of speech, women’s rights and other liberties

Photo in the German Federal Archives depicts German Jews leaving Germany in the 1930s. (Courtesy Ethan Bensinger)

Yekke renewal: a new project ‘Traces’ the remnants of German-Jewish culture

By Lisa Pevtzow

Crowds in Ramallah watch the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN, November 29, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

In Ramallah, UN vote brings little jubilation

By Elhanan Miller

‘We don’t want ’67,’ says a young university graduate. ‘We want all of Palestine’

Seen through a Palestinian flag, people rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 29, 2012. (AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)

65 years after approving partition plan, UN General Assembly upgrades ‘Palestine’ to nonmember observer state

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian flag unfurled on the floor of the General Assembly after overwhelming majority of members elect to grant PA same status as The Vatican

From left: then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni, then-prime minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei, during a meeting in Jerusalem in November, 2007 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Livni blames Netanyahu government for UN vote

By Yoel Goldman

Meretz head Gal-On says Israel’s rejectionist foreign policy has received ‘a resounding slap in the face’

The Senate side of the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC (Wikimedia Commons/File)

US Senate votes unanimously for tougher Iran sanctions

By Donna Cassata

Legislators vote 94-0 for a package of penalties that targets Islamic Republic’s domestic industries

Li Lorian at her projection stage (Courtesy Li Lorian)

Puppet politics

A one-woman show that projects politics

By Samuel Thrope

More Headlines

Palestinians wave Fatah flags behind a poster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a rally in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 29 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Hebrew Media ReviewA (nonmember observer) state is born

By Yossi Nachemi

Former International Monetary Fund chief leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, and Nafissatou Diallo, the New York City hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her. (photo credit: AP)

Strauss-Kahn, NY hotel maid to settle

By Jennifer Peltz

Illustrative photo of babies at the Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem (Flash90)

Better to be born in Israel than France or England, study shows

By Aaron Kalman

Woman finds bodies of husband, daughter at home

By Yoel Goldman

Even more decoratedBarak awarded US DOD’s top civilian honor

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal launch the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna. (Ronald Zak/AP)

UN chief opens interfaith center sponsored by… Saudi Arabia

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