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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 31, 2014

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Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks after the UN Security Council approved an anti-settlements resolution, December 23, 2016 (Frank Franklin II/AP)

AnalysisIsrael got some breathing space, nothing more

A stinging defeat for Abbas, but no great victory for Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu persuaded Nigeria to abstain as UN Security Council rejected Palestinian statehood, but could only muster US and Australian opposition, and the French let Israel down

Palestinian statehood resolution fails at UN Security Council

By Itamar Sharon, AP and AFP

AnalysisPA could join ICC Wednesday, Palestinians say

By Avi Issacharoff and Tamar Pileggi

PM thanks African leaders for thwarting Palestinian UN bid

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters after the exit polls in the general elections were announced, January 22, 2013. Standing to his left, applauding, is Likud MK Danny Danon. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu set to lead a strikingly hardline Likud

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The run-up to Wednesday’s Likud primaries has seen a wave of sensational headlines. They’ve missed the real story

Netanyahu faces Danon as Likud chooses leader, Knesset slate

Noted economics professor joins Labor-Hatnua

AnalysisThe Palestinians’ failed UN bid: Good news for Likud MKs

By Raphael Ahren

Richard S. Moline

To interdate or not to interdate: that’s not the question

The real focus must be on helping young people and adults alike to find ways to live meaningful Jewish lives

I hope you fail in 2015

The list of those who have failed miserably includes The Beatles, Michael Jordan and Naftali Bennett

What women achieved in this Knesset

Among the strides: Stronger representation in politics, religious freedom at the mikve, equality at the Kotel

Emily B. Landau and Judith Rosen

A peace deal won’t end delegitimization of Israel

Much of the criticism has nothing to do with resolving the Palestinian conflict

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former US president Barack Obama look on as disabled IDF veteran Radi Kaiuf demonstrates the ReWalk exoskeleton system. Kaiuf, who was formerly nearly fully paralyzed, completed the Israel Marathon in 2012 using the system (Kobi Gideon / GPO /FLASH90)

10 Israeli tech ideas that changed the world in 2014

By David Shamah

2014 was the year of Scarlett Johansson. Here, she's devastatingly intelligent in the action film 'Lucy.' (Universal Pictures)

Five best Jewish moments in movies of 2014

By Jordan Hoffman

Screen captures of YouTube clips of newsworthy events during 2014 (photo illustration: Joshua Davidovich)

Our videotaped year

The tallest clock tower in the world at the Abraj al-Bait Towers overlooks the Grand Mosque and its expansion in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, October 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia: Israelis banned, but Jews now allowed to work here

Kingdom’s Labor Ministry says religion not taken into consideration when issuing permits. But Israelis are barred from the country, and some Jews report problems gaining visas

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri signs a letter resigning from the Knesset, as Speaker Yuli Edelstein looks on, December 30, 2014. (Photo credit: Isaac Harari/Knesset Spokesperson)

Elections 2015

Shas leader Deri quits Knesset, fellow MKs following suit

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Move has little practical significance, as parliament already dissolved, but underlines implosion of Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party

Soldiers from the Givati Brigade at the funeral of Lt. Hadar Goldin (Oded Balilty/ AP Photo)

Recordings shed harrowing new light on IDF’s response to Gaza abduction

By Mitch Ginsburg

Army radio transmissions from the morning of August 1 depict the chaotic aftermath of Lt. Hadar Goldin’s kidnapping by Hamas

Benny Gantz visiting a training drill on November 13, 2014. (photo credit: Gadi Yampel/IDF Spokerperson/Flash90)

IDF chief slams Gaza leaks, says army is ‘not reality TV’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Jacques Wagner, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and governor of Bahia, was named Brazil's minister of defense. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Jewish governor named Brazil’s minister of defense

By JTA

Born to immigrants from Poland, Jacques Wagner is a former member of a Zionist youth movement

French Jewish children before their immigration to Israel participate in a farewell event in Paris along with Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Sofa Landver, July 2014. (Photo credit: Erez Lichtfeld)

Immigration to Israel hits 10-year high with record French influx

France tops aliyah chart for first time with 7,000 newcomers; Ukrainian numbers triple as civil war rages

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas blasts Abbas over unsuccessful UN bid

By AFP and ToI Staff

Gaza spokesman calls statehood attempt by the Palestinian Authority president a ‘new failure’

Coins confiscated from a suspected antiquities thief's home in Beit Shemesh, December 2014 (photo credit: Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Antiquities thief busted with over 800 ancient coins

By Ilan Ben Zion

Beit Shemesh man caught while prowling archaeological site with metal detector; found to have immense trove of currency, necklaces, seals, arrowheads and more at his home

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Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

New Hep C treatment tops formulary spending list

Close up of a 'hamsa' talisman featuring the phrase 'slaughter the Jews', produced by Israeli artist Gal Volinez. (photo credit: Sapir College/Gal Volinez)

Five finger discount‘Slaughter the Jews’ art piece stolen

By Stuart Winer

Stoke Newington Towm Hall (Tarquin Binary / Wikipedia)

London Jewish neighborhood again vandalized with swastikas

By JTA

Two revelers ready to party pose for a photo with their 2014 glasses while waiting for the celebration to begin in Times Square on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, in New York. (photo credit: AP/Kathy Willens)

Auld Lang ZzzOn New Year’s Eve, Israelis hit hay early

Pallbearers carry the casket of New York City police officer Rafael Ramos following funeral services at Christ Tabernacle Church, in the Glendale section of Queens, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, in New York. Ramos and his partner, officer Wenjian Liu, were killed Dec. 20 as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (photo credit: AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Brooklyn Jewish community urged to attend police officer’s funeral

By JTA

Collins Middle East Atlas

Off the mapHarperCollins erases Israel from atlases

By JTA and ToI Staff

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at the 2014 Values Voter Summit September 26, 2014 in Washington, DC (Photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Holiday CruzSenator headlines Passover getaway

By Anthony Weiss

Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri (L) signing his official letter of resignation from the Knesset, December 30, 2014 (photo credit: Isaac Harari/Knesset Spokesperson)

Hebrew media reviewDeri’s derring-do

By Joshua Davidovich

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