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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 3, 2016

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US President Barack Obama speaks during the Brookings Institution's Saban Forum in Washington, December 7, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Most Democrats consider Israel ‘a burden’ on US with too much influence on policy, poll claims

Brookings Institution survey also asserts growing American support for punitive measures against Israel over settlements, and a plurality backing pressure by Obama on Israel at UN

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses the Saban Forum in Washington DC on December 2, 2016. (Courtesy)

Liberman plays down centrality of Trump’s pledge to move US embassy to Jerusalem

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

‘We’ve seen this promise in every election,’ defense minister says. ‘It’s very important, but we have other issues’

Six key issues facing Trump’s Pentagon pick

By Thomas WATKINS

Trump names Jewish billionaire to head economic advisory team

By JTA

Trump builds his team — and isn’t changing his style

By Jerome Cartillier

US Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, in Denver, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Dean drops out of DNC chair race, opening path for Ellison

By Nicholas Riccardi

In face of criticism over Israel comments, Minnesota congressman says he may leave his seat to dedicate his time to run Democratic Party

Haim Saban speaks at the Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces 2014 Western Region Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 6, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Tiffany Rose/WireImage)

Haim Saban: Keith Ellison ‘an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual’

By Eric Cortellessa

Haifa mayor Yona Yahav at the Hanamal 24 restaurant on November 30, 2016 in Haifa, Israel. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

A brotherly bread-breaking bonanza

Haifa to host Arabic food festival, with Jewish chefs too, to highlight post-fire coexistence

Under the creative direction of 2014 Israeli Master-Chef winner, 45 Arab and Jewish cooks will collaborate to revitalize disappearing Levantine dishes; Haifa mayor hopes people will come to support fire-stricken city

The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei.' (AP/Christof Stache, File)

Stolen Dachau ‘Work will set you free’ gate found

By Ralf ISERMANN

German police says Norwegian officers recover iconic gate after receiving anonymous tip-off

The Jewish community of Iquitos lights candles on Rosh Hashanah eve, 2016. (Facebook)

Amazonian Jews thrive in the depths of the rainforest

By Rich Tenorio

Unreachable by road, the city of Iquitos must be accessed by air or boat — yet the tiny Jewish community still imports clergy and exports a love of Israel

Forest Rain Marcia

The flames were as high as our house

With her Haifa neighborhood on fire, they had to opt whether to flee or stay home to protect their property

Anti-Semitism is cool on my campus

A motion on Holocaust education at her Toronto university became an opportunity to stifle Jewish voices

Marine Le Pen delivering a speech on stage behind a French national flag during the FN's summer congress in Frejus, southern France on September 18, 2016. (AFP / Franck PENNANT)

Marine Le Pen: Trump’s win frees voters from ‘diktats’

By Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley

‘The system’ that has kept power in the hands of political elites is vulnerable, says far-right National Front presidential candidate

Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer at a Governmental TV channel event in Vienna, May 22, 2016. (Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images/JTA)

Austria’s rising far-right seen as proof of failure to address Nazi past

By Cnaan Liphshiz

With country on the verge of electing president from nationalist Freedom Party, experts blame Vienna’s reluctance to confront its history

This combination of two photos shows US President-elect Donald Trump, left, speaking during a 'USA Thank You' tour event in Cincinatti Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, and Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, delivering a speech during National Day celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Trump spoke Friday, Dec. 2, with Tsai, a move that will be sure to anger China. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Chinag Ying-ying)

China lodges protest with Washington over Trump’s Taiwan call

By AFP and AP

Taiwan ‘an inalienable part of China’s territory,’ Beijing fumes in statement following president-elect’s chat with island leader

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (R) meets with Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Borge Brende at Matina Enclaves in Davao City on November 25, 2016. (AFP/Karl Norman Alonzo)

Trump says Philippines fighting drugs ‘the right way’: Duterte

By AFP

Controversial president congratulates president-elect over the phone

US President Barack Obama walks from the residence to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, July 27, 2016. (AFP/Jim Watson)

White House: Obama expected to sign renewal of Iran Sanctions Act

By Eric Cortellessa

After Senate approval, spokesman Eric Schultz says president believes extending law is ‘not necessary’ but won’t ‘interfere with Iran deal’

Europol director Rob Wainwright poses for a picture during an interview in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Europol warns of new IS terror threats to Europe

EU agency is currently assisting more than 50 counterterrorism investigations across the continent

A confiscated artifact on display in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday Dec. 2, 2016. (Geneva Prosecutors Office via AP)

Swiss seize artifacts looted from Syria’s Palmyra

By AFP

Items, also from Yemen and Libya, arrive via Qatar; they’ll be displayed in Geneva until they can be returned

An Iraqi soldier stands guard at the entrance of the ancient site of Nimrud, which was destroyed by Islamic State militants, November 16, 2016. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Dozens of states approve fund to protect heritage sites in conflict zones

By LYNNE AL-NAHHAS

In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, Palestinian laborer Sami Abu Baker, 35, who has a fifteen years service in the charcoal factories, poses for a picture during a day work, in the West Bank town of Yabad, near Jenin. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Air pollution becomes Israel-Palestinian wedge issue

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Aron Heller

Israel shuts down factories in coal-manufacturing West Bank town of Yabed due to health concerns, leaving more than 1,000 Palestinians unemployed

Author and behavioral scientist Jon Levy getting out of his comfort zone in Antarctica. (Courtesy of Levy)

This former nebbish can help you become super popular — like him

By Curt Schleier

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid after addressing the Knesset ahead of the swearing-in of the new government, March 18, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Likud, Yesh Atid neck-and-neck in new poll, while Zionist Union sinks

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (right) and Supreme Court President Miriam Naor attend the opening event of the new magistrate's court in Beit Shemesh on March 29, 2016. (Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Justice minister: Court that interferes with legislation is undemocratic

People use sledges at the Mount Hermon ski resort on the Golan Heights, on January 21, 2016. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Hermon opens slopes after first winter snows

A member of the Ku Klux Klan who says his name is Gary Munker poses for a photo during an interview with AFP in Hampton Bays, New York on November 22, 2016. (AFP/William Edwards)

Ku Klux Klan embraces Trump, but resurgence seems unlikely

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / STEPHEN BRASHEAR)

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to step down

By JTA

The art work 'Warsaw' by Robert Weingarten which was hung in UCLA's Cornell Hall after a BDS furor (Courtesy of Weingarten/ via JTA)

Art of diplomacyUCLA adds ‘Jewish’ art to building after BDS furor

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara boarding a plane to New York for an official state visit to the US, September 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Sara Netanyahu’s lawyers: Latest questioning dealt with ‘trifles’

Rapper Tamer Nafar performs onstage during a festival in the northern Arab Israeli town of Sakhnin on October 23, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Like hero Tupac, Israeli Arab rapper’s music provokes

By Majeda El-Batish

Crew members of Indonesian Air Force NAS 332 Super Puma helicopter look out of the windows during a search operation for the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 over the Java Sea, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Adi Weda, Pool)

Indonesia police plane with 13 onboard feared crashed

By AFP

An early draft of the RESIST! comic zine cover (Courtesy of Nadja Spiegelman)

Draw your... pensAnti-Trump comics edited by Spiegelman family

By Gabe Friedman

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