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What Matters Most On Friday, December 16, 2016

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Donald Trump and attorney David Friedman exit the Federal Building, following an appearance in US Bankruptcy Court on February 25, 2010, in Camden, New Jersey. (Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images/JTA)

Trump’s envoy: The new administration ‘won’t tell Israel what policies to adopt’

By Eric Cortellessa

David Friedman says the incoming president doesn’t view Israel as ‘a client state you issue directives to’ but as a ‘key partner’ in war against terrorism, ‘so he wants Israel to be as strong and secure as possible’

David Friedman, Donald Trump's adviser on Israel, speaks to Channel 10 News on September 14, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Trump taps adviser Friedman as ambassador to Israel; he expects to work from Jerusalem

By Eric Cortellessa

In sign of president-elect’s resolve to move embassy to holy city, intended envoy predicts he’ll be based in ‘Israel’s eternal capital’

Settler council hails ‘knowledgeable and wise’ Trump envoy pick

Liberal Jewish groups rage against Trump’s Israel ambassador pick

By Eric Cortellessa

All eyes on Ivanka role in Trump White House

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video clip in which he asks Amona residents to avoid violence during the evacuation of their settlement. (Screen capture Facebook)

PM to meet with Amona residents, pledges to demolish illegal construction ‘all over Israel’

Netanyahu issues video pleading with residents of illegal West Bank outpost not to violently resist their imminent evacuation

A flag created by Rabbi Jacob Askowith in 1891 for a Boston Jewish group, B’nai Zion (Courtesy of Brandeis University)

Star and stripes

How Israel can trace its flag’s roots to Boston, 1891

By Josefin Dolsten

The ‘flag of Judah,’ paraded in Beantown 125 years ago, quickly captured the imagination of the Zionist movement

Then-Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) inspect an honor guard during their meeting in Astana on December 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/ILYAS OMAROV)

Analysis

On PM’s visit to Asian Muslim states, a not-so-subtle message to the Arab world

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu sees his trip to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan as a model for warming relations, but the two countries he toured are atypical in their approach to Islam

Arab Israeli TV presenter Lucy Aharish (YouTube screenshot)

Arab Israeli newscaster: Aleppo onslaught is ‘a holocaust’

Lucy Aharish blames US, EU countries for ‘doing nothing’ as civilians die, accuses UN of ‘hypocrisy’ for crying over dead children

Israel wants ‘butcher’ Assad ousted, Liberman says

By JTA

Syrian regime halts Aleppo evacuation, says rebels firing on convoys

Kerry appeals to Russia to end the ‘massacre’ in Aleppo

By AFP and ToI Staff

Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie (Credit Nitzan Zohar: Office of the Spokesperson, Technion)

At Israel’s MIT, education, not affirmative action, triples Arab enrollment

Technion offers hopefuls a 10-month ‘boot camp’ in math, physics, English and Hebrew, funded by Jewish philanthropy

From the emotionally fraught wedding scene in 'Sand Storm,' Elite Zexer's award-winning feature film (Courtesy 'Sand Storm')

Final cut

Israel’s ‘Sand Storm’ fails to make Oscar shortlist

By JTA

Award-winning nomination, entirely in Arabic, fails to blow away judges; WWII and Holocaust films snag three of nine foreign language spots

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

God is no ‘What’ or ‘When’ or even ‘Who’

The divine cosmic plan far exceeds human understanding, which means world calamities cannot be defined as punishment

2016 in review, and shudders for 2017

She wants to make the new year a time of hope and reconciliation, if only to amuse the Almighty

The Jewish journey

The Jewish people can relate to Jacob: he feels abandoned and alone, before learning that God is with him (Vayishlach)

Effective financial education must accompany Israel’s Savings for Every Child, or the 23K NIS gift will go to waste

Eli Greenberg sitting outside his home in the West Bank outpost of Amona, Dec. 13, 2016. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

At Amona outpost, promises of compromise and bodings of violence

By Andrew Tobin

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at a Limmud FSU conference in Eilat, December 15, 2016. (Limmud FSU)

Liberman, ‘troubled’ about US Jewry, warns the Diaspora is waning

By Marissa Newman

Citing ‘very grave’ 2013 Pew survey, defense minister urges Jews to ‘pull themselves together’ and strengthen their identity

Beki İkala Erikli (LinkedIn)

Turkish Jewish author murdered in Istanbul

Beki İkala Erikli shot dead outside her apartment building; motive of killing unclear

US President Barack Obama talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they arrive for the official family photo during the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey, November 15, 2015. (AFP/ SAUL LOEB)

Obama vows ‘action’ against Russia over election hacks

By ToI Staff and AP

Putin is ‘well aware of my feelings,’ president says, drawing direct line between Russian leader and leaks that buoyed Trump

The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva faces class-action lawsuit over US antitrust probe into price-fixing

By Ricky Ben-David

Israeli pharmaceutical giant fielding slew of legal troubles, including internal investigation into bribery

Jewish Home MK Nissam Slomiansky seen during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill, a controversial bill that seeks to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, in the Israeli parliament on December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police to investigate Jewish Home MK for sexual harassment

By Raoul Wootliff

Nissan Slomiansky apologizes, says he would personally ask forgiveness if he knew who accuser was; calls grow among MKs for him to resign

Poster depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Hitler with the word 'incitement' (Screen capture: Channel 2)

ADL ‘shocked and outraged’ by Netanyahu Hitler poster

Group says depiction of PM with Nazi imagery ‘denigrates the memory of the Shoah’

Syrian children watch on as buses depart during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held neighborhoods in the embattled city of Aleppo on December 15, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN)

A Syrian Jew’s message to Aleppo: Keep tradition and don’t lose hope

Poopa Dweck, who was born after her parents left the now-destroyed metropolis in 1947, still calls Syria her ‘homeland’

Clockwise from top left: Omar Regan, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Iqbal Theba, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Linda Sarsour, Reza Aslan, Dena Takruri. (Courtesy 'Secret Life of Muslims')

New viral video series reveals the ‘Secret Life of Muslims’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Knesset staffers protest against the dress code in the Israeli Parliament, in Jerusalem, December 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset eases dress code rules after protest

By AFP

Lupe Fiasco performing at 'Born in Blue: Remixed and Reissued' exhibition opening in Los Angeles, Sept. 10, 2014. (Chris Weeks/Getty Images for Sonos)

Rapper to quit music after tweetstorm defense of ‘dirty Jewish execs’ lyrics

By JTA and ToI Staff

An illustrative view of Pretoria, South Africa. (iStock/Getty Images/vlbentley)

Israeli man killed in South Africa parasailing accident

Daniel Hoffman (left) playing with local band The Rascals on the streets of Galway, Ireland (Courtesy Daniel Hoffman)

Fiddler on the looseCan you learn to play the Irish fiddle in a week?

By Jessica Steinberg

Anti-Nazi protesters gather outside the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria, on April 18, 2015. (AFP/Joe Klamar)

Austria to use Hitler birth home as charity headquarters

By AP and AFP

US President-elect Donald Trump speaking during the USA Thank You Tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 9, 2016. (AFP/Don Emmert)

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-NamedLA socialite bans mention of Trump at holiday bash

By JTA

During the previous resident-run battle in 2009 over the beloved Lev Smadar theater in the heart of Jerusalem's German Colony (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

The never-ending storyNeighbors sign up in bid to save Jerusalem theater

By Jessica Steinberg

Rickie Lee Jones charming the audience at the Israel Museum during the Jerusalem Jazz Festival, December 14, 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Short but sweetRickie Lee Jones charms Jerusalem jazz fans

By Jessica Steinberg

Constitution Law and Justice Committee chairman MK Nissan Nissan Slomiansky, a meeting in the Knesset, February 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewCleaning out the Jewish Home

By Adiv Sterman

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