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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 17, 2016

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Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom shakes hands with her Palestinian counterpart Riad al-Maliki during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 16, 2016. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Sweden ‘to seek anti-settlement resolution’ during Security Council presidency in January

Controversial FM Margot Wallstrom, visiting Ramallah, says her boycott by Jerusalem is unfortunate: ‘It’s important to have dialogue’

Ban condemns West Bank outpost bill, admits UN biased on Israel

Norway city adopts motion to boycott Israeli goods from ‘occupied territories’

By JTA

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

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat in his Ramallah office, November 23, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Erekat: Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem will ‘destroy peace process’

After president-elect chooses Israel envoy, Palestinian negotiator says he can appoint whoever he wants, but a changed US stance on the holy city could ‘send region to chaos’

PM said pleased by Friedman’s appointment as Israel envoy

NYT slams ‘dangerous’ Friedman appointment as Israel envoy

Trump team: Embassy will move to Jerusalem, but no timetable yet

By JTA

Illustrative: A Palestinian checks a truck loaded with humanitarian aid from the US as it arrives in the Palestinian town of Rafah through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on August 6, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

PA claims it got no US aid in 2016. In fact, State Dept. gave Palestinians $357 million. And that’s not all

Palestinian PM last week accused the US of failing to come through with a single dollar of a promised $263 million. The American government actually gives more aid than any other country

From our partnerUK cracks down on Palestinian aid following three-month freeze

Anne Frank, age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam in 1941. (AP Photo)

New study casts doubt on whether Anne Frank was betrayed

Research indicates Nazi raid in which teenage diarist was caught may have been part of probe into illegal labor or falsified ration coupons at house where she and other Jews hid

New US law will speed recovery of art lost to Nazi looting

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Holocaust museum: Presidential transition period creates ‘vacuum’ that neglects Aleppo

Paris museum calls Auschwitz a ‘Bauhaus architectural achievement’

By JTA

Mohammed Al-Zoari, a Tunisian scientist with ties to Hamas killed near his home in the Tunisian city of Sfax on Thursday, December 15, 2016. (Screen capture Channel 10)

Analysis

Was Mossad responsible for killing a Tunisian aviation engineer?

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Hamas’s declaration that Mohammed Al-Zoari pioneered its drone program could make his killing less of a riddle, but there are other factors to consider

Mohammed Al-Zoari (Channel 2 screenshot)

Mossad blamed as Tunisian scientist ‘with Hamas ties’ killed near his home

Hopla the violinist from Birkenau

Why would an elderly Jewish man in Antwerp beg if he had plenty of money? Listen before judging

The case of the Passover punishment

An Orthodox Jewish woman punished for work absence during a religious holiday has been seeking justice for 3 years

Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, left, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Wikimedia commons/kremlin.ru)

Did Russia meddle in recent US art theft legislation?

By Rich Tenorio

US President Barack Obama waves as he wraps up a year-end press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, December 16, 2016. (AFP/Zach Gibson)

Obama vows to send ‘clear message’ to Russia on election meddling

By Andrew BEATTY

President cautions Trump not to ignore Moscow’s interference in US politics; says Reagan ‘would roll over in his grave’ at Republican support of Putin

President Barack Obama, with First Lady Michelle Obama, speaks during a Hanukkah reception at the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

A tale of two Hanukkah parties: Obama’s last and Trump first

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini hold a joint press conference during the E3/EU+3 and Iran talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna on January 16, 2016. (AFP/Joe Klamar)

Iran seeks meeting of nuclear deal powers to protest US sanctions

By AFP

Tehran argues the Iran Sanctions Act, symbolically renewed this week, is a breach of the accord reached in 2015

This image shows residents of eastern Aleppo arriving in western rural Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, as part of an evacuation deal. (Aleppo 24 via AP)

Hezbollah says deal reached to restart Aleppo evacuation

By AP

Shiite terror group, blamed for for blocking evacuations, says new accord includes two rebel-held towns near Lebanese boder

Syrian residents fleeing the violence gather at a checkpoint, manned by pro-government forces, in the Maysaloun neighborhood of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on December 8, 2016. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

Finally fleeing Aleppo, Syrian survivors tell of their pain

By Sarah El Deeb

This picture obtained from the Ihlas News Agency shows a police officer and people walking next to the wreck of public bus following an explosion on December 17, 2016 in Kayseri, central Turkey. (AFP PHOTO / IHLAS NEWS AGENCY / IHLAS NEWS AGENCY)

13 soldiers killed, 48 wounded in Turkey bombing

By Stuart Williams

Car bomb targets bus transporting off-duty troops in the central city of Kayseri

PM Netanyahu and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana, December 14, 2016 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu scores diplomatic home run in Iran’s backyard

By Cnaan Liphshiz

PM’s visit to Central Asia underlines ability to punch holes in former taboo across the Muslim world on openly embracing Israel

Israeli security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack outside Bani Na'im, near Hebron. September 20, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel returns 7 bodies of Palestinians killed in security incidents

By AFP and ToI Staff

Authorities still holding three corpses of attackers affiliated with Hamas

Tending the elephants and other acts of coexistence in 'Holy Zoo,' the documentary showing at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, December 24-29, 2016 (Courtesy Ammar Shachar)

‘Denial,’ acceptance, and other Jewish matters in the movies

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Kandahar, Afghanistan (YouTube screenshot)

Gunmen kill five female airport workers in Afghanistan

By AFP

This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)

Germany threatens to fine Facebook over hate speech

By Frank Jordans

A plane from the Iranian airline Mahan Air, which is backed by the country’s notorious Revolutionary Guard lands at the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen on March 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Israeli group asks US court to block Boeing deal with Iran

The King Solomon Hotel in downtown Jerusalem. (Screen capture Channel 2)

The best bossHotel owner leaves over $2 million to his employees

The scene of the accident in Tel Aviv on December 17, 2016 (screen capture/ police video)

Policeman seriously wounded in Tel Aviv hit-and-run

Stockholm. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

American Jewish filmmaker says he was attacked by Arabic speakers in Stockholm

By JTA

A police officer watches people gathering around a floral tribute for the victims killed during a deadly attack in Nice, southern France, Sunday, July 17, 2016. (AP/Laurent Cipriani)

Three more charged over Nice terror truck massacre

By AFP

Ludwik Zamenhof (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Polish town snubs UNESCO honors for father of Esperanto

By AFP

Frank Reese, owner of the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch, raises only heritage birds. In cooperation with the Jewish Initiative for Animals, his chicken is now available for kosher consumers. (Victor Wishna)

Now you can buy kosher artisanal chicken

By JTA

Illustrative. An Acehnese girl walks past a collapsed mosque minater following an earthquake in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia, on December 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN)

Tsunami alert after 7.9-magnitude Papua New Guinea quake

By AFP

Seth from The O.C. presents Chrismukkah (YouTube screenshot)

Light up the screenEight TV shows that get Hanukkah just right

By Lior Zaltzman

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