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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 22, 2016

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The UN Security Council votes at United Nations Headquarters in New York, December 10, 2015. (AFP/Don Emmert)

Israel urges Washington to veto resolution on settlements

By Raphael Ahren

Senior official says US vote Thursday in favor of motion would violate its ‘longstanding commitment,’ as affirmed by Obama at UN

Trump calls on Obama to veto UN resolution on Israeli settlements

Full text of draft UN Security Council resolution demanding Israel ‘cease all settlement activities’

French envoy indicates Paris to back anti-settlement UN motion

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative photo of Israeli riot police. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

MK Ghattas arrested for smuggling cell phones to security prisoners

Court approves 45-day delay for Amona evacuation; Syria regime declares victory in Aleppo; Arab states mull next steps in delayed UN settlements vote

New Zealand's Murray McCully chairing a UN Security Council meeting on September 14, 2015. (UN/JC McIlwaine)

Analysis: The diplomatic dance

Will Palestinians get a Security Council motion passed – and will it matter?

By Raphael Ahren

In the waning days of the Obama administration, three countries are eager to propose anti-settlement resolutions at the UN. Our diplomatic correspondent looks at the timing, the math, and the potential significance

UN Security Council set to vote on settlement construction

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu urges US to veto UNSC settlements resolution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israelis Dalia and Rami Elyakim, who were caught up in the attack at a Christmas market in Berlin on December 19, 2016. Rami was wounded and Dalia was killed in the attack (Image from Facebook)

Israeli woman confirmed killed in Berlin attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Dalia Elyakim, 60, was declared missing after truck-ramming at a Christmas market; her husband is seriously wounded

4 said arrested over Berlin truck attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump: Deadly violence in Germany is ‘attack on humanity’

By Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace

Berlin attack highlights German Jews’ divide over refugees

By Toby Axelrod

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav arrives to his home with his wife Gila, after being released from Ma'asiyahu Prison where he served his sentence, in Kiryat Malachi, December 21, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Rapist ex-president welcomed home to cheers and flowers

By Tamar Pileggi

Friends and family gather to embrace disgraced former leader who won parole; MK says celebrations disrespect sexual assault victims

Former president Moshe Katsav walks with his wife Gila, after his release from Ma'asiyahu Prison, where he served five years of a seven-year rape sentence, on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Aloni Mor/Flash90)

Ex-president Moshe Katsav goes free after 5 years in jail for rape

A holiday pageant recently put on by the New York metropolitan area Interfaith Community. (Nathaniel Johnston)

Is the Jewish community ready for a very merry interfaith Chrismukkah?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Over 60% of US Jews who married since 2000 have non-Jewish spouses. Will today’s youth be raised inside, outside, or maybe with one foot in the American Jewish community?

Elie Wiesel in his office in New York, September 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

From our partners

Irreplaceable: Jewish News remembers those we lost in 2016

From Shimon Peres and Elie Wiesel to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Leonard Cohen, a round-up of Jews who touched us over their years

Keep the ‘Jewish’ in Jewish State

It’s hypocrisy to challenge Israel’s right to define itself as a Jewish country

The menorah on the mountain

“My daughter lights the appropriate ash cans…We gaze in silent awe for a few minutes before we begin our descent”

Rabbi Grinch and the Christmas tree

A rabbi’s ruling to keep Jewish Technion students away from a “Pagan idol” is incorrect and smacks of bigotry

A Sa'ar 5-class corvette of the Israeli navy. (YouTube screen capture)

TV: Shipyard owned by Lebanese defense minister builds Israeli warships

Channel 2 says Zionist Union MK demanded A-G probe, claimed Israeli businessmen ‘pressured’ Abu Dhabi MAR into changing name to German Naval Yards Kiel

Hezbollah parading its military equipment in Qusayr, Syria, November 2016. (Twitter)

US denies Lebanese army APCs given to Hezbollah

Protesters leaving Amona on December 18, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Amona residents pledge to High Court they will evacuate peacefully

Justices rejected previous declaration as ‘ambiguous,’ demanded clearer statement as condition for considering delaying outpost’s demolition

MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Lahav 433 police investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Preempting Knesset vote, Arab MK forgoes immunity

By Raoul Wootliff

Basel Ghattas paves way for likely arrest over accusation he smuggled phones to Palestinian security prisoners

Yazidi Kurdish women chant slogans during a protest against the Islamic State group's invasion of Sinjar city, in Dohuk, Iraq, August 3, 2015. (AP/Seivan M. Salem)

Interview

Yazidi victims of IS abuse get help from Israel aid group

As part of IsraAID mission, Israeli sent to Iraqi Kurdistan to work with women survivors of torture and sexual violence at hands of Islamic State militants

Jewish community, small synagogue and kosher kitchen in Wrocław (Wikimedia Commons, Julo, Public Domain)

Polish Jewish community seeks to resettle Aleppo family

By JTA

Wroclaw Jews want to adopt a Syrian family, offering housing, money and education; spokesman: ‘It is a debt we must pay’

IDF soldiers destroy the home of Mesbah Abu Sabih, a Palestinian who killed two people in a shooting attack in Jerusalem. Troops demolished Sabih's home in Kafr Aqab, December 22, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson)

Palestinian shot dead throwing bomb at soldiers, army says

By Stuart Winer

Security forces attacked during operation to raze East Jerusalem home of terrorist who killed two in a shooting attack

Turkish soldiers fire an upgraded M60 tank during fighting alongside members of the Free Syrian Army against IS jihadists near the northern Syrian village of Beraan on October 24, 2016. (AFP/Nazeer al-Khatib)

Islamic State: Gazan suicide bomber targeted Turkish troops

Jihadist group names Palestinian ‘Abu Osama’ as attacker who killed 14 in Syria attack

KamaTech's busload of Haredi women visit high-tech offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Courtesy Natalie Schor)

Armed with faith and kids, Haredi women set eyes on tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez speaks at a news conference in Washington on June 22, 2016. Perez announced his candidacy to chair the Democratic National Committee on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Jewish Dems line up behind Tom Perez for Democratic Party chair

By Eric Cortellessa

In a call with Jewish leaders, the US labor secretary makes a bid for support from those unhappy with progressive candidate Rep. Keith Ellison

The Embassy of the United States of America, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Flash90)

Analysis

Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: The good, the bad and the unpredictable

The move, promised by Trump and urged by Israel, could turn out well – or backfire badly and hurt the burgeoning regional ties with Arab neighbors

Screen capture of a digitally altered image showing a pig on the Temple Mount, posted on social media by a Jewish activist, December 21, 2016. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Israeli arrested for calling Muslims ‘pigs’ on Facebook

By Stuart Winer

Activist Haim Brosh says his image of swine on Temple Mount was protest against restrictions on Jewish prayer at holy site

Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida, a Bible-themed Christian tourist attraction on December 8, 2016 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Will Florida’s ‘Holy Land’ survive another Christmas?

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the Knesset vote on the 2017-18 state budget. on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset approves 2017-2018 budget in marathon session

Left to right, Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos, Larry Page of Alphabet, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, then-Vice President elect Mike Pence, then-President-elect Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Tim Cook of Apple and Safra Catz of Oracle attend a meeting at Trump Tower December 14, 2016 in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Top Oracle executive quits over CEO joining Trump team

By Stuart Winer and AFP

An image from Tatiana Navka and Andre Burkovsky's Holocaust-themed ice skating performance on the Russian reality competition show 'Ice Age,' November 26, 2016. (Screen shot, YouTube)

Blades of GloryRussian ‘Holocaust’ ice skaters to bring ‘Ice Age’ to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

British Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a statement to the media at 10 Downing Street in London, November 2, 2016. (AFP/POOL/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

In Hanukkah message, British PM vows to always support Jews

Trump Vodka on an Israeli supermarket shelf, March 18, 2016 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Spirit guideIsraeli rabbis order some Trump Vodka off the shelves

Yaacov Agam's iconic fountain in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, August 2012 (Michal Dahan)

Iconic Agam fountain to be moved from Dizengoff Square

Interior of the Carpentras Synagogue in southern France (CC BY Klovovi, Flickr)

Southern French city of Carpentras to renovate 650-year-old synagogue

By JTA

In this photo taken May 20, 2015, Sevil Shhaideh, 52, stands at the Romanian presidency before being sworn in as regional development minister in Bucharest, Romania. (AP Photo/Octav Ganea)

Romania could see 1st female Muslim prime minister

By Alison Mutler

Harold Bornstein, left, and his wife, Melissa. (Facebook via JTA)

What's up, doc?5 things we now know about Trump’s Jewish doctor

Books make wonderful Chrismukkah gifts. (Courtesy of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation)

Light reading8 books for 8 nights of Hanukkah

By Victor Wishna

Former president Moshe Katsav walks with his wife Gila, after his release from Ma'asiyahu Prison, where he served five years of a seven-year rape sentence, on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Aloni Mor/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBalancing the Israeli political clink-quilibrium

By Joshua Davidovich

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