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What Matters Most On Friday, December 23, 2016

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Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, looks toward US President Barack Obama as he speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, March 2013 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Israeli official accuses Obama, Kerry of ‘abandoning Israel’

Using unprecedentedly bitter language, official says outgoing administration ‘secretly cooked-up’ extreme anti-Israel UN resolution with the Palestinians that would be ‘a tailwind for terror’

Trump saved Israel from diplomatic ‘hit’ by Obama at UN, official in Jerusalem quoted saying

Egypt: Trump should have chance to end Mideast conflict

By AP and AFP

Egypt confirms: Sissi, Trump agreed in call to delay UN vote on settlements

By AFP

The UN Security Council. In this photo from December 20, 2016, members observe a moment of silence in memory of the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkey, who was assassinated on 19 December in a terrorist attack in Ankara. (UN Photo/Manuel Elias)

Security Council set to vote on settlements Friday despite Egyptian reversal

By AFP and AP

Four member states plan to bring resolution to the floor in Cairo’s stead; vote expected to take place around 2 p.m. EST

4 Security Council members to Egypt: Push anti-settlement draft or we will

By Joshua Davidovich, ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel reportedly went to Trump on UN draft after failing to sway Obama

Israeli envoy to US thanks Trump for support at UN

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

The UN resolution that could redefine Obama’s legacy on Israel

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Is the president really ready to allow the passage of a text formulated by the Palestinians to ratchet up world pressure on the Jewish state?

A picture taken on December 23, 2016 shows a hijacked Airbus A320 operated by Afriqiyah Airways after it landed at Luqa Airport, in Malta. (AFP/Matthew Mirabelli)

Hijackers divert Libyan plane to Malta, threaten to blow it up

By AP and ToI Staff

Maltese PM says 109 of the 118 passengers on board the Afriqiyah Airways flight have been freed

A photo sent to European police authorities and obtained by AP on December 21, 2016, showing Tunisian national Anis Amri, wanted by German police for his alleged involvement in the Berlin Christmas market attack two days earlier. (Police via AP)

Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead in Milan — Italian minister

Marco Minniti says identity checks establish ‘without shadow of doubt’ that man killed in shootout with cops is Anis Amri

The body of suspected Berlin attacker Ani Amri is covered with a blanket after a shootout near a train station in Milan's Sesto San Giovanni neighborhood, Italy, early Friday, December 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Daniele Bennati)

Terror threat to Germany ‘remains high’ after killing of Berlin attack suspect

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Unrequited love

There’s value in the depth of emotion and energy spent on the unequal dating dynamics that have been painful since the Bible

Dear Rabbis Goldin and Matanky —

3 questions on the RCA standardization of conversion and a suggestion to resolve the issues for once and for all

Seduction and sexual ethics in Genesis

What happens when the patriarchs and matriarchs encounter adultery, promiscuity and sexual violence (Vayeshev)

An image posted on Facebook by Fatah in December 2016, celebrating 10 of the group's 'most outstanding' terror attacks during the Second Intifada (Courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch)

Fatah takes to Facebook to celebrate murders of over 100 Israelis

Two posts on consecutive days highlight ‘outstanding operations’ in history of Abbas’s movement and during Second Intifada

Alleged members of a Hamas terror cell operating in the area of the West Bank city of Nablus, nabbed by the Shin Bet, December 22, 2016. (Shin Bet)

Israel busts Hamas cell planning suicide bombings in Jerusalem, Haifa

By Ilan Ben Zion

Shin Bet says 20-member West Bank network, including several ex-prisoners, was gearing up for terror attacks; 4 suicide bombers were recruited

Illustrative image of the IDF 931 Nachal Brigade seen during search patrols in Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, on the night of June 16, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

IDF soldier injured by gunfire during West Bank arrest raid

Troop moderately wounded in leg after coming under fire in Nablus refugee camp; weapons parts seized

Arab MK Basel Ghattas attends a remand hearing at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on December 23, 2016, a day after he was arrested for allegedly passing cell phones to convicted terrorists jailed in Israel. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

Police to court: Arab MK won’t divulge source of phones he smuggled to prisoners

Judge approves 4-day remand for Basel Ghattas, accused of passing cellphones, messages to convicted terrorists; Balad decries ‘vindictive’ arrest

MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Israel Police's Lahav 433 special investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016, for questioning. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Arab MK arrested on suspicion of smuggling phones to terrorists

Young Israeli settlers gather around a fire in the settlement outpost of Amona, which was established in 1997 and built on private Palestinian land, in the West Bank on December 18, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

High Court agrees to delay Amona demolition by 45 days

Accepting state request, justices warn extension is ‘final,’ say its orders will have to be carried out whether deal with residents finalized or not

Fragment of a chalk bowl from the Hasmonean period, on which the name Hyrcanus appears. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeologists unearth name linked to Hasmonean kings etched on Jerusalem stone

By Ilan Ben Zion

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)

Ellison in letter to Conservative rabbis ‘regrets’ past ties with Farrakhan

By JTA

As he presses on with bid to head DNC, Muslim congressman says he failed to grasp Nation of Islam leader’s anti-Semitism

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, speaks at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York, September 25, 2015. (AFP Photo/Dominick Reuter)

Analysis

The curious (and ongoing) case of Egypt’s anti-settlement UN resolution

By Raphael Ahren

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army take part in a battle against the Islamic State group jihadists in the northern Syrian village of Yahmoul in the Marj Dabiq area north of the embattled city of Aleppo on October 10, 2016. (AFP/Nazeer al-Khatib)

IS releases video of Turkish soldiers being burned alive

By AFP

Jihadists threaten to ‘sow destruction’ in Turkey after Ankara vows to fight terror in Syria

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)

Hundreds attend funeral for Israeli woman killed in Berlin attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Some family members remain in Germany beside her wounded husband’s hospital bed as Dalia Elyakim, 60, is laid to rest in Herzliya

Syrian pro-government forces take a break as they advance in the Jisr al-Haj neighborhood during the ongoing military operation to retake remaining rebel-held areas in the northern embattled city of Aleppo on December 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN)

Syrian army announces Aleppo fully retaken from rebels

By AFP

As eastern part of the city recaptured, military hails ‘blood of our martyrs and the sacrifices of our valiant armed forces’

In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 photo, a customer picks sufganiyot, or Hanukkah doughnuts, at a bakery in Bnei Brak, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

In Israel, an oily Hanukkah treat outlasts a health campaign

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An Iraqi refugee lays a flower at a makeshift memorial near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) in Berlin, close to the site where a truck crashed into a Christmas market two days before, on December 21, 2016 in Berlin. (AFP/Clemens Bilan)

Fingerprints bolster case that hunted Tunisian was truck attacker

By Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans

Prince Charles seen during the funeral late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Prince Charles warns of echoes of ‘dark days’ before World War II

By AFP

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

Teva fined $519 million by US government for foreign bribes

By Ricky Ben-David

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)

France: Israeli-Palestinian peace summit set for January 15

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, founder and CEO of the Ivanka Trump Collection and executive vice president for development and acquisitions of The Trump Organization, speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Flight fightIvanka Trump, kids, reportedly harassed on US flight

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in Washington, DC, Feb. 4, 2014. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump team denies Flynn met with Austrian far-right leader

By JTA

Channel 20's Erel Segal satirizes Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir on a February 29, 2016 show. (screen capture: YouTube)

Channel 20, ‘Israel’s Fox News,’ granted permission to broadcast news

Carl Icahn participates in a panel discussion at a New York Times conference in New York City on November 3, 2015. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for New York Times via JTA)

Trump names Jewish businessman Carl Icahn as special adviser

By JTA

Rachel Freier was sworn in as the first Hasidic woman judge and US elected official on December 22, 2016. (Andrew Katz/JTA)

Got Bensch AmerikeFirst Hasidic woman judge sworn in with Yiddish song

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A view of downtown Lancaster, Pa. (Randolph Carney/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

A Christmas commotionPennsylvania Jewish family blamed as Xmas play cancelled

By JTA

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

Merry festival of lightsWant to throw a Chrismukkah party? Here’s how

By Gabe Friedman

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

Hebrew Media ReviewA new era of diplomacy and a locked up lawmaker

By Ilan Ben Zion

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