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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 24, 2016

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US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power speaks to the UN Security Council after abstaining on an anti-settlement resolution, December 23, 2016 (UN Screenshot)

Choosing not to veto, Obama lets anti-settlement resolution pass at UN Security Council

By Eric Cortellessa

In dramatic departure from eight years of policy, US abstains, enabling 14-0 vote; Israel accuses Obama, Kerry of abandoning it; Palestinians hail ‘day of victory’

Kerry: UN resolution will ‘preserve the possibility of peace’

By Eric Cortellessa

White House: Netanyahu’s choices led to anti-settlement UN resolution

By Eric Cortellessa

Full text of UNSC Resolution 2334, demanding Israel stop all settlement activity

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on December 4, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

After vote defeat, Netanyahu lashes out at Obama and UN

PM says Israel won’t adhere to ‘despicable anti-Israeli resolution,’ claims US president actively worked to support it; calls home envoys to sponsoring states New Zealand and Senegal

‘We will overcome this evil decree,’ Israel tells UNSC after anti-settlement vote

UN settlement vote a ‘big blow’ to Israel, Palestinians say

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel furious at Washington’s abstention at UN: ‘This isn’t how friends behave’

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump vows change in UN strategy as American politicians blast vote

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

After Obama administration abstains from critical Security Council vote castigating settlements, GOP leaders protest ‘shameful’ behavior

Outraged US Jewish leaders: UN vote tarnishes Obama’s legacy

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Vote on Israel could spur further action, or trouble for UN

By Edith M. Lederer, Bradley Klapper and Josef Federman

Trump taps campaign’s Israel adviser to manage international negotiations

Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Security Council, after the council voted on condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. (Manuel Elias/The United Nations via AP)

Allowing anti-settlement resolution to pass, US also shifts to branding settlements illegal

By Eric Cortellessa

Explaining why Obama administration did not use veto, Samantha Power says ‘settlement problem’ now endangers two-state solution

Jordan praises ‘historic’ UN Israel settlement vote

By AFP

UN chief: Security Council resolution on settlements showed ‘leadership’

Full text of US envoy Samantha Power’s speech after abstention on anti-settlement vote

Truck-mounted missiles on display at the IDEAS 2008 defense exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan. (Wiki Creative Commons/SyedNaqvi90)

Pakistan makes nuclear threat to Israel, in response to fake news

Defense minister in Islamabad reacts to false news item featuring non-existent quote by ex-Israeli defense chief Ya’alon

S. Y. Agnon lived in his home in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood until his death in 1970. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

On a small Jerusalem street, a historic literary rivalry

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon and historian Josef Klausner were once grouchy neighbors in Jerusalem’s Talpiot. And they’re not the only major figures with echoes in the leafy neighborhood

A Palestinian carpenter carves a wooden sculpture at a workshop in Bethlehem, on December 13, 2016. Promoting Bethlehem‘s famous olive wood carvings may be the type of tourism that can revive the city‘s struggling economy. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

First female mayor hopes to reverse the trend via tourism

Christians worry ‘Silent Night’ may soon refer to their community in Bethlehem

By Melanie Lidman

In birthplace of Jesus, Christian population has dropped from 86% to 12% in the past 60 years, following trend across Middle East, except in Israel

Pilgrims in Bethlehem, fears in Europe for Christmas Eve

By Shatha YAISH

US issues travel warnings for Jordan, Egypt

FBI warns of possible terror attacks on churches, holiday gatherings in US

By Deb Riechmann

Richard L. Cravatts

Moral incoherence at the UN

“When did the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem become Palestinian land? The answer is: never”

Is it time to listen to the world?

The US failure to veto the UNSC vote is not the problem — it’s the 14 countries who voted in favor

Joshua Hammerman

Notes from the frying pan

An existential midrash on Debbie Friedman’s song “I Am A Latke”

A view of Efrat, a settlement near Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Man lightly-to-moderately wounded in West Bank stabbing attack

Terrorist attacks Israeli civilian outside his Efrat home. Victim taken to hospital; security forces searching for suspect

Stabbing attack foiled in Jerusalem Old City

Police arrest 35-year-old women, resident of Jerusalem. No injuries reported; forces on alert for Christmas Eve

MK Ahmad Tibi at his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

Ahmad Tibi urges Israelis not to ‘live by the sword’

Veteran Arab MK argues if Palestinian state established, Hamas can become state-like, admits Joint List must ‘internalize’ criticism from constituency after skipping Peres’s funeral, believes al-Aqsa is ‘in danger’

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the UN atomic watchdog verifies that Iran has met all conditions of the July 2015 nuclear deal, in Vienna, Austria, on January 16, 2016. (AFP/Kevin Lamarque/Pool)

Iran nuclear deal powers to meet January 10

By AFP

10 days before Trump inauguration, session will address complaint from Tehran about US renewing sanctions

Illustrative: A poster put up without permission in a London underground train on February 22, 2016, to mark the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement's 12th anti-Israel Apartheid Week. (Youtube)

Some UK universities ‘too anti-Semitic for Jewish students’

Retired higher education adjudicator Ruth Deech says vast funding by Gulf states may be part of reason some institutions fail to battle Jew-hatred

Illustrative: Armed police officers stand behind concrete blocks for protection near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, December 23, 2016 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Tunisia arrests 3 linked to Berlin truck killer

By AP

Spain investigating possible links to a network there; Italian victim arrives home for burial

Rabbi Michael Schudrich, right, speaking to students at the Judaic Department’s Hanukkah event at the University of Warsaw, Dec. 20, 2016. (Courtesy of Schudrich)

In Warsaw, students flock to Hanukkah event after classmate’s anti-Semitic posts

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Launched in 2012, Geltfiend was an innovator in the Hanukkah sweater scene. (Image by GeltFiend LLC/via JTA)

Ugly sweater weather

Hanukkah sweaters are now a thing — and I love them

By Lior Zaltzman

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The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp, on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Court faults German TV for calling Nazi camps ‘Polish’

By AFP

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri waves to journalists, shown before his election upon his arrival to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, October 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ladies' manLebanon’s first women’s affairs minister is… a man

In this Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015 file photo, Carrie Fisher presents the life achievement award on stage at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)

‘Star Wars’ actress Carrie Fisher has mid-air heart attack

By Frankie TAGGART

File: Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, shakes hand with Syrian President Bashar Assad as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, looks on in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 20, 2015. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin calls Assad to congratulate him on Aleppo ‘liberation’

By AFP

The day after a terrorist attack in which a speeding truck killed 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference in Berlin, on December 20, 2016. (AFP/John MACDOUGALL)

Merkel orders security review after botched Amri case

By Frank Zeller

A view of the West Bank city of Nablus in 2013. (Creative Commons/Muataz Towfiq Agbaria)

After years of contention, Boulder makes Nablus a sister city

By JTA

Vermont woman who wrote, distributed anti-Semitic fliers will not be arrested

By JTA

A frame from the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster 'Armageddon,' which tells the story of a team that lands on a massive asteroid to prevent it from destroying the earth (courtesy Touchstone Pictures)

Apocalypse laterStar slated to pass dangerously near earth – later

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