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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 25, 2016

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Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a traditional Hanukkah doughnut before the start of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on December 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Wary of more trouble with Obama, Netanyahu tamps down annexation talk

After UNSC vote against settlements, PM tells Likud ministers to tone down rhetoric until Trump comes to power on January 20

After UN vote, Bennett plans to bring annexation bill to Knesset

Outpost bill ‘back on the table’ after UN anti-settlement vote

By Raoul Wootliff

Top minister urges annexation over anti-settlement vote

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 71st UN general assembly debate at the UN headquarters in New York City, on September 22, 2016 (Amir Levy/FLASH90)

Analysis

UN punctures Netanyahu’s theory that settlements are a non-issue

By Raphael Ahren

As PM continues to hail Israel’s improving foreign relations, Friday’s crushing defeat at the Security Council reveals a less-rosy picture

Netanyahu says Obama ‘ambushed’ Israel at UN, likens him to ‘deeply hostile’ Carter

Israeli officials: US abstention was Obama’s ‘last sting,’ showed his ‘true face’

Trump: UN’s Israel vote will make peace talks ‘much harder’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Pope Francis (C) blesses from the balcony of St Peter's basilica during the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message to the city and the world, on December 25, 2016 at St Peter's square in Vatican. (AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO)

Live updates (closed)

‘Jerusalem city hall set to okay 390 new apartments over Green Line’

By Ilan Ben Zion

PM asks ministers to reduce meetings with states that backed UN resolution; Pope hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Volodymir Groysman. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

PM cancels visit of Ukrainian PM after Kiev supports anti-settlements resolution

By Raphael Ahren

Volodymyr Groysman, who became Ukraine’s first Jewish PM earlier this year, was due in Israel on Tuesday for two-day trip

Netanyahu summons envoys of UN resolution backers, upbraids Obama

By Raphael Ahren

Ehud Barak: UN resolution ‘an unprecedented failure’

Liberman orders army to cut civilian ties with PA following UN vote

Illustrative: In this Friday, December 2, 2016, photo, two masked Ku Klux Klansmen stand on a muddy dirt road during an interview near Pelham, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

US network scraps KKK documentary because some participants were paid

By Mark Kennedy

A&E’s ‘Escaping the KKK’ intended to follow people trying to extract themselves from the racist, anti-Semitic group

High school students in Taiwan dressed as Nazi soldiers during a celebration on December 24, 2016. Pictures from the event were posted online by Facebook user Pixar Lu. (Facebook)

Taiwanese high school holds Nazi-themed parade

By Stuart Winer

President demands administrators make amends to Israel, Germany after students dress in black uniforms, wave swastikas

A Christian worshipper lights a candle at the Church of the Nativity, built atop the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, on Christmas Eve, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Thousands of faithful celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem

By ISMA'IL KUSHKUSH

Security tight due to recent anti-Christian attacks in the region; one reveler says UN anti-settlement resolution like a ‘Christmas gift’

Pope urges Israelis, Palestinians to write ‘new page of history’

By AFP

In Christmas message, pope laments children in war, poverty

By Nicole Winfield

Religious leaders strike somber note on Christmas

Miriam Herschlag

The most-read TOI blog posts of 2016

What did we want to read about this year? Well, Donald Trump of course, but not just Donald Trump

Elizabeth Kemeny

My non-Jewish mother makes tzimmes

She ‘passes’ easily in her community, but decries the convert’s second-class status, even without Israel’s Rabbinate

Avi Issacharoff

A deceptive calm in the West Bank

Op-Ed: If the era of the two-state solution is indeed drawing to a close, the Palestinians will not remain silent

Illustrative: A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw stones towards Israeli soldiers during clashes near the border fence between Israel and the central Gaza Strip on October 15, 2015 (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Three soldiers hurt during riot at Palestinian terrorist’s funeral

By AFP and ToI Staff

Border Police officer, two IDF servicemen suffer minor injuries in unrest north of Hebron

Palestinian protesters dressed as Santa Claus during a demonstration against Israel's security wall in Bethlehem, on December 23, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Analysis

In doleful West Bank, UN vote brings little cheer to Palestinians

By Avi Issacharoff

Measure unlikely to have meaningful impact on daily life in West Bank, and growing despondency may give way to violence or other drastic actions

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas congratulates Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (R), apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, during the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Catherine's Church at the Church of the Nativity, on December 25, 2016 in Bethlehem, West Bank (AFP PHOTO AND POOL / MUSA AL SHAER)

Abbas welcomes UN resolution, calls on Israel to talk peace

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Addressing Christmas dinner in Bethlehem, PA president says vote condemning settlements provides ‘legal basics’ for solution

Children light torches at the ceremony of the Hanukkah menorah lighting at a public Menorah ceremony near the Brandenburg Gate on December 6, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Europe’s Jews prepare public Hanukkah events to ‘drive out darkness’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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)

Party head says Ghattas prison smuggling ‘unacceptable’

Ayman Odeh says he does not believe the arrested MK wants to harm Israel’s security, but he shouldn’t have broken the law

Gunmen from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, patrol an area near the Israeli border with Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Hamas’s deployment at the Gaza border carries echoes of South Lebanon

By Avi Issacharoff

More Headlines

A gasoline tank caught fire at the Haifa oil refinery on December 25, 2016. (Israel police)

Firefighters battle massive blaze at Haifa oil refinery

A virtual Shop Direct chair in a potential customer's living room, courtesy of augmented-reality technology (Courtesy)

Snapchat acquires Israel’s Cimagine – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

This file photo taken on January 2, 2001 shows a Tupolev-154 (TU-154) aircraft. A Russian military Tu-154 plane crashed on December 25, 2016 in the Black Sea as it made its way to Syria with 91 people on board ( AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)

Russia rules out terrorism in military plane crash

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

World War II era bomb found in Koblenz, Germany, in 2011. (CC BY-SA, Holger Weinandt, Wikimedia Commons)

St. Nick of timeWWII bomb forces Germans out of homes on Christmas

By AP

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)

Tunisians protest against the return of jihadis like Amri

By AP

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

Hebrew media reviewBarack bids Bibi a nasty farewell

By Adiv Sterman

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