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What Matters Most On Monday, December 26, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US Secretary of State John Kerry speak to the press during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 24, 2015. (AFP/Pool/Atef Safadi)

Fearing UN vote on principles of Palestinian statehood, PM ‘reaching out to Trump’

TV reports: Netanyahu is wary that Kerry will set out parameters for permanent accord, then outgoing Obama administration will seek Security Council approval

Liberman likens French peace confab to Dreyfus Affair

By Gavin Rabinowitz and ToI Staff

Official: ‘Rather ironclad’ intel shows Obama behind UN vote

PM meets US envoy for ‘clarifications’ after US failed to veto anti-settlement UN vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a National Security College graduation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, July 28, 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu goes to war with the world

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Resolution 2334 was the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back,’ the PM says, the act of anti-Israel bias that will prompt a fundamental shift in the way the international community treats Israel. But his anticipated agent of change is more than three weeks away, and an awful lot can happen in the interim

Opposition MKs demand PM explain diplomatic moves to powerful Knesset panel

New Zealand Jews urge Israel to keep embassy open after UN vote

By JTA

Netanyahu said to curtail working ties with Security Council nations

British Prime Minister Theresa May gestures as she delivers a keynote address on the final day of the annual Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS)

UK ‘disappointed’ Netanyahu scotched planned meet with May

By Raphael Ahren

Deputy ambassador Tony Kay says UN anti-settlement resolution was ‘sufficiently balanced’ to warrant London’s support

Ukraine hints conflict with Russia led it to back UN measure

Netanyahu’s office denies he’s canceling meeting with UK’s May following UN vote

Senegal defends its UN Israel settlement vote

By AFP

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman at the Israel Bar Association Conference in Tel Aviv on December 20, 2016. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Obama aide: UN vote no ‘ambush,’ we warned Israel on settlements

Report: A-G set to approve corruption investigation into PM; Netanyahu: I had ‘rational’ response to UNSC resolution; Liberman likens France summit to Dreyfus Affair

Israeli drag queen Yosale prepares for a show at the Videopub in Jerusalem. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

A night out with Jerusalem’s drag queens

The performers of Allah Nash have found an unlikely home and a way to assert themselves in Israel’s conservative capital city

Jews and sheikhs celebrate Hanukkah in Bahrain, December 24, 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Don't sheikh it

Hamas slams Bahrain for hosting menorah-lighting ceremony

Islamist terror group castigates Muslim monarchy for celebrating with ‘extreme racist Zionists,’ says viral video of event was ‘humiliating and disgraceful spectacle’

The Samoud 'refugee camp,' located near the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem on November 10, 2016. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

In the heart of Jerusalem, a squalid Palestinian ‘refugee camp’ festers

In a massive building near East Jerusalem’s finest hotels, 300 squatters live in wretched conditions. The Jordanian owners, and city hall, blame each other and do nothing

Rafael L. Bardaji and Richard Kemp

Obama and the UN’s outrageous assault on Israel’s legitimacy

Op-Ed: ‘If every Jewish settlement were torn down we would still not be one step closer to peace’

Donniel Hartman

Let the settlement debate begin

‘One-State’ advocates must now answer: What kind of country will Israel become if it rules all of Judea & Samaria?

Thane Rosenbaum

Obama sided with the dark forces

On his way out of office, the US president became a willing accomplice and bystander to Israel’s isolation

The PA strategy is in its curriculum

Never mind Abbas’ UN niceties; the Palestinian Authority promotes a one-state solution of Palestine to its youngsters

David Breakstone

Up against the Christmas tree

A conversation with Theodor Herzl on the dubious value of non-Jewish symbols for Jews — aka: Why the menorah wins

Sunset over a construction site next to the Jewish East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo on November 21, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

In wake of UN measure, hundreds of East Jerusalem homes set to be okayed

618 housing units in capital reportedly expected to be green-lighted for construction, while another 5,600 will be considered

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Abbas confidant: We’ll take ‘hundreds’ of IDF soldiers to ICC this year

Prominent Palestinian journalist says there are lists of names, photographs of Israeli troops, says he’s ‘waiting for them at The Hague’

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

Israel assures Pakistan it’s not making nuke threats

By ToI Staff and AP

Pakistan’s defense chief had issued nuclear warning in response to fake news item; Jerusalem stresses reports are ‘entirely false’

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

Teva bribery settlement raises questions on Argentina, Romania probes

By Shoshanna Solomon

Pharmaceutical giant — fined half-billion dollars for bribery in Russia, Ukraine and Mexico — says internal review of Argentina case is closed and it’s premature to discuss Romania

Donald Trump and attorney David Friedman exit the Federal Building, following an appearance in US Bankruptcy Court on February 25, 2010, in Camden, New Jersey. (Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images/JTA)

Analysis

Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel has all sides on edge

By Josh Lederman

David Friedman opposes Palestinian statehood and supports West Bank settlements, an attitude that could be too-right wing for more than just the Palestinians

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)

Ministers vote to advance bill targeting Facebook incitement

Legislation would give court authority to force Facebook, Google to block content deemed to endanger security

Shorouq Dwayyat, a Palestinian student who stabbed an Israeli man on October 7, 2015. (Facebook)

Palestinian teen stabber in 2015 terror attack jailed for 16 years

Female university student had posted on Facebook of her desire to die for Palestinian cause before committing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City

Arab Joint List member Basel Ghattas, left, is brought to court for a remand hearing after his arrest on December 22, 2016 on suspicion of smuggling cellphones to Palestinian prisoners, at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, December 23, 2016. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Arrested Arab MK has office searched, is barred from voting

Cops investigate items belonging to Basel Ghattas, who is suspected of security offenses, including passing phones to jailed terrorists

Rabbi Francine Green Roston, a member of Love Lives Here, a local anti-discrimination group, moved to Whitefish, Mont., with her family from New Jersey in 2014. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Neo-Nazis urge armed march to harass Montana Jews

By JTA

White supremacists plan event in Whitefish, hometown of alt-right leader Richard Spencer

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chant 'Build That Wall' before a town hall Saturday, April 2, 2016, in Rothschild, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In xenophobic climate, immigration museums remind Americans of their roots

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

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 school principal resigns over Nazi-themed parade

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife enter an El Al jet bound for New York City on September 29, 2015. (Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel staff)

Finance Committee approves budget for PM’s private plane

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Doctors performing an organ transplant. (Flash90)

2 charged with running international organ traffic ring

This file photo taken on September 9, 2012 shows British singer George Michael performing on stage during a charity gala for the benefit of Sidaction, at the Opera Garnier in Paris.(AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA)

British singer George Michael dies of heart failure at 53

By AP

The Defense Ministry building in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police raid Defense Ministry in German gunboat case

Bezeq workers installing fiber optic cables. (Courtesy)

Prospect of Bezeq telecom merging with its units raises hackles

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with US President Barack Obama at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery during the funeral of former president Shimon Peres on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Menahem Kahana)

Hebrew media reviewBreaking down a diplomatic dust-up

By Ilan Ben Zion

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