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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 27, 2016

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Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer speaks to media at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Israeli ambassador: We’ll give Trump proof Obama drove UN vote

Dermer calls White House aide Rhodes a ‘master of fiction’; PM defends strident campaign, says he ‘will not turn the other cheek’

Top Obama aide ‘not surprised, but disappointed’ by Netanyahu’s reaction to UN vote

By Raoul Wootliff

Abbas: UN settlements vote ‘paves way’ for Paris conference

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli envoy: Obama gave Palestinians ammunition for diplomatic war on Israel

US President Barack Obama speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on March 22, 2013, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images/JTA)

Analysis

Why Netanyahu refuses to ‘turn the other cheek’ in his response to the UN defeat

By Raphael Ahren

PM believes the carrot of Israeli cyber, intel and anti-terror expertise is so attractive that nations will ignore concerns about the Palestinians. He’s using the stick to make plain such expertise will be denied to those he sees harming Israel

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely speaking at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem (Elram Mendel)

Deputy FM questions PM’s diplomatic embargos after UN vote

By Raoul Wootliff

In apparent jab at Netanyahu for canceling meetings with world leaders, Hotovely says ‘part of diplomacy is explaining our position’

Russia: We had doubts about UN draft, tried to delay vote

UN vote actually ‘a victory for Israel,’ paves way for embassy move, ex-Labor MK says

By Raphael Ahren

Gingrich urges Congress to condemn non-veto at the UN

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, left, Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, and National Advisor Susan Rice, right, listen while US President Barack Obama speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters. (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Kerry, Rice told Palestinians they would support ‘balanced’ UN resolution

By Marissa Newman

According to transcript of meeting carried by Egyptian media, US officials warned PA against ‘provocative’ steps before ‘dangerous’ Trump enters office

"Jacob Encountering Rachel with her Father's Herds" by Joseph von Führich, 1836 (Public domain, Wikimedia commons)

In defiance of Israeli law, polygamy sanctioned by top rabbis

By David Sedley

With apparent backing from Jerusalem chief rabbi, organization helps religious Jewish men marry a second wife, claiming this helps single women have families, counters demographic trends

Newly discovered Picasso sketch bearing a likeness of former mayor Teddy Kollek, December 2016 (Courtesy)

Teddy spare

Picasso sketch of ex-J’lem mayor narrowly avoids trash

By Ilan Ben Zion

Previously unknown doodle of Teddy Kollek, who founded the Israel Museum, found in catalog of Spanish artist’s 1965 exhibit

Bereket Tekle of the Yatana Band performs at the Nightlight Festival in the neighborhood of Neve Sha'anan in Tel Aviv, December 24, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In south Tel Aviv, a different kind of festival of lights

Nightlight event brightens neglected Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, drawing visitors from the rest of the White City

We should not be occupiers

An IDF veteran and an ardent Zionist thinks shifting the current demoralizing state of affairs is long overdue

Is Israeli society falling apart?

The good news from the 2016 Israeli Democracy Index: both Jews and Arabs in Israel are doing better than you’d think

A tale of light and near-death

What do you tell a 9-year-old with two broken legs and a fractured pelvis? You teach him that he’s a hero

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, confers with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Netanyahu to be investigated for bribery, fraud

Police ask A-G to turn months-long secret inquiry into full-blown investigation as new documents come to light

Joint (Arab) List member Basel Ghattas is brought to court for a remand on his arrest at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, December 27, 2016. (Yair Sagi/POOL)

Arab MK suspected of passing phones to prisoners released to house arrest

Joint List’s Basel Ghattas can attend Knesset debates while under supervised custody; second suspect arrested in case to be kept behind bars for three days

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a thank you rally in Ladd-Peebles Stadium on December 17, 2016 in Mobile, Alabama. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump: UN has potential but currently a club for ‘people to have a good time’

By AP and ToI Staff

Days after blasting world body for anti-settlements vote, president-elect questions its effectiveness

Education Naftali Bennett speaks at the Sderot Conference for Society at Sapir College in Southern Israel, November 30, 2016. (Flash90)

Bennett seeks to legally bar Breaking the Silence from schools

By Raoul Wootliff

Education minister says groups that ‘attack soldiers’ must not influence students; moves comes after principals ignored his guidelines

Paul Golin with wife Yurika and their son. (Courtesy)

Taking the ‘deism’ out of Judaism: Meet the new face of Humanistic Jews

By Yaakov Schwartz

Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groisman (CC BY-SA 3.0, Steven13, via wikipedia)

Kiev summons Israeli envoy to protest cancellation of its PM’s visit

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu disinvited Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Groysman after his government voted for anti-settlement UN resolution

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

France rejects Liberman comparison of peace summit to Dreyfus Affair

By Gavin Rabinowitz and ToI Staff

Paris says Jan. 15 confab aims to re-affirm commitment to two-state solution, amid Israeli fears powers will coordinate another Security Council move

Israelis use a rubber dinghy to slide down a slope at the Mount Hermon ski resort on December 20, 2016. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Homeless man dies of hypothermia as Israel hit by storms, snowfall

Flooding shutters stretches of coastal highway; Hermon ski site closed

Illustrative: Iranian Navy exercise in 2011. (CC BY, Mohammad Sadegh Heydari, Wikimedia Commons)

Iran plans navy upgrade, including building aircraft carrier

Announcement follows Rouhani’s earlier statement that Tehran will build nuclear-powered ships and submarines

President Obama leaving the Brady Press Briefing Room after holding a year-end press conference at The White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2016 (Leigh Vogel/WireImage)

After Obama, what Netanyahu and his rivals expect from a ‘new era’

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

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)

Court unbans Temple Mount activist penalized for pig picture

Dov Katz, a top engineer at Facebook's Oculus VR (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli Facebook engineer nabbed in underage sex sting in US

Astronomer Vera Rubin in 1974 (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Pioneering Jewish astronomer Vera Rubin dies aged 88

By AP and ToI Staff

Apple’s Aharon to head Israel Innovation Authority

By Shoshanna Solomon

Conductor Zubin Mehta during a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the Mann Auditorium (Eichal ha Tarbut) of Tel Aviv, October 28 2007. (Jorge Novomisky/Flash90)

Conductor Zubin Mehta to retire after 50 years with IPO

By David Sedley

French police conducting an operation in La Courneuve, near Paris, Aug. 27, 2015. (Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)

French slavery monument vandalized with Nazi slogan

By AFP

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and their three children light menorahs during their family vacation in Hawaii, in this picture posted by Trump on December 26 2016. (Ivanka Trump/Twitter)

Hawaiian holidayIvanka Trump posts Hanukkah photo from family vacation

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jason Marquis, who played 15 years in the major leagues, delivering a pitch for Israel against Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic in Brooklyn, NY, September 22, 2016. (Hillel Kuttler)

Jewish MLB players, part of World Baseball Classic Team Israel, to visit country

By JTA

A Bezeq satellite station in the Ella valley (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bezeq CEO slams media coverage, regulatory foot-dragging

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev (L) attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewTrying to see past the UN vote

By Ilan Ben Zion

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