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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 28, 2016

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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 urges Israel to ‘stay strong’ till January 20

By ToI Staff and AFP

Netanyahu tweets his thanks as president-elect slams UN resolution on settlements, saying US can’t keep treating Jewish state with ‘total disdain’

Russia reportedly rejects Kerry request to adopt his Mideast peace framework

By Raoul Wootliff

Seething over UN vote, Israel says it won’t be Obama’s ‘punching bag’

By Josef Federman

Defiant Israeli culture minister: ‘Obama is history, we have Trump’

By Stuart Winer

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the press at the US Department of State on January 21, 2015 in Washington, DC. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)

Kerry to set out vision on Israeli-Palestinian peace in Wednesday speech

By Eric Cortellessa

As Jerusalem fumes over UN resolution and US role in it, secretary to deliver highly anticipated address; Washington expresses concerns Israel isolating itself

Senior Likud minister calls Kerry’s planned peace speech ‘pathetic’

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Top Democrat urges Kerry not to meddle in Israel-Palestinian future

AnalysisErekat: Kerry will lay down path to peace based on UN resolution

By Avi Issacharoff

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)

White House: No coordination with Erekat, leaked transcript ‘total fabrication’

By Eric Cortellessa

NSC spokesman denies Egyptian report that Palestinian negotiator held meeting with Kerry, Rice to strategize anti-settlement resolution acceptable to US

Transcript claims to show US worked with Palestinians on UN resolution

Israel: US pressured Ukraine to support anti-settlement resolution

Israel expects more US-led moves at United Nations, official says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press in response to US Secretary of State John Kerry's speech on the Israeli government and his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. December 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Kerry merely paid ‘lip service’ in condemning terror

By Marissa Newman

PM says secretary drew ‘false moral equivalence’ between Jerusalem building, Palestinian terrorism, insists he has ‘incontestable’ evidence US was behind UN vote; Abbas conditions peace talks on settlement freeze

The 'Hanukkah Lights: History, Art and Design' exhibit at the Triennale in Milan. (Gianluca Di Ioia/ La Triennale di Milano)

'We needed a plan'

Menorah exhibit brightens prospects for tiny Italian Jewish community

By Rossella Tercatin

Jews have lived in Casale Monferrato since the 16th century, but with young people seeking prosperity elsewhere, natives turned to art to put the town on the map

Women hold Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at Western Wall

By David Sedley

Menorahs vandalized in California, Arizona

By JTA and ToI Staff

Son of Israeli woman killed in Berlin attack lights city’s menorah

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference inaugurating the State archive on the "Yemenite Children Affair," now open to the public online, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 28, 2016. Alongside him is state archivist Yaakov Lozowick. Families from Yemenite and North African Jewish communities maintain the Israeli government systematically kidnapped their children from Israeli hospitals and put them up for adoption during the immigration wave in the 1950s. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Netanyahu: Today we right a historic wrong

Israel opens database with 400,000 declassified documents on Yemenite Children Affair

Authorities hope to finally bring closure to families of missing children allegedly kidnapped from hospitals and given for adoption; families want government to take responsibility

Richard A. Landes

Fake news and the corruption of academia

On the intellectual backflips that explain why the progressive world is incapable of fighting real injustice

Obama’s betrayal

In one pen-stroke of abstention, the US president has tarnished his 8 years of cool, grace, and lack of scandal

8 optimistic predictions for 2017

Contemplating the future plants seeds of hope that can convert both good and bad of the past year into positive action

Censorship won’t defeat online terrorism

Israel puts free speech at risk with its new ‘Facebook law’ — better to fight incitement directly by calling it out

A loss, a life, a legacy

A tribute to a friend who blogged his illness with humor, gratitude, and grace, all while giving out ‘F#$% Cancer’ bracelets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laughs during a conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2016. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

After canceling meetings, Netanyahu still has busy diplomatic schedule

By Raphael Ahren

A host of foreign dignitaries are due in Jerusalem next month amid criticism that prime minister is isolating Israel

Illustrative photo of a construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (AP/Dan Balilty)

Ahead of Kerry speech, new East Jerusalem homes off the agenda

By ToI Staff and AFP

City Hall discussion of housing permits is canceled, reportedly by request of prime minister, amid growing pressure in wake of UN’s anti-settlement vote

Head of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky addresses the Knesset's Lobby of Religion and State on December 27, 2016 at the Knesset. Seated to his left is head of ITIM Rabbi Seth Farber and to his left, lobby co-chair MK Elazar Stern. (Courtesy ITIM)

MKs are utterly ignorant about Reform Judaism, says Sharansky

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Joint List MK Basel Ghattas appears at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing on December 26, 2016, following his arrest on suspicion of smuggling cellphones to Palestinian security prisoners. (Photo by Meged Guzani/POOL)

Ghattas says prosecution part of political witch hunt

Arab Israeli lawmaker accused of smuggling cell phones to prisoners tells al-Jazeera he has done nothing wrong

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, on June 7, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel said to skip General Assembly vote on Syria, on Netanyahu’s orders

PM reportedly acceded to Russian request not to vote for war crimes investigative mechanism, days before anti-settlements resolution passed at Security Council with Moscow’s help

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

Pakistani officials chide defense minister for Israel nuclear threat

Diplomat says Khawaja Mohammad Asif messed up by relying on fake news, not consulting anyone before tweeting warning about nukes

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont) speaks on Capitol Hill on July 7, 2015. (Susan Walsh, AP/File)

Montana’s top elected leaders condemn neo-Nazi harassment of state’s Jews

By Eric Cortellessa

After white nationalists call for ‘action’ against Montana Jews, officials say law enforcement officers will ‘address these threats directly and forcefully’

Thousands of supporters of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and its Northern Branch leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, demonstrate against Israel's decision to outlaw the Northern Branch, on November 28, 2015, in Umm al-Fahm, northern Israel. (Muammar Awad/Flash90)

Shin Bet foils plan by Arab Israelis to attack soldiers

Plotters reportedly wanted revenge for Israel outlawing the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

A tunnel reaching from Gaza into Israel, seen in a picture released by the IDF on April 18, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Held by Shin Bet, top Hamas official reveals vital tunnel intel

By Ilan Ben Zion

Bilal Razaineh, who was detained as he entered Israel in November, providing info on underground passages, terror group’s positions and operatives

Head of Shin Bet security service Nadav Argaman attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting in the Knesset, July 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shin Bet foiled over 400 significant terror attacks in 2016, service says

By Stuart Winer

Israeli police outside the scene where a stabbing attack took place in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Accomplice in 2015 double stabbing murder handed 35-year sentence

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinian college student from East Jerusalem jailed for aiding terrorist carry out attack that killed Nehemia Lavi, Aharon Banita

Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache casts his vote in national elections at a polling station in Vienna, Austria, September 29, 2013. (AFP)

Russia’s chief rabbi blasted for meeting Austrian far-right leader

By JTA

Vienna rabbis condemn visit with Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Freedom Party that wants to ban ritual slaughter

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, (l) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Report: Russia, Turkey agree on ceasefire for all of Syria

By AFP

Turkish state media say Moscow and Ankara reach consensus on plan to come into force at midnight

Detail of album cover for 'Dreidel I Shall Play' by composer Samuel E. Goldfarb. (Courtesy of Myron Gordon/via JTA)

The hidden history of ‘I Have a Little Dreidel’

By Albert Stern

More Headlines

Members of the UN Security Council vote in favor of condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016 at United Nations Headquarters. (Manuel Elias/United Nations via AP)

After UN vote, US Jewish group urges congressional review of foreign policy

By Tamar Pileggi

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks at a conference on how to develop northern Israel, in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, December 26, 2016. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Finance minister scorns Netanyahu’s call to up and buy homes

By Stuart Winer

An Iranian homeless man who lives in a grave speaking with an Iranian newspaper. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Images of homeless living in graves shock Iran

By AFP

Romania's President Klaus Werner Iohannis gestures as he arrives for a European Union leaders summit at the European Council, in Brussels, October 20, 2016. (AFP/Thierry Charlier)

Romania’s president says he won’t name Muslim woman to be PM

Collapsed wall in Tel Dan dating to First Temple era, 27 December, 2016 (Zvika Tzuk, Israel Parks and Nature Authority)

Biblical-era Tel Dan wall collapses as storms hit northern Israel

Actress Carrie Fisher attending the premiere of Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm's "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, December 14, 2015. (AFP/Getty Images North America/Ethan Miller)

Star Wars heroine Carrie Fisher dies at age 60

Prof. Avi Simhon, Head of the National Economic Council, addressing the IATI MNC Forum 2016 (Courtesy: Nir Shmul)

Netanyahu to head panel to tackle high-tech workers pinch

By Shoshanna Solomon

Daniel Shapiro, the US ambassador to Israel, speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Nov. 9, 2016. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Man without a missionUS envoy reportedly asks to stick around after term ends

By JTA

Illustrative view of Tel Aviv at night, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel opens door for foreign entrepreneurs

Ultra-Orthodox students attend a graduation ceremony at the Ono Academy's Jerusalem branch (image capture: YouTube)

Ultra-Orthodox university enrollment rate triples — report

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the Oxford Union in Oxford, central England, on May 11, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Pool/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewKeep qualms and Kerry on

By Joshua Davidovich

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