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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 29, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in response to an address by US Secretary of State John Kerry, December 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu castigates Kerry’s skewed speech, obsession with settlements; vows to work with Trump to repeal UN resolution

By Raoul Wootliff

Secretary drew ‘false moral equivalence’ between Jerusalem construction and Palestinian terror, PM charges, and was only ‘paying lip service’ in condemnation of attacks

Ted Cruz: History will record Obama, Kerry as ‘relentless enemies’ of Israel

Full text of Netanyahu’s response to Kerry speech on Mideast peace

Trump: Israel treated ‘very, very unfairly’ at United Nations

By ToI Staff and AFP

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech on Middle East peace at the State Department in Washington, DC on December 28, 2016. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images/AFP)

Kerry: Israeli gov’t agenda ‘driven by the most extreme elements,’ jeopardizing two-state solution

By Eric Cortellessa and Raoul Wootliff

Castigating settlement activity and defending Security Council abstention, secretary says friends must tell each other hard truths; sets out principles for accord but says he doesn’t aim to impose terms

Kerry’s speech, UN resolution drive peace further away, say US Jewish groups

‘Jerusalem as capital of two states’ and Kerry’s 5 other principles for peace

Full text of John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace, December 28, 2016

Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech on Middle East peace at the Department of State on December 28, 2016, in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

The only thing he didn’t say was ‘apartheid’

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Marginalizing the significance of Palestinian hostility and of terrorism, the Obama administration long ago lost much of the Israeli public. Few will have been won over by Kerry’s valedictory speech, with its predictable focus on settlements

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Australia would have opposed anti-settlement UN resolution, FM indicates

By Raphael Ahren

Canberra ‘has consistently not supported one-sided resolutions targeting Israel,’ says Julie Bishop, who in 2014 contested notion that settlements are illegal

UK officials say they were behind UN settlements vote — report

Abbas: I’ll resume talks if Israel halts settlement activity

By ToI Staff and AFP

Construction of solo Jewish building in East Jerusalem gets the nod

By ToI Staff and AFP

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Chief rabbi: US has forsaken Israel, we can trust only in the Lord

Yitzhak Yosef says White House decision not to veto UN resolution served as ‘reminder from above that we can count on no one but our Father’

US Secretary of State John Kerry lays out his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians December 28, 2016, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium at the Department of State in Washington, DC.
(AFP PHOTO / PAUL J. RICHARDS)

Analysis

Why is Netanyahu so afraid of the ‘Kerry Parameters’?

By Raphael Ahren

Many dismissed the secretary’s speech as meaningless posturing, but the PM fears the Security Council could adopt it. Here’s a closer look at what his principles provide for

Democratic leader: Kerry’s speech ’emboldens extremists on both sides’

White House: Obama will veto any other UN resolution critical of Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Ex-US envoy: Kerry’s speech ‘something he had to get off his chest’

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a reception dedicated to the celebration of the New Year at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 28, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Sputnik / Michael Klimentyev)

Live updates (closed)

US expels 35 Russian operatives, shutters 2 compounds in hacking response

President says ‘all Americans should be alarmed’ by Moscow’s interference; vows more moves to come, some ‘not publicized’

A nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants in the 1950s (Brauner Teddy/GPO)

New data on missing Yemenite children shows gross negligence, but not state-sponsored kidnappings

Release of over 400,000 documents reveals widespread indifference to families’ plight, but does not vindicate horrifying, long-held conspiracy theories

Miriam Herschlag

Haim Yavin, my ass

Israel’s Mr. Television yearns for the good old days, when men were men and women slapped them

Thanks John Kerry, at least you tried

Israel should pursue the Secretary’s plan — it’s not perfect, but it’s good and would peace be such a bad thing?

Avi Issacharoff

Mr. Kerry, the 2-state solution isn’t at risk, it’s already dead

Op-Ed: Now, just before leaving office, you decide to rail against settlements and incitement? Where have you been?

Dear Secretary Kerry

The outgoing statesman means well — so why did he ignore Israeli fears, and leave out the matter of Jewish refugees

Illustrative: New immigrants to Israel disembarking a plane in Tel Aviv, on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Immigration to Israel slumps as French influx tapers off

Russian, Brazilian Jews arrive in greater numbers, while Ukrainian and American immigration down in 2016

Fireworks. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Merritt Boyd, Flickr)

Israel tech thrived in 2016, looks forward to 2017 thrills

By Shoshanna Solomon

IoT, the cloud, cybersecurity, fintech and self-driving cars are set to dominate the high-tech scene next year too

Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Israel M&A activity surged 34% to $16.8b in 2016 — PwC

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Spoils of Jerusalem, Arch of Titus, circa 82 CE (Arch of Titus Project, Yeshiva University)

Interview

7 facts about menorahs, the most enduring symbol of the Jewish people

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Armed Syrian fighters evacuated from the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo during a ceasefire arrive at a refugee camp in Rashidin, near Idlib, Syria, December 20, 2016. (AP)

Syrian army, opposition confirm nationwide truce from midnight

By AFP

Ceasefire excludes combat against Fateh el-Sham, Islamic State forces; Russia, Turkey to act as guarantors

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

Netanyahu to be investigated for bribery, fraud — report

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

A-G said to give approval for full-blown criminal probe after new documents come to light; PM to be called in for questioning in coming days, Channel 10 says

This file photo taken on January 24, 2015 shows Debbie Reynolds, right, recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and her daughter Carrie Fisher posing in the press room during the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. (AFP/Getty Images North America/Ethan Miller)

Actress Debbie Reynolds, mother of Carrie Fisher, dies aged 84

Film legend dies in hospital, day after her movie star daughter passed away following heart attack; ‘She’s now with Carrie,’ says son

Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay seen during a committee meeting at the Knesset during a discussion on a controversial natural gas deal which was recently approved by the Israeli government. December 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-environment minister joins Labor, likely to seek leadership

By Ilan Ben Zion

Party leaders lavish praise on Kulanu party bigwig Avi Gabbay, who quit politics after Liberman became defense minister

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

Former chief rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger at the Jerusalem District Court during his corruption trial on July 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-chief rabbi to plead guilty in NIS 10m. fraud case — report

Donald Trump speaking during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York, November 9, 2016. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Not PCTrump: Computers why ‘nobody knows what’s going on’

By AFP

Illustrative photo of bats sleeping (CC BY, darkday, Flickr)

Bat chatBats fight over food and friends, sometimes for fun

Google headquarters in New York City (Serge Attal/FLASH90)

Soul searchingGoogle tweaks algorithm to thwart Holocaust denial

Israeli go shopping in the Malha Mall in Jerusalem on March 15, 2009. The mall, which opened in 1993, has 260 stores on 3 levels with a shopping area of 37,000 m². It is one of seven malls built in Israel by David Azrieli. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90

From the webGAP shuts down in Israel

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in 'Star Wars: A New Hope' (screen capture: YouTube)

A Star Wars is born Carrie Fisher audition is a balm for grieving fans

A view inside Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s former summer home (Wikimedia Commons)

Teddy Two-LightsTheodore Roosevelt and his 2 menorahs

By Gabe Friedman

PLO official Hanan Ashrawi at her office in Ramallah, January 31, 2012 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Greek Orthodox patriarch under fire for praising Israel’s freedom of religion

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on December 26, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

French Jews fume over Liberman’s ‘Dreyfus Affair’ comparison

By JTA

US Secretary of State John Kerry lays out his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians December 28, 2016, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium at the Department of State in Washington, DC.
(AFP/Paul J. Richards)

Hebrew media reviewWe wish you a Kerry Christmas and a Happy New Year

By Ilan Ben Zion

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