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What Matters Most On Friday, December 30, 2016

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New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (R) announces his new cabinet at a press conference as Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop (L) looks on in Canberra on September 20, 2015. (Peter Parks/AFP)

Australian PM condemns ‘one-sided’ UN settlement resolution

Day after UK PM bashes Kerry’s anti-settlement speech, Malcolm Turnbull slams ‘deeply unsettling’ UN decision, says ‘Australia stands with Israel’

From our partnersUK condemns Kerry after settlements speech

Christians, Jews protest New Zealand sponsorship of UN resolution on Israel

By JTA

AIPAC looks to push Congress on opposition to UN resolution

By Eric Cortellessa

President Barack Obama welcomes Ambassador Michael B. Oren of the State of Israel to the White House Monday, July 20, 2009, during the credentials ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to the United States (White House photo)

‘We don’t need this America,’ deputy minister says after UN vote, Kerry speech

By Raphael Ahren

Former ambassador to US Michael Oren: Obama Administration’s current attitude to Israel ‘sad, tragic and dangerous’

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant (left) and Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the cabinet meeting at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on June 7, 2015. (Amit Shabi/Flash90)

Top minister: After Jan. 20, Israeli policy will be to annex Ma’ale Adumim

Jewish Home’s Naftali Bennett says Trump’s arrival will enable annexation of major settlement; Kulanu’s Yoav Galant: No, it won’t

Zionist Union calls for referendum on whether to annex West Bank

Survey claims 31% of Israelis support annexing settlement blocs

Netanyahu, again opposing Kerry, says Palestinian issue ‘relatively marginal’ in Mideast

Illustrative photo of Arab Israelis during a protest in northern Israel on March 30, 2015. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

6.58 million each: Palestinians claim they’ll be as numerous as Jews in ‘historic Palestine’ in 2017

By Stuart Winer

Counting Israeli Arabs, Palestinian officials posit demographic parity between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River by next year

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police to PM: Schedule time for questioning on graft allegations

Channel 10 says Netanyahu is suspected of breach of trust, unlawfully accepting gifts; no bribery suspicions as yet

PM rejects ‘baseless’ allegations in new bribery scandal

Netanyahu said suspected of illicit receipt of large sums from 2 businessmen

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi pleads guilty to corruption, faces jail

By JTA

Spicy tahini, butter and maple-glazed carrots from Adeena Sussman's Short Stack Tahini cookbook (Courtesy Lauren V. Allen)

Americans say ‘open sesame’ to Israeli tahini recipes

By Jessica Steinberg

Adeena Sussman’s Short Stack ‘Tahini’ cookbook is a crammed treasure trove of rich, new dishes made with the uniquely Middle Eastern paste

Jeffrey Hoffman reads from the Torah aboard the space shuttle Columbia during a 1996 mission. (Courtesy of Hoffman)

Space Torah: When the creation story flew back into the firmament

By Rich Tenorio

To read the divine among the stars, three holy scrolls have made the journey to outer space; only two returned safely

Illustrative: Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky seen at a circumcision ceremony in Israel on May 02, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Netherlands insurer defends coverage for circumcisions

By JTA

Amid debate on Muslim traditions, right-wing Dutch outlets say move constitutes ‘support for genital mutilation’

Illustrative: Portraits of Anne, her sister Margot, and mother Edith, inside the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Report on Anne Frank’s capture sparks frustration among experts

By Matt Lebovic

Following release of study suggesting Holocaust diarist and her family were not betrayed, Anne Frank House responds to criticism of its ‘obvious mistakes’

You are the racist, actually, not me

She’s an Orthodox Jewish settler who voted for Trump, which shows she loves peace and respects Palestinians

12 reasons the US should never have allowed UN Resolution 2334

Samantha Power invoked the late great Daniel Patrick Moynihan in justifying her vote. But here’s why he never would have done she did

US Rep: Supporting Israel is a no-brainer

In his voting capacity as a Florida congressman-elect, he’ll embrace Israelis as the true friends he knows them to be

Why Netanyahu will miss Obama

Bibi used US concerns to put the brakes on his cabinet’s preferred right-wing positions; under Trump, all bets are off, writes ex-Obama adviser in NY Times

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro speaking in Jerusalem on November 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US envoy says abstention on Security Council vote not revenge

By Joshua Davidovich

‘Obama doesn’t deal in revenge. It’s not how he makes decisions,’ Dan Shapiro tells Israeli TV

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with US President Barack Obama in New York, on September 21, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Relations between Obama, Netanyahu camps hit rock bottom

By Josh Lederman

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)

With clock ticking, Palestinians pin hopes on Paris summit

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Palestinians hopeful that a strong international endorsement will insulate them from the budding alliance between Trump and Netanyahu

Moshe Ya'alon (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Ex-defense minister slams Netanyahu over Azaria trial

Moshe Ya’alon: By embracing soldier who shot subdued Palestinian attacker, PM sparked crisis between political echelon, defense establishment

A row of New York City police cars is parked along a street in Times Square, Thursday, December 29, 2016, in New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Fearing truck attack, NY rolls out own rigs to guard New Year’s party

By AP

City says garbage trucks, other upped security measures, will help protect Times Square from terror rammings like those seen in Nice and Berlin

Screen capture from a Norwegian television satirical show that compared the Holocaust to local student fees. (screen capture: NRK TV)

In bad taste

Norwegian TV sorry for spoofing Holocaust

By JTA

In satirical video, college students seen touring concentration camp, asking if ovens were for making pizza

The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (JTA/Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images/File)

Conservative writer gets into Twitter spat with Auschwitz Museum

By Gabe Friedman

Memorial organization tells Kurt Schlichter not to ‘instrumentalize’ the Holocaust as he slams Jewish Obama, Kerry supporters

Prayer services at the pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall, on July 17, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

30 MKs urge PM to allow mixed prayer area at Western Wall

Lawmakers ask Netanyahu to nix bill to ban egalitarian prayer at site, say it will ‘divide the Jewish people’

Israeli security forces guard at the Qalandiya Checkpoint near Ramallah on July 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Stabbing foiled at West Bank checkpoint, assailant wounded

Suspected attacker, a Palestinian woman, shot in the leg after refusing to stop, no other injuries

Illustrative. Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman visits the IDF Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion army base on July 26, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

IDF launches programs to encourage Bedouin, Christians to enlist

Army to set up initiatives to train and integrate minority groups, increase numbers of Arab-speaking soldiers

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the military draft in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: Arrest those who shame ultra-Orthodox soldiers

Public figures condemn extremist group that publicizes photos of religious soldiers to discourage enlistment

The aftermath of the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. (Newspaper La Nación (Argentina/Wikipedia Commons)

Argentina court reopens probe of ex-president in bomb case

By AP and ToI Staff

Kirchner suspected of covering up involvement of Iranians in 1994 attack against Jewish community center

This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, delivering a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 8, 2016; and President-elect Donald Trump, right, at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AFP)

Russia to expel US diplomats in tit-for-tat move

By Max Delany and Susan Stumme

Russia, US relations — already at their worst since the Cold War — plummet to a fresh low less than a month before Trump takes charge

Author P.G. Wodehouse in 1930. (Public domain/Wikimedia)

Author P.G. Wodehouse’s apologia of Nazi-Germany broadcasts revealed

By Stuart Winer

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President Reuven Rivlin meets with leaders of Christian communities in Israel for the traditional annual reception to mark the civil New Year on December 27, 2016. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

In New Year’s video, Rivlin hopes for 2017 of ‘mutual respect’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Brooklyn Bridge (Getty Images/ Tomas Sereda )

Muslim teen in NYC chases down assailant of Orthodox Jewish woman

By JTA

Rabbi Marvin Hier (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Wiesenthal Center’s Marvin Hier to deliver prayer at Trump inauguration

By JTA

Police Chief Rabbi Rami Barkiahu

In first, top police rabbi offers greetings for Christian holidays

Washington Square Park, San Francisco. (CC BY-SA 3.0/SujoyG/Wikimedia)

Stealing the show6-foot-tall brass menorah stolen from California park

By JTA

Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community celebrating Hanukkah in Churachandpur on December 8, 2015. (Shavei Israel)

Bnei Menashe Indians celebrate far-flung Hanukkah

By JTA

File: Inaugural preparations on the West Front of Capitol Hill in Washington, looking at the National Mall and Washington Monument, November 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

NCJW: Women’s March on Washington sends a message

By JTA

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff AKA Black Widow in Iron Man II (screen capture: YouTube)

Make a killingScarlett Johansson named biggest box office draw of 2016

By AFP

Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino advertising performer Celine Dion On July 2, 2012. Getty Images/iStock/ffooter)

The power of liverDeli’s smoked meat can go on, thanks to Celine Dion

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press in response to US Secretary of State John Kerry's speech, December 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewNew Year’s resolution

By Adiv Sterman

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