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What Matters Most On Friday, December 22, 2017

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List of how countries voted in the December 21, 2017 UN resolution rejecting US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (Courtesy)

UN defies Trump, rejects US recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital by 128-9

By Raphael Ahren

Non-binding General Assembly vote brands US president’s decision on holy city ‘null and void’; Haley notes ’65 countries refused to condemn’ US, including some surprise abstentions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud rally marking the Hanukkah holiday in Tel Aviv on December 19, 2017. (Flash90)

Israel rejects ‘preposterous’ UN vote, thanks nations that supported ‘the truth’

United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, addresses the General Assembly prior to the vote on Jerusalem, on December 21, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP PHOTO / EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ)

Full text of Nikki Haley’s speech to UN General Assembly on Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform legislation in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, DC, December 13, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Trump says US ‘foolishly spent $7 trillion in the Middle East’

By ToI Staff and AP

After Jerusalem defeat at UN General Assembly, US president tweets it is time to start focusing funds on rebuilding America

AnalysisAlmost all major recipients of US aid ignored White House threat on UN vote

By Josef Federman

Despite threats, Trump team undecided on how to punish countries for UN vote

By Eric Cortellessa

At heated UN session, Haley threatens to cut funds: ‘Don’t disrespect us’

The voting results are displayed on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly in which the United States declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was declared "null and void" on December 21, 2017 in New York City. The vote, 128-9, at the United Nations concerned Washington's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate its embassy there. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

Why Israel’s massive defeat at the UN isn’t quite as bad as it looks

Losing 128-9 hurts. But, thanks to Netanyahu’s diplomatic outreach and Trump’s threats to cut aid to states opposing his Jerusalem move, there are some silver linings

US invites nations that abstained or rejected UN vote to reception

Hebrew media reviewAfter UN vote, tabloids make lemons into Kool-ade

By Joshua Davidovich

Full text of UN resolution rejecting Jerusalem recognition

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli soldiers near the border fence east of Gaza City on December 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

2 Palestinian protesters killed in Gaza as thousands riot for 3rd straight week

By Judah Ari Gross, Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Decrease seen in numbers of demonstrators despite Palestinian groups’ calls to sustain violent opposition to Trump’s Jerusalem recognition

Following UN vote, Hamas calls for ‘red bloody day’ in West Bank

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Mother of slain soldier to UNSC members: Our son was a victim of your ceasefire

Malaysian PM leads protest in solidarity with Palestinians

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a joint press conference with French president following their meeting at the Elysee presidential Palace, in Paris, on December 22, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Francois Mori)

Abbas: We won’t accept any American peace plan, US no longer a mediator

PA president says Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem supports ‘illegality and the blatant violation of our rights’

In France, Abbas rails against ‘dishonest mediator’ US

By AFP

Putin, Erdogan reaffirm support for Palestinian state in call

By AFP

Abbas hails UN vote as ‘a victory for Palestine’

A couple looks at real estate ads in the coastal city of Netanya, July 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Do Israel’s ‘ghost apartments’ explain why the home you want is out of reach?

By Simona Weinglass

In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, photo, Helen Radkey, a researcher of the Mormon church's massive genealogical database, is at her home in Holladay, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormons defy church to again perform baptisms on Holocaust victims

By BRADY McCOMBS

Proxy baptisms, meant to offer the deceased a choice in the afterlife to accept or reject salvation, seen by many Jews as insulting to the memory of the dead

Armie Hammer (left) and Timothée Chalamet in 'Call Me by Your Name.' (Courtesy Sony Classics)

Film’s gay lovers bonded as Jews first, says ‘Call Me by Your Name’ writer

By Jessica Steinberg

Peter Sarsgaard as Dr. Frank Olson in 'Wormwood.' (Netflix)

Now on Netflix

Was scientist Frank Olson’s death an LSD-induced suicide or CIA cover-up?

By Tracy Frydberg

The time I interrupted the prime minister

How wonderful to be allowed to speak out against Israel’s involvement in the torment of the Rohingya

The first psychotherapist

At the heart of Judaism is the idea of human freedom: we can rise above our unconscious drives (Vayigash)

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Axed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, flanked by former Catalan Health minister Antoni Comin, left, and former Catalan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Meritxell Serret, reacts after the results of the regional elections in Catalonia in Brussels on December 21, 2017. (AFP/ JOHN THYS)

Catalan separatists clinch victory to regain regional government

By AP

Palestinian women chant slogans as they hold Palestinian flags during a sit-in in the Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon census turns up two-thirds fewer Palestinians than expected

By AP

Former adviser to US President Donald Trump and executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, speaks at a campaign event for Republican candidate for the US Senate in Alabama Roy Moore on September 25, 2017 in Fairhope, Alabama. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Steve Bannon: ‘Jewish Palm Beach matrons used to be superhot’

By JTA

Restaurant Feinberg's in Berlin (Facebook photo)

Man arrested for anti-Semitic slurs at Israeli-owned cafe in Berlin

By AP and ToI Staff

Barry and Honey Sherman (YouTube)

At memorial, children of Canadian couple found dead bemoan speculation

By AP

Ron Yitzhak Kokia, an IDF soldier who was stabbed to death in a terror attack on November 30, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Arad stabbing of soldier was ‘revenge’ attack against IDF, perpetrator says

By Judah Ari Gross

Clifford Irving appearing on '60 Minutes' in 1972. (Screen capture: YouTube/CBS News)

Clifford Irving, author of faked Hughes biography, dead at 87

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London (screen capture: YouTube/Mick Byrne)

UK court rules for transgender woman denied contact with her Haredi children

By JTA

A white SUV sits in the middle of the road as police and emergency personnel work at the scene of where a car ran over pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne on December 21, 2017. (AFP/ Mark Peterson)

Police probing if Melbourne car ramming was terror-related

By AP

Dan Gertler sits in his office in Ramat Gan on September 18, 2000. (AP/Mati Stein)

US sanctions Israeli mining mogul Gertler over Congo deals

By ToI Staff and AP

Nine Bnei Menashe couples married on December 20 at Shavei Israel’s absorption center in Kfar Hasidim (Shlomo Haokip/Shavei Israel)

9 Bnei Menashe couples marry in joint event after moving to Israel

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri at a press conference announcing a new reform for small businesses at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri said to have received NIS 200,000 loan from businessman

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