Prawer Plan Halted; Animated Anne Frank Film
Plus Jason Segel is David Foster Wallace, and more in the news

• The Israeli government has halted the controversial Prawer Plan, which seeks to resettle nearly 30,000 Bedouin living in the Negev. [Haaretz]
• Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman is making an animated film based on the life of Anne Frank. [Vulture]
• Today in Pope news: newly minted Person of the Year Pope Francis is so cool, he’s drawing the “wayward millenial” demographic back to the church. [NY Post]
• Questions we’re apparently asking: “Are Tolkien’s dwarves an allegory for the Jews?” [Times of Israel]
• It’s snowing in Jerusalem. Here are a lot of pictures of it. [Jerusalem Post]
• Jason Segel will play David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour, a film about the late novelist. [The Wrap]
Stephanie Butnick is deputy editor of Tablet Magazine and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.
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