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Fireworks dazzle from Sydney to Pyongyang as 2017 begins in the East

Iraqi displaced persons also marking a new year filled with uncertainty.

|ByREUTERS
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as Australia's largest city ushers in the New Year
WORKERS PREPARE the New Year’s Eve numerals above a Toshiba sign in Times Square in Manhattan.

Know Comment: A crystal ball on 2017

Obama will continue to prick at Israel, Trump will reaffirm the Bush letter, Putin may peel away from Iran and Netanyahu will prevail.

|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
New Year's Eve in Israel is known as Sylvester

Take our poll: New Year's Eve or Rosh Hashana?

With the holidays approaching, we want to ask Jpost readers what place Jewish holidays and traditions maintain in their lives.

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Confetti flies around the New Year's Eve Ball Drop, after midnight ,during New Year's eve celebrations in Times Square, New York January 1, 2015.

IN PICTURES: Revelers ring in New Year around the world

In Israel, MDA paramedics treated 137 people injured during celebrations.

|Byjpost.1eye.us STAFF, REUTERS