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Israel facing grim threat assessment for '09

Delivering a grim threat assessment, the Israeli National Security Council said that Israel in 2009 may well find itself alone facing Iran on the threshold of nuclear power, fighting rocket attacks on two fronts and without a Palestinian partner for a two-state solution. Read more »

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The fate of Russian Jews After months of delay, the Israeli Supreme Court is considering a petition regarding 20,000 Subbotnik Jews of Russia, many of whom have found it increasingly difficult in recent years to get permission to make aliyah.

Dishonoring survivors Herbert Karliner, writing in The Miami Herald, says Jewish leaders who profess to honor Holocaust victims should be ashamed of themselves for opposing efforts to recover Nazi-era insurance policies.

Chasing after Syria Obama would have much more success pursuing an Israeli-Syrian peace deal than chasing an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace, writes Aaron David Miller in The Washington Post. When dealing with Syria, Israel should keep its bargaining positions secret rather than leaking them to the press, writes Itamar Rabinovich in The Jerusalem Post.

Good news from Hebron Just days after Jewish settlers in Hebron defaced Muslim gravestones with Stars of David, The New York Times finds some good news in Hebron: Israeli and Palestinian security forces are cooperating in the volatile city to bring down crime and intra-Palestinian violence, and ward off confrontations between Arabs and Jewish extremists. Breaking News A boat carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians has left Libya with plans to break Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Jewish youths rampaged in a Palestinian neighborhood in Hebron. Iran's chief prosecutor said he will seek the death penalty against three Iranians accused of spying for Israel. The Argentine branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center called for the dismissal of the U.N.'s General Assembly president because of his recent anti-Israeli comments. A campaign has been launched in the United States imploring a pardon for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Jordanians were permitted to visit family members imprisoned in Israel. A call on Barack Obama to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem will be a centerpiece of the Orthodox Union's biennial convention. An Israeli human rights group won a freedom award from a U.S. academic society. The mother of a man who firebombed a Jewish elementary school in Montreal will not go to jail for trying to help him flee the country. Israel's national team won its first medal ever in the international Chess Olympiad.