Thursday 26 March 2009


Israel-Europe ties showing strains

With Benjamin Netanyahu refusing to reaffirm Israel's support for the two-state solution and widespread popular anger in Europe over the recent military operation in Gaza, Israel's relations with the continent are showing signs of strain. Read more »

Breaking News

Gideon Taylor is leaving his post at the helm of the Claims Conference to become the No. 2 at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Pope Benedict XVI will meet with political leaders and visit sites sacred to Muslims, Jews and Christians during his May trip to Israel.
Jewish groups have denounced a cartoon by a prize-winning political cartoonist as anti-Semitic.
Ehud Olmert has been cleared by police in one of the corruption investigations against him.
Israel developed a vaccine against anthrax by testing it on IDF soldiers.
Israel's military unlawfully used white phosphorus during its three-week military operation in Gaza, a human rights group said.
Some 25 percent of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead were civilians, the IDF said.
A Sudanese convoy carrying weapons bound for Gaza was bombed in January, Sudanese officials said.
Two top Jewish groups are urging the Justice Department to reconsider its prosecution of former AIPAC staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman.
President Obama discussed resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with Jordanian King Abdullah II.
A Barbados man charged with murdering the president of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO has pleaded guilty to robbing five tourists.
The New York City medical examiner warned that Jewish burial could be threatened by proposed budget cuts.
Egypt's president reiterated his commitment to peace with Israel on the 30th anniversary of the Egypt-Israel peace deal.
The Ukrainian Parliament's human rights commissioner called on mayors and deputies throughout Ukraine to act against racial violence.
Brandeis University received a $10.8 million grant to help support the school’s Russian student body.
A top U.S. State Department official wants Israel to provide more information about land mines it left behind in Lebanon after the 2006 war.
Extreme rightist Jean-Marie Le Pen told the EU Parliament that "gas chambers were a detail in the history of the Second World War."

Posted by Britannia Radio at 18:55