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Benjamin Netanyahu met with opposition leader Tzipi Livni to update her on security and diplomatic issues.

The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives pledged to continue to fight for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

A French court rejected pleas for a public trial of the gang members accused of kidnapping and murdering Ilan Halimi because he was Jewish.

Agudath Israel sent information on the swine flu to its more than 600 educational institutions.

The Palestinian man who led the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship was released from an Italian prison.

Condoleezza Rice will speak at a Jewish day school in her first public appearance in Washington since leaving the State Department.

Israeli passengers complained to a British airline after Israel was not included on the in-flight map.

Maccabi Tel Aviv will hit both U.S. coasts for exhibition games against NBA teams.

Israel will open its first military medical school.

Turkish prosecutors dropped a war crimes investigation against Israel over its Gaza military operation.

Israel's International Bible Contest winner dedicated his prize to friends killed in last year's attack on a Jerusalem yeshiva.

Seven Israeli Arabs were arrested for allegedly planning terror attacks and planning to kidnap Israeli soldiers.

Prominent personalities were among the more than 1,000 mourners at the funeral of Australian industrialist and philanthropist Richard Pratt.

Jewish groups are hailing House passage of hate-crimes legislation.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would to do all it could to bring home kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

The Jewish Museum in Berlin will expand by converting a flower market.

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