Monday, 6 April 2009


Breaking News

President Obama said he will "actively pursue" a two-state solution in the Middle East and reiterated the U.S. commitment to the Annapolis process during an address to the Turkish Parliament.
Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinians will not restart peace negotiations with Israel until its new government accepts a two-state solution.
Israel's attorney general told Ehud Olmert that he plans to indict the former prime minister for alleged corruption in an investments affair.
A gunman killed 13 people at a community center in Binghamton, N.Y., including a Jewish ESL teacher.
A yeshiva student undressed in a Tel Aviv supermarket to protest the store's sale of chametz during Passover.
A Palestinian doctor whose three daughters were killed during Israeli's Gaza offensive was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized "unity, responsibility and work" at the start of his first Cabinet meeting.
An Israeli student remained missing Monday evening following a devastating earthquake that killed dozens of people and left as many as 50,000 homeless in central Italy.
A U.S. immigration judge has reversed a stay of deportation for convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk.
Sydney's Jewish Museum and descendants of survivors saved by Oskar Schindler are angry that a carbon copy of his famous list was sold to the State Library of New South Wales.
The U.S. Defense Department is studying the 2006 Lebanon War to prepare itself for future conflicts.
The state archive of Ukraine's Zhytomyr region returned historic damaged Torah scrolls to the local Jewish community two years after confiscating them.
Parts of downtown Milan were sealed off as hundreds of right-wing extremists from Italy and several other countries gathered for a convention
Israel's National Employment Service bureau reported its highest recorded monthly job losses.
Somali pirates attacked a ship belonging to an Israeli freight company.
Michelle Obama visited Prague's Jewish Quarter.
Tel Aviv kicked off its 100th birthday celebrations.
Israeli police are holding the parents of a 16-year-old Bedouin girl who attacked a border police base.
President Obama marked "Education and Sharing Day" with a tribute to the late Lubavitcher rebbe who launched the initiative.
Jerusalem's new mayor met with film industry figures in Los Angeles to encourage more filming in his city.