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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said his group is open to a 10-year truce with Israel and a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was committed to the full range of negotiations with the Palestinians.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad canceled his visit to Latin America one day after Jewish-led protests in Brazil.

A United Nations report says that Israel attacked U.N. facilities on purpose during its Gaza military operation and fails to mention relentless attacks by Hamas.

An anti-Zionist ticket may be barred from European Parliament elections because it may be an illegal cover for anti-Semitism, France's general secretary announced.

Fire partially destroyed a historic wooden synagogue building in Lithuania.

An Israeli chief rabbi has called for a day of fasting and prayer in response to the spread of swine flu.

Israel's interior minister has begun the process of revoking the citizenship of four Israeli Arabs.

Israel's ambassador to Spain came under verbal anti-Semitic attack as he walked home from a soccer match in Madrid.

An Israeli human rights group says Israeli security has increased its interrogations of Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza for medical care.

Prosecutors dropped a murder charge against a woman who allegedly killed her Israeli husband due to "insufficient evidence" for a conviction.

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Vice President Joe Biden addresses the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, May 5, 2009. (AIPAC)

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Live blogging the AIPAC conference The JTA team brings you videos, news and insider views from the AIPAC annual policy conference in Washington.

Israel's new man in Washington The Israeli government's appointment of historian Michael Oren as Israel's new ambassador to the United States puts an unusual personage in what is arguably Israel's most important post overseas.

Commenting on anti-Semitism Israeli columnist Nahum Barnea is troubled by the anti-Semitism he sees in online talkbacks and comments on U.S. newspapers' Web sites.

Dreaming of a Palestinian state -- in Jordan A former Israeli defense minister wishes Egypt and Jordan would absorb the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.