Monday, 13 July 2009

Breaking News

President Obama will meet with the leaders of U.S. Jewish groups.
Britain imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel.
The leader of the gang responsible for torturing and murdering a French Jew received the maximum sentence for a crime judges ruled anti-Semitic.
Israel has offered extra immigrant benefits to Maccabiah Games participant who make aliyah.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Mahmoud Abbas to meet with him immediately to discuss peace.
The Rolling Stones will perform in Israel.
A London institute holding eight paintings once owned by a Nazi victim should not return the art to his heirs, a British panel said.
Peace cannot be imposed, Israel's foreign minister said following a call by the European Union policy chief to create a Palestinian state even if no agreement is reached with Israel.
Israel's Cabinet approved a proposal to extend the eligibility of families evacuated from the Gaza Strip to live in temporary housing.
An anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish citizen in Budapest has led to appeals to police for improved vigilance.
A banned neo-Nazi paramilitary group relaunched itself under a new name at a mass meeting in Budapest.
President Obama stressed the importance of remembering slavery to the importance of remembering the Holocaust, according to the CNN Web site.
A lawsuit by a Jerusalem-born U.S. citizen who wants "Israel" listed on his passport as his birth country was dismissed.
Convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was formally charged with being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews.
The wife of a Russian participant in the Maccabiah Games fell to her death while hiking near the Dead Sea.
The Ku Klux Klan claims it has infiltrated an Australian political party.
The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem appointed two new deans.
Israel advanced to the semifinals of the Davis Cup for the first time after defeating Russia.
Some 12,000 indigent Israeli Holocaust survivors each will receive a $1,500 grant.