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FEATURED STORIES Israeli sarcasm, building bike trails, avoiding Turkey Bicycle riders in Israel, like this one on a trail on Mount Hermon, soon will have thousands of more miles of bike trails in the country. (Hamad Almakt / Flash 90 / JTA) The rabbi that's one in a hundred, Israelis shun Turkey tourism and thin isn't in.Read more » U.S. Jews, though reeling, look to preserve Turkish ties U.S. Jewish leaders talk in pained, hushed tones about the "red lines" that Turkey has crossed in its relationship with Israel. Still, the fragile consensus emerging from the establishment Jewish organizational leadership is that the relationship it has cultivated over the decades with Turkey is worth preserving -- at least for now.Read more » UC Irvine suspends Muslim student group The University of California, Irvine suspended a Muslim student group over its disruption of a lecture by Israel's ambassador to the United States. Read more » Final report: Gov't mishandled Gush Katif evacuees The Israeli government mishandled the resettlement of Jewish families evacuated from Gush Katif, according to a state commission's report. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS Tracking threats against U.S. Jews (ABC) ABC takes a peek into the situation room at the Secure Community Network, which works with law enforcement to track threats against U.S. Jews. The rebbe's yahrzeit (N.Y. Times) Sixteen years to the day after the death of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the debate over his life continues. Emanuel bar mitzvah (Jerusalem Post) How the son of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Kotel. The swastika cleaner (Ynet) Irmela Mensah-Schramm, 64, has made it her life's work to scrub away swastikas and neo-Nazi graffiti from Berlin to Madagascar. BREAKING NEWS The Jewish community of Bishkek is helping to deliver humanitarian aid to the south of Kyrgyzstan for those who are caught up in the ethnic rioting taking place there. An e-mail-driven rumor that Princess Cruises is boycotting Israel is false. Ireland will expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake Irish passports in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai. Two Israeli defense contractors recalled their employees from Turkey. Several members of Congress called on the U.S. State Department to investigate any passengers aboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla trying to enter the United States. Leaders of both parties in the U.S. Senate are urging President Obama to consider placing the Turkish charity involved in the Gaza flotilla incident on a terrorism list. European Union foreign ministers called for the lifting of the Gaza blockade and a "credible, independent" inquiry into Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla. Israel and the Vatican appear to have moved closer to resolving financial and other outstanding issues that have clouded bilateral relations for years. American indie rocker Devendra Banhart became the latest musician to cancel an appearance in Israel following political pressure. A Kassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel. Five civil society organizations in Israel have created a position paper outlining a social policy to reduce gaps in health status and health services. An Indian director will make a Bollywood movie about the final days of Adolf Hitler's life.