Tuesday 14 September 2010

BREAKING NEWS

The second round of direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians ended in Egypt with calls for Israel to extend its settlements freeze.
Google reportedly will acquire a second Israeli start-up company.
The president of the Jewish Funders Network will step down at the end of 2010, according to a letter sent by the organization's chairman to members.
Two Palestinians who died after Israeli troops fired on them believing them to be terrorists were civilians, an Israeli military investigation found.
A German official has resigned from the country's top bank board over remarks about Jews and Muslims widely condemned as racist.
The Indian nanny who saved the young son of the Mumbai Chabad emissaries during a terrorist attack was granted honorary Israeli citizenship.
A Jewish center in an earthquake-ravaged New Zealand city was discovered undamaged.
More than 350 students and alumni at Brandeis University called on columnist Martin Peretz to apologize for saying Muslims do not value human life or deserve free speech.
A plea bargain for an Israeli soldier who turned classified military documents over to a reporter has been prepared.
The front-runner in Brazil's presidential race in a meeting with local Jewish activists said she could be of Jewish descent.
The European Parliament passed a resolution calling on Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to work together to rehabilitate the Jordan River.
Israeli police demolished buildings in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev for the fifth time.
An organization supported by Christians throughout the world donated more than $1 million in food packages to aid 20,000 Israeli families during Jewish and Muslim holidays.