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National insecurity

American Jews haven't stood up for Jonathan Pollard. That might finally be changing, Tablet writes.

BREAKING NEWS# A dispute between right-wing and left-wing Israel activists in Berkeley, Calif., resulted in a physical altercation involving pepper spray, police and paramedics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's discussions with the Obama administration for a new freeze on settlement building did not include extending the freeze to eastern Jerusalem, his office said. Jewish Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was found shot dead in her car in Beverly Hills, Calif., following a movie premiere party. Israel's attorney general has ordered Jerusalem officials to seal off a seven-story Jewish building in eastern Jerusalem. The Chabad House in Koh Samui, Thailand, has plans to rebuild after major flooding destroyed the Jewish center. Israel will unilaterally withdraw from a town on its border with Lebanon, Israel's Security Cabinet decided. First Lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff Susan Sher, who has served as an administration liaison to the Jewish community, will leave the White House. Opponents working to unseat the state's Jewish House speaker reportedly have suggested in e-mails and newsletters that challengers should be "Christians and true Conservatives." Two Israeli companies were among the five winners of the GE Ecomagination Challenge. An international symposium in Paris looked at ways to improve often sluggish international cooperation on genocide prevention. A West Bank Jewish settler was convicted of kidnapping and assaulting a Palestinian teen. A major Zionist organization has withdrawn an advertisement because it featured images mocking the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Israel will take part in a pilot program to encourage Israeli advertising agencies to allocate more resources to advertising on YouTube.

Talmud, Tanach and running American post-high school yeshiva students studying in Israel for the year are preparing for the Jerusalem marathon, The Jerusalem Post reports.

Rogue state A speech delivered at Cambridge University in a student debate last month turned the definition of Israel as a rogue state on its head. The entire speech by Gabriel Latner is published in The Jerusalem Post.