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Daily Briefing

Monday, April 11, 2011

FEATURED STORY With Arab Spring, will Israel be left in the cold? The high-profile backers of a new Israeli peace push say Israel needs to take the peacemaking path before it’s too late. Read more » EDITORS' PICKS

Eichmann trial online To mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Adolf Eichmann trial, Israel's state archives and Yad Vashem have uploaded films of the trial to YouTube.

Ford Foundation quitting Israel Officials of the foundation, a major funder of Israeli NGOs, say controversy over its grants didn't play a role in the decision, the Forward reports.

The Bonds that tie us Writing in the Israeli business daily Globes, Matti Golan says there really is no economic justification for the existence of Israel Bonds, and that a large proportion of the money raised goes to salaries and other payments to the organization's employees.

Those fiendish Jews Jerusalem Post Editor David Horovitz, writing through the eyes of Israel's Palestinian attackers, looks at Jewish innovations that are saving Jewish and Palestinian lives.

The Eulogizer: Sidney Lumet and Dear Abby's son, Eddie Phillips JTA's Appreciation column remembers the celebrated filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Eddie Phillips, an entrepreneur and son of the late advice columnist Dear Abby. BREAKING NEWS Israel and terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip reportedly agreed to a cease-fire. Some 700 children from southern Israeli communities that have been hit by rockets and missiles from Gaza were given free tickets to pop star Justin Bieber's concert. Police are seeking a 60-year-old man who is suspected of being responsible for an explosion next to the Chabad House in Santa Monica, Calif. Israel's attorney general reportedly is set to announce that he will file an indictment against the country's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on graft charges. A 21-year-old student was severely beaten near his synagogue in southern France after acknowledging to his attackers that he was Jewish. In the next war, Israeli officials expect Hezbollah to fire about 500 missiles a day at Israel from Lebanon, including 100 that will reach Tel Aviv, leaked cables show. Israel evacuated its embassy staff from the Ivory Coast amid heavy fire between opposing sides in the west African nation's civil war. A man who threatened to kill Rep. Eric Cantor, speaking of his "final Yom Kippur," was sentenced to two years in prison. The man who arrested the family of Anne Frank in their Amsterdam hiding place 67 years ago worked for years for the West German intelligence agency, a new book has revealed. An African-American student group took out ads in college newspapers blasting Israel Apartheid Week organizers for abusing the term. Vandals struck the synagogue in a northeastern Ukraine city for the fifth time in as many years. An Israeli author has sued Google Books for copyright infringement. Ireland will conduct an independent review into the deaths of three Irish soldiers whose vehicle was blown up on a United Nations mission in Lebanon. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that only economic stability in Arab countries would ensure political stability in the Middle East. An Israeli winery for the first time won the grand prize at Italy's leading international wine competition. The Irish government has asked Dublin's Jewish leadership to urge congregants to complete their census forms. The speaker of Israel’s Knesset, Reuven Rivlin made a historic visit to the island of Tonga in the South Pacific. Israel's government approved the famous personalities who will appear on a new series of shekel banknotes.