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BREAKING NEWS President Obama in an address at a Holocaust remembrance event said he would "always be there for Israel" and defended his administration's record on preventing atrocities. Representatives of the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements renewed their appeals to President Obama to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard. Egypt canceled its natural gas agreement with Israel, reportedly abrogating the original Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979. A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza struck southern Israel for the second time in two days. The Jewish man attacked after he left a seder at a synagogue in Kiev regained consciousness at a hospital in Israel. New video clips released by an Israeli NGO show Israeli Lt.-Col. Shalom Eisner hitting five pro-Palestinian activists. Fewer than half of all Germans believe that Iran poses the graver danger in the current tensions between Iran and Israel, a new poll has found. Turkey blocked the participation of Israel in next month's NATO Summit in Chicago, a Turkish newspaper reported. The iconic memorial to Israel's fallen soldiers at Ammunition Hill was vandalized days before the national Memorial Day observance. French Socialist Francois Hollande edged President Nicolas Sarkozy in the initial round of presidential elections, with extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen finishing a stronger-than-expected third. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a committee to decide how to legalize the status of West Bank outposts. Israeli naval forces did not find any arms on a ship intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea. The pro-Obama Jewish group that was behind "The Great Schlep" four years ago received a $200,000 donation from the son of billionaire George Soros. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is visiting Azerbaijan for an official visit. The U.S. House of Representatives voted down a request to strengthen Iran sanctions in the Small Business Tax Cut Act. A Colorado synagogue was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti in honor of Adolf Hitler's birthday. A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a man can sue for enduring anti-Semitic slurs from former employers despite not being Jewish. Two Palestinian teens were arrested at a West Bank checkpoint after police found they were hiding pipe bombs, a gun and ammunition. An Israeli court ordered the eviction of six Jewish families from a Palestinian-owned home in Hebron. Israel's Cabinet approved the establishment of a memorial on Mount Herzl to Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. Israel's National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau urged Israelis to leave the Sinai Peninsula immediately. More than 2.5 million people have viewed two installments of a video advocating Israel's legal and moral authority to attack Iran. Israeli authors and screenwriters are being featured at the 38th Book Fair of Buenos Aires. Tributes have poured in to honor Italian Nobel Prize-winner Rita Levi Montalcini on the occasion of her 103rd birthday.