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• Israel was tied for eighth among the happiest countries in the world, according to a new survey.
• A federal judge's injunction of parts of the new Arizona immigration law is being praised by several Jewish organizations.
• The leader of Conservative Judaism's flagship institution said that the movement is debating a name change.
• The Arab League said it would back direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians when the Palestinians are ready to proceed.
• Hackers replaced a list of Buchenwald victims with far-right slogans and links to Holocaust denial sites, officials at the concentration camp's memorial said.

• Australia approved new sanctions against Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear program.
• An Arab man convicted in a Jerusalem court of rape by deception after posing as a Jew has appealed his sentence to Israel's Supreme Court.
• An elite Israel Defense Forces unit identified and collected body parts of the seven military personnel killed in the crash of an Israeli military helicopter in central Romania.
• Germany has filed charges against the No. 3 man on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazis for helping to murder 430,000 Jews during World War II.
• The heirs of a Jewish banker sued the Hungarian government demanding the return of artwork valued at $100 million that allegedly was confiscated during World War II.

• The late wife of a Jewish man had her wish granted to have his remains moved to a family-owned plot in a Pittsburgh cemetery.
• The foreign minister of Israel rejected any link between extending a West Bank building freeze and direct talks with the Palestininans.
• Basketball all-star Amar'e Stoudemire reportedly was on his way to Israel after learning he had Jewish roots.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman in an unannounced meeting.
• Some 45 illegal structures reportedly were demolished in an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel.

• Indian journalists are visiting Israel to learn more about the India-Israel relationship.
• More than 1,200 Russian speakers participated in 150 educational sessions at Limmud FSU Jerusalem 2010.
• British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Israel to end its blockade of Gaza, calling it a "prison camp."
• A former Nazi SS officer died in Germany two months after the reopening of an investigation into his connection to massacres of Jews.
• The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at a "sustained and troubling" level, according to the Anti-Defamation League's annual audit.

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