Colin Powell urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume talks based on the “road map” peace plan. On his last official peace mission as U.S. secretary of state, Powell met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday and was expected to confer with Palestinian leaders on the upcoming election of a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
Israel’s Yad Vashem launched an online database of 3 million Holocaust victims. Beginning Monday, the database, previously only available at Israel’s Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, will be accessible anywhere in the world at www.yadvashem.org.
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