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• The international migration agency of the American Jewish community strongly supports new legislation aimed at protecting refugees and asylum seekers.
• Sarah Palin called on the Obama administration to hit the reset button with Israel.
• Opinion polls in Holland show that a majority of voters favor the Jewish former mayor of Amsterdam for prime minister.
• A federal magistrate ruled that the Palestinian Authority cannot force a reporter from Atlantic magazine to testify in a terror-related lawsuit, Politico reported.
• Brazil's president laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave after refusing to visit the grave of Theodor Herzl.

• Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer will serve a second five-year term.
• An American citizen of Pakistani origin reportedly has agreed to plead guilty to charges against him in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.
• Actor Corey Haim was buried in a private Jewish ceremony in Toronto attended by about 200 relatives and close friends.
• Four well-known Jews received Hungarian state awards.
• Israel lifted its closure on the West Bank and allowed visitors to the Temple Mount.

• Australia’s “longstanding and enduring” bilateral relations with Israel will continue, despite the diplomatic standoff over the alleged fraud of Australian passports, its foreign minister said.
• "Delicate issues" including the role of Pope Pius XII in World War II are at the heart of talks in Rome between an international Jewish delegation and senior Vatican officials.
• Iran's threatening posture in the Middle East could be undercut by a credible Israeli-Arab peace process, the U.S. military's central commander said.
• Pro-Israel U.S. Christians are e-mailing the White House every several seconds urging President Obama to "end the crisis" with Israel.
• Israel's U.S. ambassador and the White House denied remarks that have fueled the current Israel-U.S. tensions.

• Two Democrats with solidly pro-Israel records are blaming Israel for the mounting U.S.-Israeli tensions, while others are pointing a finger at the Obama administration.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has shown that it is committed to peace after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton affirmed the "unshakable bond" between the two countries.
• An Israeli journalist who tried to infiltrate the Egyptian border with illegal migrants was arrested and may be tried in a military court.
• Two political parties with anti-Semitic elements fared well in Russian regional elections.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's youngest son won Israel's National Bible Contest.

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