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Updated 05/28/12 @ 03:45PM EST

• A Jerusalem court convicted two Israeli police officers of negligent homicide in the death of a Palestinian car thief.
• Operatives linked to Iran tried to kill foreign diplomats, including Israelis and Americans, in at least seven countries over 13 months, the Washington Post reported.
• The Cannes film festival screening of "The Anti-Semite," a film by a French comic with a history of anti-Semitism, was cancelled.
• Israel's attorney general has closed its case against the authors of "The King's Torah," which reportedly discusses situations in which it is permissible for Jews to kill non-Jews.
• A program on Palestinian nonviolent movements scheduled to be held at a Jewish community building in New York, was cancelled less than 48 hours before it was scheduled to take place.

• Madonna has begun rehearsals in Tel Aviv for the opening concert of her new world tour.
• Former U.S President Jimmy Carter said after what he called long discussions with Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt that the group will try to modify the country's peace treaty with Israel.
• Accused Nazi war criminal Klaas Carel Farber died in Germany where he fled after being convicted of war crimes in the Netherlands.
• A major study of anti-Semitism in Europe has been launched by the European Union, with the aim of assessing the problem and recommending solutions.
• A Turkish criminal court accepted indictments against the four top Israeli commanders who led the 2010 raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara ship.

• A Palestinian man was shot and wounded by a Jewish man from a nearby West Bank settlement.
• Likud lawmaker Miri Regev apologized for calling African migrants in Israel "a cancer in our body."
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the "the ongoing massacre" of civilians in Syria.
• A Holocaust memorial in Budapest was defaced days after a memorial to Raoul Wallenberg was defiled in the city.
• South Tel Aviv remained quiet but tense Friday after recent violence aimed at African immigrants.

• The U.S. Senate approved a bill allowing Israeli investors to reside in the U.S. to oversee their businesses in the country.
• The top U.S. negotiator in international talks with Iran arrived in Israel to brief the country’s leaders.
• International nuclear inspectors found evidence of Iran's highest level yet of enriched uranium.
• A Miami synagogue canceled a planned address by the chair of the Democratic National Committee.
• Jewish groups called on Israel to protect African migrants in Israel after riots in Tel Aviv.

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