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Updated 05/25/12 @ 09:39AM EST

• 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.
• Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel is returning campaign donations under investigation by federal authorities.
• A new survey suggests that Germans have lost some love for Israel over the past three years.
• An Arab-Israeli immigrant to the United States was found guilty of murder in Michigan.

• Israel's Arava Power Company has closed on financing for eight solar power projects worth $204 million.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decried violence against African migrants following a night of violent protest.
• The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved language that would distinguish between Palestinian refugees alive in 1948 and their descendants.
• Elliott Abrams, a foreign policy veteran of the Bush and Reagan administrations, was named to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
• The Jewish Center in Manhattan hosted a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers on the first day of New York City’s Fleet Week.

• Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes reportedly said that the haredi Orthodox community is the only one in his jurisdiction in which sexual assault victims are harassed and intimidated.
• Talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear program ended with Iran reportedly reluctant to advance without sanctions concessions.
• The South African Jewish Board of Deputies was "very disappointed" with its meeting with Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on the labeling of products from the West Bank, a board spokeswoman said.
• Israel offered to pay $6 million to victims of the 2010 raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara, a Turkish lawyer said.
• Amnesty International blasted Israel for its blockade of the Gaza Strip in its annual report on the state of the world’s human rights.

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