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Updated 05/24/12 @ 04:11PM EST

• 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.
• Egyptians are voting in their first presidential election since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak during an uprising more than a year ago.

• Police in New York say a man they have in custody has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.
• Mitt Romney is meeting with about 30 major Jewish donors to his presidential campaign as part of a "constituents day."
• The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee increased spending for the security of nonprofit institutions and emergency assistance for the poor.
• The Orthodox Union welcomed a pledge by Mitt Romney to allow low-income families to use federal dollars to send their children to parochial schools.
• A bipartisan slate of 71 House members in a letter to President Obama said they backed diplomacy as the means to bring about Iranian nuclear transparency.

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