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• The "Quartet" guiding the Middle East peace process condemned Israeli building in eastern Jerusalem but called for a resumption of talks without preconditions.
• The Anti-Defamation League said a top U.S. general's analysis of the role of the Israeli-Arab conflict in frustrating the U.S. mission in the Middle East was "dangerous and counterproductive."
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton actions he could take to "improve the atmosphere," the State Department said.
• Three unarmed Israeli soldiers who accidentally entered the Arab-controlled area of Hebron were attacked and wounded.
• Italian Jews are protesting an apparent fascist salute given by a player on Rome's Lazio soccer team.

• Sentencing for a former official of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant has been set for April 28.
• The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two Gaza firms for their ties to Hamas.
• The student government at the University of California, Berkeley reportedly endorsed a divestment bill.
• A nationwide staffing company settled a lawsuit on behalf of two Jewish employees who were subjected to religious discrimination.
• Calgary police have issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant for an 18-year-old male over a slew of spray-painted anti-Semitic messages.

• The European Union's foreign policy chief crossed into Gaza from Israel during a visit to the region.
• In his first public remarks on the strain in U.S.-Israel ties, President Obama said there was no crisis in relations between the two countries.
• A Polish court convicted three men for stealing the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz.
• A migrant worker in southern Israel was killed by a rocket fired by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
• 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.

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