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• A Hebrew language charter school was approved by a California school board.
• A kosher food store has opened in Prague.
• The Islamic African nation of Mauritania has fully cut diplomatic ties with Israel.
• The German city of Kassel barred a pro-Israel group from displaying Israeli flags at an information stand, reportedly because it might upset passersby.
• A memorial service was held north of Sydney for the son of a Holocaust survivor whose body was found buried in a shallow grave.

• AIPAC launched its annual policy conference with its highest attendance ever.
• A bipartisan letter from U.S. House of Representatives leaders urges the Obama administration to resolve its differences with Israel quietly
• AIPAC leaders urged activists to behave civilly toward speakers at the annual policy conference.
• A small earthquake rocked northern Israel.
• President Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday night.

• Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in two weekend incidents.
• United Nations Secretary General said that Palestinians are living under "unacceptable, unsustainable conditions" in Gaza after he crossed into the coastal strip from Israel.
• An 18-year-old male was arrested over a slew of spray-painted anti-Semitic messages.
• The leader of the Reform movement called for a temporary moratorium on building in East Jerusalem.
• The Conservative movement has raised $40,000 to help rebuild a synagogue destroyed in the recent earthquake in Chile.

• No meeting with President Obama has been scheduled for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States.
• 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.

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