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JERUSALEM, Jan. 4 (JTA) — With the countdown to the year 2000 already under way, Israel has taken its first action to stem possible disturbances by some of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims expected to visit here to mark the millennium. On Sunday, Israeli police arrested members of a Denver-based apocalyptic Christian cult […]

LONDON, Jan. 4 (JTA) — A British diplomat who saved as many as 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust deserves official recognition from Israel, according to a senior British Jewish leader. Lord Janner, head of the London-based Holocaust Educational Trust, said Frank Foley should be designated one of the Righteous Among Nations by Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem […]