Israel’s attorney general came under a hail of criticism over his handling of the probe into a controversial media leak about a questionable loan to the family of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Russian analysts and human rights activists warn of a possible rise in hate speech and extremist movements ahead of parliamentary elections set for next December.
After five years of effort, two genealogists have produced the first substantive record of the Jews of Lithuania who were murdered in the Holocaust: “The Holocaust in Lithuania, 1941-1945: A Book of Remembrance.”
