Swiss officials may cancel an economic conference aimed at improving bilateral business ties. Their anger at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sparked by a letter the premier recently wrote to Edgar Bronfman in which he thanked the president of the World Jewish Congress for his efforts to get Swiss banks to pay Holocaust-era claims.
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