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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump is about to talk to Iran, Israel’s sworn enemy. Here’s what you need to know.

These will be the first direct negotiations between the United States and Iran in a decade, and will aim to replace an agreement that Netanyahu and Trump both reviled.

Revelations of likely voter fraud spark call for consequences in World Zionist Congress election

Six slates are calling on election administrators to disqualify the two states that received what appear to be about 2,000 fraudulent votes.

Colombia appoints allegedly fake rabbi, an anti-Zionist, as director of religious affairs

Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar, the new appointee, has called Israel a “new-Nazi state” on X.

France will move to recognize a Palestinian state this year, Macron says

German parties form government that excludes AfD, far-right party that worries many Jews

Swedish teens who attacked Israeli embassy caught in Iranian terrorism plot, CNN finds

Irmgard Furchner, convicted in 2022 of complicity in Nazi crimes, dies at 99

Dennis Gaitsgory (left) and guest attend the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 5, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)

Breakthrough Prize winner Dennis Gaitsgory is planning to attend a protest in Israel

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center)

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim

Sotheby's is auctioning what it says is the earliest known kiddush cup. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)

Sotheby’s to auction earliest known kiddush cup

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