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Russian neo-Nazis arrested

July 11, 2008

Five suspected neo-Nazis have been arrested in Russia on suspicion of vandalising a synagogue.
Police made the arrests in the southern city of Orenburg after the painting of a swastika on April 11. They will be charged with inciting racial hatred.

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Nazi doc sought in Chile

July 11, 2008
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Efraim Zuroff visited South America in an attempt to locate a former Austrian doctor who tops its “most wanted” list. He visited Chile and Argentina on the trail of Aribert Heim, 94, of the Matthausen camp.

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PM to unveil new UK-Israel academic links

By Candice Krieger, July 11, 2008

Gordon Brown is to announce a groundbreaking initiative between the UK and Israel when he visits the country in 10 days’ time.

The JC has learned that the Prime Minister is due to reveal plans for an academic research and exchange programme administered by the British Council and supported by a range of partners, governmental, non-governmental and philanthropic.

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Manuscript’s top price

July 11, 2008
A rare manuscript by the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn has fetched a record price of £27,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in London. The manuscript has been bought by Harvard University.

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Amanda Mann keeps silent

July 11, 2008
Amanda Mann, the Jewish wife of Simon Mann, would not comment this week after her husband was sentenced to 34 years in prison for leading an abortive coup intended to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea.

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Israel seeks strike on Iran after missile test

By Anshel Pfeffer, July 11, 2008

Israel is hoping that the ballistic missile test by Iran on Wednesday will help to persuade the United States to give it the “green light” to attack the country’s nuclear installations, according to an Israeli diplomatic source.

The Shihab-3 rocket was launched as part of a nine-missile salvo during an exercise. The move was condemned by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.

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The paralysed girl fighting a ‘fatal’ transfer to West Bank

By Ben Lynfield, July 11, 2008

The future of a six-year-old Palestinian girl left paralysed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza remains in limbo after Israeli supreme-court judges balked at hearing her appeal against deportation to Ramallah.

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Dead Sea canal put on hold

By Anshel Pfeffer, July 11, 2008

Palestinian and Arab pressure on King Abdullah of Jordan has brought the Dead Sea canal project to a standstill, according to Israeli sources.

The joint Israeli-Jordanian initiative to build a canal from the Red Sea to the rapidly drying Dead Sea with tourism infrastructure on both banks was seen as too much normalisation with Israel.

Environmental groups that had opposed the project claimed it was their opposition that had swayed the leaders’ minds, but the JC has learnt of other forces arrayed against it.

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Neo-Nazism ‘on rise’ in Ukraine

By Marcus Dysch, July 11, 2008

Antisemitism is rising in Ukraine following a year of attacks on the Jewish community, according to an Amnesty International report released today [Friday].

The human-rights group said neo-Nazism was “on the march” in the country after authorities failed to challenge racism, often classifying violence as “hooliganism” by “skinheads”.

The report quotes figures from the Eurasian Jewish Congress which recorded 29 violent attacks against Jewish people and their properties in 2007.

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Israeli to join Saudi summit

July 11, 2008
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is to host an interfaith conference in Madrid from July 16 to 18. It is to be attended by Christians, Jews and Muslims, including David Rosen, an Israeli rabbi heading interfaith issues for the American Jewish Committee.

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