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Celebrity power list

Kagan hearings start in Washington

Spielberg slips down celebrity list

Film director Steven Spielberg has seen his star power plummet in the last year according to the Forbes Celebrity 100 list.

Elie Wiesel campaigns for Russian prisoner

Tourists detained for stealing from Auschwitz

Polish police have questioned two Canadian teachers who allegedly stole parts from the Auschwitz-Birkenau train tracks.

Global trade union rebuffs Israel boycott

An organisation representing trade unions in more than 150 countries and 176 million workers worldwide has pledged its “universal recognition” of the country’s right to exist.

Jason Isaacs film wins festival award

New Zealand DJ suspended for Nazi joke

A New Zealand radio presenter has been suspended after he said that “Jews were expendable” and made another Nazi jibe.

Militants release new Shalit video

A chilling new animated video about captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has been released four years after Hamas militants took him hostage.

Assault on Gaza children's camp

Armed assailants have vandalised a United Nations children’s summer camp in central Gaza.

Turkey blocks Israeli flight on trip to Auschwitz

A flight carrying a group of Israeli officers going to pay tribute to Holocaust victims at Auschwitz has been turned away after Turkey blocked it from its airspace.

Death threat academic defended

A controversial Israeli academic who called for a boycott of the country has been defended by Ben Gurion University (BGU) after receiving a death threat.