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Angry over latest probe, Israel may recall Geneva UN envoy
Israel mulls recalling its ambassador to United Nations Human Rights Council over its decision to probe the "impact of Israeli settlements on Palestinians in Judea and Samaria" • Investigative committee will not be allowed to enter Israel, says official.
 
Dan Margalit | The Un-Human Rights Council
According to the council’s charter, all 47 member states must have impeccable human rights records. Really? Russia, China and Saudi Arabia have impeccable records?
 
Elliott Abrams | Syria’s shop of horrors
Diplomacy has failed to “ease” the year-old conflict in Syria, which has left more than 8,000 dead. So will stopping Asma al-Assad’s shopping in London and Paris.
Boaz Bismuth | Islamic terror is alive in France
Mohamed Merah is not alone. Young people like him are hiding all over the cities of Marseilles, Paris, Lyon and their suburbs.
Prof. Abraham Ben-Zvi | Romney’s uphill battle
Despite his best efforts, the former Massachusetts governor has time and again hit a wall of alienation, suspicion and rancor among Republicans.
Yossi Beilin | Another reason for Assad to worry
Lebanese political chameleon and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt is again changing his mind and siding with the Syrian opposition.
Report: Egypt thwarts Iranian plot to sink Israeli ship in Suez Canal
Egyptian paper reports that Iran plotted to attack an Israeli ship in the Suez Canal to engineer a crisis between Israel and Egypt • Iran offered to pay attackers 50 million Egyptian pounds ($8 million) • Two suspects are arrested.
Israel bracing for violence ahead of mass pro-Palestinian march
Defense establishment is preparing for potential disturbances on Friday as mass rally planned • Israel sends message to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority, warning that any attempted breach will be met with a harsh response.
French intelligence chief: Merah was arrested in Israel in 2010
Bernard Squarcini says suspected Toulouse gunman, killed by French authorities on Thursday, was arrested and released in Jerusalem for possessing a knife; intelligence chief adds that Merah apparently first met Salafis in prison in 2007.
‘Attack on Jewish school in Toulouse was improvised’
French intelligence chief Bernard Squarcini: Mohamed Merah “wanted to kill another military man, but got there too late” so he opened fire on the school instead • Police expected to file charages against Merah’s brother, Abdelkader.
Hundreds rally in Tel Aviv to protest potential strike on Iran
Israelis gather to voice opposition to a potential Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and the war that could ensue as a result • Israelis and Iranians express their wish for peace on Facebook groups such as “Israel loves Iran.”
'Israel is crying,’ terror victim's father says of Toulouse attack
President Shimon Peres visits families of victims of Toulouse school shooting, urges them to continue “propagating the Torah of Israel in the Diaspora” • Father of Ruth Fogel, murdered last year in Itamar, urges families to move to Israel.
Report: Undercover Israeli agents roam freely in Iran
The U.K.’s Sunday Times reports that Israeli troops are on the ground in Iran searching for evidence of nuclear weapons production • Mossad agent describes base in Azerbaijan to London Times.
'Freed US aid will help ease Palestinian financial crisis'
Aid-dependent Palestinian Authority has been embroiled in a fiscal crisis and release of $88.6 million from U.S. will help, Salam Fayyad says • Aid was frozen in August after Palestinians insisted on pushing forward with statehood bid at the U.N.
VIDEO: Soccer hooligans invade Jerusalem mall
Some 300 young fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club beat members of the mall’s Arab cleaning personnel and harass several Arab women at nearby Malha mall.
Ultra-Orthodox pressure delays vote on bill to facilitate marriage
Following threats from United Torah Judaism's chairman, Prime Minister Netanyahu delays until summer a vote on the "Tzohar Law," which would allow couples to register for marriage at any rabbinate.
Oil prices plunge in wake of Saudi promise to boost output
Saudi Arabia promises to increase oil production to reduce global oil prices • Saudi officials say the increase will reach 25% more than the country’s current output • Global oil prices plunged immediately after the Saudi announcement.
Dozens of Jewish graves vandalized in Nice, France
Anti-Semitism continues in France less than a week after four are gunned down at a Jewish school in Toulouse • Thirty-six out of 600 graves in Jewish cemetery are reportedly damaged • French Interior Ministry: We are dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism.
Syrian pilot joins opposition forces, flies to Turkey
Syrian pilot reportedly flips sides, uses skills to attack Syrian intelligence facility, causing heavy damage • The pilot then flies helicopter to Turkey • More than 70 people killed over the weekend, including women and children.
UK anti-Islamist group to form ‘freedom party’
Stephen Lennon, head of the English Defense League (EDL), plans to launch political arm of group in May • “In England, we’re the only organization that stands up for the Jewish community,” he says.
‘Window is closing for diplomatic solution to Iran nuclear standoff’
U.S. President Barack Obama says there is still time for diplomacy between Iran and the West, but that time is running out • Obama makes comments on the eve of a nuclear security summit in Seoul.
In major gaffe, 'Borat' version of Kazakh anthem played at event
Kazakhstan outraged after fake national anthem from the movie “Borat,” played during the medal presentations at the Arab Shooting Championships in Kuwait • Asian Shooting Federation president apologizes to Kazakh delegation.
Jewish model struts off Tyra Banks’ catwalk into IDF khakis
Aspiring model Esther Petrack, who finished in seventh place on season 15 of “America’s Next Top Model,” escaped the angry reactions of her Orthodox community by moving to Israel and becoming a tank instructor in the IDF.
Can't Esc Shabbat Shift? Press Ctrl to Enter Alt keyboard
Religious soldiers working with computers in the IDF face the dilemma of whether their work is important enough to break Shabbat • The Zomet Institute has designed a new capacitative keyboard to remedy this problem, using indirect action.
Anne Frank’s chestnut tree to sprout in Israel
Shoots from a withering chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about to be planted at Yad Vashem • The tree in Amsterdam is more than 170 years old and parts of it have been donated to Yad Vashem and other Holocaust memorial organizations.