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Updated 11/22/09 @ 09:54AM EDT

• Israel will stop building settlements once the Palestinians start negotiating, President Shimon Peres said.
• Under a Hamas-brokered deal, armed groups in Gaza have agreed to stop firing rockets at Israel.
• Two Pakistanis suspected of helping facilitate the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai were arrested.
• The outlawed neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard has mounted a national membership recruitment campaign.
• The president of the World Jewish Congress met Jewish and non-Jewish officials last week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Australia’s deputy opposition leader has accused the prime minister of abandoning the country’s principled support for Israel at the United Nations in an attempt to win a seat on the Security Council.
• German police are investigating a violent anti-Zionist protest in Hamburg against the screening of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's documentary, "Why Israel."
• The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog encouraged Iran to accept an offer to process its enriched uranium abroad, but also said he opposed additional sanctions if it did not.
• Canada's opposition Liberal Party is crying foul after the ruling Conservatives mailed out flyers extolling themselves as stronger supporters of Israel.
• Israel arrested five Palestinian Authority intelligence officers in the West Bank.

• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel is conducting secret negotiations with Hamas.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed Thursday in Brazil by a state governor who is Jewish.
• Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
• Israel will send a warship to join a NATO anti-terror force, bolstering its ties with the alliance.
• President Obama said that within the next few weeks, the United States and other world powers would be formulating new sanctions on Iran.

• A sign objecting to the evacuation of West Bank settlements was found at an Israeli army base, a violation of army protocol.
• Palestinians have been asked to boycott large supermarket chains in the West Bank that sell fruit and vegetables grown in Israeli settlements.
• World powers will meet to discuss Iran's nuclear program after the Islamic Republic said it would not export its uranium for further enrichment.
• A fired waiter, a Russian immigrant to Israel, was charged with killing his ex-employer and five members of his family.
• A Lebanese citizen accused of spying for Israel was arrested by the Lebanese security service.

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