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• Israel's announcement of new housing starts during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit was a "disaster," Abraham Foxman said in a rare rebuke.
• U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual policy conference.
• Supporters of 11 university students arrested for disrupting a campus speech expressed concern about "Zionist influence" on the disciplinary process.
• The European Parliament called for the immediate release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
• Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. vice president, toured and praised a New Israel Find-backed program that the philanthropy says would be endangered by a proposed Israeli law.

• Two Israeli soldiers have been charged with inappropriate conduct during the Gaza war.
• The U.S. State Department annual human rights report cited Palestinian incitement and Israel's denial of some basic Palestinian needs as ongoing problems in the region
• Brandeis University's Muslim chaplain issued an appeal for the return of his Koran days after his campus office was vandalized.
• A Swedish court ruled that the man accused of organizing the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz can be extradited to Poland.
• The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed its 30 millionth visitor this week.

• A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in the western Negev, causing damage to a building.
• A British journalist held in Gaza for nearly a month was released.
• Israel's Civil Administration, accompanied by Israeli troops, destroyed six new building foundations in Jerusalem's Etzion bloc.
• The Palestinian Authority canceled a ceremony to honor a woman who led the 1978 hijacking of a bus in which 35 Israelis were killed.
• Palestinians will not enter into indirect peace talks with Israel until approval to build 1,600 homes in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood is rescinded.

• The U.S.-Israel bond is unbreakable, but the United States will keep both sides accountable for their actions, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said.
• A civil trial in the death of American activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli military bulldozer opened in Haifa.
• The European Parliament passed a resolution that said European Union states should "demand the implementation of the Goldstone report's recommendations."
• Germany will nearly double its funding for home health care to aging Holocaust survivors.
• Ten illegal aliens who worked at the former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse will be deported by the end of the month.

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