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• A comprehensive peace between Israel and the Palestinians is "an unattainable goal," Israel's foreign minister said.
• Uruguayan President José Mujica was awarded the Jerusalem Prize.
• Venezuelan Jewish leaders have requested a meeting with President Hugo Chavez to discuss the increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the media.
• A German official says he’ll sue to prevent his ouster from Germany's top bank board over remarks about Jews and Muslims widely condemned as racist.
• Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita was victorious in his first return to the ring since being knocked out in the first round of a title bout.

• Over 100,000 Israelis signed a petition to prevent switching the clocks back to Standard Time.
• Israel's Cabinet confirmed the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant as chief of staff for Israel's military, six months before the current chief's term ends.
• The Israeli Embassy in Australia financed a computer center to help Aboriginal elders record their oral history and traditions for future generations.
• The only synagogue in Christchurch, New Zealand, survived a massive earthquake.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop criticizing him for entering into direct talks with Israel.

• Israel's Air Force struck three tunnels in Gaza.
• A woman who with her husband has contributed large sums to pro-Israel and Jewish groups is the principal funder of the group that has taken the lead in opposing an Islamic center in lower Manhattan.
• Four members of an Orthodox volunteer patrol were shot Thursday night in Brooklyn.
• The PLO envoy to Washington said that a conference on anti-Semitism at Yale University "demonized Arabs."
• A group of Jewish interfaith educators is asking rabbis to talk about Islam next Shabbat.

• The European Union's trade chief apologized for comments he made about Jews.
• Stone throwers lightly wounded an Israeli girl traveling in the West Bank.
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the only path for the Palestinians is resistance, not peace talks.
• Libya will allow two Italian Jewish women to visit their ancestral homes.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that peace talks are off unless Israel extends a partial moratorium on settlement building.

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