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• 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enter into indirect peace talks with Israel until approval to build 1,600 homes in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood is rescinded.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.
• Three of the men who allegedly cut up and stole the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz have confessed to the crime.
• Hundreds of protesters marched in front of a New York City hotel where the Israeli military's chief of staff spoke at a dinner hosted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
• As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden again denounced the plan for new Israeli construction in eastern Jerusalem after meeting with Palestinian leaders, Israel's interior minister apologized for the timing of the plan's approval.

• A United Nations sapper unit will enter the Gaza Strip to dispose of unexploded ordnance from the Gaza war.
• The organization that reportedly banned lox as unkosher says the media fabricated the story.
• A local activist's interview with a former Iranian diplomat accused of planning the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center has upset the Argentine Jewish community.
• A group of anti-Israel protesters interrupted the opening of Paris' 10th annual Israeli film festival.
• Tamas Raj, a charismatic retired chief rabbi and one of Hungary's top intellectuals, has died.

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