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Updated 11/22/09 @ 05:02PM EDT

• Hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish Brazilians protested in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit.
• "Real progress" has been made in negotiations to release a captured Israeli soldier, President Shimon Peres confirmed.
• The online auction Web site eBay said it took down an ad offering biological samples from Benito Mussolini before anyone could bid on them.
• Turkey has given Israeli defense contractors 50 days to deliver 10 promised drone aircraft.
• Iran began an air defense drill designed to protect its nuclear program, Iranian state television reported.

• The Gaza war has spurred more Israeli recruits to request service in combat units, the country's army said.
• Fervently Orthodox demonstrators protested again at the Intel factory in Jerusalem for operating on Shabbat.
• 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.
• Police in riot gear broke up a recruiting meeting of the outlawed neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard.

• Jews in Brazil "live in harmony" with their neighbors, the president of the World Jewish Congress said.
• An Australia lawmaker assailed the government for abandoning Israel in the United Nations.
• German police are investigating a violent protest in Hamburg against the screening of a documentary on Israel.
• The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog opposed additional sanctions on Iran if it did not accept an offer to process its enriched uranium abroad.
• 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.
• Mendel Kaplan, a prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist, has died.
• Israel will send a warship to join a NATO anti-terror force, bolstering its ties with the alliance.

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