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Updated 07/09/09 @ 02:18PM EDT

• Israel's army praised the job Palestinian security forces have been doing in the West Bank.
• Egypt arrested 26 alleged al-Qaida operatives accused of plotting attacks on foreign ships sailing through the Suez Canal.
• Four members of the Jewish Defense League were detained and questioned by French police for ransacking a pro-Palestinian bookstore in Paris.
• A leader of the anti-Zionist Satmar Chasidic movement praised President Obama's Middle East policy.
• The Hillel at Harvard University was defrauded of more than 780,000 by its accountant, the school's newspaper reported.

• Two operators of Jewish vocational schools settled a lawsuit over which can use the ORT name for fund raising in the United States.
• Six nongovernmental organizations and academic institutes demanded that Germany keep its promise to create a commission to combat anti-Semitism.
• The United States denied a report that it would allow the completion of 2,500 housing units in the West Bank as part of a compromise on settlements.
• Two Palestinians confessed to killing an Israeli taxi driver for revenge.
• The European Commission retracted a statement that criticized Israeli settlements.

• Ehud Olmert's former office manager was charged with fraud for her role in the Tax Authority affair.
• The first of several flights of North American immigrants expected to arrive this summer landed in Israel.
• The Dead Sea advanced in an international competition to name the seven natural wonders of the world.
• A newly married Jewish Yemeni woman reportedly was kidnapped.
• Legislation requiring publicly traded companies doing business in Iran to disclose their activities to U.S. investors unanimously passed the House Appropriations Committee.

• Israel will expand the hours that the crossing between the West Bank and Jordan is open.
• A United Nations official called on Israel to tear down the West Bank security fence.
• A memorial ceremony for the families of soldiers slain in the second Lebanon War marked three years since the conflict.
• A Knesset committee approved a "drought tax" to force Israeli households to conserve water.
• As many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians will be resettled in the United States.

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