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Updated 11/20/09 @ 11:30AM EDT

• 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.
• Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.

• Israel will send a warship to join a NATO anti-terror force, bolstering its ties with the alliance.
• President Obama said that within the next few weeks, the United States and other world powers would be formulating new sanctions on Iran.
• A sign objecting to the evacuation of West Bank settlements was found at an Israeli army base, a violation of army protocol.
• Palestinians have been asked to boycott large supermarket chains in the West Bank that sell fruit and vegetables grown in Israeli settlements.
• World powers will meet to discuss Iran's nuclear program after the Islamic Republic said it would not export its uranium for further enrichment.

• A fired waiter, a Russian immigrant to Israel, was charged with killing his ex-employer and five members of his family.
• A Lebanese citizen accused of spying for Israel was arrested by the Lebanese security service.
• An Arab man was stabbed in Jerusalem by a Jewish teenager.
• A Holocaust denier released from an Australian jail after publishing material offensive to Jews says he is "unbroken" and "unrepentant."
• Israeli airstrikes hit targets in Gaza in response to a Kassam rocket fired into the Negev.

• Jordan's King Abdullah told American Jewish Congress leaders that U.S. Jewish groups should get behind Middle East peace efforts.
• A Ukrainian mayor who said Jews are to blame for all of the country's problems can run for president.
• A group of researchers quit their involvement in an Austrian Holocaust studies center due to a lack of access.
• A major rent increase forced the Jewish charitable organizations in a Russian city out of their offices.
• President Obama said additional Israeli settlement building "embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous."

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