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Updated 11/04/09 @ 07:28AM EDT

• Italian officials and the Vatican protested a court ruling that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and educational freedoms.
• Israel's Navy detained a ship carrying a large cache of arms.
• The Canadian Embassy has begun representing Israel’s diplomatic and consular interests in Venezuela.
• A Jewish real estate mogul, who promotes his charitable image using a Star of David, will pay nearly $2.73 million to settle a discrimination suit.
• The new president of the AFL-CIO rejected boycotting Israel.

• A senator plans to offer legislation that would remove the presidential waiver from a law requiring that the U.S. embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
• A judge is allowing Steve Rosen's defamation lawsuit against AIPAC to go ahead.
• The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn the Goldstone report.
• Claude Levi-Strauss, considered by many to be the father of modern anthropology, died in Paris at the age of 100.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Air Force base hosting a combined U.S.-Israeli military drill.

• The neighbor of a man who has confessed to several murders and attacks on Arabs and Jews has been arrested.
• Convicted billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak was a former agent for French intelligence, according to a former French interior minister.
• Several Israeli human rights groups are calling for an independent investigation of Israel's conduct during its operation in Gaza.
• AIPAC urged members of the U.S. House of Representatives to support a nonbinding resolution that rejects the findings of the Goldstone report.
• Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned.

• Arab delegates circulated a draft resolution requiring U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to bring the Goldstone report before the Security Council.
• A Jewish KGB agent who spied on Israel and later became a business mogul in Russia was murdered in Moscow.
• Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President's Residence in Jerusalem.
• Hamas has a missile that can reach Tel Aviv, an Israeli army official said.
• Italy's president stressed his country's support for Israel and said the European Union would "do its part" to help bring peace in the Middle East.

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