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Updated 11/22/09 @ 11:11AM EDT

• 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.
• Israel will stop building settlements once the Palestinians start negotiating, President Shimon Peres said.
• 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 living 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 encouraged Iran to accept an offer to process its enriched uranium abroad, but also said he opposed additional sanctions if it did not.

• 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.

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