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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Arrest warrant issued in Spain for Netanyahu, other Israeli officials
Last week, Judge Jose de la Mata of the National Court reopened the case against the Israeli officials who made up the country’s Security Cabinet during the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara ship in May 2010.
Along with Netanyahu, de la Mata ordered the arrest of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, former Defense Minister Ehud Barak, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, and lawmakers Eli Yishai, Dan Meridor and Benny Begin if they enter Spanish territory.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Russian airplane crash over Sinai caused by bomb, Russia confirms
(JTA) — Russia has confirmed that a Russian chartered airplane that crashed over the Sinai was brought down by a bomb.
“We can say definitely that this was a terrorist act,” Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service, told Russia’s Security Council on Tuesday, The New York Times reported.
The explosive device was a homemade bomb and was detonated shortly after the plane took off from the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, he said.
All 224 people aboard were killed in the Oct. 31 crash, including a former program director for Hillel Russia.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Anne Frank’s father made ‘co-author’ of diary in bid to extend copyright
If the authorship change goes unchallenged, the Anne Frank Fonds, which Otto Frank established, will retain control over all printings of the book until 2050, The New York Times reported.
In most European countries, copyrights automatically expire 70 years after the author’s death; in this case, the copyright is scheduled to expire on Dec. 31. The change would have minimal effect in the United States, where, according to the Times, the copyright won’t expire until 95 years after its first U.S. publication in 1952.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pollard offers to renounce US citizenship if allowed to go to Israel
“On November 20, 2015, after serving 30 years in prison, it is Mr. Pollard’s wish to move to Israel with his family so he can resume his life there,” U.S. Reps. Jerry Nadler and Eliot Engel, both New York Democrats, wrote Monday in a letter to Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney general. “We write today to ask that DOJ give Mr. Pollard’s request the fair consideration it deserves.”
Pollard, a former Navy analyst who sold secrets to Israel, is being released on parole from a life sentence for espionage. The Justice Department has not yet revealed the terms of his release; Pollard’s lawyers have suggested terms will be negotiated up to the eve of his release.
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From Russia Today
‘Provocation’: Israel outraged over Spain’s Netanyahu arrest warrant
Published time: 17 Nov, 2015 17:29
Israel wants to quash an arrest warrant prepared by a Spanish judge for Benjamin Netanyahu over the deadly 2010 IDF attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that killed ten people.
The Israeli PM and six other former ministers would be arrested if they set foot on Spanish soil.
“We consider it to be a provocation,” said an Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson. “We are working with the Spanish authorities to get it cancelled. We hope it will be over soon.”
Judge Jose de la Mata, who drew up the warrants, ordered the police and civil guard to notify them if any of the seven enter Spain.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu approves marketing of nearly 500 eastern Jerusalem apartments
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the marketing of nearly 500 housing units in Jewish communities located in eastern Jerusalem.
Some 436 of the apartments are located in Ramat Shlomo, and at least 18 others are in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot.
The plans for Ramat Shlomo were first announced during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Israel in 2010, and led to a diplomatic crisis. The plans for the housing units were approved more than a year ago but had been frozen by Netanyahu out of fear of international condemnation.
Plans to build about 1,000 more housing units in Ramat Shlomo could soon follow, according to reports.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rubio hears loud cheers at Miami pro-Israel rally
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio drew loud cheers at a pro-Israel rally in Miami.
Local media said several hundred people attended the “Never Again” rally on Sunday at the Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach marking the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the state-sponsored attacks on Jewish communities in Germany and Austria that presaged the Holocaust.
Bill Nelson, a Democrat, joined his fellow Florida U.S. senator at the event sponsored by an array of groups, including the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and some Christian groups, the Miami Herald reported. Both senators were among the speakers who criticized as anti-Semitic the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.
Rubio noted the massive terrorist attack in Paris over the weekend.
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From Russia Today
Long-range bombers to fly anti-ISIS missions from Russia, Putin orders Navy to work with France
Published time: 17 Nov, 2015 14:23
TU 95 and TU 22 strategic bombers. © Ruslan Krivobok / RIA Novosti Russia has deployed its fleet of strategic bombers to double the volume of airstrikes on Islamist targets in Syria, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced. Vladimir Putin has ordered a cruiser to coordinate operations with French naval forces in the Mediterranean.
“We are conducting a mass airstrike campaign against Islamic State targets in Syria. We have now doubled the number of sorties, which is allowing us to conduct operations throughout the length and breadth of the country,” Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during a Security Council meeting in Moscow chaired by the Russian president.
Shoigu said that Russia’s Tu-95, Tu-22 and Tu-160 strategic bombers have been brought into the operation, while the Air Force command added that the strike group has been bolstered with 37 new planes, including Su-34 bombers and Su-27 fighter jets.
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From Russia Today
All for one: 28 EU states agree on first-ever military support to France
Published time: 17 Nov, 2015 13:38
The flags of France and the EU fly at half staff in response to attacks in Paris, outside of the French consulate in New York November 14, 2015. © Lucas Jackson / Reuters France has invoked an EU treaty collective defense article requesting military help from its European partners in response to the terror attacks in Paris. EU officials say the mutual defense article is being used for the first time. TrendsFrance terror attacks
The assistance would come from 28 European partners under Article 42.7 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, which outlines mutual defense among the EU members. Called the ‘mutual defense clause’, the Article reads that if any EU country “is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.”
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Speaking at a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said all 28 EU member states unanimously accepted France’s formal call for “aid and assistance” under the EU treaty and he expected all to help quickly in various regions, Reuters reports.
“This is firstly a political act,” Le Drian said of the decision to invoke article on mutual defense of the EU treaty.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pope Francis to visit Rome’s main synagogue
The visit is scheduled for Jan. 17, according to the Tuesday morning announcement.
It will be the third time that a sitting pope will visit the synagogue: Pope John Paul II came in 1986 and Pope Benedict the XVI in 2010.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Prof who lost U. of Illinois job over anti-Israel tweets wins $600K settlement
(JTA) — A professor whose tenured job offer was revoked after he posted controversial anti-Israel tweets has reached a settlement with the University of Illinois.
The university will pay Steven Salaita $600,000 to drop two lawsuits and “neither seek nor accept employment at the university now or in the future.” The settlement also requires the university, which in the fall of 2014 dropped a tenured job offer after learning of several vitriolic tweets that Salaita posted during Israel’s August 2014 war in Gaza, to pay Salaita’s lawyers $275,000, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
“This settlement is a vindication for me, but more importantly, it is a victory for academic freedom and the First Amendment,” Salaita said in a news release issued by his attorneys, the Daily Illini reported.
A federal judge ruled in August that the university had violated its contract with Salaita.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Adam Sandler debuts new version of ‘The Chanukah Song’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Adam Sandler has updated “The Chanukah Song” for the first time since 2002.
The Jewish actor and comedian debuted the new version on Saturday night as a surprise guest at Judd Apatow’s stand-up special at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The updated tune listed a new group of celebrities who are Jewish, including Adam Levine, Drake, Scarlett Johansson, Idina Menzel, Seth Rogen and the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
In one comic line, Sandler sang that instead of Santa Claus, Jews can claim “two jolly fat guys: ice cream’s Ben and Jerry.” Another line went: “We might not have a cartoon with a reindeer that can talk/but we also don’t have polio thanks to Dr. Jonas Salk.”
Sandler also mentioned that Jared Fogle, the former face of Subway sandwiches who was convicted this summer on child pornography and sex charges, is Jewish.
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From Ynet News
French Rabbis urge government to boost security around Jewish institutions
As Paris licks its wounds following Friday night’s terror offensive in Paris, Europe’s Jewish leaders stress that ‘Jews are always a preferred target,’ calling for increased security measures. Following Friday night’s bloodbath in Paris, Jewish leaders are demanding that the continent’s leaders offer special security to the Jewish communities, “which are under constant threats.”
Meanwhile, French security forces gave the approval for a prayer rally which was held in the Grand Synagogue of Paris on Sunday by the local Jewish community, following an appeal from the Chief Rabbi of France Haïm Korsia, vice president of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER),
Europe’s rabbis expressed their “deep shock” Saturday evening “in light of the terrible massacre committed against citizens of all religions on Friday night.”
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From The Times of Israel
Before bloodbath, Bataclan theater was threatened over pro-Israel events
Paris concert hall has been target of past warnings, protests by pro-Palestinian activists over Jewish ownership
JTA — Before Friday’s bloodbath at Paris’s Le Bataclan concert venue, this centrally-located hall from the 19th century had received numerous threats over pro-Israel events hosted there.
From at least 2006-2009, Le Bataclan was the venue for the annual fundraising gala of Migdal, the French Jewish nonprofit group that supports the Israeli Border Police. Last month, the theater served as the meeting place for a gathering of some 500 Zionist Christians who came there in support of the Jewish state.
In one case involving threats against Le Bataclan — which until September was owned by a French Jew, Joel Laloux — approximately 10 men wearing Arab keffiyehs over their faces showed up at the theater in December demanding to speak to management.
“This is something we cannot continue to accept,” one of the men from the group was filmed telling the security guards outside Le Bataclan. “You will pay the consequences of your actions,” the same person, his voice electronically distorted, told the camera after the confrontation, which ended peacefully. “We came here to pass along a small message. Be warned. Next time we won’t be coming here to talk.”
The massacre at Le Bataclan Friday, during a rock concert by the Eagles of Death Metal band from the United States, was by far the deadliest of the six simultaneous attacks which French security forces said were perpetrated by at least eight terrorists. According to a tally released by French authorities on Saturday, 129 people died and over 300 were wounded.
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