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- Israel's water situation is facing "the worst crisis in 80 years," the head of the country's water authority said.
- An Orthodox social justice group called off its boycott of the country's largest kosher meat supplier less than a month after it began.
- Iran threatened to "burn" Tel Aviv and U.S. targets in response to any attack on its nuclear sites.
- Palestinians fired mortar from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev, another violation of the cease-fire with Israel.
- An Israeli-Syrian peace accord is unlikely before President Bush steps down, Bashar Assad said.
- Ehud Olmert will undergo a third round of police questioning in the Talansky case on Friday.
- Five youths suspected of involvement in the alleged anti-Semitic beating of a Paris boy were detained by police.
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Families of Disappeared Iranian Jews Protest Israeli Prisoner Deal
In the wake of Israel’s prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah, the families of Iranian Jews that have disappeared are crying foul. Read more A Severe Verdict That Didn’t Go Far Enough Opinion The conflict now known as the Second Lebanon War began two years ago, on July 12, 2006, and ended 34 days later, on August 14. On September 17, following weeks of intense public anger over the war’s inconclusive ending, the Israeli Cabinet appointed a five-member government commission of inquiry into the war’s conduct, known, after the name of its chairman, as the Winograd Commission. Read more
  Residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side will be able to choose between not one but two Yiddish-speaking candidates to represent them in the State Assembly. In one corner is one of the three most powerful politicians in New York state. In the other is a 33-year-old former archivist for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Read more |
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The Afghan Unraveling
July 2, 2008 Of all the strategically critical battle zones dotting our chaotic world, none presents a more depressing picture right now than Afghanistan. Depressing, that is, not because of what is happening there, but because of what is not happening. Afghanistan is not getting better. On the contrary. After more than six-and-a-half years of combat against primitively armed bands of Islamist militants, America and its allies are farther from victory than ever. In the place where America began its war on terror, terror is winning. Advertisement
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