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Jerusalem - Knesset members Uri Maklev and Moshe Gafni (both United Torah Judaism) were attacked Thursday in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. A Gafni aide said to Ynet that the attackers were members of the Sikarikim group, considered to be among the most extreme of the ... Full story

Israel - Slonim Grand Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky said that his followers would not compromise and would continue their struggle against the High Court, in regards to the ongoing school segregation saga in the Immanuel settlement. "Even if they put us in front of a firing squad, we would not give up and would not compromise," Berezovsky ... Full story

Manhattan, NY - Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly unveiled on Wednesday the NYPD's latest high-tech weapon against terror. Addressing a civic group, Kelly said the department has begun using analytic software to monitor the behavior of potential terrorists. By training cameras on something as mundane as an article of clothing, police can lock in on a person and ... Full story

Washington - Gen. Stanley McChrystal's remarks about senior officials exposed what has been an open secret in Washington and Kabul for months: The fissures that emerged during the Obama administration's three-month review of war strategy last year remain, and many of the personalities involved have strained relations that have festered for months. High-level disputes over major ... Full story

Windsor Locks, CT - Three hundred travelers started the summer with a travel nightmare they will not soon forget. Hundreds of Newark-bound passengers sat for four hours on a tarmac in a stifling cabin after bad weather and union regulations grounded their flight from London in Connecticut. To make matters worse, passengers said,  the plane's generators ... Full story

Israel - The National Religious and the haredi sectors are not celebrating the World Cup. Despite thousands of haredi and National Religious yeshiva students who will occupy themselves in the coming months with the results of World Cup matches, nothing has been written of the international soccer tournament in the haredi press. Rabbi Moshe Grylak, editor-in-chief ... Full story

New York, NY - Faisal Shahzad called himself a Muslim soldier and threatened more attacks to come after the botched May 1 Times Square terror bomb attempt. Shahzad did not appear the least bit remorseful when he pleaded guilty to 10 federal crimes in a packed federal courtroom. The Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was cool and collected ... Full story

Madrid - Francisco Franco, the former fascist dictator of Spain, gave the Nazis a list of every Jew in his country in order to facilitate efforts to locate, deport and destroy them, according to a document found recently in a Spanish archive and reported on Sunday by the Spanish daily El Pais. The paper said that ... Full story

Israel - Outcry over the identity of a mysterious prisoner being held for unspecified crimes in the maximum security Ayalon jail. Dubbed ''Mister X'' by the Hebrew language news website Y-net, which first reported on the case last week, the man's identity has even been kept from his prison guards. A measure of the severity of the crimes for which the man in being held is ... Full story

Berlin - The day the Mossad operation on German soil began was a clear, sunny Sunday in late March 2009. Alexander Verin, who holds an Israeli passport, had an appointment with an attorney in Cologne to discuss naturalization. Verin was accompanied by a man named Michael Bodenheimer, who claimed that he was an Israeli of ... Full story