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Right, right-hand men further Bibi’s agenda

Right, right-hand men further Bibi’s agenda

JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu’s father, the historian Ben Zion Netanyahu, once said that his son’s biggest failure as a leader was his inability to pick the right people to advise him.

Now prime minister for a second time and facing major decisions on Iran, the Palestinians and the Arab world — not to mention ties with the US — Netanyahu has picked what looks like a strong but possibly too like-minded team.

These are the more influential members of the inner circle Netanyahu has put together in the weeks since taking office.

• Uzi Arad, National Security Council chief: Netanyahu’s chief adviser on foreign policy during his first term from 1996 to 1999, and a close confidant ever since, Arad is the person whose advice the prime minister values most.

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National

People’s pain pursues Madoff in court

People’s pain pursues Madoff in court

NEW YORK — For Belle Faber, the sentencing of Bernard Madoff felt surreal.

Television coverage of Monday’s event was being projected on a screen in the conference room of the American Jewish Congress, one of the Jewish nonprofits hit hardest by Madoff’s thievery. Faber, the organization’s development director for nearly 25 years, had retreated into her office to watch CNN by herself.

The archival footage of Madoff flickering across the screen showed the person that had sat across from Faber numerous times in the offices of AJCongress, which Madoff once served as a board member. Faber even knew Madoff’s wife, Ruth, and recently came across an old note she wrote to the Madoffs wishing them a good trip to Florida.

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Local

On the loose in Vail: stereotypes

RESIDENTS of Eagle County, beware: There’s a large-nosed, dark-haired, pierced-eared, squinty-eyed Jew on the loose.

If that potent blend of stereotypes offends you, think of how the Jewish residents of Vail felt last week to read that very description in their daily newspaper, reporting on an at-large suspect who allegedly burglarized several homes in nearby Edwards the weekend before.

Based on a police report from the Eagle County Sheriff’s Department, which in turn was based on an eyewitness report, the description made its way into a press release and somehow found its way, unedited, into the pages of the Vail Daily newspaper.

Which, to add yet another surreal turn, happens to be edited by a Jew.

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Israel

Turmoil in Iran likely to benefit Israel

JERUSALEM — Like the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago, the outcome of the post-election unrest in Iran could be of major strategic significance for the Middle East and for Israel.

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Local

Teen Poll

This week we asked six teenagers a question that would concern their future: Should the US discontinue the selective service system (aka the draft) in favor of a national service system similar to the Israeli system of mandatory post-high school service? 

“The draft is a good system because they only use it when they need it, just like Israel has a need for its system. Because they currently have enough people going into the US military and because the US is not in the same situation as Israel, I say they keep the draft.”

 

— Shai Dollin, 16, Herzl-RMHA

“I do not believe we should get rid of the draft simply because a good deed like service to your country is made better by the intentions in which it’s enacted.  So the military service and community service we have should only be on a voluntary basis.”

 

— Elliot Reaven, 17, George Washington

 

“What Israel has is different than what the US has because Israel needs the soldiers. It’s a whole different situation than the US, but I still think the US  should consider adopting the Israeli system because there is a lot of merit to Israel’s system.”

— Riva Kashuk, 15, Beth Jacob 

 

“If the US really needs the soldiers then the draft is OK, but if there is not a need for men then everything should just be kept voluntary and not a system like Israel’s.”

 

— Avi Last, 14, Herzl-RMHA

 

“The US should move toward a system similar to what Israel has because the experience that Israeli teens have after high school and their service is one that teens all around the US could benefit from.”

 

— Mandy Shapiro, 18, Rock Canyon 

 

“The way that the US is set up is very different to the way Israel is set up in that in the US it’s very important to go straight to higher education, but in Israel it’s more important to serve your country first and then get an education. It’s an amazing choice to make, but I don’t think it should be mandatory like it is in Israel.”

 

— Julia Rubinstein, 17, Littleton 

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JTA News

Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard

3 July 2009, 11:42 am A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.... [Link]

Rowe seeks parental rights, over Nation of Islam

3 July 2009, 11:36 am Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam.... [Link]

Report of sale of Jewish bones likely false

3 July 2009, 11:29 am Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false.... [Link]

Palestinian swine flu cases rising

2 July 2009, 5:18 pm A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise.... [Link]

Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire

2 July 2009, 4:55 pm The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.... [Link]

Clinton, Fayyad meet

2 July 2009, 4:45 pm Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.... [Link]

Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status

2 July 2009, 3:16 pm Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... [Link]

U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property

2 July 2009, 2:50 pm A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.... [Link]

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