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MARCH 5, 2010 | 19 ADAR, 5770
Alan Hoffmann Chosen as Next Jewish Agency Director-General
Vol. 11, Iss. 10
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Palestinians up in Arms Over Israeli National Heritage Site List
Farrakhan: Obama is Targeted by U.S. Jewish Lobby
BY JV STAFF BY JV STAFF The Jewish Agency for Israel continued the shake-up of its top professionals with the naming of a new director-general. lan Hoffmann, the veteran chief executive of the Jewish Agency’s Education Department, was chosen to be the agency’s next directorgeneral, according to a Jewish Agency news release. The appointment marks the agency’s first oleh director-general, and the first Anglo to hold the position, according to agency insiders. Hoffmann, who made aliya from South Africa in 1967, has held numerous senior education positions in Israel and the Jewish world, including director of Hebrew University’s Melton Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, executive director of New York’s Council for Initiatives in Jewish Education and head of Hebrew University’s Mandel Center for Jewish Continuity.
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BY COMBINED SOURCES The inclusion by Israel of the Ma’arat Hamachpelah (Cave of the Patriarchs) and Rachel’s Tomb have sparked Arab violence throughout the West Bank. On Sunday Arab youth rioted on Har Habayit at the the Al Aksa Mosque requiring Israeli Police to storm the compound, to quell the disturbances. he Palestinian Authority has called on the international community to stop Israel from placing the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem on its list of national heritage sties. To protest the inclusion of the West Bank sites the PA believes will one day be part of its future state, it moved its weekly cabinet meeting from Ramallah to Hebron on Monday. In a statement that it released after its meeting, the PA said that this decision was against international law. “These sites are an inseparable part of Palestinian land which has been occupied
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since 1967. The PA has turned to all the international bodies to demand that it oppose Israel’s decision and cause its abolishment,” said the PA. The PA also spoke of its opposition to Israeli actions in east Jerusalem, including its construction of Jewish homes and demolition of Palestinian homes there as well as the steps it took Sunday to quell Palestinian rioters on the Temple Mount. It also turned to the European Union to ask that it help stop Jewish construction in east Jerusalem. On Monday the EU said that Israel was harming the peace process. A spokesman for Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief said in a statement that she regarded the addition of the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb “as detrimental to the attempts to re-launch peace negotiations. The EU calls on Israel to refrain from provocative acts.” Jordan’s King Abdullah also condemned Israel’s “provocative measures in Jerusalem,” after a day on which security forces stormed
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U.S. President Barack Obama is targeted because of his standing up to the Jews who control American politics as well as its economy; the Chicago Sun Times quoted the leader of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan as saying on Monday. arrakhan, speaking to a crowd of 20,000 followers at Chicago’s United Center on Sunday, said that Obama’s political problems began when he, according to the Chicago Sun Times report, stood up to the Jewish lobby during a White House meeting. When they left the White House, his problems began,” Farrakhan said, adding that “the Zionists are in control of ` Congress.” Minister Farrakhan also referred to the U.S. president’s chief economical advisors, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson and Larry Summers, asking “Who does he have around him? The people from Goldman Sachs.” The leader of the Nation of Islam added that “bloodsuckers of the poor” were rewarded with a bailout.
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