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Frankfurt, Germany, has elected its first Jewish mayor in almost 80 years and only its second in history. Social Democrat Peter Feldmann, a 53-yearold economist, former director of a senior citizens’ home and cofounder of the Working Group of Jewish Social Democrats, bested his opponent from the conservative Christian Democratic Union. According to the Jerusalem Post, Feldmann says that his Jewish background was “not a topic� in the election: “I did not cite it as a theme. The voters know I am Jewish. Period!� Feldmann worked on a kibbutz in his youth, is a strong advocate of Israel’s security and of relations with Tel Aviv, Frankfurt’s partner city. (Petra Roth, outgoing mayor, did not seek reelection; her decision to invite anti-Israel academic Alfred Grosser to deliver a speech at a Kristallnacht commemoration in 2010 triggered international criticism.) Frankfurt’s Jewish community of 7,000 – many from the former Soviet Union – represents a small percentage of the city’s total population of 650,000 and is less than a quarter of its size before the Holocaust. The city’s other Jewish mayor, Ludwig Landmann, served for nine years until the Nazis
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Today, as a result of years of overtaxing for irrigation and drinking water, the Jordan River is just a few meters wide. “It’s five percent of what once flowed,� said Ramon Ben Ari, head of Israel’s Southern Jordan Drainage Authority. “You can easily walk across without getting your head wet.� Almost all the water that feeds the river is diverted by Syria, Jordan and Israel before it reaches the south, he explained. The government plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to clean the Jordan River valley and develop it into an even bigger tourist hotspot, with campgrounds and lodgings by its banks. A major wastewater treatment facility is being constructed at the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee which, when opened in two years, will improve river water quality. (Reuters)
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