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New York City – Following a public hearing and a month-long open comment period, the Board of Health today approved a reform measure to give consumers more information on the sanitary condition of New York City restaurants. The new initiative requires all restaurants to publicly display letter grades that summarize the results of Health Department [...]

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Tehran said Tuesday that it has not intervened to block reconciliation between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, rejecting accusations made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Fatah member.
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Iran not blocking Palestinian reconciliation, Tehran says

The Israeli prime minister apparently believed that by conducting two-track negotiations he could make things coalition-friendly: to both espouse the slogan “two states for two peoples” and sabotage the Palestinians’ ability to set up their state; to both embrace Vice President Joe Biden and give the U.S. administration the finger; to both ask the administration to get Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table and put thumbtacks on his seat once he’s there.
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Netanyahu’s populist rhetoric is jeopardizing Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu is absolutely right. Since 1967 no Israeli government stopped building in Jerusalem, east or west. Since the Eshkol government extended Israeli sovereignty over “Jordanian Jerusalem” and annexed the villages around the city, “United Jerusalem” became an inalienable part of the State of Israel. The prime minister is entitled to order the interior minister to delay the discussions at the Planning and Building Committee on the plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood beyond the Green Line. He can ask the mayor to delay presenting his ideas for changes at the Holy Basin. No Zionist prime minister will dare utter the words “I commit to freezing construction in Jerusalem.”
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Akiva Eldar / U.S. row shows Jerusalem is cornerstone of peace

Egypt has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier ceremony at the synagogue.
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Egypt cancels unveiling of restored synagogue citing Israeli aggression

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday referred to Israel’s recent approval of a plan to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, announced during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit, as a “destructive” incident that “should not have happened.”
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Netanyahu: Row with U.S. should not have happened

BERLIN – Germany’s Federal Court of Justice is set to decide whether to release 4,500 pages of classified documents relating to the escape to Argentina of Adolf Eichmann and his subsequent capture by Israeli agents.
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German court may declassify documents on Eichmann escape

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel into a serious crisis in relations with the United States and to a collapse in peace talks with the Palestinians just when they were to be resumed.
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Netanyahu is trading Israeli security for right-wing ideology

New York – America is springing forward.
Most Americans trade an hour’s sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work.
Officially the change to daylight saving time occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time, though most folks set their clocks and watches ahead an hour before going to bed on Saturday.
In areas that observe [...]

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New York – Daylight-saving Time: Springing Forward

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, winding up a visit to Tunisia, on Saturday blamed Iran for blocking reconciliation between his Fatah organization and rival Islamist faction Hamas.
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Abbas blames Iran for thwarting Palestinian reconciliation