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• Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of two worshipers at a southern California synagogue.
• President Shimon Peres addressed bereaved families "with silent lips and tearful eyes" at the start of Israel's Memorial Day.
• Italy's first ever national Jewish book fair is under way.
• A Catholic bishop from a breakaway sect will appeal his fine for Holocaust denial.
• Swastikas and Palestinian flags were drawn on the walls of a Jaffa synagogue.

• Benjamin Netanyahu in a message to Diaspora communities said that "Israel Independence Day celebrates a double miracle in the life of the Jewish people."
• President Obama received a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the White House confirmed.
• A German mediator's meetings with Hamas officials to secure the release of captured Israeli soldier GIlad Shalit have not yielded any new progress, an Arabic newspaper reported.
• Israel closed the West Bank for Israel's Memorial and Independence days.
• Elie Wiesel said Jerusalem should not be negotiated "prematurely."

• A New Orleans synagogue destroyed by Hurricane Katrina will break ground on a new building.
• A top U.S. official is traveling to Israel, Jordan and Egypt to promote cooperation in the use and sharing of water.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the Palestinian Authority to join negotiations with Israel.
• The Holocaust survivors who helped build Israel "made our world better," U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said.
• Israel's U.S. ambassador formally met with the director of J Street.

• The Apple iPad has been banned from entering Israel.
• Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied that he was involved in a massive real estate scandal that also has led to the arrest of former Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski.
• Berkeley's student government voted to uphold the veto of a bill calling for divestment from companies deemed to be complicit in Israel's occupation of the Palestinians.
• The newest edition of Jewish Major Leaguer baseball cards features the Jewish players of the 2000s.
• Defense Minister Ehud Barak asked the Israeli Supreme Court to delay discussion on the demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost.

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