Leading figure in Swiss Jewish community dies
Alfred Donath, a Jewish activist who helped Holocaust victims and their heirs recover money from Swiss banks, has died. He was 78.
Alfred Donath, a Jewish activist who helped Holocaust victims and their heirs recover money from Swiss banks, has died. He was 78.
Jewish groups have questioned claims by a former Australian ambassador to Israel that Julia Gillard was silent on the \”excesses\” of Israel.\n\nAnd the former editor of The Age, Michael Gawenda, yesterday labelled as \”bizarre\” a report in the Fairfax newspaper and its sister paper, The Sydney Morning Herald, that linked Ms Gillard\’s stance towards Israel with a job given to her partner by an Israel lobbyist.\n
The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “the biggest barrier to peace” in the Middle East, Turkey\’s prime minister said in a television interview.
The Israel Navy\’s deadly takeover of a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip was a pre-mediated \”terrorist\” attack motivated by hostility, the Turkish NGO that organized the convoy wrote in a special report released on Tuesday.