Jerusalem\’s district planning committee has approved a construction plan to build 1,100 housing units in Gilo, a Jewish neighborhood of 40,000 in eastern Jerusalem.
A Dutch medical association has called on politicians and human rights groups to discourage male circumcision.
U.S. Rep. Howard Berman, a leading congressional Democrat, wrote the Egyptian prime minister urging him to export lulavs in time for Sukkot.
The Knesset will vote on a bill calling for full Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
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