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Sundown: Turkey and Israel to Repair Ties?

Plus Ed Koch leaves 100,000 thank yous to his secretary

by
Adam Chandler
March 12, 2013
Henrique Capriles Radonski(AFP)
Henrique Capriles Radonski(AFP)

• According to Channel Two in Israel, President Obama will reportedly demand that Israel and Turkey repair their ties, which have run cold since the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident in 2010. [ToI]

• Mary Garrigan, the assistant to the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch, was reportedly given $100,000, according to a will filed earlier this week. [NYT]

• American-born Yesh Atid member Dov Lipman made a plea from the floor of the Knesset asking President Obama to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

• Shari Arison, the richest woman in Israel, gets profiled by Allison Hoffman in her inaugural piece for Jewcy. [Jewcy]

• Henrique Capriles Radonski, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, will pursue another attempt to win the Venezuelan presidency. [JTA]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.