Sundown: Ayalon and Fayyad Don’t Play Nice
Plus Peres and Barak paint the town red, and more
September 21, 2010
Israeli President Shimon Peres yesterday.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
• Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad fought in New York, ended their meeting abruptly, and canceled a joint press conference afterward. [Haaretz]
• Community board approval of the Ground Zero Islamic center in May was followed (caveat: Correlation does not prove causation!) by a significant uptick in local U.S. governments’ alleged discrimination against Muslims trying to build mosques. [Ben Smith]
• Holocaust denier David Irving was denied permission to conduct a tour on the Auschwitz grounds. [DPA/Haaretz]
• Remnants of a 1500-year-old Samaritan synagogue were uncovered in the Jordan Valley. [JTA]
• The New Israel Fund has modified donation guidelines so as to try to avoid supporting groups not seen as sufficiently Zionist. [JTA]
• Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak, unleashed on midtown Manhattan. Look out, ladies! [Page Six]
Mayor Bloomberg announced the winner of the Sukkah City competition. Jewcy was there.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
