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Daybreak: Arab League Backs U.N. Statehood

Plus 10,000 attend Kletzky’s funeral, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
July 14, 2011
Thousands of Hasidic men wait for the procession of the body.(Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)
Thousands of Hasidic men wait for the procession of the body.(Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)

• The Arab League will back and even facilitate the Palestinian statehood drive at the United Nations come September. [Ynet]

• An over-capacity crowd of perhaps 10,000 gathered to mourn Leiby Kletzky, the eight-year-old Hasidic boy who was found dead in Brooklyn yesterday. [NYT]

• Prime Minister Netanyahu defended the anti-boycott law and took responsibility for its enactment despite the fact that he was not present for its vote. [AP/WP]

• The Egyptian army is considering moving elections back two months, which would likely be a setback for the Muslim Brotherhood and a help to the less well-established parties. [JPost]

• The Israeli government approved the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s controversial proposed site for a new Museum of Tolerance, which is essentially on an old Muslim graveyard in west Jerusalem. [AP/WP]

• George M. Ross, a leading Philadelphia-based philanthropist who helped raise money for the new National Museum of American Jewish History, died at 77. [NYT]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.