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• Led by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), the first Muslim congressman, 54 U.S. representatives signed a letter urging Israel to ease its Gaza blockade. J Street, Americans for Peace Now, and other liberal groups also signed. [Haaretz]
• Standing beside Israeli President Shimon Peres, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced it was time to stop being polite ...

• Israel’s controversial weapons trade and border disputes are threatening its membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the global club for large, developed economies. [NYT]
• An OECD report shows that Israel, if admitted, would be its poorest member. Its Arab and ultra-Orthodox populations pull the numbers down. [Haaretz]
• Chancellor Angela Merkel has ...

• After the first-ever summit between Germany and Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced she would seek harsher sanctions against Iran for its alleged nuclear violations. [NYT]
• Pope Benedict XVI defended Pius XII, the controversial pontiff who is now up for sainthood. During the Holocaust, Benedict said, the Vatican gave European Jews “hidden and discreet” help. ...

• Women make up 75 percent of the workforce but only hold 14 percent of the leadership positions at Jewish communal organizations, according to a study by the Forward, and in those jobs, they are paid 61 cents for every dollar paid to male counterparts, due in part to the “familial, sometimes paternalistic nature” of ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the list of international voices calling for a halt to Israeli settlement construction. She told a session of the Bundestag (the lower house of German parliament) that building in the West Bank, including “natural growth,” is a hindrance to the two-state solution. As The Jerusalem Post reports, what’s noteworthy about ...

One detail stood out for us in the coverage of President Obama’s visit to Buchenwald today. Both Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made mention of a memorial plaque at the former concentration camp that’s kept at 37 degrees Celsius—the temperature of a healthy human body. It’s the sort of gesture at which Germans have ...