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Posted by webmaster on June 15th, 2007

  • Hamas gunmen effectively took over the Gaza Strip after routing the rival Fatah at a key Palestinian Authority security compound.

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  • Baron Guy de Rothschild, patriarch of the storied French Jewish banking family, died in Paris at 98.

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  • Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. chief with a Nazi past, died in Vienna at 88.

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  • A grave believed to contain the remains of dozens of Jews killed by the Nazis was found in western Ukraine.

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  • Israel’s new satellite went into action.

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  • Police approval for a gay pride parade in Jerusalem drew hundreds of fervently Orthodox protesters into the city’s streets.

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  • Ehud Barak’s political comeback has sapped Israeli support for Benjamin Netanyahu, a poll found.

  • A Kassam rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a Negev high school.

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  • U.S. senators emphasized increased action against Iran at the Orthodox Union’s annual luncheon in Washington, D.C.

  • Two Australian Jews were awarded the nation’s highest honor.

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