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Updated 11/03/09 @ 01:48PM EDT

• Several Israeli human rights groups are calling for an independent investigation of Israel's conduct during its operation in Gaza.
• Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned.
• Arab delegates circulated a draft resolution requiring U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to bring the Goldstone report before the Security Council.
• A Jewish KGB agent who spied on Israel and later became a business mogul in Russia was murdered in Moscow.
• Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President's Residence in Jerusalem.

• Hamas has a missile that can reach Tel Aviv, an Israeli army official said.
• Italy's president stressed his country's support for Israel and said the European Union would "do its part" to help bring peace in the Middle East.
• Two men were arrested for allegedly stealing a Torah scroll from a Texas synagogue.
• More than 300 Conservative rabbis signed a statement urging Americans to renounce the use of Nazi imagery in political discourse.
• The new 2009 Chanukah stamp was released by the United States Postal Service.

• U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Israel's concessions on settlement building fall short of Washington's expectations.
• A European-based pro-Israel group is circulating a petition condemning plans for an Israel academic boycott initiated in Norway.
• A Jewish professor at a Chicago college says a bias complaint she filed at the school has led to retaliation.
• Swastikas and other graffiti were painted on the front of a kosher restaurant in Dallas.
• The man arrested for the murder of three generations of an Israeli family had been fired from the family's restaurant more than a year ago.

• Children of foreign workers in Israel illegally will be deported at the end of the school year.
• Three more Israelis died with the swine flu, as the country's health system began its inoculation campaign against the virus.
• A West Bank settler was arrested for murdering Palestinians as well as several hate crime attacks against Palestinians and Jews.
• A Swedish journalist who accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting Palestinian organs arrived in Israel for a news conference.
• Two Israeli contractors died in a mudslide as heavy rains throughout Israel caused damage and flooded roads.

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