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Updated 07/05/09 @ 12:41PM EDT

• Israel has the right to attack Iran's nuclear program and the United States will not stand in her way, Joe Biden said.
• A sitting Israeli Knesset member gave birth to a baby boy.
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview invited President Obama to visit Damascus
• Demonstrations against a decision to open a Jerusalem parking lot on Shabbat continued for the second week in a row.
• Israeli officials said that an Israeli submarine passed through the Suez Canal during a drill, a report denied by Egypt.

• Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has been declared fit to stand trial in Germany.
• A Gaza man was indicted for planning to set up a terrorist cell in Israel.
• A mass demonstration by the banned neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard organization degenerated into a battle with police.
• A Jewish inmate at the San Francisco County Jail will be permitted to have his yarmulke back.
• A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.

• Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam.
• Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false.
• A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise.
• The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.

• Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.
• Holy books and Torah scrolls were defaced and burned at a yeshiva located at the site of the evacuated Homesh settlement.
• The Israeli army's top rabbi spurred calls for his dismissal after he said women should not serve in the military.
• Amnesty International was manipulated by Hamas in its report that accused Israel of committing war crimes during its Gaza military operation, the Israeli army said.

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