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• A campaign is being launched to help New York rabbis encourage couples to perform screening for Jewish genetic diseases before pregnancy.
• A delegation of senior U.S. counterterrorism specialists visited the police command center in Tel Aviv.
• Actor Tom Bosley, best known as the "Happy Days" dad Howard Cunningham, has died.
• The Israeli people "are no longer divided into two opposite camps," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the main memorial ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin.
• The leaders of Israeli and Palestinian trade unions have agreed to meet to plan joint activity.

• A new law passed in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre will require its public schools to teach about the Holocaust.
• The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is partnering with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to help children in Haiti as the island country recovers from last winter’s devastating earthquake.
• Israel's army will block soldiers' access to social media sites while they are on base
• Iran has rejected Argentina's proposal to place on trial in a neutral country those accused in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
• Canadian police officials have denied arresting a suspect in the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai.

• After meeting with Israeli leaders, ADL National Director Abraham Foxman called on the Obama administration to “close all doors” to a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood.
• The warehouse of a Palestinian girls' school in the West Bank was set on fire and spray-painted with graffiti, allegedly by Jewish settlers.
• Louis Henkin, a pioneer in human rights law, died at the age of 92.
• China agreed to investigate U.S. findings that some of its companies were assisting Iran in its efforts to develop nuclear weaponry.
• Iran topped the agenda at a session of the U.S.-Israel strategic dialogue

• Israel and the United States marked 25 years of their free trade agreement with plans to remove remaining barriers between the two countries.
• Israel's tourism minister invited the 33 rescued Chilean miners to spend Christmas in Israel.
• A proposed Knesset bill would ban Arabs from eastern Jerusalem from serving as tour guides in the city.
• An Israeli citizen suspected of murdering two women in the United States was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport.
• Supermodel Naomi Campbell has embraced Kabbalah.

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