Norway’s third largest city votes to boycott Israeli settlement goods

Norway’s third largest city votes to boycott Israeli settlement goods 

Norway’s third largest city votes to boycott Israeli settlement goods – International Business Times23 Nov 2016 Norway’s third largest city, Trondheim, approved the resolution last week, according to local publication Adresseavise.  READ MORE » EU-Israel trade predicted to grow despite diplomatic tension – The Jerusalem Post23 Nov 2016 European Union Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen pushed a positive message at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference on Wednesday.   READ MORE » Israeli museum concert shows Holocaust’s lesser known legacy – Washington Post23 Nov 2016 For the first time in Yad Vashem’s 63-year history, live music echoed through the halls of Israel’s national Holocaust memorial in a somber tribute to the works of musicians who created a vibrant cultural life in the Terezin concentration camp before they were sent to their deaths.  READ MORE » South Carolina governor who signed anti-BDS law named next US envoy to UN – Jerusalem Post23 Nov 2016 The bill makes no mention of Israel directly, but prevents public entities from contracting with businesses engaging in the “boycott of a person or an entity based in or doing business with a jurisdiction with whom South Carolina can enjoy open trade.”  READ MORE » Belgium frees suspected accomplice in Jewish museum attack – Times of Israel23 Nov 2016 Nacer Bendrer, who denies involvement in deadly 2014 shooting, released on 50,000-euro bond, ordered to stay at home in France.  READ MORE » French Jewish leaders criticize presidential frontrunner Fillon for suggesting Jews ‘did not respect rules’ of the republic – Reuters23 Nov 2016 Fillon, a former prime minister who this week won the first round of the presidential primary in France’s center-right Republicans party, made the assertion during an interview Wednesday with Europe1 radio, in which he cited Jews as proof that Muslims may become better integrated.  READ MORE » UNESCO awards tolerance prize to Moscow Jewish museum – JTA23 Nov 2016 Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, whose top aide Rabbi Boruch Gorin is the museum’s chairman, said in a statement that “spreading tolerance is an absolutely necessary thing for Russia,” whose Jewish community “is involved in this as much as they can be, specifically after the opening of the Jewish Museum  READ MORE » Ancient ‘thinking person’ statuette unearthed in Israel – Reuters23 Nov 2016 The Israel Antiquities Authority said on Wednesday the jug, dating back to what archaeologists refer to as the Middle Bronze Age, had been found during an excavation in Yehud, a Tel Aviv suburb.  READ MORE »