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Daybreak: Israel Wants In the OECD Club

Plus Merkel the pro-Israel maverick, and more in the news
By Marc Tracy | 8:58 AM Jan 20, 2010

• Israel’s controversial weapons trade and border disputes are threatening its membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the global club for large, developed economies. [NYT]
• An OECD report shows that Israel, if admitted, would be its poorest member. Its Arab and ultra-Orthodox populations pull the numbers down. [Haaretz]
• Chancellor Angela Merkel has ...

Sundown: Jordan Demands Dead Sea Scrolls

Plus the slain Iranian physicist, Dysentery-a, and more
By Marc Tracy | 5:00 PM Jan 13, 2010

• In a formal complaint to the United Nations, Jordan accused Israel of illegally seizing the Dead Sea Scrolls during the Six Day War, and demanded that they be returned. [JPost]
• Columnist Yossi Melman suspects that the Iranian physicist killed in Tehran yesterday was likely done in by some entity that wanted to slow the ...

Suspect in Mumbai Attacks Posed as a Jew

Six were killed in local Chabad House
By Hadara Graubart | 1:00 PM Nov 17, 2009

It’s been a year since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 170 people, including six occupants of the local Chabad House, and there has been some progress toward prosecuting one of the alleged perpetrators. David Coleman Headley, a 49-year-old Pakistani immigrant to the United States, was arrested last month in Chicago en ...

FBI Arrests Potential Israeli Spy

U.S. scientist sold information to agents posing as Mossad
By Michael Weiss | 12:00 PM Oct 20, 2009

Stewart David Nozette, a 52-year-old American scientist who worked for the Energy Department and NASA and helped prove that there’s water on the moon, was arrested Monday for trying to sell classified state secrets to an FBI agent posing as a Mossad operative. In addition to a long career with the U.S. government, he also ...

Figure in AIPAC Case Changes Story

Now says he was spying ON AIPAC for the FBI
By Marc Tracy | 4:16 PM Jul 29, 2009

Hold on for a second, and pay close attention: we have here a brand-new twist to an already labyrinthine spy tale. In 2005, Larry Franklin, the Pentagon’s former Iran desk officer, pleaded guilty to disclosing secret information on the U.S.’s Iran and Iraq policy without authorization to two members of the American Israel Public Affairs ...

Israeli Crime Brothers Face U.S. Charges

Court approves extradition over Ecstasy ring
By Douglas Century | 2:07 PM Jul 28, 2009

In another indication of the increasingly ambitious and global nature of Israeli organized crime, a trend I’ve been covering in a Tablet Magazine series this week, an Israeli court ruled yesterday that the brothers Meir and Yitzhak Abergil, two of Israel’s most notorious gangsters, and a few of their associates will be extradited to the ...

Rabbis Arrested in N.J. Corruption Probe

UPDATED: Jersey Shore synagogue, yeshiva searched
By Allison Hoffman | 10:05 AM Jul 23, 2009

FBI agents arrested several rabbis this morning in New Jersey and New York as part of an investigation into what the U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark, N.J., described as a “high-volume, international” money-laundering conspiracy. The mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, N.J., a state assemblyman, and the deputy mayor of Jersey City were also arrested as ...

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A klezmer musician turns her grandmother’s FBI files into musical theater
By Vox Tablet | 1:00 AM Jun 9, 2009

Eve Sicular is the founder of and drummer for the bands Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos, but her new work offers much more than traditional music. It’s called J. Edgar Klezmer – Songs from My Grandmother’s FBI Files. In the show, Eve combines archival materials, spoken word, and original songs from a variety ...