Brazilian Jewish teenagers this week protested what they called their "exclusion" from a national exam for high school graduates set to take place on Shabbat, after a Brazilian court said providing Jews with an alternative date would "undermine equality."

Arkia Airlines and the Jewish Agency signed a cooperation deal on Sunday to fly Jewish immigrants to Israel, putting an end to El Al's monopoly as the only Israeli airline that flies immigrants into the country.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Defense Ministry on Sunday to urgently recruit and train construction supervisors to oversee the 10-month construction freeze in West Bank settlements, decreed by the cabinet last week.

The dispute with haredi protesters over Shabbat parking near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate has been solved, and similar bitter protests over Shabbat operations at the city's Intel plant are also well on the way to resolution, an upbeatJerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said on Saturday night.

The Office for Israeli Constitutional Law, a non-governmental legal action organization, sent a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, warning that by labeling Jewish settlements in the West Bank illegal, she is violating international law.

A health clinic in Ethiopia run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has re-opened.

Israel's air force bombed a group of terrorists in Gaza as they prepared to launch a rocket at Israel.

An Italian Roman Catholic priest has been honored posthumously as a Righteous Among Nations.

The Hamas leadership in Syria decided on Wednesday to suspend negotiations for the release of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit until after the Muslim feast of Id al-Adha.