by Justin Cohen

Gilad Schalit is to visit London next month for the first time since being freed from captivity.

The former soldier, who was kidnapped in a cross-border raid in 2006 and was held for nearly six years in Gaza until last October, has accepted an invitation to join hundreds of other young people from across Europe at a major conference in north London...The B’nai B’rith Europe Young Jewish Adult Forum, held in association with B’nai B’rith UK and attended by delegates from 25 countries aged 25 to 45, will include workshops, services at a local synagogue and a gala dinner with live band. The former captive, who has listed traveling the world as one of his top priorities for the during the next year, will be presented with honorary membership of B’nai B’rith during the event...more.

En un documento difundido en las últimas horas, la ONG resaltó que un encuentro entre Argentina e Irán para discutir el atentado a la AMIA, es motivo de “gran preocupación”. Las autoridades de B'nai B'rith Internacional expresaron que condenan enérgicamente “la penetración de Irán en la región, una medida que debe ser observado con mucha cautela”.

La organización B'nai B'rith Internacional calificó como “extremadamente alarmante” la decisión del gobierno argentino de aceptar una propuesta de Irán para entablar conversaciones tendientes a destrabar la causa que investiga el atentado a la AMIA...more.