Israeli-Egyptian relations are at their “highest level in history,” according to a Jerusalem-based senior analyst for an international research organization.
The Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq was a pogrom, or “violent dispossession” carried out against the Jewish community on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1 and 2, 1941.
This week in Israel's history, Napoleon issued a proclamation which recognizes the Jews as the rightful heirs to the land; the US sympathizes with Israel's fear of an independent Palestinian state.