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Israel Leader
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Rome/JTA — Israeli President Moshe
Katsav plans to meet with the pope and
Italian leaders during a visit to Italy.
Katsav plans to use the three-day visit
to seek backing against Palestinian ter-
rorism. He will meet with Italian Jews
in Rome's Great Synagogue and visit
the Arch of Titus, an ancient symbol of
the diaspora whose carving shows the
Second Temple's menorah looted from
Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E.
During a visit to Naples, Katsav, a
former minister of tourism, will visit
the ruins of Herculaneum, an ancient
Roman city that, like nearby Pompeii,
was buried in an eruption of Mt.
Vesuvius in 79 C.E.
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Concert Honors
Terror Victims
New York/JTA — Some $20,000 was
raised in honor of two Americans killed
last July in a terrorist bombing at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The funds raised at a concert held at
New York's Knitting Factory are being
donated to the Marla Bennett & Ben
Blutstein Memorial Scholarship Funds
at the Jerusalem-based Pardes Institute.
Bennett and Blutstein were enrolled
in the Pardes Educators Program when
they were killed in the attack.
A total of nine people were killed and
more than 80 wounded in the bomb-
ing. A sold-out crowd of 400 people
attended the concert, which featured
Jewish music.
War Criminals
Still Alive?
Sydney/JTA — Australian police con-
firmed that nine of 22 alleged Nazi war
criminals named by the Lithuanian
government are still living in Australia.
Last year, Lithuanian officials said the
22 had served in local police units and
were responsible for murdering thou-
sands of Jews in Lithuania and Ukraine
during World War II.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged
both Australia and Lithuania to release
the names and begin an investigation.
But Efraim Zuroff, director of the cen-
ter's Jerusalem office, predicted that
Lithuanian and Australian authorities
would not release the names. "This is a
classic example of how a lack of politi-
cal will has allowed these people to get
away with mass murder," Zuroff said.
For years, Australia has been accused
of providing a safe haven for war crimi-
nals.
Neo-Nazis Protest
Presidential Visit
Berlin/JTA — German neo-Nazis
marched through Berlin to protest the
visit of Israel's president.
Hours after Moshe Katsav met with
German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder, about 100 supporters of the
far-right National Democratic Party
demonstrated against Israeli policies
toward the Palestinians.
About 400 counterdemonstrators
also turned up, and police set up cor-
dons to keep the two groups apart.
Katsav also visited the site of the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp,
where he was accompanied by German
President Johannes Rau and the leader
of the Jewish community in Germany,
Paul Spiegel.
New Book Lauds
Suicide Bombings
New York/JTA — The Simon
Wiesenthal Center is protesting a best-
selling novel by an Egyptian-Italian
teenager it says is sympathetic to sui-
cide bombers and incites hatred against
Israel and Jews.
Dreaming of Palestine by 15-year-old
Randa Ghazy was published in Italy
earlier this year, and a French edition
was recently released. French Jewish
leaders are also protesting the book.
Ghazy, born in Italy of immigrant
Egyptian parents, tells the story of a
group of Palestinian teenagers, one of
whom blows himself up and kills five
Israelis. Calling the book "horrific," the
Wiesenthal Center said it is "full of
libelous accusations and clearly incites
racist violence and validates terrorism."
Skinheads Tarnish
Hungary Chanukah
Budapest/JTA — Several hundred skin-
heads disrupted a Chanukah celebra-
tion in Budapest.
The skinheads chanted "Hungary is
ours!" as members of the city's Jewish
community were lighting candles Dec.
4, according to the Associated Press.
The country's police chief publicly
apologized to the Jewish community,
saying a police official had mistakenly