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A British court convicts three British
Muslims of plotting to carry out terrorist
attacks in the country, including on Jewish
targets.

MARCH 2013
Vice President Joe Biden tells thousands
of AIPAC activists meeting in Washington
that President Obama is "not bluffing"
when he says he will stop Iran from
acquiring a nuclear weapon.
The U.S. State Department cancels plans
to honor Egyptian human rights activist
Samira Ibrahim after opponents note that
anti-Jewish tweets were posted on her
Twitter account.
President Obama makes his first visit

to Israel since taking office in 2008. In a
speech upon arrival at the airport, Obama
says the United States is Israel's "strongest
ally and greatest friend:' His trip receives
widespread praise from Jewish groups.
A Lebanese-Swedish citizen is convicted
in Cyprus on charges of spying on Israeli
tourists for Hezbollah. The closely watched
trial is a sign of Hezbollah's expansion of
terrorist activities into Europe and fuels
calls for European Union countries to des-
ignate Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
Following prodding by President
Obama, Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu agree to resume
normal ties after Israel apologizes for

the deaths of nine Turks in 2010 during
a clash with Israeli commandos aboard
the Mavi Marmara, a ship attempting to
break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Erdogan
later balks, saying normalization will not
take place until Israel fulfills its obligations
under the agreement.
Berlin's Jewish Museum provokes con-
troversy with its "Jew in a Box" exhibit
(formally titled "The Whole Truth"), in
which Jews spend a shift sitting in a glass
box and answering questions from visitors.
Mike Engelman, the owner of Doheny
Glatt Kosher Meats in Los Angeles, is vid-
eotaped directing his employees to unload
boxes of meat from his car while the store's
kosher supervisor is absent. The footage

MARCH

Left: Vice President

Joe Biden at AIPAC

Bottom left: U.S.

Secretary of State

Madeleine Albright

visited the "Jew In

A Box" exhibition

and spontaneously

sat down in the

showcase.

Above right: Israeli

Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu

greeting President

Obama at a welcome

ceremony for the

president at Ben-

Gurion Airport near

Tel Aviv, March 20,

2013.

Right: President

Obama greeted by

children waving

Israeli and American

flags at a welcoming

ceremony at Shimon

Peres' residence in

Jerusalem, March

20, 2013.

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leads the Rabbinical Council of California
to revoke the shop's kosher certification
the day before Passover, leaving many
kosher consumers in the lurch.

APRIL 2013
French Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim
resigns following revelations that he pla-
giarized the work of others in his books
and claimed unearned academic titles.
After being asked by Israel's prime
minister to come up with a solution to the
Women of the Wall controversy, Jewish
Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky pro-
poses that the Robinson's Arch area of the
Western Wall be expanded and renovated
to allow for egalitarian prayer there at any