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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Tzipi Livni met yesterday after four months of almost complete silence. The meeting came ahead of Livni's visit to Moscow, and dealt mainly with Israeli attempts to stifle the Iranian nuclear program.At the meeting, Netanyahu brought Livni up to date on Israel's position on the uranium enrichment agreement proposed to Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Russia, France and the United States. Livni will depart for Moscow tomorrow, as a guest of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. She is also set to meet senior Russian lawmakers and the leaders of the Russian Jewish community. Livni's office said that she will be addressing both the Iranian issue and the Goldstone report, requesting the Russians oppose any attempt to discuss the report at the UN Security Council. Israeli law obliges the prime minister and leader of the opposition to hold monthly update meetings, but Netanyahu and Livni have not met for four months. (Barak Ravid)

The Jewish Agency plans to send more than 100 well-trained emissaries to North American college campuses within the next two years, chairman Natan Sharansky announced yesterday. Currently, about 20 JAFI emissaries work on American universities. The new JAFI representatives will be tasked with explaining to students the "realities of the Middle East, and to show what Hamas and Hezbollah are doing and what Israel is doing to bring some justice and democracy to Palestinians." The plan is mentioned in a proposed resolution of JAFI's task force on anti-Semitism, which is expected to pass. (Raphael Ahren)
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Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin yesterday barred Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer from entering the parliament, after activists from the left-wing group interviewed rightist MKs while posing as students. Following the incident, Peace Now said it had wanted to make a "Borat-like" film to expose the lawmakers' embarrassing remarks, referring to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's clueless Kazakh journalist character. The group subsequently condemned the ban. On Sunday, three Peace Now activists were arrested at the Knesset after asking to interview MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) while posing as students. (Haaretz Staff)
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