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By Haaretz Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to leave on Sunday for Washington, where he will address the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America on Monday. U.S. President Barack Obama is due to address the GA on Tuesday morning. Netanyahu's aides tried to arrange a meeting between the two for Monday morning, but by last night this had not been confirmed. The prime minister's aides are preparing for the possibility that no meeting will take place. "Netanyahu's strategic goal is to get closer to this administration and have personal relations with the president, but you can't force it and he hopes it will happen in time," one aide said. (Barak Ravid)

The main commemoration rally marking the 14th anniversary of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination will be held at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv tomorrow, after being postponed last Saturday because of the rain. President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, opposition leader Tzipi Livni, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Dalia Rabin, the slain leader's daughter, will speak at the rally. U.S. President Barack Obama was scheduled to address the rally in a videotaped message. Streets adjacent to the square will be closed to traffic from 4:30 P.M. tomorrow. (Ofri Ilani)
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Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, was convicted yesterday of assaulting a police officer during a 2007 protest in Jerusalem. According to the court, Salah spat in the face of a Border Policeman during a demonstration against reconstruction work in Jerusalem's Old City. Salah is facing two additional charges of waving a Syrian flag in the Golan Heights and for giving a speech, described by the court as "incitement", in Wadi Joz in Jerusalem. Salah has been arrested several times over recent years over confrontations with police. (Liel Kyzer and Jack Khoury)

Tel Aviv District Court Judge Hayuta Kochan yesterday extended the detention order against the three suspects accused of assaulting and killing Aryeh Karp this summer on a Tel Aviv beach until the end of legal proceedings. In response to the defendants' contention that there was no evidence proving a connection between the assault and Karp's death, Kochan wrote that "when you combine the violence by the defendants, which included punches and kicks, and the pathology report, it is not possible to reach any other conclusion but that there is a causal connection between the assault and the death." (Ofra Edelman)

Two Jerusalem residents, Sami Shem-Tov, 67, and Dmitry Orenstein, 24, were arrested early this week on suspicion of brokering the sale of kidneys between organ donors in economic distress and patients seeking kidney transplants. Orenstein is alleged to have aided Shem-Tov in the operation, in which the pair allegedly charged patients between $100,000 and $200,000, with most of the funds going to the two suspects. The actual organ transplants were reportedly performed abroad, in South America and China, among other locations. Shem-Tov was released yesterday to house arrest; Orenstein was released earlier in the week. (Liel Kyzer)
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