Charlotte Halle

The first Israeli citizen to be employed by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in the organization's 52-year history will join its legal affairs department later this month.

If Israel reopens its embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay will reopen its embassy in Israel, Paraguayan Ambassdor Luis Fernando Meyer told Anglo File this week.

The ambassador of Uruguay is a diplomat through and through; even his dog is bilingual. Jose Luis Pombo graduated from the Foreign Service Academy in Montevideo and has 30 years of experience as a diplomat, including six foreign postings.

The Belarusan government was "astonished" to hear of Israel's decision to close its embassy in Minsk, the Belarusan Embassy in Tel Aviv said yesterday. The closure "may cause serious problems," an embassy spokesman warned.

"Let me just get one thing clear, there was no massacre in Jenin. I repeat no massacre in Jenin!!!" wrote 26-year-old Saul Kramer on his return from reserve duty in the IDF's Operation Defensive Shield in April.

Birthright Israel says it was their idea; JDate claims it was their idea. Either way, matching up the two organizations means that 32 young American Jewish singles spent the week touring Israel on the first ever jointly-organized trip.

Anglo File meets the man managing the DNA testing of September 11 victims

Anglos courted ahead of Likud leadership challenge.

Julia Garb, one of the most outstanding figures on the English-language theater scene in Israel, has passed out of the limelight.

The 34th World Zionist Congress that convened in Jerusalem this week has apparently stirred up little interest among young Anglo immigrants - among them, former Zionist activists.

The future of the Paraguayan Embassy in Mevasseret Zion is still in doubt, as the Paraguayan government is awaiting more concrete evidence that the Israeli government plans to reopen its embassy in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion.

A letter calling the proposed cuts in child benefit 'discriminatory and harmful to immigrants' is to be sent to the Finance Ministry and MKs on Sunday by the Council of Immigrant Associations.

Ha'aretz meets Adela Gertner, founder of the Spay Israel volunteer organization.

Members of Knesset and heads of Anglo immigrant associations have denounced as "discriminatory" and "unfair" the emergency economic plan that was passed yesterday and will reduce child allowances for families without a member who served in the army.

What does a woman who specializes in running "introduction to Judaism" classes in North America have to offer the Jewish state? Quite a lot, according to the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism (IMPJ, the local Reform Movement), which has brought Dru Greenwood over from New York to attend its biannual convention in Jerusalem this week.