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	Medical award for German accused of Nazi-era euthanasia A German medical association has awarded a medal to a 92 year-old doctor who was a member of the SS suspected of carrying out Hitler's euthanasia policies.

Jewish community criticizes sentence against man who stabbed rabbi in Frankfurt

Sajed Aziz stabbed Rabbi Zalman Gurevitch, co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Frankfurt, in the abdomen.

Poll: Germans think Israel is today 'a state like another'

A total of 64% Germans think that Israel does not have a special status, against 33% who believe the opposite.

New exhibition: Oskar Schindler, from Holocaust hero to obscurity

His beginnings and early life were hardly auspicious, and he remained something of an enigma to the end.

More Germany:

	Nazi hunters say German judge blocking search for Dr Death
	Obama announces trips to Middle East, Europe
	Gay sent to Buchenwald by Nazis visits new Berlin memorial
	Looted Nazi art on show in Paris
	Nazi hunters call for new report on Croatian suspect
	Major powers fret over Israeli settlements, shaky Gaza truce
	EU: more time needed to solve Lisbon Treaty crisis

Germany and Israel
	German foreign minister in Israel visit
	Germany weighs the Hamas victory
	Israeli-Egyptian ambassadorial meeting in Berlin
	German chancellor meets Abbas after Hamas win
	Merkel visits Israel amid uncertainty following Hamas victory
	Germans and Israeli artists create comic-journalism book

‘Train of Remembrance’ ends journey near Auschwitz The 'Train of Remembrance' commemorating the thousands of children murdered by the Nazis, which travelled around Germany since November, arrived at its final destination, near the former death camp of Auschwitz.		Germany bans extreme-right groups for denying Holocaust Germany banned two regional extreme-right organizations suspected of denying the Nazis' extermination of six million Jews and launched early-morning raids against their members.

Day in history

4 July 1976
The Entebbe Rescue

256 hostages from an Air France plane are held prisoners by Palestinian terrorists and Ugandan soldiers at Entebbe airport.

After 8 days they are rescued by Israeli commandos in a brilliant ruse under the command of Yonatan Netanyahu who was shot in the back during the rescue.

EJP PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Around 45,000 people joined last Sunday the Salute to Israel Parade and Rally in central London and Manchester, celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary.