California police were forced to intervene and arrest students at a California university who disrupted and heckled Israel’s Ambassador Michael Oren who had arrived at the campus to deliver a lecture on U.S.-Israeli relations.

Abu Dhabi has set up a special hospital dedicated to treating birds, especially falcons. Described as the only facility of its kind in the world, its German born directors says they treat anything from canaries to ostriches, and over 5,000 falcons a year.

For the first time since the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492, , Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham, a descendant of forcibly-converted Spanish Jews, who immigrated to Israel, and received rabbinical ordination, will return to his homeland and serve there as a rabbi.

Iran said it has launched two production lines to build unmanned aircraft with a distance capability of reaching Israel. The latest developments come days after the Islamic Republic announced the opening of two new missile production plants, as well as a decision to begin enriching its own uranium. None of the reports have been verified by the West.

 

The Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times found himself in a pickle, after the newspaper’s editors were divided in their opinions over whether to assign him elsewhere because his son is currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces. Readers and one of the paper’s editors, bowed to Palestinian pressure and called to relieve him of his current post. Others insisted he remain.