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| February 13, 2015
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel backs Netanyahu speech

Shoah survivor urges Americans to listen to Israel’s PM Netanyahu, as planned Congressional appearance splits US Jews along ideological lines.
• Anti-Defamation League condemned J Street boycott-Natanyahu petition as “inflammatory & repugnant.”

By Reuters

 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is lending his support to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress on the dangers of Iran’s nuclear program – an address that has antagonized the White House and divided American Jews.

Noble Laureate Elie Wiesel speaks about the report he helped prepare discussing the situation in North Korea at the United Nations in New York November 16, 2006.

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| November 7, 2012
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Elie Wiesel says he & Obama are teaming to pen a book

Wiesel: “I told myself that I have to be careful because I can never know whether anyone in the audience will be a future president.”

By JTA staff

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Elie Wiesel and President Obama are writing a book together, the Holocaust survivor and author told an Israeli newspaper.

This year’s NADAV Jewish Peoplehood Award recipients are honored in a special ceremony in Jerusalem. From left: Avishai Cohen, Leonid Nevzlin, Irina Nevzlin Kogan and Elie Wiesel. – Photo: Sivan Farag

The book, which the two men will resume writing after Tuesday’s presidential election, is “a book of two friends,” Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, told Haaretz. Continue Reading »

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| April 25, 2012
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Obama announces new Iran, Syria technology sanctions

During his first visit to the Holocaust museum as President, Obama introduces a new set of sanctions against entities aiding the regimes of Iran and Syria to use technology to target citizens and erode their human rights.

United States President Barack Obama on Monday announced new sanctions on people and entities in Iran and Syria who have deemed to use technology to target citizens and erode their human rights.

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President Barack Obama speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington - photo by AP

Speaking at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. before a crowd of Holocaust survivors, administration officials, members of Congress, and leaders of Jewish organizations, Obama commented on the situation in Syria and Iran.

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