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Daybreak: Good Friday in Syria?

Plus Pollard implores Obama, the next flotilla, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
April 22, 2011
Israeli soldiers prepare to meet and board last year’s flotilla.(Pool/Getty images)
Israeli soldiers prepare to meet and board last year’s flotilla.(Pool/Getty images)

• This will likely be the biggest day for protests yet in Syria. [NYT]

• A report from the bitter clash on the streets of Tel Aviv between the leftist intellectuals who want a two-state plan and their counter-protesters. [NYT]

• Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who has been imprisoned for 25 years, sent a letter to President Obama through President Shimon Peres asking for his release on Passover. [Ynet]

• Israel told the United Nations that the Gaza-bound flotilla prepared for a May launch has ties to “Hamas and other terrorist organizations.” [Haaretz]

• Prominent Israeli historian Tom Segev discusses how the Eichmann Trial 50 years ago altered Israeli perceptions of themselves. [LAT]

• This very brief profile of Prime Minister Netanyahu, written for Time’s annual “most influential people in the world” list, ain’t half-bad. [Time]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.