1. US battles to salvage collapsing Israeli-Palestinian talks
Kerry calls Abbas, after PA president applies to join UN-related treaties
The United States was battling Wednesday night to save Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, after Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas was accused by Israel of breaching his commitments by applying to join 15 UN-related
and other international treaties and conventions.
Still, Livni, head the Israeli team to the peace talks, said she believed talks would continue despite the crisis. ”We
repeat and pledge that we will continue to fight for peace and stand like a fortified wall against the extremists, in
the government as well, who are attempting to pass extreme legislation,” she said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued no immediate official response to Abbas’s move. But unnamed
officials in Jerusalem were quoted by Channel 2 news saying Abbas’s application to join the 15 international
treaties and conventions represented a “major breach” of his understandings with Israel and the US over peace
negotiations, and that it indicated that there was now “almost no chance” of a Pollard-for-prisoners deal enabling
the continuation of peace talks.
Netanyahu was reported by Channel 2 to have mustered a cabinet majority in the course of Tuesday for a Pollard-
for-prisoners deal, and to have been “shocked” to see the televised ceremony in which Abbas signed off on the
various letters of accession.
Palestinian officials denied that applying to join the treaties and conventions marked a breach of
understandings, and said the PA was committed to continuing talks until the April 29 deadline. “This is the
fulfillment of Palestine’s right and has nothing to do with negotiations or the reaching of an agreement,” the PLO’s
negotiations department said in a statement.

2. Thousands of French Jews attended an information fair in Paris about moving
to Israel amid an unprecedented spike in immigration to the Jewish state and a
wave of anti-Semitic attacks. According to the Jewish Agency, aliyah to Israel
from France saw a dramatic threefold increase in January and February 2014
compared to a year prior. Over 1,000 students participated in Jewish Agency-
funded Israel experience programs in the past year, the organization said, twice
as many as two years before. The immigration rate for French students who
enroll in the Masa Israel program, for example, stands at 70%.Earlier this
month, the French Jewish community’s watchdog organization, SPCJ, released
a report that counted 423 anti-Semitic incidents in France in 2013 — a 31
percent decrease from the previous year, but still higher by 8 percent than the
number of incidents recorded in 2011.
As anti-Semitic attacks rise, thousands attend Aliyah fair in Paris
Jewish immigration from France to Israel marks sharp increase compared
to previous years

3. Blossom
Pricha

4. Game of the month:
Seriously, the name of the game is 21. You need to have at least 3
players to play this game. The players stand in a circle, one of them
volunteers to stand in the middle of it. The players in the circle need
to pass the ball between them while the player in the circle has to
prevent them from passing the ball between them 21 times. If the ball
fell or was touched by the player in the middle the counting needs to
start all over again until they reach the number 21.

5. Passover in Israel is a really special time.
Passover represents the Israeli amazing
spring (Aviv) while everything is blooming.
In most of the restaurants and
supermarkets you will find no bread at
all, but instead only Matza products!. The
Passover “Seder” night in Israel is
considered to be very special. All the
families gather together from all around
the country to celebrate and tell the whole
family about our long way to the land of
Israel. Most of the Israelis would consider
this holiday as their favorite one!
Passover (Pesach):
15 of Nisan
month – 21 of
Nisan month