At Erbil conference, participants also call for rebuilding ties with the country's dispossessed Jewish diaspora; normalization remains a crime under Iraqi law

Unprecedented event in Erbil features Sunni and Shiite leaders and activists demanding that Baghdad join Abraham Accords; Lapid: Event in Iraq is a 'source of hope and optimism'

Mother of journalist Farzad Bazoft says documents relating to UK connections to so-called supergun were stolen from him days before he traveled to Baghdad

An advocate for Soviet and Syrian Jews, antiwar activist outraged many Jews over other clients, including Nazi prison camp guard, PLO

Ceen Gabbai survived 2003 invasion, received asylum in US; in home country, family had to move 5 times due to anti-Semitism, but her Muslim friends secretly recorded 'Hatikvah'