The Palestinian Authority has rejected a letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aimed at furthering peace talks. The letter was a response from a previous note sent to Netanyahu from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. [Jewish Journal]

Meanwhile, a Palestinian was arrested in a rape case in Tel Aviv. The man was illegally employed at the restaurant where the attack took place. [Times of Israel]

Elsewhere, thousands of Jews gathered in Morocco for an annual pilgrimage. [Israel National News]

A Tablet writer looks into the underlying anti-Semitism of John Travolta’s massage sex scandal. [Tablet]

A Holocaust novel won a top British fiction award. [Jerusalem Post]

And an Israel scientist kicked off the medicinal marijuana research craze. [Israel21c]