51.   The two sides agreed earlier this year to set up a joint committee to probe the fate of Jewish assets in Switzerland.

52.   Two British MPs urged Switzerland Monday to make an immediate gesture to compensate those seeking to recover Jewish assets deposited in Swiss banks before the Nazi Holocaust.

53.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Swiss President Arnold Koller agreed Friday to work together to resolve the row over Jewish assets looted by the Nazis.

54.   Jewish organisations believe that Jewish assets that have remained dormant in Swiss banks could amount to several billion dollars.

55.   Last month the World Jewish Congress said it had obtained recently declassified documents from US intelligence services proving that Jewish assets in Swiss accounts were much higher.

56.   Netanyahu and Koller agreed Friday to work together to end the controversy surrounding Swiss bank holdings of Jewish assets.

57.   Oslo was chosen as the site of the conference to acknowledge the efforts made by Norway to restitute Jewish assets.

58.   Since last fall Jewish organisations have been waging a campaign to recover Jewish assets they say were confiscated by Nazis.

59.   Swiss banks are at the center of a bitter battle over World War II-era Jewish assets and Nazi gold.

60.   Switzerland is embroiled in a controversy over the fate of confiscated Jewish assets banked there by the Nazis during the war.