World Report

MOSCOW (JTA) -- Two Russian Jews are among the world's richest people, says Forbes magazine.

Boris Berezovsky, a Russian businessman-turned-politician, cracked the top 100 of the magazine's annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals.

He was ranked in the 97th spot, with an accumulated wealth of $3 billion.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, president of the Rosprom financial-industrial group, ranked 133rd, with a wealth of $2.4 billion.

Berezovsky is currently suing Forbes magazine in a London court for an article about him that appeared last December titled, "Is He the Godfather of the Kremlin?"

Russian TV beaming to emigres in Israel

MOSCOW (JTA) -- A Russian television channel has begun regular broadcasts to Israel, where it hopes to attract the Jewish state's large population of emigres from the former Soviet Union.

The independent NTV television station has an audience of 120 million across the former Soviet Union.

It recently unveiled plans to expand its Russian-language broadcasts to Western Europe and the Middle East.

NTV is a part of Russia's leading media empire, Media MOST, which is headed by Vladimir Goussinsky, who also serves as president of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Anti-Semitic attacks erupt in Cape Town

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (JTA) -- This city's 25,000-member Jewish community -- the second largest in the country -- is reeling from the worst outbreak of anti-Semitism in recent years.

Early Monday morning, gasoline bombs were thrown at the home of Ivan Maron, an observant Jew who operates a Jewish book center, causing an estimated $50,000 in damage and leaving the home unlivable.

Police then received a telephone call from a man who claimed responsibility for the attack and who said the Highlands House old-age home and the Wynberg Synagogue would be the next targets.

On Saturday, a crowd of Muslims marched on the Israeli Embassy in Cape Town shouting such slogans as "One Zionist, One Bullet."

All of the incidents are believed to have been sparked by the distribution of fliers in the West Bank town of Hebron that depicted the prophet Mohammed as a pig stepping on the Koran.

Saturday's march on the Israeli Embassy in Cape Town included chants of "One Zionist, One Bullet."

Hungarian jailed for anti-Jewish talk

BUDAPEST (JTA) -- The Budapest City Court has sentenced a Hungarian neo-Nazi leader to one year in prison for inciting racial hatred.

The judge ruled that a speech given by Albert Szabo last October to mark the 40th anniversary of the Hungarian anti-Soviet uprising went beyond the limits of free speech.

Szabo said, "Hungary will soon be handed over to the caftan-robed and kippah-wearing Zionists."

He also called for the exclusion of Jews from high-profile Hungarian political jobs.

Last year, Hungary's Supreme Court acquitted Szabo on similar charges.