Moscow and Jerusalem are being encouraged by the US to resolve a dispute over the operations of an Israeli body operating in Russia that encourages immigration to the Jewish state, which has threatened to snowball into a major diplomatic spat. The US hopes that Israeli and Russian authorities will be able to reach an agreement that “preserves the ability of Jews in Russia to travel to Israel,” a US State Department spokesperson told The Times of Israel on Thursday. Last week, the Russian justice ministry filed a motion seeking to shutter the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency for Israel organization’s offices in...