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Holocaust objects to be displayed at German parliament
An exhibition of Holocaust-era items from the collections of Yad Vashem whose stories are intertwined with Jews from Germany will open in the Bundestag next week, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jerusalem-based...
Why Israel’s enemies will hate the Louvre
The Palestinian Authority and its supporters have a new enemy: the Louvre.
The world’s most-visited museum, the famous French institution that holds some of the greatest works of art and antiquities, is likely to find...
A year after Colleyville, the Jewish community is rethinking security
When Malik Faisal Akram, a British-Pakistani terrorist, took four congregants hostage at a small-town Texas synagogue at this time last year, it became immediately clear that the event would have deep and lasting ramifications...
Netanyahu: Israeli held by Hamas in Gaza is alive
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday that Hamas captive Avera Mengistu is alive, a day after the Palestinian terrorist group released a video purportedly of him.
“Israel has not stopped efforts to return...
Report: Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen boycotting senior Israeli lawmakers
A Democratic lawmaker leading a bipartisan delegation of senators on a trip to the Jewish state is boycotting two Israeli ministers, Axios reported Tuesday.
According to the report, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) told Israeli officials that she...
Netanyahu meets with AIPAC leaders, hails strong bond with US
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday stressed the importance of bilateral relations with the United States in a meeting with top officials from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Netanyahu met with AIPAC President...
Smotrich: Israel’s democracy will be strengthened by legal reforms
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has defended the government’s proposed legal reform, saying that contrary to the claims of the plan’s opponents, they would strengthen the country’s democracy, not weaken it.
In remarks delivered before...
Polish parliament delegation visits Israel ‘to reinstate warm diplomatic ties’
A parliamentary delegation from Poland arrived in Israel this week with the goal of restoring “warm diplomatic ties” between the countries. The visit is the first of its kind in the past four years.
The...
More than 90 countries call on Israel to restore PA terror funds
More than 90 countries signed a letter, published on Monday, demanding the “immediate” reversal of Israel’s punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority.
The U.N. General Assembly late last month approved a resolution calling on the ICJ to...
Bennett: Israeli judicial reform proposal ‘dangerous’
Several months following his resignation from politics, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett criticized the proposed legal reforms by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government on social media Monday.
“It’s no secret that I believe that for generations, the...