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Candles mark the site of the Meron disaster, at the Rashbi's gravesite on Mount Meron in northern Israel, March 2, 2022. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Families of Mount Meron stampede victims seek millions in damages

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The families of those who died in the 2021 Mount Meron disaster have filed a lawsuit against the government, emergency services and several private organizations that greenlighted the Lag B’Omer festivities that ended in the tragic...
Israelis light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede at Mount Meron during the Lag B'Omer celebrations, at Rabin Squarein Tel Aviv. May 2, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

National Insurance Institute proposes compensation for families of Meron victims

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Israel’s National Insurance Institute (NII) is proposing compensation in the amount of 100,000 shekels ($30,800) for each of the families who lost loved ones in the Lag B’Omer stampede at Mount Meron. A total of 45...
Yemenite immigrants being greeted by Jewish Agency representatives at Israel's Lod Airport in 1949. Credit: National Photo Collection/Government Press Office.

Israeli Cabinet approves proposal to recognize, compensate for Yemenite ‘children affair’

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The Israeli Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to recognize the “Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan children affair” and provide financial compensation to the affected families, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. The “children affair” refers...
“Selection” of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May-June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent to work or to the gas chamber. Yad Vashem Photo Archives, Jerusalem.

88 US senators call on Poland to pay Holocaust victims for property stolen by...

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A bipartisan group of 88 U.S. senators signed a letter on Monday to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking him to “act boldly and with urgency to help Poland resolve this issue comprehensively” of compensating...
The main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Credit: Angelo Celedon via Wikimedia Commons.

Dutch national railway to compensate Holocaust survivors and their families

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Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the Dutch national railway company, announced over the weekend that it had completed the necessary preparation to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who were sent via Dutch trains to the death...
Female survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. Credit: No. 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Oakes, H (Sgt).

Negotiations with Germany result in increased welfare for Holocaust survivors, payment for surviving spouse

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The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (also known as the Claims Conference) announced on Monday the results of the organization’s negotiations this year with the German government on behalf of Jewish Holocaust...
The scene where an apartment building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 5, 2019. Photo by Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90.

Gaza rockets caused as much as $14 million in property damage

Buildings in southern Israel sustained some NIS 50 million ($14 million) of damage in the escalation of the past few days, according to the country’s Renovation Contractors Association. RCA chairman Eran Siv explained on Monday...
Front row (from left): Gideon Taylor, chair of operations, WJRO; Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg; Randy Evans, U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg; and Tom Yazdgerdi, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues. Second row (front): Evan Hochberg, director of international affairs, WJRO; Albert Aflalo, president, Consistoire Israélite Luxembourg; Franҫois Moyse, president, Foundation Luxembourgeoise de la Mémoire Shoah. Back row (from left): Wesley Fisher, director of research, WJRO. Credit: WJRO.

Holocaust-era property compensation discussed with Luxembourg’s prime minister

Leaders of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and of the Jewish Community of Luxembourg met on Tuesday with Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel to discuss efforts to address remaining Holocaust-era property compensation issues. The...
The Dossin barracks, between Brussels and Antwerp, the antechamber of the death camps. Credit: EJP.

Relatives of victims seek Holocaust compensation from Belgium’s railway

Descendants of Holocaust victims in Belgium are pressing the country’s railway company SNCB to compensate them for its role in the deportations of Jews during the Holocaust, following the examples of France and the...