Tag: Italy
Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy reach agreement on longest underwater gas pipeline
Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy have reached an agreement on the world’s longest underwater gas pipeline, estimated to cost nearly $7 billion, the financial website Globes reported on Sunday.
After signing a memorandum of understanding late last year, the...
International artist sees unity in the diversity of Israel’s people
In her Jerusalem studio, in the top two floors of an unassuming building, Israeli artist Beverly Barkat is putting the final touches to her latest and most ambitious exhibition to date. She is paying...
Italian who survived Auschwitz as a child given top honor
A Jewish woman who was one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to a Nazi death camp has been made a senator-for-life in Italy.
President Sergio Mattarella's office said Friday that he chose...
Jewish Museum in Ferrara – an Italian story
A large building in the heart of Ferrara that hosted the city's prison until 1992 has become a museum dedicated to Jewish history and tradition. The National Museum of Italian Judaism and Shoah (Meis)...
Italy Tell The Story Of Its Jewish People In New Museum
"The story of Jews in Italy is really an Italian story,” Dario Disegni said one recent autumn morning at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies.
Disegni, president of the National Museum of Italian Judaism...
Palermo synagogue set to return after 500 years
Over 500 years since the expulsion of the Jews from Sicily led to the destruction of an ancient culture and the obliteration of one of Europe’s oldest Jewish communities, a synagogue is to open...