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Eden Golan defies Israel’s Eurovision haters

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Despite the immense pressures and challenges, Israel’s Eden Golan triumphed in Thursday night’s Eurovision Song Contest’s semifinal competition in Malmö, a coastal city in southern Sweden At 11:26 p.m., Israel’s representative took the stage and performed...

Israeli security officials at Eurovision bracing for pro-Hamas provocations

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Officials responsible for securing Israel’s delegation to the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden are bracing for pro-Hamas “provocations” targeting Israeli contestant Eden Golan, Ynet reported on Tuesday, hours before the musical extravaganza’s semifinals were set to...

Israel raises travel warning for Malmö ahead of Eurovision Song Contest

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The Israeli National Security Council raised its travel alert level on Thursday for Malmö, Sweden, ahead of next week’s Eurovision Song Contest that will be held there. The NSC upgraded the travel warning for the...
Stockholm, Sweden. Credit: Pixabay.

Bomb found near Israeli embassy in Sweden

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An apparent explosive device was found on Wednesday near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, local police said. The object was found outside the embassy grounds and the national bomb squad was dispatched to investigate, Reuters reported, citing...
A bar mitzvah boy reads his Torah portion at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo by Peter van der Sluijs via Wikimedia Commons.

Activist seeks to burn Torah outside Israeli embassy in Sweden

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Swedish police have received a request to burn a Torah book in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, officials said Wednesday. The request follows the burning of a Koran outside the main mosque in...
Hamid Nouri on trial in Sweden on May 2, 2022 Credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s ‘death corridor’ is open for business

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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as U.S. President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event...
Stockholm, Sweden. Credit: Pixabay.

Sweden undertakes measures to address Jewish life, anti-Semitism in country

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Sweden is appointing an official to examine the obstacles to Jewish life in the Scandinavian country and make proposals on how to strengthen Jewish life there, according to the European Jewish Congress, which praised...
Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on Oct. 18, 2021. Source: Yair Lapid/Twitter.

In effort to improve ties, Swedish foreign minister visits Israel, meets with Lapid

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde in Jerusalem on Monday, where the two discussed relations that have had their ups and downs over the years. In 2014, Sweden’s government...
A view of the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism—Remember ReAct event in Sweden, Oct. 14, 2021. Source: Twitter.

‘Anti-Semites have found new ways of attacking Jews,’ declare leaders at Malmö forum

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The need to battle anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, especially online, was front and center on Thursday at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism—Remember ReAct event in Sweden. Representatives from more than...
Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Ann Linde. Credit: Government Offices of Sweden.

Lapid holds first conversation in seven years with Swedish counterpart

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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke with his Swedish counterpart, Ann Linde, in the first such conversation between the two countries’ top diplomats in nearly seven years. “I spoke with @AnnLinde, the Minister of Foreign...