Eastern Europe

Shavei Israel and the Jewish community of Lodz will open the first Jewish kindergarten in the city since World War II.

PM Netanyahu welcomed the leader of a strong friend of Israel in the international forum -- Croatia -- on his first visit to Jerusalem as prime minister.

"Radical extremists continue to have the ability and motivation to commit mass murder in Europe."

At peak season there are 64 weekly flights between Romania and Israel, with most on the Bucharest-Tel Aviv route.

It's not clear what caused an explosion at an arms plant 60 miles southwest of Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Knesset member is being flown back to Israel for further treatment as soon as possible.

Out of the 26,513 people who have received the honor, 6,706 are Poles, 5,516 are Dutch.

The Czech Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday passed a resolution strongly condemning all manifestations of anti-Semitism, including against the State of Israel, and condemning any call for boycotting the Jewish state.

The prime minister has a great love for athletic sports, but as he told the team, he counts it as progress that "he didn't tear a ligament" kicking the ball this time.

"The government decision also includes the fact that the owner of the Holocaust museum will be the Jewish Community, something which is unique in Europe."

Anti-Semitism is again raising its ugly face in the Russian city of Perm, thinly veiled this time with the mask of "anti-Chabad."

The far-right Freedom Party has joined the Austrian government coalition, to the dismay of Jewish leaders in Europe.

The body of missing Israeli back packer Dor Cohen has been found in Georgia.

One of the group was detained after he became aggressive with police officers. Others were simply charged.

So far, the Putin administration has refused Lithuania's request to question Gorbachev regarding his role in the events of January 13, 1991.

Multiple sources in Dnipro are describing the Ukrainian attacker as someone with a violent past and a history of mental-health issues.

"The personal ties and the relations between the Jewish and Georgian people are truly exemplary. Our relations go deeply to centuries."

Rafael's Stunner works well with both Rafael's David's Sling system and Raytheon's Patriot system, and the Poles want the Stunner inside their Patriot system.

The Romanian group for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism condemned the vandalism against the "memory of Elie Wiesel, the memory of the Holocaust victims and the souls of the Holocaust survivors."

During the Second World War, Grazhbile and her mother opened a garment workshop for Jewish women living in the ghetto.

For the first time since the Holocaust the famous tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis had been located using new technologies for underground predictive scanning.

European Parliament President Martin Schultz is one of two recipients of the 2016 Medal of Tolerance for his commitment to preserve the memory of the Shoah.

Wizz Air also announced that the new routes would operate twice a week.

For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.

Some hid in animal cages, other in the villa's basement. Some were 'adopted' as fake family members or service staff.

The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.

Tadeusz Slowikowski, 86, is responsible for the Nazi gold train rumor and has spent much of his time since the 1950s searching for that train.

Ambassador Meron previously worked at Israeli embassies in the U.S., Norway and Cyprus.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing a plan calling on Turkey to stop the flow of refugees and take some of them back — for a price.

The celebrants were accompanied by rabbis from their respective Jewish communities and a native speaker of their language was attached to each group.