Eastern Europe

The European Union is working to remain united after Brexit, and what it perceives as a threat in US Pres. Trump's new unpredictable foreign policies.

One hopes that the trial would discover what possessed the two middle-aged Belgians to desire to take home some of it.

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.

The president of Poland laid a bouquet of flowers on the grave of Yoni Netanyahu, who he said was "a hero."

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.

A 21-year-old local resident named Daniel allegedly threw a firecracker at an Elk café called Kebab Prince, then was stabbed to death by the Arab staff.

Our advice to all the foreign missions in Israel is to beat the crowds and start moving their own embassies to the capital, while the rates are relatively reasonable.

President Obama personally directed his Administration's lobbying efforts ahead of the expected vote. Obama, vacationing in Hawaii, convened a discussion Thursday with Biden, Kerry and other top national security officials.

Yad Vashem criticized the bill against blaming Poland for collaboration in the death camps, warning that its approval in parliament would be considered Holocaust denial and a regression in Poland’s efforts to face its dark past.

Lyashko urged the Ukraine's government to patch up its rift with the Netanyahu government, before the national interests of Ukraine suffer irreparable damage.

Austrian police foiled a terrorist attack on the main synagogue in Vienna on the Sabbath. Two Afghan citizens were arrested.

The pig’s forehead was carved with a swastika.

From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.

PM Netanyahu and his wife visited the Great Synagogue in the capital city of Kazakhstan, Astana, "in an Islamic country that honors coexistence."

PM Netanyahu is hoping Kazakhstan will support Israel's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council.

PM Netanyahu revealed in a speech in Baku that Israel jointly funds Jewish education with the president of Azerbaijan, and his predecessor.

Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.

Neither side of the family knew anyone from the other side had survived the Holocaust!

He visited the Bank of England and met the Chief Cashier, who presented him with one of the notes which he had forged in the concentration camp more than sixty years earlier.

PM Netanyahu travels next week to Kazakhstan, which begins a 2-year stint on the UN Security Council. No Israeli prime minister has ever visited.

Foreign firefighting heroes who came to help Israeli firefighters battle nearly 2,000 fires are heading home.

The US Supertanker aerial firefighter arrives in Israel as the list of captured pyroterrorists grows, with fires starting to slow down.

Numerous foreign Mediterranean, European and eastern European nations sent aerial firefighters to help Israel.

Perhaps now Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's soul can rest: Stockholm has officially declared him dead.

The prime minister and president will be globe-trotting this year as Israel's international relations grow.

Austria's government committee has suggested a "profound architectural redesign" to Hitler's birth house, rather than demolition.

The Austrian government says it will demolish Adolf Hitler's birth house to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi monument.

The European Union reluctantly condemned the deadly terror attack in Jerusalem, after its world colleagues all checked in.

Azerbaijan may have already purchased from Israel the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. Russia sold a short-range ballistic missile system to Armenia.

European lawmakers gathered to discuss anti-Semitism and the future of Jews in Europe.