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In 2015, Barenboim announced his plans to take the Berlin State Opera with him to Tehran in celebration of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. Iran said Thanks but no thanks in response.

Another four Israelis were severely injured in the accident, and 10 others sustained light injuries.

“We expect the number of victims to go over 1,000,” said Brest official Anna Kondak. “During three weeks, every day about 40 remains are being found."

“Israel shared a lot of similarities with Rwanda, and I am excited to be my country’s first representative here."

Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”

The meeting, set earlier for Thursday, was postponed by Netanyahu due to the impending political merger between his two election rivals.

A Knesset member must give up his or her foreign citizenship, which Saada is currently not prepared to do.

About 300 Jewish soldiers serve in the Bundeswehr today.

A passerby said, “There are so many places where crimes against humanity are taking place. In Tibet, Greece, and many other places, yet nobody speaks about them."

Anti-Semitic crime in France has risen by 74% over the past year.

“Anti-Zionists never claim that any other nation on earth, apart from the Jewish State, should be dismantled or is illegitimate."

"This . . . is a powerful call for long-awaited legislation in Bosnia to provide justice for Holocaust survivors and their families, and to the Jewish community and other religious communities."

It would have been the first meeting since the downing of a Russian spy plane by Syrian aerial defense forces last September. Syria said its forces were aiming at Israeli warplanes.

It just doesn’t stop, it’s shock after shock,” Maurice Dahan, the regional head of the Israelite Central Consistory of France, said after the cemetery attack. “I don’t know how long we are going to carry on. ... It makes me feel sick.”

"I have to commend you for taking on the effort, and your foreign minister, for confronting the lies that are put forward against Israel in places like the Human Rights Committee in EU forums and elsewhere."

The Czech Republic is seeking Israel's help in medical cannabis treatment, "which is very important. . . because you are also a leader in this field."

“It is my hope that this will be the first step towards opening a Slovak embassy in Jerusalem but we'll have time to talk about that."

Local authorities issued a statement condemning "in the strongest possible terms this awful anti-Semitic act and sends his complete support to the Jewish community which has been targeted again."

It could be said that France has finally reached its "J'Accuse...!" moment.

One has to wonder what Jews are still doing there, and what more it might take to convince them to leave.

Tim Anderson, a a life-long radical and virulent hater of Jews, was placed under official investigation after he defended a former colleague for wearing a badge proclaiming “Death to Israel.”

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is now due to decide whether to open a full statutory investigation into anti-Semitic discrimination and victimization within the Labour party.

“If our leaders are serious about combating anti-Semitism then . . . the battle against hate and intolerance needs to take place in the political, educational, legal, law enforcement, judicial and diplomatic arenas.”

At long last, Mr. Morawiecki, have you no shame?

Katz quoted late prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir, who said the poles drank in their anti-Semitism with their mother's milk.

The talk served as a call to action for the English-speaking audience in the room to do what they can to support the embattled Jewish community.

Last week the World Jewish Congress warned about the rise of anti-Semitism, Nazi glorification and far-right extremism among young people in Europe.

There are 304 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 out of whom 219 are individuals and 85 are organizations.

The film is based on Lapid's own experiences of living as an Israeli abroad and his ambivalence about being an Israeli.

A US-backed force in Syria on Saturday was hours away from surrounding the last ISIS fighters in an area less than a square mile in eastern Syria.