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May 26, 2014
4:19 pm

Pope Francis seen with President Shimon Peres at a ceremony held at the president's residence in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Full text of Pope Francis’s speech at the President’s Residence

Pope Francis says holy sites should be accessible to all believers, issues call for peace

By Times of Israel staff

May 26, 2014
4:04 pm

Pope Francis pauses after laying a wreath of flowers in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/FLASH90)

Full text of Pope Francis’s speech at Yad Vashem

At Holocaust memorial, pontiff cries ‘never again'; pleads for heavenly mercy

By Times of Israel staff

May 26, 2014
2:41 pm

The first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas, at her ordination. (courtesy)

‘Regina’ depicts world’s first woman rabbi, killed in Holocaust

Actress Rachel Weisz provides voiceover for unique film delving into an unknown chapter in Jewish history

By Anne Joseph

May 26, 2014
2:36 pm

Mira and Emanuel Riva, the Israeli couple killed in the terror attack on the Brussels Jewish Museum on May 24 (photo credit: Courtesy)

Police tape and red carpets

Lingering questions about the Brussels shootout take precedence over the papal visit, Ukraine elections in Monday’s papers

By Marissa Newman

May 26, 2014
2:13 pm

G.I. Joe creator Don Levine holds up his original scuba diver G.I. Joe as other original prototypes lie on top of a table in Providence, R.I. in 2003. (AP Photo/Victoria Arocho, File)

Hasbro exec who created GI Joe and changed toy history dies

Donald Levine, who served in the Army in Korea, said he got the idea for the moveable figure as a way to honor veterans

By AP

May 26, 2014
1:03 pm

This videograb released on May 25, 2014, by the Belgian federal police on demand of Brussels' king's prosecutor, shows the suspect of the killings in the Jewish Museum on May 24, 2014 in Brussels. (photo credit: AFP photo/Belga/Belgian Federal Police/handout)

Brussels gunman was wearing video camera, sources say

CCTV footage reveals that the shooter bore a GoPro and likely documented the attack that killed four

By Aron Dónzis

May 26, 2014
12:03 pm

A silent protest at Belgium's Jewish Museum Sunday May 25. (Surya Jonckheere)

Top Belgian politicians attend memorial for shooting victims

Despite elections, Belgian prime minister and foreign minister on scene to call for vigilance against hatred

By Surya Jonckheere

May 26, 2014
11:39 am

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage speaks to supporters during a visit to Thurrock in Essex, on May 23, 2014. (photo credit: AFP Photo /Carl Court)

Britain’s UKIP surges to poll victory on anti-EU wave

Upstart right-wing party earns 23 seats in European parliament, challenging mainstream Labour and Conservatives

By James Pheby

May 26, 2014
7:43 am

Pope Francis prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Monday, May 26, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Pray for us, Netanyahu asks Francis as papal visit ends

Pope flies back to Rome; PM defends security barrier to pontiff; Francis at Yad Vashem calls Holocaust greatest evil in history; makes unscheduled stop at memorial to terror victims

By Joshua Davidovich

May 26, 2014
4:51 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in Montreux, Switzerland, in January (photo credit: AP/Gary Cameron)

UN secretary-general ‘shocked’ by Jewish museum attack in Brussels

Ban Ki-Moon sends condolences to families of shooting victims; search for gunman ongoing

By AFP, AP and Times of Israel staff

May 26, 2014
4:19 am

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's UK Independence Party (UKIP), laughs as he arrives to hear results of the south east region European Parliamentary election vote at the Guildhall in Southampton, England, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Far right, Euroskeptics sweep EU vote

Many parties promote anti-immigrant, anti-EU and often anti-Semitic policies; European Commission head calls on pro-EU groups to come together

By AP and AFP

May 26, 2014
2:34 am

Belgium Flemish N-VA party leader and Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever (C) gestures on stage during a meeting following the announcement of the first estimates in the country general election on May 25, 2014 in Brussels.. (Photo credit: AFP/ JOHN THYS)

After museum attack, Flemish separatists set for victory in Belgium election

Sunday’s vote clouded by apparent anti-Semitic shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum that killed 4 on Saturday

By AFP

May 26, 2014
1:11 am

Far right party National Front leader Marine Le Pen poses for photographers before addressing reporters at the party's headquarters in Nanterre, west of Paris, Sunday May 25, 2014, following the victory of her party in the European elections.(Photo credit: AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)

France’s far-right ‘earthquake’ rocks EU camp

National Front storms European Parliament polls; UKIP’s Nigel Farage hails victory in Britain; Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn delivers strong showing

By AFP and AP

May 25, 2014
11:53 pm

View of Castrillo Matajudíos (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Wikipedia)

Town is no longer ‘Camp Kill Jews’

After 400 years, mayor says locals will revert to ‘Jews Hill,’ as area was known before the Spanish Inquisition

By AP and JTA

May 25, 2014
11:51 pm

A woman enters a poll site in order to vote for the European election 2014 in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 25, 2014 (photo credit: AP/dpa, Maja Hitij)

Far right makes large gains in European voting

France’s National Front, Greece’s Golden Dawn and UKIP all set to take several seats in EU parliament, exit polls show

By AP

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