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Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza and arrested and deported by Israel pose outside a terminal following their arrival at Istanbul Airport on May 21, 2026. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)
May 21, 2026, 4:28 pm
Amid Ben Gvir furor, Israel deports all 430 foreign flotilla activists, holds one Israeli
Condemnations of Ben Gvir’s video humiliating detainees continue as Italy asks EU for sanctions on the far-right minister, Poland looks to ban him; activists claim they were beaten, tortured; prison service denies it
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Violinist Stefan Jackiw holds the 1714 Joachim-Ma Stradivarius at Sotheby's auction house in New York on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
April 24, 2026, 5:42 pm
300-year-old Nazi-looted Stradivarius said to reappear in France
Experts believe violin made by iconic Italian luthier in 1719 was stolen by German soldiers from Warsaw museum in 1944
By Isabelle Le Page and Damien Stroka
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on February 9, 2020. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
April 21, 2026, 12:22 am
Kanye West shows nixed in Poland, Switzerland amid backlash over past antisemitism
Rapper known as Ye postpones concert in France, where the interior minister is reportedly seeking to ban event, claims ‘commitment to make amends’
By Grace Gilson
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 18, 2026, 4:58 am
Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941
Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: ‘We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is’
By Shira Li Bartov
Screen captures from video of far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika in the Polish parliament, April 14, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 14, 2026, 9:28 pm
In parliament, Polish MP calls Israel ‘new Third Reich,’ waves Israeli flag with swastika
Far-right Konrad Berkowicz prompts outrage from fellow lawmakers with display, as he accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza; Israel embassy pans ‘antisemitic horror’
By Zev Stub and AFP
Guests at Art and Fashion Café, Warsaw, 1930s. (Public domain via Polish National Digital Archives)
April 7, 2026, 7:48 pm
In glitzy interwar Warsaw, truth meets fiction as 2 young women hunt for missing mentor
In ‘The Last Woman of Warsaw,’ out April 7, author Judy Batalion shows the Jewish diversity of the cosmopolitan city as an odd couple sets out to solve a mystery
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israeli high school students at a Holocaust memorial site in Poland, March 2026. (Courtesy/Roni Hazon Weiss)
March 5, 2026, 5:32 pm
Stuck in Poland as war broke out, 90 Jerusalem-area students brought home via Egypt’s Taba
High schoolers on an educational heritage trip were given extra security, temporarily barred from leaving hotel, after US-Israeli strikes on Iran disrupted travel plans, principal says
By Zev Stub
A pair of finials, which adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll, are among the artifacts being returned to Greece. (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
March 4, 2026, 11:19 pm
Poland, in a first, returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece that were stolen by Nazis
Judaica was plundered from once-thriving Jewish community of Thessaloniki in 1941; found in Poland after the war, it was kept for decades in Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: Travelers are seen at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv, February 26, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 27, 2026, 9:22 pm
UK, France, Germany and Poland warn against travel to Israel amid Iran tensions
Britain moves staff, families away from Tel Aviv area; Italy urges nationals to leave Iran and stay out of Iraq and Lebanon, in latest slew of countries to advise citizens to avoid region
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Director Yoav Potash (left) greets Yaacov Goldstein, one of the last Jewish survivors of Gniewoszów, Poland. (Courtesy of 8 Above via JTA)
February 25, 2026, 2:47 pm
Poland ‘investigates’ film about Jews killed after the Holocaust, may ban it
California filmmaker Yoav Potash’s documentary ‘Among Neighbors’ follows the murders of five survivors who returned to their hometown — and it’s causing a far-right uproar
By Shira Li Bartov
Illustrative: A group of Soviet partisans singing during a lull in the fighting. (Photographed by Yakov Davidson. Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel/Photo Archive)
January 28, 2026, 8:03 am
In WWII, legendary Jewish partisan ‘Uncle Misha’ took out Nazis while carrying a tune
New book ‘Partisan Song’ packs an action-filled punch as it tells the story of Moshe Gildenman, a nearly-forgotten Jewish guerrilla warfare leader against the Nazis in Ukraine
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Visitors walk by the Ferris wheel at the Christmas market in Warsaw's downtown, Poland, on the evening of December 3, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
December 16, 2025, 1:19 pm
Poland nabs student suspected of planning Christmas market attack in support of ISIS
Authorities say student at Catholic University of Lublin wanted to use explosives in attack, sought to contact terror group to obtain support
By Reuters
Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing, next to Cardinal Mario Grech (L) and Bishop Luis Marin de San Martin (R) after participating in the Synod Teams and Participatory Bodies in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on October 24, 2025. (Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
October 24, 2025, 11:01 pm
Pope beatifies 11 ‘martyr’ priests killed by Nazi Germany, Communist Czechoslovakia
Proclamation by Leo XIV honors 9 Polish Salesian priests killed at Dachau and Auschwitz during WWII, diocesan pair executed in sham 1951 trial
By AFP
Firefighters secure the area where it is believed that parts of a drone fell, probably after it was shot down, in Czosnowka near Biala Podlaska, Poland, on September 10, 2025. (Piotr Pyrkosz/various sources/AFP)
September 10, 2025, 8:20 pm
NATO shoots down Russian drones over Poland, raising fears of war spillover
Trump to speak with Polish President Nawrocki later Wednesday, White House official says, after at least 19 drone violations recorded, including several from Belarus
By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, ILLIA NOVIKOV and Rafal Niedzielski
Two Polish Air Force Russian-made Mig-29s fly above and below two Polish Air Force US-made F-16 fighter jets during an air show in Radom, Poland, August 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
September 10, 2025, 10:32 am
Poland says it downed Russian drones that violated its airspace during attack on Ukraine
In first, NATO country scrambles jets alongside unnamed allies to shoot down UAVs; Kyiv warns Putin is trying to test the West
By Agencies
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