The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/shimon-samuels/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Shimon Samuels | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/shimon-samuels/ 32 32 Israel’s planned withdrawal from UNESCO unlikely to improve anything https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-planned-withdrawal-from-unesco-unlikely-to-improve-anything/ Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:44:38 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1712908 Since the problem is with individual member states and not the institution itself, Jerusalem would only hurt its own interests by leaving, critics say

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]]> Wiesenthal Center urges Germany to stop funding Palestinian sports https://www.timesofisrael.com/wiesenthal-center-urges-germany-to-stop-funding-palestinian-sports/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:53:37 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1557098 Group decries support for 'blatant sanctification of Jew-killers' expressed in practice of naming teams after terrorists

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]]> Wiesenthal Center condemns ‘disturbing’ anti-Semitism in Morocco https://www.timesofisrael.com/wiesenthal-center-condemns-disturbing-anti-semitism-in-morocco/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:40:06 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1273970 Videos aired at Casablanca protest show men dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews being led to mock execution

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]]> New IOC head to resign from controversial Arab-German trade group https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-ioc-head-to-resign-from-controversial-arab-german-trade-group/ Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:57:42 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=675090 Thomas Bach, under fire for heading organization allegedly promoting Israel boycott, still mum on whether he'll allow a minute of silence for the Munich 11

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]]> Argentina urged to remove anti-Israel official https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-urged-to-remove-anti-israel-official/ Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:35:40 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=637548 Wiesenthal Center calls for dismissal of government official who attended event where calls were made for Israel to disappear

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]]> Israel hits back at UNESCO in wake of condemnation https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-hits-back-at-unesco-in-wake-of-condemnation/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 02:39:16 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=568644 Palestinian-sponsored resolution on Jerusalem 'nothing but a heap of disconnected-from-reality statements,' Foreign Ministry says

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]]> Wiesenthal Center aims to train Brazilians on handling sports racism https://www.timesofisrael.com/wiesenthal-center-aims-to-train-brazilians-on-handling-sports-racism/ Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:42:56 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=548338 Group hopes Latin America will adopt European model in striving for zero tolerance of racist displays at upcoming World Cup and Olympics

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]]> Swedish gallery pulls art made of Holocaust victims’ ashes https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-gallery-pulls-art-made-of-holocaust-victims-ashes/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:27:06 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=312356 Painting with burned remains from Majdanek death camp removed following protests

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]]> Argentinian Jewish village proposed as UNESCO site https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentinian-jewish-village-proposed-as-unesco-site/ Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:32:53 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=151158 Moises Ville was founded in 1899 by Jews fleeing pogroms in the Ukraine and is proposed as the epitome of immigrant absorption

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]]> Wiesenthal Center slams UN for holding Palestinian ‘propaganda exercise’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/wiesenthal-center-slams-un-for-holding-palestinian-propaganda-exercise/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:16:19 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=118476 'Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People should be investigated as a threat to world peace,' says group

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