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A group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz death camp, photographed just after the liberation by the Soviet army, in January 1945. (AP Photo/ File)

Israel condemns passing of Polish Holocaust law, stops short of recalling envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)

Lawmaker proposes Israeli legislation to counter Polish Holocaust bill

By Michael Bachner

Senators attend an overnight session at the Polish Senate in Warsaw, on February 1, 2018. (PAP/Radek Pietruszka/AFP)

Polish Senate passes Holocaust bill amid dispute with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Alicja Mularska (2L), the daughter of the late Polish couple Jan Dziadosz and Sabina Perzyna, stands with her family after receiving the Righteous Among the Nations award on behalf of her parents during a posthumous ceremony honoring them and their son Aleksandr Dziadosz at Yad Vashem on January 30, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Yad Vashem vows to continue supporting research into Poles’ role in Holocaust

By Michael Bachner

Holocaust museum calls Polish Holocaust bill ‘very regrettable’ and says it ‘risks distorting history’

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington warns Holocaust bill could hurt relations with Poland

By Eric Cortellessa

This picture taken on December 2, 2016, in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland, shows barracks at the former Nazi concentration camp.(AFP/Bartosz Siedlik)

Full text of Poland’s controversial Holocaust legislation

In this file photo taken on January 23, 2018 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in Gaza City (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

US puts Hamas chief Haniyeh on terror blacklist

By AFP and ToI Staff

Treasury Department’s sanctions freeze any US-based assets terror leader may have and ban any US person or company from doing business with him

PLO condemns US blacklisting of Hamas leader Haniyeh

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Israel to allow generators into Gaza to ease power crisis — report

PA arrests 7 Hamas-linked suspects for planting roadside bombs near Tulkarem

By Khaled Abu Toameh

US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley attends a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, January 18, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD)

Haley: UN list of firms linked to settlements part of ‘anti-Israeli obsession’

By AFP

American envoy calls report on 206 companies ‘a waste of time and resources,’ promises further efforts to reform Human Rights Council

A Caterpillar tractor clearing land for Israeli homes in the West Bank, in 2012. (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

UN omits ‘blacklist’ from report on firms doing business in settlements

By Joshua Davidovich

Irish Senator Frances Black speaks ahead of of a Senate vote on the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, January 30, 2018 (screenshot www.oireachtas.ie)

Israel summons Irish envoy over settlements bill

By Jacob Magid and Raphael Ahren

A foldout illustration from page 88v of the Beinecke MS 408, aka the Voynich Manuscript. (Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Scientists claim to crack an elusive centuries-old code — and it’s Hebrew

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Bea Slater's son Mitch convinced her to audition for the campaign. (Elaine Durbach/via JTA)

Meet the 90-year-old great-grandmother who is the new face of JDate

By Elaine Durbach

Rita Moreno won an Oscar for her portrayal of Anita in the original 'West Side Story.' (courtesy)

Something’s coming: Spielberg and Kushner to take on ‘West Side Story’ remake

By Jordan Hoffman

An Israeli delegation seen visiting the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, April 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Defiant Education Ministry vows to tell students ‘the truth’ during Poland trips

But Israel will not halt heritage trips to country after passage of controversial Holocaust complicity law

7:14 pm

London man found guilty of fatal mosque van attack
6:45 pm

CIA defends meeting with Russian spy officials
6:38 pm

Jordan severs ties with North Korea

A general view of the headquarters of German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp AG in Essen, Germany, on December 11, 2012. (AFP/ Patrik Stollarz/File)

Former MK says Iran stole specs of Israeli submarines in hack

By Shoshanna Solomon

Erel Margalit notes German shipyard that is building vessels for Israel was owned by family of Lebanon’s former defense minister

US troops arrive for drill simulating massive missile attack on Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Liberman: In future war, Lebanon will ‘pay full price’ for Iran ties

By ToI Staff and AP

Lebanon issues oil and gas tender, angering Israel, which claims ownership

By ToI Staff and AP

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel seen before his meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

German FM skewers Israeli leaders’ opposition to two-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

‘Are you prepared to pay the price of perpetual occupation and conflict?’ Sigmar Gabriel asks in Tel Aviv; vows to defend Israel’s ‘essential and historic connection’ to Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 31, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu interrupts German FM to downplay 2-state support

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch delivers her speech during a remembrance session of the German parliament to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, in Berlin, Germany, January 31, 2018. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Holocaust survivor addresses German lawmakers at parliament

By David Rising

President Reuven Rivlin speaks in front of Haim Gouri's coffin outside the Jerusalem Theatre on February 1, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis pay final respects to war veteran, poet Haim Gouri

President Rivlin calls him ‘national poet of our time’; funeral procession travels through Jerusalem streets precedes burial

Veteran Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker Haim Gouri at his home in Jerusalem, July 6, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRemembering a warrior poet who embodied the Israeli experience

By Joshua Davidovich

Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales speaking to a Jewish-Christian pro-Israel event at the National Palace of Culture in Guatemala City, January 25, 2018 (Ilan Kottler)

Interfaith lovefest

Guatemala’s leaders join Jews, Christians in Israel embrace

By Raphael Ahren

For British Jewry it’s getting existential

Jews are the only ethnic group in Britain to employ guards to protect its schools and community centres

Israel is not deporting refugees

The policy is legal and justified: citizens’ well-being must come before that of illegal immigrants

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Disorderly, dysfunctional: The Knesset is Oren Hazan

At a recent committee meeting, one heckling MK after another was expelled from the room

Why I can’t focus on Israel right now

Donald Trump threatens my values of justice, tolerance, and inclusion; Zionism has to wait

More Headlines

Illustrative: A swastika and the word 'kikes' spray painted on the Leeds Etz Chaim Synagogue sign. (UK Jewish News)

Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain at all-time high for 2nd straight year

By JTA

UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson speaking during a Conservative Friends of Israel event on January 30, 2018. (Courtesy CFI)

UK defense secretary hails ‘amazing relationship’ with Israel

A street in Sarcelles, France, illustrative (CC BY-SA Claude Villetaneuse/Wikipedia)

French PM: We are facing violent ‘new form of anti-Semitism’

By AP

Likud MK Oren Hazan, center, in Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, January 31, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Banned for insulting his peers, Likud MK calls Knesset speaker ‘Stalin’

By Stuart Winer

Dan Alon recalls the 1972 Munich Massacre that he survived in an interview in September 2015. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Fencer who survived 1972 Munich massacre passes away

X-Factor contestant Eden Alene sobs after being declared the winner of the 2018 Israeli show (Facebook/Reshet)

Singing her heart outEthiopian-Israeli teen wins ‘X-Factor’

By JTA

Moshe Asher, Israel Tax Authority chief (Courtesy)

Israel set to adjust tax policies to counter Trump reform, tax chief says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in TV interview on January 20, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Eritrean leader pans Israel’s migrant deportation plan

By AP and ToI Staff

A partially eclipsed super blue blood moon sets behind the Golden Gate Bridge on January 31, 2018 in San Francisco, California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP

Blue side of the moonA ‘super blue blood Moon’ rises

By Frederic Brown, Kerry SHERIDAN and Ayee Macaraig

Singer Shiri Maimon at the last performance of 'Evita' at Habima, in March 2017 (YouTube screengrab)

All that jazzIsrael’s Shiri Maimon takes on Broadway with role in ‘Chicago’

By Jessica Steinberg

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