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Israeli Ambassador Anna Azari holds the Israeli flag from a balcony of the historic Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, during a ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. The flag hanging was a re-enactment ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of Israel's first diplomatic outpost as a new nation at the same spot. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 23, 2018, 10:13 pm
Israel marks 70th anniversary of first diplomatic outpost
Ambassador to Poland hangs Star of David flag from Warsaw’s historic Bristol Hotel, which housed the Jewish state’s maiden mission in 1948
By AP
Israel's Ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari. (YouTube screenshot)
April 12, 2018, 11:38 am
Israeli envoy to Poland says attempting to nix Holocaust law inadvisable
Anna Azeri explains a move to cancel controversial legislation would ignite renewed inflammatory debate, hopes its scope will reduced by courts
By Sue Surkes
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits the Ulma Family Museum that documents the fate of the Polish Ulma family, killed in March 1944 by Nazi Germans for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust, in the village of Markowa, southeastern Poland, on January 2, 2018 (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
March 27, 2018, 1:42 am
59 US senators protest Poland’s Holocaust restitution bill
Proposal ‘would discriminate against virtually all American survivors and heirs on the basis that they are not currently citizens of Poland,’ lawmakers say
By JTA
Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari speaks at a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oswiecim, Poland, on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 11, 2018, 5:22 am
Polish senator calls for Israeli ambassador’s expulsion
Jan Zaryn says ‘maybe we have to ask this lady to leave’ after Anna Azari’s asserts anti-Semitism is on the rise in the country
By JTA
Zionist Union MK Ayelet Nachmias Verbin reacts during a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 12, 2018, 10:03 am
Knesset foreign affairs committee to urge recall of Israel’s envoy to Poland
Members of powerful forum will demand government ramp up protest against controversial law that bans attributing blame for Holocaust to the Polish nation
By TOI staff
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits the Ulma Family Museum that documents the fate of the Polish Ulma family, killed in March 1944 by Nazi Germans for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust, in the village of Markowa, southeastern Poland, on January 2, 2018 (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
February 2, 2018, 8:42 pm
Polish PM says solving Israel diplomatic row is ‘do or die’ task
Morawiecki admits ‘temporary weakening of relations with Israel and the US’ over Holocaust bill, but vows to explain and defend Warsaw’s position
By Agencies and TOI staff
Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari speaks at a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oswiecim, Poland, on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 2, 2018, 6:49 pm
Israeli embassy in Poland protests ‘wave’ of anti-Semitic messages
Amid Holocaust law spat, diplomatic mission says racist statements are ‘overflowing the internet, many of them targeting Ambassador Anna Azari personally’
By TOI staff and AFP
Chabad Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Stambler lights the hannukah candles in Polish Parliament on December 12, 2017. (Screen capture/Facebook)
December 13, 2017, 7:03 pm
Hanukkah candles lit in Polish parliament
Newly elected prime minister and other senior officials attend lighting ceremony with local Jewish organizations
By JTA
Israeli Ambassador to Poland Anna Azari, right, meets with Tadeusz Rydzyk at the embassy in Warsaw on September 7, 2016 (Facebook, Israeli Embassy in Poland)
September 10, 2016, 2:05 pm
Israeli ambassador hosts Polish priest accused of anti-Semitism
Embassy says Tadeusz Rydzyk praised Israel in his meeting with Anna Azari, discussed ways to solve ‘problems of building Polish-Jewish dialogue’
By JTA
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