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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Barcelona

'Karaoke,' a film screening at Seret Film Festival in Barcelona, stars Sasson Gabay and Rita Shukrun. (Greenwich Entertainment via JTA)
February 16, 2024, 1:46 am
Israeli film festival in Barcelona still on after venue change due to harassment campaign
Anti-Israel groups claim victory, ‘respect for call for cultural boycott,’ as family-owned theater cancels event due to their threats
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Then-mayoral candidate Jaume Collboni speaks at the Socialist Party of Catalonia's headquarters in Barcelona on May 28, 2023, after the local and regional elections in Spain. (Lluis Gene/AFP)
September 5, 2023, 8:06 pm
Barcelona mayor renews ‘sister city’ ties with Tel Aviv, reversing predecessor’s move
Jewish federation of Spain welcomes decision by Jaume Collboni, who says he’s not endorsing Israel and that his first official mayoral trip will be to West Bank
By Orge Castellano
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau speaks on May 28, 2023, after the local and regional elections held in Spain. (Joseph Lago/AFP)
June 2, 2023, 8:27 am
Barcelona mayor who cut ties with Tel Aviv loses reelection bid
Ada Colau, who generated backlash with her move to end twin city agreement, defeated by former mayor she unseated in 2015
By Orge Castellano
Former US president Barack Obama, film director Steven Spielberg, and singer Bruce Springsteen join staff at the Amar restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, April 27, 2023. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 29, 2023, 7:55 pm
Obama, Spielberg and Springsteen dazzle Barcelona restaurant
Famous customers, in town for The Boss’s concert, enjoy seafood meal before posing with staff for photo
By Michael Horovitz
Antisemitic graffiti on Barcelona’s Maimonides Synagogue, April 17, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Congress)
April 26, 2023, 11:31 pm
For 2nd time in a month, Barcelona synagogue vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti
Perpetrators write ‘Why are they killing Palestinians’ outside Chabad center; follows a similar incident in another shul on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day
By Canaan Lidor
Antisemitic graffiti on Barcelona’s Maimonides Synagogue, April 17, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Congress)
April 17, 2023, 11:58 pm
Antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Barcelona’s largest synagogue
Vandals spray-paint ‘Free Palestine from the river to the sea,’ leave letters accusing Israel of ‘genocide’; rabbi blames Spanish city’s mayor for suspending twinning with Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares speaks to journalists during a NATO meeting in Bucharest, Romania, November 30, 2022 (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
February 17, 2023, 10:35 pm
Spanish FM swipes at Barcelona for cutting ties with Israel
Jose Manuel Albares calls mayor’s decision to suspend twinning deal with Tel Aviv a ‘unilateral move,’ predicts nothing good will come of it
By AFP and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 15, 2023, 9:05 pm
Barcelona council symbolically rejects mayor’s decision to un-twin with Tel Aviv
City councilors lack authority to overturn Mayor Ada Colau’s decree suspending ties with Israel
By Lazar Berman
Composite image - Left, Barcelona mayor Ada Colau (Wikipedia/Laura Guerrero; CC BY-SA 4.0). Right, Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida (Wikipedia/Thomas Holbach; CC BY-SA 4.0)
February 10, 2023, 4:59 am
Madrid offers to take up twinning deal with Tel Aviv after Barcelona suspends ties
Spanish capital’s mayor blasts counterpart’s not-yet-approved move to put agreement on hold over ‘systematic violation’ of Palestinian rights, says it has ‘stench’ of antisemitism
By ToI Staff and AFP
Screen capture from video of Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 9, 2023, 4:27 pm
Barcelona mayor suspends twinning with Tel Aviv, claims Israel abusing human rights
Ada Colau says she’s responding to petition demanding she act against Israeli treatment of Palestinians; move may yet be shot down by city council
By AFP and ToI Staff
Dror Smajda, age 7, who fell to his death in a Barcelona hotel on July 4, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)
July 7, 2022, 2:36 pm
Parents of boy who fell to death in Spain: ‘He leaned on window to watch kids play’
Dror Smajda, 7, died in Barcelona earlier this week while on vacation, his parents describe ‘one cursed second’ at hotel window
By Sara Serfaty
Israeli swimmers Eden Blecher and Shelly Bobritsky catch their breath after their race in Barcelona, Spain, June 13, 2021 (video screenshot)
June 19, 2021, 1:50 am
As Israeli swimmers passed Olympic trial, Spanish TV pundit decried ‘genocide’
Commentator Clara Basiana claimed ‘Israel’s international presence is another strategy for whitewashing genocide and violations of human rights against Palestinian people’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dr. Idan Perez holds the 'Siddur Catalunya,' a reconstruction of the prayer book used in parts of pre-Expulsion Catalonia, at Jerusalem's National Library, September 15, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2020, 1:39 am
Israeli scholar wins prize for recreating medieval Catalonian Jewish prayer book
Comparing 6 manuscripts in archives from St. Petersburg to Rome, National Library of Israel’s Idan Perez pieces together lost rites of vibrant community that’s all but disappeared
By Renee Ghert-Zand
El Al planes at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 6, 2020, 4:56 pm
El Al cancels flights to San Francisco, Europe amid ‘unprecedented’ virus crisis
Israeli airline, hit hard by spread of coronavirus, combines flights, will use smaller planes as global travel slumps
By ToI Staff
Protesters take shelter behind garbage containers during clashes near the Police headquarters in Barcelona, on October 18, 2019, on the day that separatists called a general strike and a mass rally. - Spain's protest-hit northeast was gripped by a general strike today as thousands of "freedom marchers" converged on Barcelona for a mass show of dissent over the jailing of nine Catalan separatist leaders. (Photo by Pau Barrena / AFP)
October 18, 2019, 11:04 pm
Clashes erupt in Barcelona as half a million separatists rally
Demonstrators angry over Spain’s jailing of nine Catalan leaders; football authorities cancel the Barcelona and Real Madrid Clasico
By Alvaro Villalobos
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