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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

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Yuval Raphael from Israel performs the song 'New Day Will Rise' during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, May 17, 2025. (AP/Martin Meissner)
May 18, 2025, 2:57 am
Israel’s Yuval Raphael tops Eurovision public vote, finishes in 2nd place as Austria wins
Security blocks protesters who attempt to rush stage during Israel’s performance; ‘Thank you Europe, Am Yisrael Chai,’ says singer after powerful rendition of ‘New Day Will Rise’
By Amy Spiro
Yuval Raphael from Israel performs 'New Day Will Rise' at the second semifinal of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, May 15, 2025. (AP/Martin Meissner)
May 16, 2025, 2:01 am
Israel’s Yuval Raphael advances to Eurovision grand final after soaring performance
Singer, a survivor of the Nova festival massacre, says she managed to spot in the crowd the friends she made in the roadside bomb shelter, and ‘it gave me so much strength’
By Amy Spiro
May 14, 2025, 11:20 pm
What Matters Now to Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel
With an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Eurovision Song Contest, Dahan is onsite to support Israel’s contestant Yuval Raphael — and report back to the Hebrew-language EuroMix fan site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Israeli singer Yuval Raphael representing Israel on the turquoise carpet next to the Basel Town Hall during the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, on May 11, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 13, 2025, 7:39 am
Eurovision kicking off in Basel with glitz, schmaltz and little love for Israel
Yuval Raphael expected to face boos and protests during competition’s second semifinal Thursday, though organizers have steadfastly resisted calls for Nova survivor’s ouster
By Amy Spiro
Israeli singer Yuval Raphael, representing Israel with the song, 'New Day Will Rise,' walks on the turquoise carpet next to the Basel Town Hall, with protesters' Palestinian flags behind, during the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel on May 11, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 11, 2025, 11:48 pm
Israel’s Yuval Raphael and her team met by protests, threat as Eurovision week kicks off
Kan files police complaint after man makes throat-slitting gesture and spits at Israeli delegation; Palestinians flags fly as participants walk ‘turquoise carpet’ to open contest
By Amy Spiro, AFP and ToI Staff
A sign for the Eurovision Song Contest is seen on the St. Jakobshalle arena that will host the 2025 edition of the competition, April 30, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
May 9, 2025, 12:14 am
Israel warns travelers to Eurovision to avoid protests, not show Jewish, Israeli symbols
With anti-Israel rallies expected in Basel, Switzerland during contest next week and security high, Israelis warned to ‘stay away from these centers of friction and demonstrations’
By Lazar Berman and Amy Spiro
Yuval Raphael, Israel's representative at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest (Shai Franco/Kan)
March 10, 2025, 12:30 am
Israel unveils ‘New Day Will Rise,’ its 2025 Eurovision power ballad
Nova massacre survivor Yuval Raphael, who will perform in Basel, Switzerland in May, says the song ‘represents the healing that we all need and the optimism for the days ahead’
By Amy Spiro
Then-Diaspora affairs minister Nachman Shai addresses a World Zionist Organization conference marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, on August 28, 2022. (Courtesy)
August 28, 2022, 11:48 pm
Diaspora minister calls for new paradigm in Israel’s ties to Jews abroad
In speech at event marking 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, Nachman Shai says foreign Jews must play greater role in Jerusalem’s decision-making
By Judah Ari Gross
President Isaac Herzog at Beit Hanassi, the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 2022. (Ariel Jerozolimski for The Times of Israel)
August 28, 2022, 8:06 am
Herzog will set off for Basel to mark 125 years since First Zionist Congress
President to attend two-day event commemorating Herzl’s major address; guests to include over 1,000 Jewish leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists
By ToI Staff
The Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. (Andreas Schwarzkopf/Wikimedia Commons)
April 2, 2020, 4:09 pm
Swiss museum agrees to pay restitution to heirs of Nazi-looted art
Kunstmuseum in Basel reverses its previous stance that collector Curt Glaser had sold artworks in 1933 at market value
By Marcy Oster
December 3, 2018, 5:33 pm
Vandals smash Swiss synagogue window with hammer
As police say no suspects in Basel incident, local rabbi says he fears for his safety for first time in 16 years
By JTA
Illustrative: A customer shops at a kosher butcher shop in North Miami Beach, Florida, on Nov. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
October 24, 2018, 8:51 pm
Swiss kosher butcher vandalized 4 times in month
Jewish leaders say community increasingly concerned over string of ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks targeting Basel store
By JTA
Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)
June 29, 2017, 6:57 pm
Scrapped: Basel event to mark 120 years since Herzl’s First Zionist Congress
Netanyahu was to travel in August to Swiss city where Herzl in 1897 ‘founded the Jewish state.’ But poor planning has doomed the celebration, and recriminations are flying
By Raphael Ahren
Police collect evidence at the site of a shooting on early March 10, 2017 in the city of Basel, north-west Switzerland. (AFP/Sebastien Bozon)
March 10, 2017, 3:02 am
Two dead as gunmen open fire on Swiss cafe; terrorism ruled out
Assailants on run after attack in Basel; third victim seriously injured
By AFP
Shaul Ladany in his suburban Beersheba home with a prized piece of his Theodor Herzl collection, left. (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)
August 20, 2016, 4:45 am
At 80, a Munich Olympics and Holocaust survivor is still the sportsman
Shaul Ladany, a racewalker who holds a world record, welcomes IOC’s official memorial for his 11 teammates who were killed by terrorists at 1972 games
By Hillel Kuttler
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