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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, northwest of Sarajevo, February 26, 2025. (Radivoje Pavicic/AP)
March 27, 2025, 5:08 pm
Bosnia asks Israel to arrest Serb leader visiting for antisemitism confab
As member of Interpol, Israel faced with prospect of detaining Putin ally who was invited to participate in controversial confab related to inclusion of far-right European leaders
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic speaks during a press conference with Elizabeth Truss, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
August 13, 2022, 8:28 am
Leaked memo shows Israeli support for law blocking Jews from Bosnia’s leadership
Bosnian FM says ‘hard to fathom’ how Israel could support controversial legislation, which is backed by ethno-nationalist parties but opposed by many Bosniak politicians
By David I. Klein
Protesters gather outside the Office of the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, July 25, 2022. (David I. Klein/ JTA)
July 28, 2022, 11:57 pm
New law may cement de facto ban on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Jews holding high office
Proposed legislation by a European overseeing body would bolster the three country’s largest ethnic blocs while continuing to disenfranchise at least 17 national minority groups
By David I. Klein
Greta Weinfeld Ferusic speaks in a 1997 documentary titled GRETA. (Screenshot: Youtube)
January 26, 2022, 2:10 pm
Auschwitz and Sarajevo siege survivor Greta Weinfeld Ferusic dies aged 97
After being lone survivor among family members deported to Nazi concentration camp in 1944, she refused to be evacuated from Bosnian city during war in 90s
By AFP
Ex-Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic sits in the defendant box at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague, June 8, 2021. (Jerry Lampen/ANP/AFP)
June 8, 2021, 8:07 pm
War crimes court upholds genocide conviction for ‘Butcher of Bosnia’
Ex-Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s appeal against life sentence for 1995 Srebrenica massacre rejected by UN tribunal in The Hague
By Danny Kemp and Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
Illustrative image of a hacker (stevanovicigor; iStock by Getty Images)
September 30, 2020, 12:48 pm
Israel’s IAI to help Bosnia boost cybersecurity via online training program
As part of agreement, cybersecurity professionals will provide remote online training on IAI’s cybersecurity simulator in a project that will run over a number of years
By Shoshanna Solomon
People walk backdropped by a banner showing victims executed by hanging in 1945 by the pro-Nazi Croatian WWII Ustasha regime in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on May 16, 2020. (AP/Kemal Softic)
May 17, 2020, 1:19 am
Thousands in Sarajevo protest against Mass for Nazi collaborators
Demonstrators from several walks of life march to decry ceremony honoring members of Croatian Ustasha regime, which carried out atrocities against Jews and Muslims in World War II
By AP
This photograph taken on February 23, 2018, shows a gate at the entrance of The Jewish Cemetery with the background of the city center of Sarajevo. (AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC)
November 9, 2019, 9:39 am
Bosnian Jews and Muslims tell the story of ‘Sarajevo’s Purim’
Communities mark 1819 event when Muslims rose up against Ottoman governor who threatened to kill off the imprisoned elite of the city’s Jewish community
By AFP
A woman rests at the memorial cemetery, prior to the funeral, in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
July 11, 2019, 7:13 pm
Bosnian Muslims mark 1995 Srebrenica massacre with fresh burials
Relatives of over 8,000 men and boys killed by Bosnian Serb troops among attendees of ceremony that sees interment of 33 newly identified victims of the slaughter
By DARKO BANDIC
Professor Gideon Greif. (Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 9, 2019, 7:52 pm
Israeli Holocaust historian to head new Srebrenica commission
Professor Gideon Greif will lead new probe into 1995 massacre, as a second Israeli academic investigates ‘suffering of Serbs in Sarajevo during the war’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photograph taken on September 28, 2018, Bosnian Croat supporters of HDZ, the Croat Democratic Union, the most influential political party among Bosnian Croats, cheer during a pre-election rally in the northwestern Bosnian town of Livno. (AFP Photo/Elvis Barukcic)
October 5, 2018, 3:19 pm
In ethnically split Bosnia, ‘others,’ including Jews, are on the outside
1995 Dayton peace accords stipulate that political power must be shared among self-identified Serbs, Croats and Muslims, ignoring the rest
By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
This photograph taken on February 22, 2018, shows visitors to The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, which has revealed a new space intended for keeping one of museum's most valuable items, the famous Sarajevo Haggadah. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
March 6, 2018, 4:36 am
Ancient Haggadah symbolizing fate of Sarajevo Jews finally finds permanent home
Famous 14th-century holy book that survived the inquisition, Holocaust and Serbian shelling in 1990s put on display at Bosnia’s National Museum
By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
Residents clean the area in the Freetown Christiania neighborhood of Copenhagen, on September 2, 2016, after two police officers were shot in a drugs raid. (Scanpix Denmark /Uffe Weng /AFP)
September 2, 2016, 10:46 pm
Islamic State says its ‘soldier’ shot cops in Danish drug bust
Mesa Hodzic, who injured 2 officers and civilian in Copenhagen raid, died Friday from gunshot wounds sustained during arrest
By AFP
Robert De Niro arrives for the opening of the Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia, August 12, 2016. (AP)
August 14, 2016, 12:55 am
De Niro compares Trump to ‘Taxi Driver’ madman
Like Travis Bickle, mentally disturbed protagonist of 1976 movie, Republican presidential nominee is ‘totally nuts,’ actor says
By Aida Cerkez
People gather on the main square, during the inauguration ceremony of the Ferhat-Pasha mosque, in Banja Luka, on May 7, 2016 (AFP Photo)
May 7, 2016, 6:29 pm
Bosnia’s Muslims reopen mosque Serbs blew up during the war
Jewish representatives among thousands of ceremony attendees, where leaders welcome renewed efforts for religious coexistence
By AP
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