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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

Bosnia

Lana Bastašić meets readers at a literary event in Berlin, Germany, on September 14, 2023. (Elena Ternovaja/Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2024, 3:26 pm
Austrian literary festival drops Bosnian author who protested criticism of Oct. 7
Separately, a children’s book fair in Italy indicates it will ignore a petition to boycott Israel signed by top artists
By Canaan Lidor
United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael J. Murphy kneels next to the coffins containing remains of 30 newly identified victims of the Srebrenica Genocide in Potocari, Bosnia, July 10, 2023. (AP/Armin Durgut)
July 10, 2023, 6:13 pm
Jews, Muslims mark Srebrenica anniversary, Europe’s only post-World War II genocide
World Jewish Congress hosts day-long conference in city where more than 8,000 Bosniaks, mainly Muslims, were killed in July 1995
By Eldar Emric
An engraving depicts Ancona, Italy, where local Jews used to celebrate multiple version of Purim. (DEA/A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images/JTA)
March 7, 2023, 5:36 am
Sarajevo Jews celebrate a second Purim. For centuries, they weren’t alone
For many of the 900 or so Jews in Bosnia, this week will be the first of two annual Purim celebrations; Jews in Italy, Spain, Maghreb region have similar customs
By David I. Klein
A synagogue inside the Jewish community center in Sarajevo, February 4, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
February 9, 2023, 12:30 pm
Bosnia’s Jewish community putting together an archive for an eventual museum
Historian Eli Tauber, leading the project, says it will be a challenge to piece together family histories and destinies that cover 500 years
By David I. Klein
Election staff, at left, count ballots behind ballot boxes in central Tirana, Albania, June 26, 2017. A US administration source alleged in September 2022 that Russia meddled in the election. (Hektor Pustina/AP)
September 14, 2022, 10:24 am
US says Russia has sent $300 million to meddle in elections in dozens of countries
Senior administration official assesses that the amount, spent since 2014, is just ‘the tip of the iceberg,’ more went undetected
By Shaun Tandon
Gal Gadot arrives at the 27th annual ELLE Women in Hollywood celebration on October 19, 2021, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
February 7, 2022, 2:20 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 7 – Banning Gal Gadot & PA leadership’s real-life ‘Succession’
Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman weighs in on the civil unrest in the PA and Gaza; Jewish World editor Yaakov Schwartz reports on the Lev Tahor cult from Bosnia
By ToI Staff
Members of Lev Tahor prepare to depart their compound in eastern Sarajevo, February 3, 2022. (Courtesy/Davorin Sekulic/Klix.ba)
February 5, 2022, 1:46 am
37 members of extremist cult Lev Tahor leave Bosnia, destination unknown
Government assures ‘anxious citizens’ that group has gone; uncertain where it will now seek refuge; so-called ‘Jewish Taliban’ follow extreme and in some cases outlawed practices
By Yaakov Schwartz
People wait for a COVID-19 vaccine, outside a sports hall in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)
May 7, 2021, 11:44 pm
Bosnian War prosecutor from US tries to help Sarajevo’s Jews survive virus surge
Phillip Weiner says up to 5% of Bosnia’s tiny Jewish community, many of them Holocaust survivors, have died, as citizens protest the government’s poor handling of the pandemic
By Bette Keva
Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schonborn (C), Archbishop of The Catholic Church in Bosnia Vinko Puljic (L) and Vatican's Apostolic Nuncio in Bosnia and Herzegovina Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto (R), lead the service at The Cathedral of "The Heart of Jesus" in Sarajevo, on March 4, 2018. (ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images and JTA)
May 14, 2020, 2:33 pm
Bosnian Catholic cardinal to honor Nazi collaborators in memorial service
Jewish groups and Israeli embassy protest event in memory of Ustasha forces, responsible for gory anti-Semitic killings during World War II
By Agencies
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
Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Bosnian leader Bakir Izetbegovic in Ramallah on Wednesday August 29, 2018. (Wafa images)
August 29, 2018, 9:15 pm
Abbas pans Israel’s ‘racist, apartheid’ nation-state law
Palestinian leader reiterates support for international conference that would bypass US as sole peace broker
By Adam Rasgon
A view of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Courtesy: Almas Bavcic)
July 22, 2018, 11:26 pm
Jewish leaders concerned after anti-Semitic graffiti found in Bosnia
Swastika, ‘Juden’ spraypainted in 2 cities on buildings where Jews live; Sarajevo mayor condemns the vandalism
By JTA
Avidan Freedman
July 18, 2018, 1:15 pm
Avidan Freedman
Why not to fast on Tisha B’Av
Well, do you make decisions based on realpolitik, or based on religious value commitments?
Slain Tunisian drone engineer Mohamed Zoari. (Screen capture: Aljazeera/YouTube)
May 17, 2018, 5:03 pm
Bosnia rejects extradition request for alleged killer of Hamas engineer
Court rules man wanted by Tunisia for suspected role in Mohamed Zouari’s killing cannot be extradited as there is no treaty between the countries
By ToI Staff and AFP
Slobodan Praljak drinks what appears to be a poison upon receiving a 20 year sentence in a UN war crimes court on November 29, 2017.
November 29, 2017, 5:03 pm
Bosnian Croat war criminal drinks poison in court, dies
On losing appeal against 20-year sentence, Slobodan Praljak shouts his innocence, fatally ingests contents of a bottle
By JO BIDDLE and Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
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