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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 653

Bosnian Jews

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
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
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
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
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
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