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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Bulgaria

The entrance of a building reportedly housing the Norta Global company according to company contacts, in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 19, 2024. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)
September 20, 2024, 5:49 am
Sleuthing for origins of exploding Hezbollah pagers widens to Bulgaria and Norway
Lebanese security source says ‘it’s possible that the Mossad created a European company’ to send the devices to the terror group, which believed they were produced in Asia
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A picture shows red hand graffiti painted on buildings' walls of the Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie street, in the area where earlier the Holocaust memorial was vandalized with the same red handprints in Paris, on May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz/ AFP)
August 7, 2024, 5:40 pm
Suspect who painted red hands on Paris Holocaust memorial denies racial motives
One of three Bulgarian men fighting extradition to France claims it was ‘just hooliganism’ that led him to deface memorial; Sofia court postpones decision until September 26
By AFP
The 'Wall of the Righteous' (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)
July 27, 2024, 5:49 am
Bulgaria says 3 held on suspicion of vandalizing Paris Holocaust memorial in May
Balkan nation’s security agency says the suspects ‘are known to gravitate around Bulgarian groups that profess far-right extremist ideology’
By AFP
From left: David Leopold, Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman and Clare Fraenkel in 'The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria,' now at 59E59 Theaters. (Carol Rosegg/ via JTA)
May 10, 2024, 10:44 am
New dark comedy for stage asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III friend or foe to the Jews?
The paradoxical leader dabbled in fascism, was loved by his people, saved 50,000 lives while enacting antisemitic laws, and is the subject of a play running in NYC through June 2
By Elizabeth Karpen
File: Then-deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, Rumiana Bachvarova, right, speaks with the media prior to a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, September 14, 2015. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
June 3, 2023, 4:37 am
Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel condemned for skipping Holocaust history conference
Organizers say envoy’s decision to forgo event indicative of her government’s attempts to whitewash history on WWII round-up of 11,000 Jews in what is today North Macedonia
By Toby Axelrod
King Boris of Bulgaria, wearing civilian dress, left, with Adolf Hitler and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, right, when he paid a visit on May 14, 1941, at Hitler's Rolling headquarters. (AP Photo)
March 17, 2023, 11:26 am
Why Bulgarian Jews skipped an official ceremony marking their rescue from the Nazis
Officials marked 80 years since Tsar Boris III stopped the deportation of the country’s 48,000 Jews; they didn’t mention the 11,000 whose murder by Nazis his government facilitated
By David I. Klein
Members of nationalist organizations parade with torches during a march to commemorate Bulgarian general and politician Hristo Lukov, in the center of Sofia, on February 16, 2019. (Dimitar DILKOFF/AFP)
February 26, 2023, 12:42 am
Bulgaria bans annual neo-Nazi march honoring WWII general
Police block roads where Nazi-supporting Hristo Lukov lived, in order to prevent nationalists from holding ceremony in his memory
By AP
Security and ambulances at the scene after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP /Francisco Seco)
November 19, 2022, 2:23 pm
Bulgaria charges 5 suspects with helping deadly Istanbul bombing suspect
Local media says 3 of the suspects are Moldovan and a 4th is from an unspecified Arab country; Turkey blames Kurdish PKK, which denies involvement in blast that killed 6
By AFP
Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the opening of the "Tsar Boris III" association, named after Boris the Third, Bulgaria's leader during World War II and a close ally of Adolf Hitler, in Ohrid, on October 7, 2022. (Robert ATANASOVSKI / AFP)
October 8, 2022, 4:25 pm
Jewish groups, others in North Macedonia angered by ethnic Bulgarian club’s name
Protesters rally against cultural association named after monarch Boris III, who allied his country with Nazi Germany and Axis in WWII
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES
Bulgarian MEP Angel Dzhambazki makes a Nazi salute after addressing the European Parliament, February 17, 2022. (Screengrab/YouTube)
February 17, 2022, 2:16 pm
Outrage after Bulgarian politician gives Nazi salute in European Parliament
President of bloc body says fascist gesture by nationalist Angel Dzhambazki ‘offends me and everyone else in Europe’; lawmaker may face sanctions
By AFP
Dr. Aleksander Hugo Oscar (Courtesy via JTA)
February 2, 2022, 8:22 pm
Bulgarian Jewish leader falsely accused of embezzling, then targeted by antisemitism
Hospital denies media claims that Dr. Aleksander Oscar, president of a local Jewish organization, was ever accused of filing fraudulent medical reports
By David I. Klein
The exterior of the synagogue in Vidin features the outlines of windows in the shape of the Ten Commandments. It was designed by the famed Austrian architect Friedrich Grünanger. (Jonah Goldman Kay/ JTA)
August 17, 2021, 3:14 am
Abandoned Bulgarian synagogue to become cultural center and interfaith hub
While the space will not be used for Jewish prayer services, the infusion of $6 million in EU funding may create a new tourist destination
By Jonah Goldman Kay
The Lozenetz Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaira (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2021, 5:47 am
Top Bulgarian hospital’s management fired over illegal transplants
Donors were all young people from poorer countries, while recipients claimed to be their relatives from countries including Israel, Japan and Germany
By AP
Former world chess champion, America's Bobby Fischer is pictured in this August 10, 1971 photo at an unknown location in the USA. (AP Photo)
February 26, 2021, 11:15 pm
Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rant by chess master Bobby Fischer
Host later apologizes for repeating remarks attributed to legendary US champion, including ‘Jews don’t like to work. That’s why they didn’t like concentration camps’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 20, 2021, 6:59 am
Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules
Judicial system erred when it ignored complaints that far-right politician Volen Siderov incited against Jews and Roma, European Court of Human Rights says
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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