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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Bundestag

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel, second from left, and other top party officials applaud after German television publishes the first exit polls in the German general elections, during the electoral evening in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025. (Soeren Stache / Pool / AFP)
February 23, 2025, 9:20 pm
German exit polls give conservatives lead, as far right has best post-war showing
Chancellor Olaf Scholz bemoans his Social Democrats’ ‘bitter’ result, congratulates Friedrich Merz, whose coalition prospects are uncertain due to ‘fire-wall’ around AfD
By Agencies
A ballot box is sealed with the electoral seal of the German State of Bavaria in Memmelsdorf, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025, during the national election. (Pia Bayer/dpa via AP)
February 23, 2025, 10:31 am
Germans head to voting booths with far-right expected to surge
Polls predict Alternative for Germany party set to become second largest in Bundestag, but other factions vow to boycott it
By Geir Moulson
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during a plenary session at the German parliament Bundestag where he faces a vote of confidence, Berlin, Germany, December 16, 2024. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber)
December 16, 2024, 9:13 pm
German Chancellor Scholz loses no-confidence vote, setting up early elections
Center-left leader to remain as interim chancellor after losing vote 394-207; election set for February with no parties close to majority in polls
By Geir Moulson
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gives a statement after a meeting with government leaders in Berlin, Germany, November 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
November 8, 2024, 11:23 pm
Germany’s Scholz urges calm from party leaders after coalition collapse
German premier, who fired finance minister, triggering upheaval, faces calls for an election in January rather than March; could see challenge from within own party
By Christian Kraemer and Andreas Rinke
Holocaust survivor Eva Szepesi speaks to the plenary of the German Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, January 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 31, 2024, 2:10 pm
Auschwitz survivor decries rise of antisemitism, far-right in Germany
Eva Szepesi tells German parliament that the Holocaust ‘began with words, it began with society staying silent and looking away’
By AP
Illustrative: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
November 30, 2022, 10:46 pm
German parliament labels 1930s ‘Holodomor’ famine in Ukraine a genocide
More than 3 million died in famine blamed on Stalin, though historians have debated if it was the result of intentional starvation or incompetence
By Geir Moulson
President Isaac Herzog addresses the Bundestag, the German parliament in Berlin, September 6, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
September 6, 2022, 1:23 pm
In speech to German parliament, Herzog says Iran ‘ineligible’ for nuclear deal
Addressing Bundestag, president urges legislators to prevent Islamic Republic, which has vowed to destroy Israel, from developing nuclear bomb
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his wife, Gilat, light candles for the 'Unto Every Person There is a Name' ceremony at the Knesset on April 28., 2022. (Koby Gideon/GPO)
April 28, 2022, 2:57 pm
Bennett: Holocaust memory is part of Jews’ DNA, passed from generation to generation
Bundestag president lights candle at Knesset memorial ceremony, noting ‘historical guilt,’ but MK Akunis says he will never forgive Germans for their role
By Rachel Bernstein
The president of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament), Barbel Bas, at the eternal flame at the Hall of Remembrance during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2022. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
April 27, 2022, 3:22 pm
Bundestag president in Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Barbel Bas visits Knesset and Yad Vashem, says Germany’s responsibilities to lessons of Holocaust continue to this day; will be special guest at state ceremony
By ToI Staff
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (on screen) gets a standing ovation by the members of the government and of parliament after he addressed via videolink the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, on March 17, 2022 in Berlin. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
March 17, 2022, 1:23 pm
Zelensky tells German MPs ‘never again’ Holocaust slogan is now meaningless
Ukrainian president addresses Bundestag via video, says Europe being destroyed, urges tearing down a new ‘wall’ that Russia is building between ‘freedom and bondage’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Knessset Speaker MK Mickey Levy breaks down in tears during a ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day held in the Bundestag, the German Parliament, January 27, 2022. (Courtesy Boaz Arad)
January 27, 2022, 5:21 pm
In tears, Knesset speaker recites mourner’s Kaddish in German parliament
Addressing the Bundestag in Berlin on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mickey Levy says world has a duty to educate the next generation in these horrors
By Stuart Winer and AP
Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy seated in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2022, 6:30 pm
Knesset speaker to address Bundestag on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Mickey Levy says his visit to Berlin ‘symbolizes the true friendship between… two democracies that share liberal values and a mutual commitment to remember the Holocaust’
By Amy Spiro
Inge Auerbacher, an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Jamaica, Queens, poses with the books she's written. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
January 20, 2022, 2:33 am
New York-based survivor to address German parliament on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Inge Auerbacher follows the likes of Elie Wiesel and Shimon Peres in being invited to speak to the Bundestag, where she will discuss being sent to Theresienstadt as a child
By Stewart Ain
An election campaign poster of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, party stands near a road in the federal state Saxony-Anhalt's capital in Magdeburg, Germany, on June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 8, 2021, 9:27 pm
German court delays ruling on monitoring far-right party until after election
Court says it will not be able to tackle whether domestic intelligence agency can put the Alternative for Germany party under observation, as vote is too close
By AP
Palestinians holding Hamas movement green flags attend a protest in solidarity with Muslim worshipers in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
June 25, 2021, 3:02 pm
Hamas flag banned in Germany under new terror law
German lawmaker says the move will send ‘a clear signal to our Jewish citizens’ after several antisemitic pro-Palestinian rallies in the country
By AFP
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