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Illustrative: Holocaust survivor and refugee Tatyna Ryabaya, 99, and her daughter sit on a bed in a hotel room in Moldova after fleeing Ukraine before flying to Israel on a special medical transport flight on April 27, 2022. (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
September 15, 2022, 9:33 am
As Holocaust compensation deal turns 70, survivors face new challenges in Ukraine
The Luxembourg Agreement signed after WWII saw West Germany assume responsibility for Nazi atrocities and pay reparations
By Sam Reeves
Illustrative: A Holocaust survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 2, 2022, 3:00 am
Romania to pay pensions of citizens who moved to Israel after surviving Holocaust
Deal between Jerusalem and Bucharest, which was caught up in red tape for past six years, expected to provide some 7,000 survivors with hundreds of additional shekels a month
By ToI Staff
Likud MK Miri Regev speaking to the media after testifying to the state commission of inquiry into the tragedy at Mount Meron on May 24, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2022, 4:13 pm
Regev stands by call to oppose bills targeting rape, violence if it hurts coalition
Lawmaker says blame should be on person who leaked recordings in which she told fellow Likud MKs tactic is fine in bid to topple the government
By ToI Staff
Tshuva Kabra, left, director of the national welfare system at the Chasdei Naomi charity, embraces Holocaust survivor Freida Rovenchim, in her family apartment in Jerusalem, January 26, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 27, 2022, 11:39 am
As world commemorates Holocaust, many Israeli survivors rely on charity
With roughly 1 in 3 living in poverty and not enough government help, many are dependent on food donations; pandemic and rising cost of living making the problem worse
By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF
Stamps ostensibly used to brand prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp, put up for sale at a Jerusalem auction house (Screen grab)
November 3, 2021, 3:08 pm
Court freezes Jerusalem sale of Auschwitz prisoner tattoo stamp set
‘Such an evil item can’t have an owner,’ Holocaust survivors’ group argued; Yad Vashem protested sale as ‘morally unacceptable’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Then-consul general to New York Colette Avital looks on as then-foreign minister Shimon Peres addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, on May 23, 1994, in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)
October 16, 2021, 9:24 pm
Ex-Labor MK recalls ‘difficult memories’ of alleged ’80s sexual assault by Peres
Colette Avital, also a former senior diplomat, describes a ‘lot of harassment from many people’ during that time; second woman says late president assaulted her too
By ToI Staff
Then-consul general to New York Colette Avital looks on as then-foreign minister Shimon Peres addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, on May 23, 1994, in New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)
October 7, 2021, 4:39 pm
Ex-Labor MK says Shimon Peres sexually assaulted her in the 1980s
Colette Avital, a former senior diplomat, alleges the late statesman forcibly kissed her during a work meeting while he was PM, assaulted her at Paris hotel several years earlier
By ToI Staff
EffieEitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
October 27, 2020, 11:41 pm
Apparent pick of nationalist ex-minister to head Yad Vashem sparks outcry
Some fear former brigadier general Effie Eitam, who has a history of harsh rhetoric toward Palestinians, could tarnish reputation of Holocaust memorial and museum
By Joseph Krauss
Illustrative: People standing in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
July 31, 2019, 9:25 am
Spanish politician of Palestinian descent denied entry to Israel
Fouad Ahmad Assadi of Spain’s ruling party arrived for conference in Ramallah, turned back at Ben Gurion Airport due to unspecified ‘security reasons’
By Stuart Winer
Two holocaust survivors arrive for Hanukkah candlelighting at the International Holocaust Survivors Night of the Jewish Community in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 4, 2018, 9:59 pm
Holocaust survivors gather for global Hanukkah ceremonies
‘We have to celebrate them while we can,’ says former MK and survivor Colette Avital as commemorations are held in Jerusalem, Moscow, Berlin, and New York
By David Rising
Illustrative: Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid (left), at the Holot Institute of Technology for the Holocaust Survivors Conference on December 29, 2014. (Flash90)
May 3, 2017, 4:28 pm
Yesh Atid fined for using ‘sensitive’ Holocaust survivors’ info
Opposition party takes ‘full responsibility’ for ‘one-time mishap,’ will pay out NIS 40,000 over illegal privacy breach for campaign
By Marissa Newman
In this Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 file photo, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
October 6, 2016, 10:36 pm
Incoming UN chief a friend of Israel, but won’t shy away from criticism
While empathizing with Gazans during 2014 war, Antonio Guterres has mostly stayed mum on the Palestinian question
By Raphael Ahren
Ambassador for the Netherlands to Israel Caspar Veldkamp, June 10, Amsterdam. (photo credit: Bibi Neury, Photo Republic)
May 12, 2015, 10:22 pm
Dutch backtrack on cutting pension for survivor in settlements
Officials say benefits won’t be reduced because Holocaust survivor ‘could not have been aware of the consequences’ of move to West Bank
By JTA
An Israeli flag flutters among flowers outside the main synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 15, 2015, hours after a fatal attack there. (photo credit: AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)
February 17, 2015, 10:11 pm
Israeli calls to Europe’s Jews seen as part of long tradition
Community has mixed reactions to immigration drive following attacks, but Jerusalem, seeing itself as refuge, unapologetic
By Laurent Lozano
President Rivlin during a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony with Holocaust survivors at his residence in Jerusalem, December 22, 2014. (Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)
December 22, 2014, 11:43 pm
Rivlin: Assisting Holocaust survivors is our moral obligation
At Hanukkah ceremony, president highlights victims’ plight
By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff
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