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July 25, 2019, 9:49 pm

Israeli embassy in Finland attacked for 15th time in 18 months

Jerusalem demands action from Finnish authorities after ‘chain of anti-Semitic attacks’ by suspected neo-Nazi and far-right extremists

By Marcy Oster

Chairman of the Finnish Social Democratic Party Antti Rinne speaks with his wife Heta Ravolainen-Rinne, right, at the parliamentary election party in Helsinki, Sunday, April 14, 2019. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)

April 15, 2019, 2:56 am

Finland’s Social Democrats win slim victory as far-right surges

The Finns Party saw increased support in recent months after urging backers to ‘Vote for some borders’ and pledging to reduce country’s asylum intake to ‘almost zero’

By Sam KINGSLEY

People celebrate Israel's 70th Independence Day celebrations in Saker Park in Jerusalem, April 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 20, 2019, 2:59 pm

Israelis still very happy, but slip two spots to 13th in world ranking

Finland tops World Happiness Report again as cheerier Austria and Costa Rica push Jewish state down from 11th place last year; UK is 15th; US is 19th

By AP and TOI staff

Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Wiking Division advancing into the Soviet Union in 1941 during Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa. (Wikipedia/Bundesarchiv/Hummel/CC BY-SA)

February 10, 2019, 12:38 pm

Finnish volunteers in SS units took part in WWII Nazi atrocities, Finland says

After an Israeli historian’s appeal to Finland’s president to examine murder of Jews, country’s state archives look into the role of Finns in the Waffen-SS drive eastward in 1941-3

By TOI staff

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit, July 7, 2017, in Hamburg. (AP/Evan Vucci)

July 16, 2018, 6:11 am

Trump and Putin set to test rapport, talk Syria in first summit

Deal for Israel and Russia to work on pushing out Iran said to be on table; some fear US president may concede too much in bid to portray Helsinki meeting as success

By AFP

Men of the Finnish Waffen-SS returning home in 1943. (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

July 14, 2018, 11:42 am

Ahead of Trump-Putin summit, 5 things you didn’t know about Finland and the Jews

The community’s history includes Jewish Finns fighting alongside German soldiers against the Soviet Union in WWII

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israeli police secure a bulldozer demolishing structures at the Bedouin village of Abu Nuwar, east of Jerusalem in the West Bank on July 4, 2018. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

July 5, 2018, 3:00 pm

European Union says demolition of West Bank villages hampers two-state solution

Hamlets of Abu Nuwar and Khan al-Ahmar are necessary for contiguity of land needed for a Palestinian state, EU warns

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Undated illustrative image of Waffen-SS 'Wiking' division in Russia. (CC BY-SA Bild National Archives, Wikimedia Commons)

May 31, 2018, 5:51 pm

Finland to probe role of SS volunteers in WWII atrocities

Jerusalem’s Simon Wiesenthal Center requested investigation into actions of Finnish battalion serving within Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS

By AP

People watch the annual Air Force flyover on Israel's 69th Independence Day in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 14, 2018, 6:14 pm

Israel is 11th happiest nation in the world; US slides to 18th

Jewish state maintains its high ranking on list of 156 countries for fifth successive year, but gets less praise for attitude to migrants; Finland tops list, PA is at 104

By TOI staff and AP

Palestinian children hold bread patties during a protest against aid cuts, outside the United Nations' offices in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

February 10, 2018, 12:56 am

UN agency for Palestinian refugees fundraises after US cuts

President Trump said last month that the Palestinians must return to peace talks in order to receive American aid money

By Edith M. Lederer

An armed police officer stands guard at the Turku Market Square in the Finnish city of Turku where several people were stabbed on August 18, 2017.( AFP PHOTO / Lehtikuva / Roni Lehti )

February 7, 2018, 6:21 pm

Finnish knife attacker who killed two identified with IS, police say

Asylum seeker Abderrahman Bouanane, who last year went on stabbing rampage in Turku, said to have acted alone, reacted to Syria bombardments

By JARI TANNER

Men of the Finnish Waffen-SS return home in 1943 (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

January 24, 2018, 5:27 pm

Finland to probe troops’ alleged role in the Holocaust

Inquiry launched following discovery of written testimony by a Finnish Waffen-SS officer, who described murdering Jews in Ukraine

By JTA

Finnish educator Marja-Kristiina (second from right) and ICEI director Don Futterman in an Israeli classroom. (Courtesy Ilan Spira)

January 20, 2018, 8:59 am

For classroom success, import the Finnish method, says Israeli group

The Israel Center for Educational Innovation compares notes with a Finnish education professor, and laments that the Jewish state gives ‘lip service’ to good education for all

By Jessica Steinberg

Picture taken on December 21, 2016 shows Jesse Torniainen (C), a member of the Finnish neo-Nazi group Finnish Resistance Movement (FRM), during his trial at the District Court in Helsinki, Finland. (AFP/Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen)

November 30, 2017, 9:33 pm

Finland bans neo-Nazi group for being racist, violent

Senior police officer says decision to outlaw Nordic Resistance Movement sends message hate ‘has no place in Finnish society’

By AP

Candles and flowers are left at the makeshift memorial by well wishers for the victims of Friday's stabbings at the Turku Market Square, Finland on August 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen)

August 21, 2017, 5:47 pm

Israel condemns Finland terror stabbing, expresses ‘shock’

Foreign Ministry conveys condolences, ‘solidarity’ with victims of Friday attack in port city of Turku

By TOI staff and AFP