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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during a commemoration service for the victims of a knife attack that killed three people last week, in Solingen, Germany, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, Pool)
September 1, 2024, 3:26 pm
Germany’s leaders pay tribute to victims of ‘horrifying’ Solingen knife attack
German president says attacker, who had sought asylum, ‘abused this protection so terribly’; attack was claimed by ISIS ‘to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere’
By AP and ToI Staff
The reconstructed Garrison Church in Potsdam, Germany (CC BY-SA 4.0 Raimond Spekking & Elke Wetzig/ wikimedia)
August 22, 2024, 5:27 pm
Germany opens reconstructed 18th-century church where Hitler cemented grip on power
‘This place challenges us’ to confront checkered past, says German president, amid protest outside inauguration of Potsdam’s Garrison Church, which communist East Germany destroyed
By Geir Moulson
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland on April 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the office of the President of the State of Israel)
April 19, 2023, 7:31 pm
Herzog to Polish president: Story of Holocaust must recall evil of Nazis, accomplices
Israeli president appears to reference dispute over WWII narrative in speech as he joins German, Polish counterparts in Warsaw for 80th Ghetto Uprising memorial
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
Front from right, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Michal Herzog, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Elke Buedenbender attend a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration event in Warsaw, Poland, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2023, 3:15 pm
Israeli, Polish, German leaders overcome tension to jointly remember Warsaw rebels
On the 80th anniversary of the ghetto uprising, the heads of state of the three countries for the first time attend a commemoration service for the fallen
By Canaan Lidor
Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks in Putrajaya, on February 17, 2023. (Arif Kartono/AFP)
March 11, 2023, 12:30 pm
Ahead of Netanyahu visit, German president voices concern about judicial overhaul
Steinmeier says Berlin admires Israel’s strong rule of law; laments peace in Mideast seems increasingly distant due to overhaul, security situation; praises Herzog mediation effort
By ToI Staff
The Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany, January 25, 2023. (Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images via JTA)
February 4, 2023, 2:40 pm
Germany celebrates UNESCO listing for birthplaces of Yiddish, Ashkenazi culture
Sites recognized include the oldest known in-situ Jewish burial ground in Europe; German president: Jewish history in Germany, both good and bad, goes far beyond Holocaust
By David I. Klein
Yehuda Mansbach, a relative of the Posner family, reacts after lighting a candle on the menorah that the family rescued from Germany, during Hanukkah celebration at the Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin, December 19, 2022. (John MacDougall/AFP)
December 20, 2022, 6:44 am
Iconic menorah from photo with Nazi flag lit at Hanukkah event in Berlin
German president hosts grandchildren of woman who took 1931 photograph in Kiel, one of whom weeps openly after lighting menorah
By AFP
The iconic photo of a Hanukkah menorah with Nazi flags waving across the road, taken by Rachel Posner, wife of then-Kiel Rabbi Akiva Posner, in Kiel, Germany, 1931. (Courtesy)
December 18, 2022, 7:34 pm
Menorah from iconic photo with Nazi flag to be lit at Berlin Hanukkah ceremony
Candle-lighting event will be held with photographer’s grandchildren and German president on second night of holiday, 90 years after family fled looming genocide
By Michael Horovitz
A protestor with red tears painted on her face during a rally in support of the demonstrations in Iran, in Toulouse, south-western France, on December 3, 2022. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
December 9, 2022, 5:12 pm
UN rights chief: Iran seeks ‘chilling effect’ with execution of protester
Volker Türk says Tehran clearly trying to frighten other demonstrators, calls on Islamic Republic to end executions and free those arrested
By AP
People queue to receive a daily ration of bread in a school in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, October 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
October 25, 2022, 3:06 pm
West mulls ‘new Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine, as German president visits Kyiv
Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s trip aimed to ‘send a signal of solidarity to Ukrainians’; EU leaders begin planning future rebuilding of Ukraine after estimated damage of $345 billion
By ANDREW MELDRUM
Prime Minister Yair Lapid boards a plane at Ben Gurion Airport taking him to Berlin, Germany, on September 11, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 11, 2022, 6:13 pm
Lapid heads to Germany for top-level meetings on Iran, bilateral cooperation
PM has said he’ll coordinate stance on nuclear deal with Chancellor Scholz; will also meet German president alongside Holocaust survivors, sit down with local foreign minister
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R), his wife Elke Buedenbender(L), Israel's President Isaac Herzog (2nd-R) and his wife Michal Herzog (2nd-L) visit the Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen Memorial, site of the concentration camp where thousands of prisoners were killed during World War II, in Bergen-Belsen near Nordhausen, central Germany, on September 6, 2022. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
September 6, 2022, 8:55 pm
Ending Germany trip, Herzog visits concentration camp his father helped liberate
‘In this terrible place, we remember the imperative that is binding on us all: the imperative of life,’ president says at Bergen-Belsen after meeting survivors, high schoolers
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Portraits of the victims are displayed at the end of a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, at the Fuerstenfeldbruck Air Base, southern Germany, on September 5, 2022. (Thomas KIENZLE / AFP)
September 5, 2022, 6:01 pm
At ceremony for 1972 massacre, Germany asks forgiveness of Munich victims’ relatives
Israeli, German presidents lead event marking 50 years since 11 Israelis killed in Olympic attack; Herzog: ‘This was not a Jewish and Israeli tragedy, it was a global tragedy’
By ToI Staff and AFP
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and his wife Elke Buedenbender (L) welcome Israeli President Isaac Herzog (2nd R) and his wife Michal Herzog, for a dinner at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin, on September 4, 2022. (Adam BERRY / AFP)
September 5, 2022, 5:06 am
German president: ‘Shameful’ it took Berlin decades to agree on Munich compensation
Meeting Herzog, Frank-Walter Steinmeier says country avoided its responsibility for 1972 massacre ‘for far too long’; Scholz decries ‘relativizing’ Holocaust, in nod to Abbas row
By AFP and ToI Staff
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, welcomes President Isaac Herzog to Bellevue Palace in Berlin, Germany, September 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 4, 2022, 5:53 pm
Meeting German president in Berlin, Herzog denounces ‘toothless’ Iran deal
Ahead of 50th anniversary memorial for Munich massacre, Steinmeier criticizes ‘shameful’ delay in compensation deal for relatives of Israeli athletes murdered in Olympic attack
By Amy Spiro
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