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Illustrative: Sacha Stawski, a member of the Jewish community who was attacked with red paint, along with other activists, as they hung hostage posters in a park on August 23, 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany. (Image from X)
August 23, 2025, 2:35 pm
Activists shoved, attacked with red paint while hanging hostage posters in Frankfurt park
Jewish activists say they were initially pushed away by individuals wearing masks and hoods who chanted ‘child killers’ and ‘Free Palestine’
By ToI Staff
Members of Or Tamid, an advocacy group in Frankfurt for survivors of sexual abuse, from left to right, Haleli Shomer Shalom, Roglit Ishay, Daniela Shemer and Niels Gerhardt. (Courtesy Or Tamid via JTA)
March 29, 2025, 10:27 am
Frankfurt Jewish community launches its own sexual abuse hotline amid crises and pressure
Unprecedented third-party hotline will protect 400 employees of local institutions, after advocacy by activist group; national Jewish group may also set up a wider system
By Toby Axelrod
An El Al flight takes off at Ben Gurion Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
December 29, 2024, 7:31 pm
El Al extends price caps to four international hubs through February 2025
Round-trip tickets to Athens stay at $299, while tickets to Vienna, Dubai, and Frankfurt set at $349; airline says it operates dozens of weekly flights there, will add more as able
By ToI Staff
A third century CE Christian silver amulet, discovered in a Roman-era grave in Frankfurt, Germany. (image capture/Monument Office of the city of Frankfurt am Main/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 17, 2024, 10:57 pm
Amulet found in Germany said to be ‘oldest Christian testimony north of the Alps’
Silver scroll, found to contain verses of protection in Latin, dates from the mid-3rd century CE. Israeli researcher says too early to draw conclusions
By Gavriel Fiske
A man rushes the stage with an Israel flag during a Roger Waters concert in Frankfurt, Germany, May 28, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 30, 2023, 3:01 am
Pro-Israel stage protester says Roger Waters’ guards threatened to break his neck
Marcel L., who rushed stage with Israeli flag at Frankfurt show, alleges violence by security; singer says act was ‘unnerving,’ as German police probe him for antisemitism
By ToI Staff
A woman holds a sign as she takes part in a protest against a Roger Waters concert later in the day in the Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
May 28, 2023, 6:16 pm
Jewish, local groups hold memorial, protest at Roger Waters gig in Frankfurt
Rally draws around 400 people, demonstrators read out names of 600 Jews rounded up in city on Kristallnacht, wave Israeli flags, hand out flyers to concert attendees
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Roger Waters performs in concert at Crypto.com Arena, September 27, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
April 26, 2023, 2:47 am
Court rules Frankfurt can’t cancel Roger Waters concert over his antisemitism record
German city’s administrative court says former Pink Floyd frontman ‘didn’t glorify or relativize the crimes of the Nazis or identify with Nazi racist ideology’
By Gabe Friedman
Roger Waters performs at the United Center in Chicago, July 26, 2022. (Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)
February 25, 2023, 7:17 am
German city cancels Roger Waters performance due to his antisemitism
Frankfurt calls former Pink Floyd frontman one of world’s ‘best-known antisemites,’ nixes scheduled performance at venue that imprisoned Jews after Kristallnacht
By ToI Staff
Franco Albrecht, a German army officer accused of planning a neo-Nazi attack, at a Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on July 15, 2022. (Boris ROESSLER / POOL / AFP)
July 15, 2022, 3:00 pm
German court sentences ex-soldier to 5 and a half years for far-right terror plot
Prosecutors say Franco Albrecht, 33, is first serviceman in post-war history convicted of attempting terrorist attack
By Sarah Maria Brech and Deborah Cole
German police officers wearing face mask walk past a flight board in a terminal at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
June 13, 2021, 3:28 am
Torah ark at Frankfurt airport vandalized with swastika
Nazi symbol discovered several days ago, but it remains unclear when it was daubed, as prayer room has been closed due to pandemic
By AP
Illustrative -- German police officers in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct.7, 2020 (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
June 11, 2021, 4:53 pm
Frankfurt dissolves elite police unit over far-right chats, neo-Nazi symbols
Prosecutors investigating 20 police officers, including elite commandos, 17 of them suspected of distributing content which incites racial hatred or sharing neo-Nazi images
By AFP
The empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)
August 19, 2020, 11:53 pm
Study centered on Israel flight finds low virus transmission risk on planes
Tourists traveling home to Frankfurt from Tel Aviv in March later found to have infection, but appear to have passed it on to only two other passengers
By AFP
Illustrative: Volunteers with a program now called Meet a Jew talk with non-Jewish students at a school in Frankfurt, November 5, 2019. (Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)
July 20, 2020, 5:50 am
All but eradicated in Holocaust, Frankfurt’s Jews today have a potent voice
Reduced from 30,000 to a mere 100 after WWII, the German community thrives today after an influx of outsiders have shaped the postwar city into a progressive haven
By Joe Baur
A large water fountain rises behind the Iron Bridge when a 250 kilogram American bomb from World War II in the Main River is detonated with a blast in Frankfurt, Germany, April 14, 2019. (Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa via AP)
April 14, 2019, 4:49 pm
Hundreds evacuated in Frankfurt so WWII bomb can be removed
250-kilogram device, discovered in Main River by divers last week, successfully defused underwater
By Agencies
A picture taken on October 21, 2017 shows an Egyptian policeman standing guard in the new city of el-Alamien, west of Alexandria. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
January 11, 2019, 1:56 pm
Egypt deports German citizen over alleged terror suspicions
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, who was detained in December, repatriated to Frankfurt, airport officials say
By Brian Rohan
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