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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

German Foreign Office

Iranians walk past a poster honoring the victims of a Ukrainian passenger jet accidentally shot down in the capital last week, in front of the Amirkabir University in the capital Tehran, on January 13, 2020. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
January 13, 2020, 3:59 pm
Iran police ordered to show ‘restraint’ at air disaster protests
Chief says force is showing ‘patience,’ Germany urges Iranian authorities to allow demonstrators ‘to express their opinions’ over downing of airliner
By AFP and ToI Staff
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, left, welcomes United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, at the foreign ministry's guest house, Villa Borsig, for talks in Berlin, Germany, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
June 6, 2019, 10:33 pm
German foreign minister heading to Iran in bid to save nuke deal
Heiko Maas to visit Tehran next week, meet with counterpart Zarif as Europe looks to salvage 2015 accord
By AP
The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (CC BY-SA Thorkild Tylleskar/Wikipedia)
May 22, 2019, 11:03 pm
In first, Germany votes against anti-Israel measure at World Health Organization
Israeli ambassador thanks Berlin for ‘significant and principled stand’; resolution blaming Israel for poor health conditions in Palestinian areas passes with overwhelming majority
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, on March 26, 2018. (GPO / Kobi Gideon)
May 12, 2019, 9:29 pm
Germany vows to back Israel at UN, in apparent break from past record
Israel’s envoy to Berlin welcomes statement as ‘clear signal’ of country’s determination to enhance Jerusalem’s standing in international fora
By Raphael Ahren
Felix Klein, the German government's first-ever special envoy to the Jewish community, at the 'Berlin wears a kippah' protest, April 25, 2018 (courtesy BMI)
April 25, 2018, 11:34 pm
German gov’t anti-Semitism czar agrees it can be unsafe to wear kippah in public
Felix Klein, Berlin’s first ever special envoy to Jewish community, grapples with surge in anti-Semitic attacks, says Jews’ fears over influx of Muslim, Arab refugees legitimate
By Raphael Ahren
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas takes the oath of office after the new government was appointed after German Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected for a fourth term as chancellor in the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
March 14, 2018, 11:02 pm
‘I entered politics because of Auschwitz,’ says new German FM
In his inaugural speech, Heiko Maas says Berlin’s responsibility toward the Jewish state ‘deeply motivates’ him, announces upcoming visit to Israel
By Raphael Ahren
German chancellor Angela Merkel (R), Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (C) and presidential candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Bundestag in Berlin, July 7, 2016. (AFP photo/John MacDougall)
February 8, 2017, 12:20 pm
Germany ‘disappointed,’ lost confidence in Israel after outpost law
Trust in Israel’s commitment to two-state solution ‘has been profoundly shaken’ by controversial legislation, Berlin says
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: A Palestinian checks a truck loaded with humanitarian aid from the US as it arrives in the Palestinian town of Rafah through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on August 6, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 16, 2016, 6:32 pm
PA claims it got no US aid in 2016. In fact, State Dept. gave Palestinians $357 million. And that’s not all
Palestinian PM last week accused the US of failing to come through with a single dollar of a promised $263 million. The American government actually gives more aid than any other country
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative photo of security prisoners in an Israeli prison (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 7, 2016, 3:21 pm
UK freezes $30m in Palestinian aid over salaries for terrorists
London says it will investigate whether PA used donor countries’ funds to finance payments to terror convicts in Israeli prisons
By ToI Staff
Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as part of the deal for the release of hostage Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
September 5, 2016, 7:45 am
In first, Germany admits PA is likely paying terrorists’ families
Berlin vows to investigate Ramallah’s system of monthly ‘salaries’ for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons for terror-related offenses
By Raphael Ahren
First responders remove a mattress from the home of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who died of her wounds after she was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist as she lay in bed at her home in Kiryat Arba, in the West Bank, June 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 30, 2016, 6:18 pm
US, Germany condemn killing of sleeping Israeli teen
State Department calls Kiryat Arba terror attack ‘unconscionable’; in Hebrew, Berlin says it is a ‘new record in atrocious and cruel acts’
By Stuart Winer
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