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Ariel Tishby, curator of the exhbition 'Fact, Faith, and Fantasy - Maps of the Holy Land from the Chinn Collection,' which opened at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in January 2026. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2026, 9:11 am
As Iran tries to wipe Israel off the map, a museum charts those who first put it on
Now reopened with war on hold, Israel Museum exhibition explores maps produced from the 15th to 19th century that blended geography with biblical beliefs and contemporary politics
By Rossella Tercatin
An online post headed 'No Zionists in UEFA/FIFA' calling for protests as 'a direct clash' with Israeli security forces and the Mossad in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024. (Screen grab via Instagram used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 8, 2024, 11:41 pm
Report: Israeli authorities foresaw danger in Amsterdam, failed to warn soccer club, fans
Dutch officials were reportedly told of risk, urged to up security; city bans demos for three days, gives cops emergency powers after attacks by ‘antisemitic hit-and-run squads’
By ToI Staff
Holland's King Willem-Alexander, right, officially unveiling a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, September 19, 2021, (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
September 19, 2021, 8:13 pm
Dutch king, PM unveil Amsterdam memorial naming nation’s 102,000 Holocaust dead
Monument in capital’s historic Jewish Quarter, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is made up of name plaques for each of country’s Jewish, Roma and Sinti victims killed by Nazis in WWII
By Mike Corder
This file picture shows Dutch Lodewijk Frederik Ottens - called Lou Ottens - the inventor of the cassette tape, posing during a photo session in Eindhoven, on January 23, 2013 (Jerry Lampen / ANP / AFP)
March 13, 2021, 9:18 am
Dutch inventor of cassette tape, who filled teen bedrooms with music, dies at 94
Engineer Lou Ottens’ interest in tech was sparked as a boy when he built a radio with a special antenna that he called the ‘Germanenfilter’ because it could avoid Nazi jammers
By Danny Kemp
The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam via JTA)
December 5, 2020, 8:53 am
Holocaust novel on Dutch rescue of hundreds of Jewish kids slammed for errors
Critics say book depicting operation to smuggle children out of Amsterdam kindergarten during WWII twists historical record; publisher stands by author
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An example of a profile page on Fiverr (Courtesy)
July 28, 2020, 12:44 pm
Fiverr expands global reach, sets up Dutch, Italian freelance services sites
Giving users the opportunity to interact in their native language will lead to increased adoption of platform in these markets, CEO Micha Kaufman says
By Shoshanna Solomon
Two people look at the glass door which was smashed during a break-in at the Singer Museum in Laren, Netherlands, March 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
March 30, 2020, 6:38 pm
Van Gogh stolen from Dutch museum closed due to virus
‘Spring Garden’ nabbed from Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam in overnight raid
By AP
Dutch police secure a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP Photo/ Phil Nijhuis)
December 1, 2019, 9:47 pm
No sign of terror motive in Hague stabbings, police say
Dutch officials arrest homeless man in Friday attack on three teens, just hours after terror suspect stabbed two people to death in London
By AFP
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport (CC-BY-SA Cjh1452000/Wikipedia)
November 6, 2019, 10:14 pm
Amsterdam police say passengers ‘safe’ after false hijacking alert
Hijacking protocols were initiated ‘by mistake,’ says Air Europa. ‘We deeply apologize’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this photo from May 9, 2015, a man puts a rose on the railroad tracks at former concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, remembering more than a hundred thousand Jews who were transported from Westerbork to Nazi death camps. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
August 28, 2019, 5:29 pm
Dutch Holocaust museum drops ex-director’s claim Jews threatened to kill him
Dirk Mulder said in April that anti-immigration activists and people from ‘the Jewish circle’ had sent death threats over event on Middle Eastern migrants
By Cnaan Liphshiz
BDS activist Simon Vrouwe promoting the anti-Israel movement amid a counter protest by Michael Jacobs In Amsterdam on April 23, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
July 2, 2019, 1:08 am
Dutch BDS activists to cease protests at Amsterdam WWII memorial
Move comes following uptick in anti-Semitic incidents in the Netherlands and after woman was filmed delivering anti-Semitic screed at site
By JTA
Illustrative image of a circumcision. (yoglimogli, iStock by Getty Images)
May 31, 2019, 3:41 am
Netherlands Health Ministry says Jewish circumcisers are breaking the law
Two well-known mohels who do not have medical degrees to be questioned by government inspection team
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Spectators watch the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
May 19, 2019, 3:08 am
Fans sing along to most pro-LGBT Eurovision, though winning song isn’t kitschy
Audience love France for embracing difference, Iceland for counterculture message, Russia for putting its singer in a shower, and Azerbaijan for hooking up to a heart machine
By Jessica Steinberg
Esther Voet is the editor in chief of the Dutch Jewish magazine Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad. (Courtesy of NIW/via JTA)
March 19, 2019, 10:49 pm
Jewish journalist’s Purim prank about fleeing anti-Semitism shocks Holland
Amid rising anti-Jewish incidents, respected Jewish weekly editor Esther Voet says she’s moving to Israel where ‘getting called a dirty Jew simply means I have to take a bath’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Flowers have been set up in tribute to victims at the site of a shooting in a tram, at 24 October square in Utrecht, on March 19, 2019, one day after three people were shot dead and several were injured in the attack. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)
March 19, 2019, 2:36 pm
Letter in Dutch suspect’s getaway car suggests terror motive: prosecutors
Reports had previously suggested tram shooting was a family feud; Utrecht police arrest two in addition to suspected gunman
By AFP
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