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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Isle of Jersey

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
April 13, 2022, 8:07 pm
Tax haven Jersey seizes $7 billion in suspected Abramovich-linked assets
British island gives no details on assets it froze; Russian-Israeli oligarch has been sanctioned by UK, EU over his links to Putin
By Agencies
A flare is lit as French fishing boats protest in front of the port of Saint Helier off the British island of Jersey to draw attention to what they see as unfair restrictions on their ability to fish in UK waters after Brexit, on May 6, 2021. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
May 6, 2021, 3:26 pm
Britain, France send gunboats to Jersey as tensions escalate over fishing rights
Post-Brexit spat between historic rivals causes Paris to threaten to cut electricity to self-governed British island, which is restricting fishing for French boats
By Sameer AL DOUMI, Adam PLOWRIGHT and Joe JACKSON
As part of the Paris avant-garde of the 1920s, Suzanne Malherbe, left, and Lucy Schwob created subversive, gender-bending art under the pseudonyms Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun. (Jersey Heritage Collections/ via New York Jewish Week)
December 12, 2020, 1:13 pm
Lesbian French couple who fought Nazis with their art slowly gain recognition
In ‘Paper Bullets,’ Jeffrey H. Jackson revisits the effort by the iconic pair, who demoralized German troops occupying island of Jersey and later inspired the likes of David Bowie
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, center, visits the Jersey Jewish Congregation in 2017. (Courtesy/Jersey Jewish Congregation via JTA)
July 25, 2020, 8:32 am
Pandemic pushes to the brink Jewish community of 49 on British island of Jersey
UK territory, known for its history of Nazi occupation and brutality, has a single synagogue with an elderly membership that is reckoning with isolation and decline
By Jacob Judah
Mourners carry a casket holding the remains of Frank Le Villio during a reburial ceremony at a church in St. Helier, Jersey, on September 5, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 7, 2018, 7:01 pm
70 years later, remains returned of Briton sent to Belsen for taking Nazi’s bike
Body of Frank Le Villio reinterred in ceremony in the Isle of Jersey
By ToI Staff
German soldiers standing in King Street, Saint Helier, at Charing Cross (now site of La Croix de la Reine monument) during the occupation of the Channel island of Jersey in World War II. (Bundesarchiv Bild)
From the WebAugust 30, 2018, 8:02 pm
‘Occupation’ board game found in attic on UK island pokes fun at Nazis
Monopoly-inspired game from Jersey in the English Channel dates from the 1940s, when Nazis held the island, and subversively mocks wartime life, The Guardian reports
Illustrative image of a woman using a laptop computer. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
From the WebFebruary 27, 2014, 12:41 pm
Jersey seeks to enhance relationships with Israel
Isle News: Long known as a banking center, the island hopes to expand its digital economy, with some help from the Start-Up Nation
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