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Helene Le Gal during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 12, 2016. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)
April 30, 2019, 1:16 pm
Israel rebukes French envoy over colleague’s ‘apartheid’ accusation
Hélène Le Gal summoned to Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem over statement by Paris’s outgoing Washington ambassador; Gérard Araud says he was referring to the West Bank only
By Raphael Ahren
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/ Ludovic MARIN/File)
April 21, 2019, 9:44 pm
Israel said to reject ‘immoral’ French demand to resume tax transfers to Abbas
Paris implores Israel to renew payments — frozen because of PA’s funding for families of terrorists; Jerusalem replies that to do so would breach Europe’s anti-terror principles
By TOI staff
French national Romain Franck (R), then 24, a worker at the French consulate, and Palestinians Moufak al-Ajluni (L) and Mohamed Katout (C) appear in court in the Israeli city of Haifa on March 19, 2018, to face charges of smuggling guns from Gaza. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
April 8, 2019, 4:30 pm
Israel jails French consulate worker for Gaza gun smuggling
Romain Franck sentenced to seven years with a NIS 30,000 fine for using diplomatic car to ferry weapons from Gaza to West Bank
By AFP
Blue and White party No. 2 Yair Lapid meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, April 5, 2019. (Facebook screenshot)
April 6, 2019, 5:53 am
Emmanuel Macron meets with Yair Lapid four days before Israeli elections
Blue and White No. 2 and French president said to discuss Middle East, Iranian threat and anti-Semitism in Europe
By JTA and TOI staff
French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee palace on February 8, 2019 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)
April 5, 2019, 11:55 am
Four days before elections, Lapid to powwow with France’s Macron
Blue and White’s No. 2 had endorsed his ‘friend’ in 2017; the two will meet at the Elysee Palace to discuss Middle East issues and European anti-Semitism
By Raphael Ahren
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian leaves the Elysee presidential palace in Paris after a weekly cabinet meeting, on May 30, 2018 (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)
March 29, 2019, 1:17 pm
French-Israelis said to swindle millions by impersonating foreign minister
Three arrested in Israel on suspicions they scammed money they said would be used to pay ransoms of French citizens held in Mali and Syria
By TOI staff
A street advertisement for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2019, seen on a central street in Tel Aviv, on January 24, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)
March 25, 2019, 9:27 pm
Broadcaster delays airing Eurovision spoof after threat by European body
European Broadcasting Union warns Israel’s Kan against showing comedy mini-series that parodies a jihadist attempt to sabotage song contest
By AFP
The French Institute in East Jerusalem (Facebook photo)
March 22, 2019, 6:15 pm
France reprimands Israeli envoy after shut down of East Jerusalem event
Paris says police action at French Institute cultural center was a ‘serious and unacceptable attack,’ while Jerusalem insists event was sponsored by PA and thus illegitimate
By TOI staff
The French Institute in East Jerusalem (Facebook photo)
March 21, 2019, 5:19 pm
Israel shuts down East Jerusalem event in French center over alleged ties to PA
Participants in event deny association is funded by the Palestinian Authority; diplomatic source says French consulate views the closure ‘seriously’
By AFP and TOI staff
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in Paris on July 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)
February 20, 2019, 10:28 pm
Macron tells PM France will adopt definition of anti-Semitism mentioning Israel
Netanyahu’s office says French president promised to adopt the IHRA’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes expressions of anti-Zionism
By TOI staff and Agencies
A swastika and the words 'Shoa blabla' was on the monument in the Garden of Remembrance in the Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or cemetery, on February 20, 2019. (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
February 20, 2019, 10:06 pm
Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on monument in French cemetery
Swastika accompanied by the phrase ‘Passkon a pa le shoah’ (a denial of the Holocaust) inscribed in red on monument near Lyon
By AFP and TOI staff
Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, right, is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron on his arrival at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 23, 2019. (ludovic Marin/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 5:29 pm
Rivlin praises Macron for taking rising French anti-Semitism ‘seriously’
In ‘urgent letter,’ Israel’s president tells French counterpart spate of attacks against Jews an ‘affront to the Jewish people, to the French Republic, to all humanity’
By TOI staff and AP
Ilan Levy Neumand speaks during a radio interview on October 31, 2017 (screen capture: YouTube)
February 5, 2019, 2:38 pm
Israel arrests alleged sexual predator after France demands extradition
Ilan Levy-Neumand wanted for abusing 8 girls at his equestrian center in 1987-2001; after fleeing to Israel, he employed minors at stable he built in West Bank
By Jacob Magid
One of the several burial chambers of the Tomb of the Kings in East Jerusalem. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
January 25, 2019, 6:39 pm
Diplomatic and religious issues complicate reopening of ancient Jerusalem tomb
A tour of the French-owned, Roman-era Tomb of the Kings in East Jerusalem, which has been closed since 2010 for renovations
By Mike Smith
President Reuven Rivlin, right, is welcomed by French president Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 23, 2019. (Ludovic MARIN/AFP)
January 23, 2019, 11:28 pm
Rivlin warns Macron: Israel may have to hit Hezbollah rocket factories in Beirut
In Paris, president says Iran-backed terror group is manufacturing weapons under civilian cover in Lebanon’s capital, urges France to intervene
By Stuart Winer
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