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Outside of bunker in which Re'im musical festival attendees were murdered by Hamas stand: Latvian MP Rihards Kols, Knesset Speaker MK Amir Ohana, IDF Col (Res) Golan Vach, Estonian MP Marko Mihkelson, MK Yuli Edelstein, Lithuanian MP Žygimantas Pavilionis, October 17, 2023. (Courtesy: MK Yuli Edelstein)
October 17, 2023, 8:32 pm
Baltic MPs: Hamas is in Iran-Russia ‘axis of evil,’ Europe must reevaluate its policy
After visiting Be’eri and Re’im massacre sites, 3 parliamentary foreign affairs committee heads say EU should reexamine its ‘bipartisan’ stance toward Israel and the Palestinians
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Gabrielius Landsbergis in 2021. (CC BY-SA Ragaiselis/Wikimedia Commons)
March 4, 2023, 2:21 am
Lithuanian FM: Europe watching Israel’s judicial overhaul with growing concern
Concluding visit, Gabrielius Landsbergis also says a consensus is building to designate Iran’s IRGC as a terror group amid its cooperation with Russia in Ukraine
By ToI Staff
Waiting at the gates of Chiune Sugihara's consul, Jewish refugees in Kovno, Lithuania, circa 1940. (Courtesy Nobuki Sugihara)
November 15, 2022, 8:05 pm
Lithuania mulls expanding compensation for Jewish property seized in WWII
PM Ingrida Simonyte files draft legislation to provide 37 million euros in reparations; 95% of country’s Jewish population was killed by Nazis and local collaborators
By AFP
Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania/ via JTA)
October 24, 2020, 10:51 pm
Lithuania mints first-ever EU coin with Hebrew letters, honoring Vilnius scholar
Bank of Lithuania unveils coin celebrating 300th anniversary of birth of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the ‘Vilna Gaon,’ who spent his life in Lithuanian capital of Vilnius
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans as he holds his group's flag during a protest against US involvement in Lebanon's affairs, near the US embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 13, 2020, 1:03 pm
Nine days after deadly Beirut blast, Lithuania outlaws Hezbollah
Citing Israeli intelligence, Vilnius says Iranian-backed group ‘uses terrorist means that pose threat to the security of a significant number of countries’
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of Lithuania, seen in 2016, heads the committee drafting legislation declaring that neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in the Holocaust. (Petras Malukas/AFP)
January 15, 2020, 5:16 am
Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes controversial Holocaust law
Government drafting legislation declaring neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in genocide. Survivors, historians and remembrance institutions say this is blatantly false
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Smashed and dilapidated graves at the old Jewish cemetery in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2019 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
August 4, 2019, 10:17 am
Graves, guilt and genius: Inside Lithuania’s struggle with its checkered past
Once an epicenter of Jewish life, the Baltic state still refuses to come clean about its dark history, critics charge. But recent developments show it is a work in progress
By Raphael Ahren
Lithuania Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius addresses the Atlantic Council's "NATO Engages The Alliance at 70" conference, in Washington, April 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
July 23, 2019, 6:03 am
Lithuanian FM: Israel’s rapprochement with Russia is ‘shortsighted’
Linas Linkevicius addresses his country’s efforts to ‘come clean’ about Holocaust complicity, and why Vilnius won’t recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization
By Raphael Ahren
Lithuanian presidential candidate Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, his wife Silvija Skverneliene and their children cast a ballot during the presidential election in Vilnius on May 12, 2019. (Photo by Petras Malukas / AFP)
May 13, 2019, 3:36 am
Lithuanian PM, who backed moving embassy to Jerusalem, loses presidential bid
Saulius Skvernelis says he’ll quit after failure to make second round runoff; economist Gitanas Nauseda will face conservative Ingrida Simonyte in final vote
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite speaks to the members of press at a polling station during the advance presidential elections in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
May 11, 2019, 5:58 am
Voters to pick successor Sunday to Lithuania’s popular ‘Iron Lady’
Leading presidential candidate, PM Saulius Skvernelis, speaks in favor of moving embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, strengthening security and trade ties with Israel
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)
March 19, 2019, 5:51 pm
Hitting campaign trail, Lithuanian PM says he may move embassy to Jerusalem
Saulius Skvernelis would consider relocating mission if he wins May election, calls Jerusalem one of Vilnius’ closest allies; Israel declines to comment
By AFP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)
January 31, 2019, 9:11 am
Netanyahu scorned for wooing Holocaust-distorting allies
Many say PM betraying victims’ memory by reaching out to ex-communist nations swept up in a wave of World War II-era revisionism
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis in Jerusalem, January 29, 2019 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
January 30, 2019, 7:58 am
PM tells Lithuanian leader they are ‘forging bridge from past to future’
Meeting in Jerusalem, the two PMs discuss cooperation on cybersecurity, trade and more
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks, visiting the the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, on August 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas)
August 26, 2018, 8:31 pm
At Vilnius synagogue, Netanyahu warns Jews are still under threat
PM tells Lithuanian Jewish community that 75 years after the Holocaust, Iran, Hamas and others ‘still seek to destroy us’
By Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, attend a remembrance ceremony at the Paneriai Holocaust Memorial near Vilnius, August 24, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)
August 24, 2018, 8:54 pm
Netanyahu honors Holocaust victims, ancestors in Lithuania
‘We will never be defenseless again,’ prime minister says at memorial ceremony outside Vilnius
By AFP
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