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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

Joachim Gauck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier deliver joint statements to the media before their meeting in Jerusalem on November 16, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP / POOL / RONEN ZVULUN)
May 1, 2017, 11:53 am
Will German president defy Netanyahu, meet Breaking the Silence?
Amid nadir in ties after FM’s visit, Frank-Walter Steinmeier due in Israel at the weekend; held talks with left-wing NGO on previous trip as minister
By Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin addresses a Holocaust memorial day ceremony at the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Lohamei HaGeta'ot on April 24, 2017. (Rami Shllush)
April 24, 2017, 9:58 pm
Blasting Le Pen, Rivlin calls for ‘war’ on new kind of Holocaust denial
At event marking end of Holocaust Remembrance Day, president says Israel must resist ‘unholy alliances with extreme right-wing elements’
By Raphael Ahren
Newly elected German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech after the presidential election at the Bundesversammlung federal assembly Bundestag (lower house of parliament) on February 12, 2017, in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / Axel Schmidt)
February 13, 2017, 10:47 pm
German Jewish community welcomes new president Steinmeier
Umbrella group hails ex-FM as strong Israel supporter, ‘most upright and staunch advocate of our democratic values’
By JTA
Queen Rania, left, and King Abdullah of Jordan, center, with German President Joachim Gauck wave to citizens on the historic town hall balcony in Muenster, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
October 8, 2016, 7:54 pm
Jordan’s King Abdullah II awarded peace prize in Germany
President Gauck says Hashemite Kingdom setting ‘standards for humanity’ by hosting 635,000 Syrian refugees
By AP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime minister for the federal state of Saxony, Stanislaw Tillich, right, take part in festivities to celebrate the Day of German Unity in Dresden on October 3, 2016. (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)
October 3, 2016, 6:45 pm
Anti-migrant protesters greet Merkel with shouts of ‘Get out’ in Dresden
Thousands of police secure reunification celebrations as chancellor faces ongoing criticism for handling of refugee crisis
By AFP
Shimon Peres with children at the Peres Center for Peace (Peres Center for Peace Archives)
September 28, 2016, 5:49 pm
Obama, Hollande, Prince Charles among dozens of world leaders to honor Peres at funeral
Presidents of France, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Poland confirm their attendance at Friday funeral for 9th president
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
US President Barack Obama meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office of the White House on June 25, 2014, in Washington, DC (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
September 28, 2016, 10:02 am
Obama, world leaders to attend Peres’s funeral in Jerusalem
German, Canadian, French and Australian heads of state, along with Britain’s Prince Charles, also set to fly to Israel for Friday event; late president’s body to lie in state at the Knesset Thursday
By Raphael Ahren
A German soldier keeping watch during a patrol near Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province in Afghanistan on April 2, 2012. (AFP Photo/Johannes Eisele)
July 11, 2016, 11:17 pm
Shedding post-war timidity, Germany seeks greater role in global security
Burdened by guilt of its Nazi past, the European country for years shied away from using its military muscle, but no longer
By Yacine LE FORESTIER
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally to mark the 563rd anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul by Ottoman Turks, Istanbul, May 29, 2016. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
June 2, 2016, 4:27 pm
Erdogan slams Germany for Armenian genocide vote, recalls envoy
Furious Turkey also summons Germany’s charge d’affaires in Ankara, says resolution will ‘seriously affect relations’
By AFP
Lawmakers vote to recognize the Armenian genocide after a debate during the 173rd sitting of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, Berlin, June 2, 2016. (AFP/ODD ANDERSEN)
June 2, 2016, 3:26 pm
Germany recognizes Armenian genocide, prompts Turkish ire
Ankara recalls its ambassador in protest after Berlin vote on death of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I
By Hui Min NEO
Historian Fritz Stern during an interview in 2015 (YouTube screenshot)
May 19, 2016, 3:48 am
Fritz Stern, prominent Holocaust historian, dead at 90
Stern, whose family fled Germany to the US in the 1930s, spent his life researching the rise of Nazism and European history
By AP
President Reuven Rivlin, October 28, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
November 10, 2015, 11:18 am
Obama invites President Rivlin to Washington
Meeting scheduled for December will be the first time the two men have sat together
By Stuart Winer
Supporters of the German right-wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) hold up a poster reading "Give No Chance to Islam" as they attend a PEGIDA rally on June 1, 2015 in Dresden, eastern Germany (Jens Schlueter/AFP)
June 5, 2015, 6:37 am
German anti-Islam group seeks electoral anchor
As rallies dwindle, PEGIDA is now hoping for a victory in Dresden local elections
By AFP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attend a press conference on June 3, 2015 at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO/TOBIAS SCHWARZ)
June 3, 2015, 10:03 pm
Protests, mega-deal as Merkel welcomes Egypt’s Sissi
German chancellor criticizes human rights violations in Egypt but vows economic support in fight against Islamic State
By AFP
German daily newspaper The Bild features the Hebrew-languages headline 'Good day Israel' to mark 50 years of ties between Israel and Germany, May 12, 2015. (JTA/Toby Axelrod)
May 14, 2015, 8:47 pm
German daily features Hebrew headline
Bild newspaper commemorates 50 years of ties with Jewish State, coinciding with President Rivlin’s visit
By JTA
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