Moldova

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) hosts Moldavian Prime Minister Pavel Filip in his Jerusalem office, November 9, 2017 (Amos Ben Gershom,/GPO)

June 13, 2019, 6:21 pm

Why Israel didn’t celebrate when Moldova vowed to move its embassy from Tel Aviv

Ramallah rushed to condemn the Eastern European ‘rogue state,’ but Jerusalem feels it’s being used by an increasingly isolated PM in Chisinau who won’t be able to keep his promise

By Raphael Ahren

In this photo from November 24, 2017, Moldova's Prime Minister Pavel Filip arrives for an EU Eastern Partnership summit with six eastern partner countries at the European Council in Brussels. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

June 12, 2019, 7:04 pm

Palestinians rip Moldova for Jerusalem embassy move announcement

Senior PLO official labels declaration by Moldovan PM ‘an act of unreserved hostility against the Palestinian people’

By TOI staff and Agencies

Vladimir Plahotniuc, the leader of the Democratic Party, right, watches Moldova's Prime Minister Pavel Filip speak during a press statement in Chisinau, Moldova, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

June 12, 2019, 5:31 am

Amid unrest, Moldova says it will move its embassy to Jerusalem

Announcement comes as political turmoil rocks the nation, which would become the only European country with embassy in capital

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Participants of a conference organized by the Germany-based foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (EJCI) watch a drone take off over a Jewish cemetery near the village of Reca, Slovakia, February 26, 2019. (Petr David Josek/AP)

February 27, 2019, 6:20 pm

Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries

Nonprofit organization plans to map boundaries of 1,500 endangered burial grounds in Slovakia, Greece, Moldova, Lithuania and Ukraine so they can be properly enclosed

By Karel Janicek

Moldova's parliamentary candidate Ilan Shor, businessman, leader of his self-named party and the mayor of the town of Orhei, meets with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)

February 25, 2019, 6:23 pm

Convicted Israeli-born fraudster Ilan Shor wins seat in Moldova’s parliament

Mayor of Moldovan city was sentenced to 7.5 years for fraud and money laundering; remains free pending his appeal

By TOI staff

Moldova's parliamentary candidate Ilan Shor, businessman, leader of his self-named party and the mayor of the town of Orhei, arrives to meet with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel MIHAILESCU/AFP)

February 20, 2019, 9:10 am

Israeli-born convicted fraudster on track for seat in Moldovan parliament

Businessman Ilan Shor is running on an anti-corruption platform, despite having been convicted in massive fraud case

By Ionut Iordachescu and Mihaela RODINA

An illustrative photo of students at a Jewish day school. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

February 15, 2019, 11:27 pm

Jewish Sunday schools pop up across Europe and Asia

Newest school opens in Bulgaria as part of program by Euro-Asian Jewish Congress to expand Jewish learning

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts Moldovan President Igor Dodon on his first visit to Israel, December 18, 2018 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

December 31, 2018, 6:43 pm

Moldova president said to ‘very seriously consider’ moving embassy to Jerusalem

Igor Dodon, who visited Israel earlier this month, reportedly made the comment at a meeting last week with Jewish leaders

By JTA

Students work on a specially crafted treatment mannequin at the $5 million medical simulation center that the European Union paid for at Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University. (Andrei Ichim/ Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University)

December 17, 2018, 4:51 am

Nearly 1,600 Arab and Jewish Israeli med students flock to Moldova for school

Israeli citizens make up a quarter of the student body at Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University in Chisinau — by far the largest group of foreign pupils

By Hal Foster

December 1, 2018, 1:56 am

Moldovan caregiver’s family, including daughter, 5, deported without meeting her

Authorities says Anna Bogorz’s relatives were required to leave because her brother, on previous trip, filed for asylum

By TOI staff

A view of Chisinau, Moldova (CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

November 1, 2018, 7:24 pm

Jewish cemetery vandalized in Moldovan capital

Meanwhile Jewish headstones uncovered in Ukraine under wooden floorboards of a military barracks

By JTA

Illustrative photo of gas balloons outside an apartment. (photo credit: Flash90)

October 8, 2018, 3:33 pm

2 Israelis killed in gas explosion in Moldova

Victims, in their 70s, were in 15th-floor apartment in Kishinev when illegally placed cooking canister blew up; Foreign Ministry helping bring their bodies to Israel

By TOI staff

Ilan Shor, the Israel-born mayor of Orhei, Moldova (YouTube screenshot)

August 10, 2018, 11:46 pm

Moldovan Jews slam ‘hate speech’ after tirade against convicted Jewish mayor

Former sports minister Octavian Țicu denies bigotry in statements he made against Ilan Shor

By JTA

One of numerous photographs taken following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. Here, a Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home (public domain)

April 9, 2018, 5:05 am

How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history

Until the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was the archetype for anti-Jewish persecution, according to a new book about the massacre’s long afterlife

By Matt Lebovic

Pavel Preida, a Roma Holocaust survivor in Moldova, and the document that states he was an inmate in a concentration camp. (Courtesy Roma National Center from Moldova)

September 23, 2017, 11:19 pm

Roma Holocaust survivors look to Jews as model for recognition — and reparation

Despite the murder and confiscation of property during WWII, illiteracy, lack of organization and racism prevent the community from receiving proper compensation

By Julie Masis