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Igor Grosu, president of Moldova's parliament and leader of the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity, speaks to the media after the parliamentary election, in Chisinau, Moldova, September 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
September 29, 2025, 2:29 pm
Pro-EU party narrowly wins Moldovan election marred by claims of Russian meddling
Victory seen as crucial for ex-Soviet republic to maintain push toward EU integration; analysts warn ruling party had ‘fragile’ win, will struggle to form stable government
By Agencies
Moldovan President Maia Sandu casts her ballot in the parliamentary election in Chisinau on September 28, 2025. (Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP)
September 29, 2025, 4:31 am
Moldova’s pro-EU government nears majority in vote beset by Russian meddling claims
Ruling PAS party has more than 48% with nearly all votes counted after election in which government said voting infrastructure had come under cyberattack
By Agencies
A woman exiting a voting booth waits in line to cast her vote during a parliamentary election, in Chisinau, Moldova, September 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
September 28, 2025, 9:54 am
Moldovans vote in tense election plagued by Russian interference claims
Diaspora vote expected to be pivotal in determining whether landlocked nation of 2.5 million lets pro-EU governing party maintain its solid majority in parliament
By STEPHEN McGRATH
Librarian Olga Sivak holds up a newspaper from 1913, Bessarabian Life, at the Jewish Museum of Moldova in Chișinău. (Photo by Larry Luxner via JTA)
September 23, 2025, 4:44 pm
Most Moldovan Jews fled decades ago. Local Jewish life is now fueled by their descendants
Decimated by pogroms, the Holocaust and years of Soviet rule, the small but tenacious community is coping with antisemitism, poverty and an influx of refugees from neighboring Ukraine
By Larry Luxner
Orthodox Jews dance at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, in the town of Uman, Ukraine, October 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 31, 2025, 10:12 am
Ukraine reportedly won’t let annual Uman pilgrimage proceed due to security concerns
Reports say Kyiv to enforce ban on mass gatherings enacted after 2022 Russian invasion; Ukraine, Moldova both said asking Israel to pay millions for security if religious visits take place
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: People walk past a billboard depicting the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Tiraspol, the capital of the Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria, in Moldova on November 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
August 30, 2025, 3:11 am
As war rages in neighboring Ukraine, Transnistria’s Jews feel caught in a Soviet time warp
The Russian-aligned breakaway state in Moldova had a Jewish population of 300,000 before the Holocaust. The few remaining today battle heightened poverty amid neighboring conflict
By Larry Luxner
Police at the scene of a homicide in Nahariya where a woman was stabbed to death, June 7, 2025. (Israel Police)
June 8, 2025, 9:36 am
Woman killed in Nahariya, Moldovan national slain in Tel Aviv
Daniella Yakubovich, 67, stabbed to death, son arrested as suspect; Moldovan partner of man stabbed to death in Tel Aviv arrested along with three more nationals of that country
By ToI Staff
Moldova's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi in Jerusalem, May 29, 2025 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
June 1, 2025, 10:42 am
Opening of Israel’s new Chisinau embassy already showing results, says Moldova’s FM
Speaking to The Times of Israel in Jerusalem, Mihai Popsoi calls for deeper defense, agricultural, tourism ties; country’s ascension to the EU expected to add to pro-Israel bloc
By Lazar Berman
Michail Chkhikvishvili (US Department of Justice)
May 24, 2025, 5:18 pm
US extradites neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader from Moldova over plot targeting NYC Jews
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian who leads the Maniac Murder Cult, faces charges for allegedly ordering poisoned candy be handed out to Jewish kids and racial minorities
By Jake Offenhartz
Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024. (Screenshot: @DUDIKEPLER via Reuters)
March 31, 2025, 7:59 pm
UAE confirms sentencing 3 to death, 1 to life in prison, over killing of Chabad rabbi
Abu Dhabi court rules murder was in pursuit of ‘terrorist purpose,’ echoing Israeli assessment; 3 murder suspects were all Uzbek nationals; death sentences are subject to appeal
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Ilan Shor at a press conference February 25, 2019, following national elections in Moldova. (Facebook: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 22, 2024, 12:35 am
Israeli-born oligarch said to be behind Russian interference in Moldovan EU vote
Authorities claim Tel Aviv-born Ilan Shor tried to bribe 130,000 people to vote ‘no’ in EU referendum; Shor denies interfering, Russia says vote was ‘unfree’
By Reuters
Danil Kimenfeld (Facebook).
March 13, 2024, 9:53 pm
Danil Kimenfeld, 64: Doting grandfather, ‘anchor of the family’
Killed by Hamas terrorists while on a fishing trip at the Zikim beach on October 7
By ToI Staff
People chant slogans during a protest in Chisinau, Moldova, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
March 5, 2024, 3:05 pm
Poll on antisemitism in Moldova shows much hostility alongside widespread affection
Nearly half of respondents in Eastern European country say they don’t like Jews but 40% indicate they ‘really like’ them
By Canaan Lidor
Ilan Shor meets with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)
June 21, 2023, 6:05 pm
Moldova outlaws pro-Russia party led by oligarch living in Israel
Chisinau’s pro-European government has accused Ilan Shor, who fled the country in 2019 and is under US sanctions for alleged corruption, of trying to overthrow it
By AFP
Ilan Shor at a press conference February 25, 2019, following national elections in Moldova. (Facebook: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 5, 2023, 11:19 pm
US sanctions Russian-backed operatives linked to Israeli-Moldovan oligarch
7 individuals connected to pro-Russia politician Ilan Shor, currently in exile in Israel, designated by US Treasury for allegedly attempting to destabilize Moldova’s government
By FATIMA HUSSEIN
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