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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Moshe Kantor

Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, speaks at the World Holocaust Forum, at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun, Pool via AP)
September 14, 2023, 7:48 pm
Herzog said to ask Macron to help remove sanctions on Putin-linked oligarch Kantor
Russia-born Moshe Kantor resigned last year as president of the European Jewish Congress after facing sanctions for his ties to the regime
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images), Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images ), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images) All images via JTA.
July 12, 2022, 7:52 am
With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties
With no end in sight to invasion of Ukraine, effect of sanctions ripples through world of Jewish philanthropy
By MADELINE FIXLER and Asaf Shalev
Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, speaks at the World Holocaust Forum, at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun, Pool via AP)
April 27, 2022, 12:21 am
Sanctions on Russian oligarchs bite into funding for Jewish institutions
Many educational foundations in Israel rely on the philanthropy of Jewish billionaires, some of whom have close ties with both Putin and Jerusalem
By Josef Federman
Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
April 9, 2022, 1:14 am
European Jewish Congress head Moshe Kantor resigns following UK sanctions
Resignation comes after Kantor was included in a list of 8 ‘oligarchs’ sanctioned for ties to Putin regime; EJC to convene in coming days to decide future
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
April 6, 2022, 11:21 pm
UK sanctions EJC chief Moshe Kantor in latest round of measures against Russia
US to sanction Russia’s top banks and two daughters of Putin following alleged war crimes in Bucha; Kyiv warns residents in the east to evacuate ahead of feared assault
By AFP and ToI Staff
Head of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)
February 27, 2022, 6:14 pm
Yad Vashem ‘deplores’ Russian invasion, condemns use of Nazi rhetoric by both sides
Israel’s Holocaust museum, which has received major donations from Putin-tied oligarchs, refrains from singling out Moscow in its statement, on 4th day after fighting began
By Judah Ari Gross
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the inauguration of the Memorial Candle monument in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 commemorating the people of Leningrad during a WWII Nazi siege on the city. (Emmanuel Dunad, Pool via AP)
February 12, 2020, 3:48 pm
Yad Vashem: Blame us, not Russia, for ‘unfortunate’ video at Holocaust event
‘There were no external attempts to influence or exert pressure on Yad Vashem,’ says a spokesman, though ‘regrettably there were a few historical inaccuracies’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Moshe Kantor, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
January 23, 2020, 6:44 pm
Educate, legislate, enforce: Full text of Moshe Kantor’s Holocaust Forum speech
At the current rate, ‘in only 30 years there could be no Jews in Europe,’ president of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation says at Yad Vashem
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)
January 23, 2020, 4:52 pm
Putin: Nazis’ European accomplices were often ‘crueler than their masters’
At Yad Vashem, Russian leader claims 40% of Jews killed in genocide were Soviet citizens; event organizer warns there ‘could be no Jews left in Europe by 2050’
By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren
Moshe Kantor, the head of the European Jewish Congress, is pictured during an interview with AFP in Jerusalem on January 6, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 23, 2020, 12:59 pm
As Holocaust memorial begins, organizers deny event becoming politicized
Moshe Kantor claims world forum has succeeded in using Holocaust remembrance to highlight ‘the crisis of anti-Semitism,’ adds, ‘It’s ‘a shame that Poland is not part of that’
By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren
Preparations under way at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 20, 2020, for a state dinner for world leaders attending the World Holocaust Forum events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. (Courtesy: Alon Fargo)
January 22, 2020, 7:41 am
Everything you must know about the biggest diplomatic event in Israel’s history
Who’s coming and who’s boycotting the event? Who will be allowed to speak? Will Putin sit next to Pence? What are the leaders doing in their spare time? And what’s on the menu?
By Raphael Ahren
Auschwitz Museum director Piotr Cywińsk (Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz)
January 22, 2020, 6:35 am
Director of Auschwitz Museum slams holding of World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem
Piotr Cywinski accuses organizers of trying to replace annual ceremony in Poland; fumes that ‘it’s simply so provocative and immature that I do not find the words to comment on it’
By Raphael Ahren
Moshe Kantor, the head of the European Jewish Congress, is pictured during an interview with AFP in Jerusalem on January 6, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 9, 2020, 8:04 pm
Europe’s Jewish population could vanish due to anti-Semitism, says Jewish leader
Ahead of Jerusalem gathering to mark Auschwitz liberation, European Jewish Congress’s Moshe Kantor says Jew hatred best fought with ‘fear’ of a future tragedy
By AFP
A member of the Jewish community looks at broken tombstones after a ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, eastern France, on February 17, 2015, following the desecration of around 300 tombs. (AFP/Patrick Hertzog)
December 10, 2018, 3:43 pm
Jewish groups say EU anti-Semitism poll is ‘final warning,’ urge Europe to act
Umbrella organizations say European leadership needs to take urgent steps after massive survey finds 90% of European Jews sense increasing levels of hatred toward them
By ToI Staff
Hungarian President Janos Ader, center, and his wife, Anita Herczegh, right, are escorted by Maria Schmidt, left, as they tour the House of Terror museum to pay tribute on the memorial day for victims of communism in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, February 25, 2015. (AP Photo/MTI, Tamas Kovacs)
September 18, 2018, 11:06 pm
Hungary’s Holocaust museum triggers bitter conflict between Jewish groups
Most want nothing to do with museum, now being run by Chabad, amid dispute over its chief Mara Schmidt, a historian who has equated Nazism and communism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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