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People visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on January 9, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 29, 2026, 6:51 am
Yad Vashem to open Holocaust education center in Munich, first outside Israel
‘In a world without Holocaust survivors, one needs new ways to tell the story,’ says head of Berlin-based Friends of Yad Vashem; extension also planned in Germany’s Leipzig
By Zev Stub and JTA
A detective stands with a flashlight in front of the smashed window of a Jewish-owned Israeli restaurant in Munich, Germany, on April 10, 2026. (Felix Hörhager/dpa via Reuters Connect)
April 10, 2026, 9:06 pm
Jewish-owned Israeli restaurant vandalized in Munich; police suspect antisemitic motive
No one injured; investigators believe pyrotechnic devices were thrown into Eclipse Grillbar restaurant, breaking several windows; suspects fled, no arrests made
By AP and ToI Staff
Supporters of Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi attend a demonstration during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 14, 2026, 6:00 pm
250,000 rally in Munich against Iran’s regime as Pahlavi urges ‘global day of action’
On sidelines of global security conference, crowds wave imperial flags and chant ‘long live the shah,’ urging regime change a month after brutal protest crackdown
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Police officers in Munich secure the area after a shooting near the Israeli consulate and the building of the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism on September 5, 2024. (Lukas Barth-Tuttas/AFP)
September 10, 2025, 4:21 pm
German human rights group seeks to prosecute IDF soldier over Gaza war role
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights says it filed criminal complaint with German prosecutors over Israeli sniper who was born and raised in Munich
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Emergency services attend the scene after a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
February 15, 2025, 10:41 pm
2-year-old girl and mother die of wounds from Munich car-ramming attack
German prosecutor says Afghan national who wounded 37 uttered ‘Allahu Akbar’ to police after plowing into trade union demonstration
By AFP
Emergency services attend the scene where a driver hit a group of people in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
February 13, 2025, 2:45 pm
28 injured as car drives into Munich crowd; Bavaria governor says attack suspected
Suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, in police custody; car plowed into a demonstration by union workers; children among those hurt
By Agencies
Elite police officers from France's Research and Intervention Brigade, leave after an operation near the Iranian consulate, Friday, April 19, 2024 in Paris. (AP/Thomas Padilla)
September 8, 2024, 5:38 am
Paris charges couple in Iranian plot targeting Jews in France, Germany
Authorities claim Iranian spies recruited locals to attack ex-employee of Israeli security firm and others in Paris, Munich and Berlin, set fire to Israeli-owned businesses
By AFP
Police officers secure the area after a shooting near the Israeli consulate in Munich, southern Germany, September 5, 2024. (Lukas Barth-Tuttas/AFP)
September 7, 2024, 1:39 am
Police seize electronic devices from home of Munich shooter; no IS propaganda found
Police shoot dead Austrian, 18, who used rifle with a bayonet attached in ‘assumed terror attack’ on consulate; local reports suggest he was known to authorities as an Islamist
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Police officers patrol after police fired shots at a suspicious person near the Israeli Consulate and a museum on the city's Nazi-era history in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
September 5, 2024, 3:07 pm
Gunman killed in shootout near Israeli consulate in Munich, on 1972 attack anniversary
Police shoot dead Austrian, 18, who used rifle with a bayonet attached in ‘assumed terror attack’ on consulate; local reports suggest he was known to authorities as an Islamist
By AP, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Cantor Nikola David appears in a 2018 performance. (March of Life on YouTube via JTA)
August 13, 2024, 6:51 am
Prominent German cantor, opera singer killed in what police say was family dispute
Nikola David’s adult son being held on suspicion of manslaughter since Aug. 2 killing, which rocked Munich’s Jewish community
By Toby Axelrod
Co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel (L) and co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla react after first exit polls after the European Parliament elections in Berlin, on June 9, 2024. (Ralf Hirschberger / AFP)
June 10, 2024, 3:11 pm
Germans say far-right AfD lacks legitimacy, even after its European Parliament gains
Amid a nationalist swell, AfD rises 5 percentage points but remains too controversial for widespread public support – even for some small-town sympathizers
By Canaan Lidor
From left to right: Pinkus Schwarz, Maximillian Feuerring, Ewa Brzezinska and Hirsch Szylis outside Munich’s Lenbachhaus Municipal Art Gallery in 1948. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Jewish Museum Munich)
December 30, 2023, 2:44 am
Resurrected exhibit provides insight into Jewish artists during, after the Holocaust
‘Munich Displaced,’ at the Munich Jewish Museum through March 17, portrays the city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war
By Bernard Dichek
Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, affixes a mezuzah to the doorframe of the Centre for Jewish Life in Munich, Germany on September 19, 2023. (CER)
September 20, 2023, 11:44 am
Orthodox European rabbinical group finds a home in Munich, with new funding
After decamping post-Brexit UK, the Conference of European Rabbis becomes first major international Jewish group to open its headquarters in Germany since the Holocaust
By Canaan Lidor
A stone tablet with some of the Ten Commandments is seen after constructions workers in Munich uncover rubble from the synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis, July 2023 (Courtesy Jewish Museum Munich)
July 6, 2023, 8:31 pm
Rubble from Munich synagogue razed on Hitler’s orders found during construction work
Remains from German city’s former main house of Jewish worship, which the Nazi leader declared an ‘eyesore,’ include part of stone Ten Commandments tablet
By ToI Staff
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder (center) receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis, while standing alongside CER president Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt (right) and Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, in Munich, May 9, 2023. (Marc Müller/CER)
May 12, 2023, 12:19 pm
Brexit forces European rabbinical group to decamp for Munich
Conference of European Rabbis has planned move from London for years, viewing need for its offices to be in heart of Europe; organization’s head says Germany is ideal location
By Toby Axelrod
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