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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

Norway

Norwegian soccer player Erling Haaland, top, who plays for Manchester City, duels for the ball with Bournemouth's Lewis Cook during the English FA Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Bournemouth and Manchester City at the Vitality stadium in Bournemouth, England, March 30, 2025. (Ian Walton/AP)
April 17, 2025, 11:10 am
Soccer star Haaland calls freed hostage and mega fan Omer Shem Tov
Norwegian holds video conversation with former captive; Shem Tov thanks him for ‘amazing’ gesture
By ToI Staff
Left image: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. Right image: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, poses with newly appointed PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, in Ramallah on March 14, 2024. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP; PPO / AFP)
January 13, 2025, 12:54 am
Israel, PA ink deal to release $500 million in withheld Palestinian tax revenues
Funds will be used to pay off debt to Israel Electric Corporation; both sides declare victory after agreeing to mechanism that US hopes can be used for release of additional money
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: An employee in the offices of the Bezeq telecom firm in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
December 4, 2024, 12:54 pm
Norway wealth fund divests from Bezeq over services to West Bank settlements
Decision follows toughening of stance by fund’s watchdog, which says presence of telecom firm in disputed territory violates international law even though it also serves Palestinians
By Reuters and ToI Staff
An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, in a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)
December 2, 2024, 1:22 pm
Report: Israeli-US man behind JCC bomb threats held in Norway pending US extradition
Oslo rejects asylum request of man who served 7 years in jail in Israel for making thousands of fake attack calls as a teen, including to Jewish sites, but still faces related charges in US
By ToI Staff
Police stand guard at the site of a mass shooting in Oslo, early June 25, 2022. (Javad Parsa/NTB via AP)
October 12, 2024, 9:44 pm
Norway introduces temporary border checks amid threats to Jewish, Israeli targets
Police say new measures a result of domestic security agency’s decision to raise threat level; will not be applied to all travelers
By AP and ToI Staff
Police stand guard at the site of a mass shooting in Oslo, early June 25, 2022. (Javad Parsa/NTB via AP)
October 8, 2024, 7:55 pm
Norway hikes terror threat level to ‘high’ over threats to Jewish, Israeli sites
Alert comes week after neighboring Denmark charged 2 suspects for detonating hand grenades near Israel’s embassy
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
September 28, 2024, 11:27 am
Europeans, Arab and Muslim nations launch a new initiative for a Palestinian state
Norway and Saudi Arabia co-host a conference attended by 90 countries on sidelines of UN General Assembly to accelerate statehood, bolster two-state solution
By Edith M. Lederer
Lebanese first responders carry a man who was wounded after his handheld pager exploded in an attack blamed on Israel targeting Hezbollah, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, September 17, 2024. (AP Photo)
September 26, 2024, 9:34 pm
Norway issues global search request for man linked to exploding Hezbollah pagers
Rinson Jose, founder of Bulgarian company that was said to be part of pager supply chain, has been missing since Sept. 18
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The entrance of a building reportedly housing the Norta Global company according to company contacts, in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 19, 2024. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)
September 25, 2024, 11:51 am
Norway probing citizen’s reported links to exploding Hezbollah pagers
Police say they have launched a ‘preliminary investigation’ into claims a Norwegian-founded Bulgaria-based company was involved in sale of devices
By Nerijus Adomaitis
The entrance of a building reportedly housing the Norta Global company according to company contacts, in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 19, 2024. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)
September 20, 2024, 5:49 am
Sleuthing for origins of exploding Hezbollah pagers widens to Bulgaria and Norway
Lebanese security source says ‘it’s possible that the Mossad created a European company’ to send the devices to the terror group, which believed they were produced in Asia
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide talks to media as he arrives to attend an informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs at Czernin Palace in Prague, Czech Republic on May 31, 2024. (Michal Cizek / AFP)
August 18, 2024, 3:11 am
Norway shutters Palestinian office after Israel revokes diplomats’ accreditation
Norwegian foreign minister decries Israeli government’s ‘extreme and unreasonable’ decision, vows Oslo will continue working for ‘viable Palestinian state’ despite setbacks
By ToI Staff
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
August 10, 2024, 11:58 pm
Foreign Ministry rails at ‘extremist’ Norway after revoking its diplomats’ status
Spokesman cites Oslo’s Palestinian state recognition, failure to call Hamas a terror group, support for ICC case; UK urges Israel ‘to reconsider,’ joining US and EU condemnations
By ToI Staff
A man walks outside the West Bank Ramallah municipality building on May 24, 2024, adorned with flags of Spain, Ireland and Norway. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)
August 9, 2024, 8:38 am
US, EU say Israel revoking Norwegian diplomats’ status ‘unwarranted,’ not ‘helpful’
Josep Borrell says EU in ‘full solidarity’ with Oslo, after Israel says it will withdraw accreditation of eight Norwegian diplomats who dealt with Palestinian Authority
By Agencies and Sam Sokol
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands listening to the verdict in a glass cage of a courtroom inside the building of 'Palace of justice,' in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 19, 2024. (AP)
August 1, 2024, 10:09 pm
US reporter Evan Gershkovich freed in 24-prisoner swap between Russia, West
Biden hails ‘diplomatic feat’ alongside American prisoners’ families at White House; Medvedev celebrates Russians who ‘worked for the fatherland’
By Danny Kemp and Volkan NAKIBOGLU
A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway, painted by the anonymous artist Töddel, July 2024. (Courtesy of Töddel via JTA)
July 26, 2024, 7:54 pm
Graffiti in Norway of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh sparks outrage
Anonymous artist Töddel claims teen killed in Holocaust would support their call to end ‘the killings of the innocent women and children in Gaza’
By Andrew Lapin
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