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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

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Zaniar Matapour appears in court in Oslo, Norway, March 12, 2024. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)
July 4, 2024, 5:49 pm
Iranian-born Norwegian man found guilty of terror attack at Oslo LGBTQ festival
Zaniar Matapour, who had sworn allegiance to ISIS, sentenced to 30 years after killing two people and seriously wounding nine in the Norwegian capital in 2022
By JAN M. OLSEN
File: Picture taken on August 3, 2022 shows a visitor taking pictures of Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The Scream" at the National Museum in Oslo, Norway.(Heiko Junge / NTB / AFP)
November 11, 2022, 4:00 pm
Climate activists attempt to glue themselves to Munch’s ‘The Scream’
Oslo cops say 3 protesters under their ‘control’; painting is not seriously harmed, though glue residue left on glass mount
By JAN M. OLSEN
A Norwegian national flag flutters over flowers and rainbow flags that are placed at the scene of a shooting in central of Oslo, Norway, June 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
June 27, 2022, 7:02 pm
Oslo Pride Parade attack suspect refusing to cooperate, police say
Zaniar Matapour, a 43-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested after 2 people were killed and more than 20 wounded in an alleged ‘Islamist terror act’
By KOSTYA MANENKOV
A Norwegian national flag flutters over flowers and rainbow flags that are placed at the scene of a shooting in central of Oslo, Norway, June 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
June 27, 2022, 5:56 am
Terror suspect in deadly shooting at Oslo Pride festival refusing to speak with cops
At memorial service for victims, Norwegian PM says attack ‘did not stop the fight and the efforts to fight discrimination, prejudice and hatred’
By KOSTYA MANENKOV and JARI TANNER
Flowers are left at the scene of a shooting in central Oslo, June 25, 2022. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)
June 25, 2022, 4:56 pm
Norway raises terror alert to highest level after deadly mass shooting near gay bar
Security chief calls attack that left 2 dead and over 20 wounded an ‘extreme Islamist terror act’; suspect has ‘long history of violence and threats’
By Maria Sanminiatelli and Karl Ritter
Norwegian police officers stand guard in the streets of central Oslo between security tape lines, on June 25, 2022, after shots were fired outside the London pub, killing two people. (Javad Parsa/NTB/AFP)
June 25, 2022, 8:06 am
2 dead, 21 hurt in Oslo terror attack near gay bar; suspect of Iranian descent held
10 in serious condition after gunman opens fire near London Pub club, jazz bar, takeaway food outlet; Pride parade canceled; suspect was known to domestic intelligence services
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Anneke von der Lippe (left) and Amos Taman (right) as Alex and Arik in 'The Girl from Oslo,' currently on Netflix (Courtesy Netflix)
February 11, 2022, 1:28 pm
Podcast: Drama, tension and love in Netflix series ‘The Girl from Oslo’
Director Uri Barbash and actress Anneke von der Lippe discuss the characters, storylines and relationships in their Netflix hit
By ToI Staff
Anneke von der Lippe (left) and Amos Taman in 'The Girl From Oslo,' on Netflix Israel from January 8, 2022 (Courtesy Netflix)
January 9, 2022, 6:19 pm
Netflix series ‘The Girl From Oslo’ brings drama, twists and turns
Norwegian-Israeli co-production places action in more than 100 locations throughout Israel, Egypt and Norway
By Jessica Steinberg
Police officers stand at the site where a person was shot by police at Bislett in Oslo, Norway, on November 9, 2021. (Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB / AFP)
November 9, 2021, 3:55 pm
Knife-wielding man threatens passersby in Oslo, is shot dead by police
Officer injured during attempted arrest; police say no indication it’s a terror attack; suspect had previously been sentenced to psychiatric care after stabbing a man
By AFP
File: Oslo's Bergstien Street synagogue. (photo credit: CC BY Metro Centric, Flickr)
March 11, 2021, 10:33 pm
After outcry, Holocaust survivors allowed to move to Oslo Jewish nursing home
Skien municipality reverses decision to deny request to go to facility in Norwegian capital on grounds it could provide accommodations locally
By Cnaan Liphshiz
File: Oslo's Bergstien Street synagogue. (photo credit: CC BY Metro Centric, Flickr)
March 10, 2021, 6:36 pm
Holocaust survivors’ plea to move to Norway’s only Jewish nursing home denied
City of Skien refuses to let the two relocate to Oslo facility, says it ‘can provide a good and adequate offer’ locally
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrives at Downing Street in central London to chair the government's Covid-19 daily briefing on April 7, 2020. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
April 9, 2020, 9:08 pm
UK’s stand-in PM lost his great-grandparents in Holocaust, studied in West Bank
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has criticized Israel’s ‘disproportionate use of force’ but defended Gaza blockade; distant family said to have come to pre-state Israel
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: a Jewish circumcision ceremony in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
March 17, 2020, 4:52 pm
As corona cuts off borders, Oslo baby’s delayed circumcision is tip of iceberg
Small Jewish communities are left bereft of rabbis, cantors, and ritual circumcisers as countries attempt to stem spread of COVID-19
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Philip Manshaus is seated in court before being handed his sentence for terrorism and homicide in the Asker and Baerum district court west of Oslo on June 11, 2020. (Photo by Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix / AFP)
February 17, 2020, 4:43 pm
Suspect in Norway mosque attack charged with terrorism, murder
Prosecution says Philip Manshaus killed 17-year-old stepsister before opening fire at nearby Muslim house of worship
By AP
Illustrative: BDS supporters in New York, October 2015. (BDS Facebook page via JTA)
October 30, 2019, 8:23 am
Oslo City Council bans purchase of Israeli settlement goods and services
Capital is the sixth Norwegian municipality to target settlements; ban does not distinguish between Israeli and foreign corporations operating in the West Bank
By Marcy Oster
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