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Transport Minister Israel Katz attends the Israel Aviation Conference at Airport City, on May 2, 2018. (Flash90)
Poland mulling cancellation of Israel visit over FM anti-Semitism comments
By TOI staff
Israel Katz says in interview that Poles ‘suckle anti-Semitism with their mother’s milk,’ leading Warsaw to condemn ‘shameful and racist’ comment
Heidi Fishman holding up an op-ed she wrote about her family’s rescue from the Holocaust using a Paraguayan passport. (Courtesy of Fishman via JTA)
Researchers unlock the mystery of Polish diplomats who rescued Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Transport Minister Israel Katz attends the Israel Aviation Conference at Airport City, on May 2, 2018. (Flash90)
February 18, 2019, 8:40 am
Poland mulling cancellation of Israel visit over FM anti-Semitism comments
Israel Katz says in interview that Poles ‘suckle anti-Semitism with their mother’s milk,’ leading Warsaw to condemn ‘shameful and racist’ comment
By TOI staff
Screen capture from video of Polish author and radio presenter Stanisław Michalkiewicz. (YouTube)
February 17, 2019, 11:46 pm
Australian Poles protest tour by anti-Semitic former politician
Stanislaw Michalkiewicz has described compensation for victims of Nazi crimes as ‘extortion money’; group which invited him says opposition due to ‘strong Jewish lobby’
By TOI staff
Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (AP/Michael Sohn)
February 17, 2019, 4:35 pm
Polish PM cancels trip to Israel amid spat over Netanyahu Holocaust comments
Morawiecki to send lower level official to Visegrad Group summit in Jerusalem this week as Warsaw fumes over reports of Israeli premier’s comments about Polish culpability
By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters on the plane home from Poland in the early hours of February 15, 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
February 17, 2019, 12:54 pm
United we stand, united we fall: 7 things to know for February 17
Parties are racing to wrap up unity deals before a Thursday deadline, and Netanyahu is rebuked for trying to stay friendly with Poland even if it means selling out truth
By Joshua Davidovich
Heidi Fishman holding up an op-ed she wrote about her family’s rescue from the Holocaust using a Paraguayan passport. (Courtesy of Fishman via JTA)
February 16, 2019, 10:58 am
Researchers unlock the mystery of Polish diplomats who rescued Jews
Recently completed research uncovers how ‘Bernese Group’ produced fake South American passports to help Jews escape the Nazi genocide during WWII
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
February 15, 2019, 1:35 pm
What Netanyahu actually said on Poles’ collaboration with Nazis
PM’s comments on Warsaw’s Holocaust law unleash a short but intense diplomatic firestorm, based largely on misreporting of a single word
By Itamar Sharon and Raphael Ahren
US Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, his wife Iwona and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara are pictured during a wreath laying ceremony at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, Poland, on February 14, 2019. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
February 15, 2019, 11:31 am
Dancing around Poles: 7 things to know for February 15
Netanyahu finds himself drawn into another mess after being wrongly quoted blaming ‘the Poles’ for cooperating with Nazis, putting a sour cherry in an elongated, strange trip
By Joshua Davidovich
Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen during the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle east in Warsaw, on February 13, 2019 (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
February 15, 2019, 10:32 am
Poland moves to end spat with Israel over PM comments, blames media manipulation
Warsaw, incensed by incorrect reports Netanyahu said ‘Polish nation’ cooperated with Nazis, says it got clarifications; still, Israeli envoy called for dressing down
By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff
Polish President Andrzej Duda ,left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, talk after a group photo at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 15, 2019, 6:46 am
After Netanyahu comment to ToI, Poland says Israel should not host Europe summit
President says if Israeli PM indeed spoke about Poles cooperating with Nazis, he will look to have prime ministers from central European Visegrad Group meet in Poland instead
By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff
Flight crew stand in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's damaged plane on February 15, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
February 15, 2019, 4:04 am
PM forced to spend extra night in Warsaw after plane damaged
New aircraft being sent from Israel after pushback tractor crashes into plane, stranding Netanyahu and entourage in Poland
By Raphael Ahren and TOI staff
US Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, his wife Iwona and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara are pictured during a wreath laying ceremony at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, Poland, on February 14, 2019. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
February 15, 2019, 3:30 am
Netanyahu sparks fresh Polish anger over Holocaust collaboration comments
Ruling party says it will bring proposal to parliament to condemn statement after PM, answering ToI question, denies whitewashing history, saying ‘Poles cooperated with the Nazis’
By Raphael Ahren and AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives for a session at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 14, 2019, 1:10 pm
No love in Warsaw: 10 things to know for February 14
Netanyahu’s bid to show the Gulf rallying behind him against Iran seems to have gone a little awry, with translation blunders, harsh words from a secret ‘ally’ and more
By Joshua Davidovich
US Vice President Mike Pence points to the crowd of agents before speaking after a tour of Customs and Border Protection operations at the Port of Baltimore, February 8, 2019, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 13, 2019, 6:22 am
Mike Pence to make first visit to Auschwitz, meet Netanyahu in Poland
US vice president and PM to also visit together a memorial to 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, on sidelines of Mideast conference
By JTA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa on February 10, 2019. (SIMON MAINA / AFP)
February 12, 2019, 1:52 am
Palestinians ask Arab countries to skip US-sponsored Mideast summit in Poland
Abbas travels to Riyadh to discuss ‘dangers facing the Palestinian cause’ as Ramallah asks Arab countries to boycott or downgrade their representation at Warsaw conference
By Agencies and TOI staff
Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, right, speaks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
February 11, 2019, 6:34 pm
Lebanon to boycott Warsaw Mideast summit over Israel’s attendance
Speaking alongside Iranian counterpart, Lebanese FM also cites expected critical stance toward Iran at US-led conference
By Agencies and TOI staff
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