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Franz Kafka in 1906. (public domain)
November 4, 2018, 1:37 am
How an Israel that never liked Franz Kafka came to own his literary legacy
In a new book, author Benjamin Balint traces the long, tortuous journey of the famed surrealist writer’s original manuscripts – and through them the fading away of a murdered world
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Workers adjust repaired parts of the famed astronomical clock at the Old Town Hall in Prague, Czech Republic, September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
September 26, 2018, 4:50 pm
Prague’s astronomical clock returns with restored beauty
Repeatedly but badly repaired over the years, 608-year-old clock back in working order in city’s famed Old Town Square
By Karel Janicek
David Maxa delivers a sermon during Shabbat services at Prague’s Spanish Synagogue during the European Union of Progressive Judaism’s biennial, April 2018. (Courtesy of Maxa/via JTA)
September 23, 2018, 10:15 pm
A new Torah scroll symbolizes a Liberal Jewish revival in the Czech Republic
A relic originating in the country is being returned after having spent the last several decades at a Reform synagogue in London
By Margarita Gokun Silver
View of Prague, Czech Republic, on March 5, 2016 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
September 8, 2018, 6:11 am
Prague station’s conversion to Holocaust memorial underway
The run-down property’s transformation is expected to take about two years
By AP
A municipally organized street show in Prague on September 2 , 2018 celebrating Czech nationhood featured a skit apparently mocking an Orthodox Jew with anti-Semitic stereotypes (Screencapture/Facebook)
September 5, 2018, 2:37 am
Jew portrayed as money-grubbing at Czech city festival
Prague district criticized for the anti-Semitic stereotype used in a play celebrating Czech nationhood
By JTA
Tourists stand or walk across the pavement of the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague on March 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Michal CIZEK)
March 25, 2018, 9:46 am
Prague pedestrians tread unaware on Jewish gravestones
Communist-built pavement in Czech capital used slabs with Hebrew inscriptions taken from derelict cemetery; despite many complaints by Jewish community, issue was never resolved
By Jan MARCHAL
(Illustrative image of a hacker; supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)
February 24, 2018, 1:01 pm
Czech president wants hacker ‘extradited to Russia’ not US
Yevgeni Nikulin, sought for alleged cyberattacks on social networks and on fraud charges, has been in a Prague prison since he was arrested
By AFP
Pro-Russian incumbent Milos Zeman (seated) is applauded as he celebrates his victory with his staff members after he was reelected Czech president, January 27, 2018, at the Top hotel in Prague. (AFP / RADEK MICA)
January 27, 2018, 10:33 pm
Pro-Israel Zeman scores second term as Czech president
Populist ex-communist takes 51.55 percent of vote against 48.44 percent for liberal rival Jiri Drahos, with 99.32 percent of ballots counted
By AFP and TOI staff
Marine Le Pen, left, Tomio Okamura, center, and Geert Wilders give a press conference during a conference of the right-wing Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group in the European parliament on December 16, 2017 outside Prague. (AFP/Michal CIZEK)
December 17, 2017, 3:48 am
European far-right leaders get together for anti-EU bid
Heads of nationalist parties from France, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Britain and other countries meet in Prague to discuss working together against bloc
By AP
Czech billionaire Andrej Babis, chairman of the ANO movement arrives to deliver his speech at ANO headquarter after Czech elections on October 21, 2017 in Prague. AFP PHOTO / MICHAL CIZEK)
October 22, 2017, 2:37 am
New Czech leader rules out coalition with far-right party
Andrej Babis says he does not want to talk to anti-Islam Freedom and Direct Democracy party, which surged to fourth place in Saturday’s election
By TOI staff and Agencies
Abu Daoud, Palestinian mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of 11 Israeli athletes. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 9, 2017, 7:53 pm
Revealed: Munich Olympic terror mastermind’s drunken life in Prague
In addition to Abu Daoud, newly declassified documents detail time spent in Czechoslovakia by arch-terrorist ‘Carlos the Jackal’
By TOI staff
German supporters light flares during the FIFA World Cup 2018 qualification soccer match between Czech Republic and Germany in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 1, 2017. (AFP/Robert Michael)
September 3, 2017, 4:06 am
German soccer ‘fans’ shout Nazi-era chants, shocking team
Players refuse to go to thank traveling fans for support after spectators heard yelling ‘Sieg Heil’ during 2-1 win in Prague qualifier
By AFP
Shas MK Yigal Guetta in Jerusalem, February 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 6, 2017, 5:31 pm
Shas lawmaker hospitalized while on vacation in Prague
MK Yigal Guetta has been moved between hospitals; Israelis officials working to fly him home for treatment
By TOI staff
Sir Nicholas Winton with some of the rescued 'children.' (photo credit: Courtesy of Menemsha Films)
May 28, 2017, 3:08 am
Children saved from Nazi camps unveil monument to parents
Group saved by Sir Nicholas Winton opens ‘Farewell Memorial’ replica of 1939 train door in Prague, with hands of infants on one side and those of parents on the other
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem's reunification and the 1967 War, in the Israeli parliament on May 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2017, 10:48 pm
Netanyahu thanks Czechs for pro-Israel resolutions
PM hopes others will follow Prague in recognizing Jerusalem as capital, sanctioning UNESCO for bias
By Raphael Ahren
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