Prague

January 26, 2019, 5:55 pm

Dreams of Theresienstadt children on display in drawings exhibit

Artwork at Prague’s Jewish Museum was saved by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who taught secret art classes at Nazi camp and hid the drawings before she was sent to a death camp

By AP

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