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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Queen Beatrix

Shimon Peres with children at the Peres Center for Peace (Peres Center for Peace Archives)
September 28, 2016, 5:49 pm
Obama, Hollande, Prince Charles among dozens of world leaders to honor Peres at funeral
Presidents of France, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Poland confirm their attendance at Friday funeral for 9th president
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
US President Barack Obama meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office of the White House on June 25, 2014, in Washington, DC (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
September 28, 2016, 10:02 am
Obama, world leaders to attend Peres’s funeral in Jerusalem
German, Canadian, French and Australian heads of state, along with Britain’s Prince Charles, also set to fly to Israel for Friday event; late president’s body to lie in state at the Knesset Thursday
By Raphael Ahren
Queen Beatrix delivers her abdication speech on Dutch TV in April. (photo credit: YouTube)
August 23, 2013, 2:08 am
Dutch royals nix plans for party on Yom Kippur
Queen Beatrix reschedules event after death of her son; chief rabbi had called choice of previous date ‘painful’
By JTA
July 9, 2013, 11:52 pm
New Dutch monarch visits Amsterdam Jewish community
King Willem-Alexander, 46, tours the offices of the Jewish leadership while wearing a yarmulke
Dutch Queen Beatrix, center, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah, in the Hague, January 19, 2012 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
May 4, 2013, 5:51 am
Dutch royals want to discuss, not change, event scheduled for Yom Kippur
Farewell party for abdicating Queen Beatrix is scheduled to coincide with High Holiday, to the dismay of Holland’s Jews
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima appear on the balcony of the Royal Palace with their children, from left: Catharina-Amalia, Ariane, and Alexia in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Tuesday April 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
April 30, 2013, 3:43 pm
The Netherlands crowns new king
Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand becomes the first Dutch king in more than 100 years, and Europe’s youngest monarch
By Mike Corder and Toby Sterling
Dutch Queen Beatrix, center, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah, in the Hague, January 19, 2012 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
April 29, 2013, 11:21 pm
As queen abdicates, Israelis like the Dutch very much
Beatrix steps down Tuesday; Netherlands’ ambassador in Tel Aviv says he hopes new monarchs will visit Israel soon
By Raphael Ahren
April 29, 2013, 10:54 am
Dutch rabbi upset over royal event scheduled for Yom Kippur
Queen Beatrix, who officially retires on Tuesday, will be nationally feted on Sept. 14
Ina and Jack Polak (photo credit: Mark Seliger)
April 27, 2013, 4:58 am
Exchanging love letters in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen
A new opera, ‘Steal a Pencil for Me,’ sets to music an unexpected Holocaust love story
By Josefin Dolsten
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