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Anti-Israel activists protest against the war in Gaza as the Crown Iris, an Israeli cruise ship, docks in Rhodes, Greece, on July 28, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 28, 2025, 8:45 pm
Greek riot police clash with anti-Israel protesters as Israeli ship docks in Rhodes
Passengers disembark the Crown Iris safely, are greeted by local business representatives opposed to the protest as well as members of Rhodes Municipality and Chamber of Commerce
By AP and ToI Staff
Tourists walk on the beach in front of hotels on the Aegean island of Rhodes on August 29, 2020. (Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP)
July 23, 2025, 11:54 am
Israeli teens say anti-Israel mob, armed with knives, attacked them in Rhodes
Seeking to avoid Israel-related protest scuffle outside nightclub, youths say they tried to leave the area, but were pursued on motorcycles and on foot and were beaten as they hid
By ToI Staff
An aerial view shows smoke billowing in background of Kiotari village, on the island of Rhodes on July 24, 2023.(Spyros BAKALIS / AFP)
July 24, 2023, 1:05 pm
Thousands more evacuated in Greece as high winds and heat fuel wildfires
19,000 people, mostly tourists, moved by buses and boats out of path of fire in southern Rhodes, as evacuations begin on other islands
By Michael Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos
Flames rise during a forest fire on the island of Rhodes, Greece, Saturday, July 22, 2023. (Argyris Mantikos/Eurokinissi via AP)
July 23, 2023, 5:06 pm
Wildfires rage in Greece as high winds hamper firefighting services
Blazes in Rhodes have sparked biggest-ever fire evacuation in Greece; Israel sent air team to assist
By AFP and ToI Staff
Detail from 'Portrait of Stella' by artist Maira Kalman, from 'One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World' by Michael Frank (Avid Reader Press)
December 29, 2022, 12:26 am
99-year-old Holocaust survivor is a final portal into vibrant life of prewar Rhodes
In ‘One Hundred Saturdays,’ Stella Levi shares with author Michael Frank her memories of centuries-old traditions of the Aegean island’s Sephardic community destroyed by the Nazis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Rhodes Torah (Amit Dekel Productions via National Library of Israel)
June 1, 2022, 2:18 pm
National Library shows off rare Torah scrolls, including one mufti saved from Nazis
Delicate parchment filmed in time for Shavuot; one was hidden in mosque during WWII; another thought to belong to merchant said to serve as Poland’s king for a day in 16th century
By ToI Staff
Israel's Noam Sason from Ganei Tikva, after winning the European school chess championship for children under 9 years of age, in Rhodes, Greece, April 29, 2022 (Ynet screenshot)
May 1, 2022, 10:01 am
8-year-old Israeli wins European chess championship
Boy from Ganei Tikva beats out under-9 rivals from Turkey, Ukraine, adding to his growing list of international championship titles
By ToI Staff
In this Monday, March 12, 2018 file photo, Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi speaks to delegates at a three-day forum in a resort hotel near Johannesburg, South Africa. Katumbi returned to Congo on Monday May 20, 2019, one of a number of political exiles coming home after a new president took office this year. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe,)
February 18, 2021, 2:42 am
Son of Greek Jewish Holocaust refugee now one of most powerful leaders in Congo
Moise Katumbi has presidential aspirations, is seen as a reformer in troubled country; while he doesn’t identify as Jewish, he has a ‘warm connection to Judaism and Israel’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Stella Levi and David Roubini cut a rug at the exhibition, 'The Hearts Speak,' October 29, 2019. (Isaak Liptzin/ Awen Films)
November 7, 2019, 4:10 am
In the heart of NY, pop-up education center revives extinguished Rhodes Jewry
Near Washington Square Park through November 24, a living memorial dedicated to a 2,000-year-old Jewish community is manned by a spitfire nonagenarian survivor
By Jordan Hoffman
Excavation team at the 400-year-old Kaha Shalom synagogue on Rhodes, Greece, using ground-penetrating radar to detect artifacts. (Courtesy)
November 9, 2015, 3:22 am
Paradise lost, and remembered, for the Jews of Rhodes
An exhibition at the University of Hartford explores a once-thriving Greek Jewish community before the Nazis deported all 1,800 to Auschwitz; only 150 survived
By Cathryn J. Prince
Giuseppe Giannotti, left, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kahal Shalom Synagogue in Rhodes at age 60 in 2014. (Courtesy of Giuseppe Giannotti/JTA)
August 21, 2015, 10:23 am
Rhodeslis make annual island pilgrimage to remember and reboot
On Greek isle of Rhodes, Jews return to honor ancient community all but wiped out, and celebrate those who still live
By Gavin Rabinowitz
A migrant is helped to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
April 20, 2015, 4:15 pm
‘Over 1,000 killed in recent Mediterranean shipwrecks’
Distress calls received from three more African migrant-carrying ships on Monday alone, says one aid group
By AP
Illustrative photo of an El Al aircraft on a runway. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
August 26, 2014, 12:27 am
Plane headed for Tel Aviv loops back as sirens wail
El Al flight from Greece calls off its descent at Ben Gurion Airport, lands safely soon after; Hamas claims long-range rocket fire
By JTA and ToI Staff
View of the Old City of Rhodes (photo credit: CC BY Lyn Gateley/Flikr)
October 28, 2012, 3:43 pm
Holocaust memorial defaced in Rhodes, Greece
Monument painted with swastikas; police launch investigation
By JTA and ToI Staff
June 10, 2012, 7:29 pm
Aegean earthquake lightly shakes Israel
Greek temblor measures 5.8 on Richter Scale, felt as far as Beersheba
By AP and Philip Podolsky
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