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Photographer Edward Serotta takes a self-portrait in a hotel room during his efforts to document Romania in the 1980s. (Courtesy Serotta via JTA)
April 11, 2026, 7:07 am
Romanian secret police trailed a Jewish photographer in the ’80s. Those files are now a film
Edward Serotta only recently discovered he’d been surveilled while traveling the communist country. Acclaimed director Radu Jude has turned the findings into a short documentary
By Toby Axelrod
The scene of a hostage situation in the Bucharest suburb of Chiajna, May 6, 2023. (Israel Police)
May 6, 2023, 10:07 pm
Israeli police negotiation team helps Romanian law enforcement end hostage crisis
Experts assist local police forces in rescuing young girl held by father as he threatened to blow up home in Bucharest suburb
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Anti-terrorist units of the Romanian Informations Service (SRI) march during national day celebrations in Bucharest, Romania, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
February 4, 2021, 10:01 pm
Ex-intel officer jailed in 1st conviction under Romania’s Holocaust denial law
Vasile Zarnescu sentenced to a year and a month behind bars for writing book, online articles in which he described the Holocaust as a ‘fraud’
By AFP
Yakov Sklarsky visiting the synagogue of Bershad March 9, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
March 28, 2017, 10:08 am
Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine’s last shtetl prepare to celebrate
Numbering just 50 today, the Jews of Bershad have managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An IDF search and rescue team searching for the bodies of the victims from the helicopter crash in Romania on July 28, 2010. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)
July 31, 2016, 5:01 am
Memorial to Israeli airmen defaced in Romania
‘You are pigs’ and swastikas painted at site commemorating six Air Force officers killed in training accident
By ToI Staff
Bucharest, Romania. (CC-BY-SA Mihai Petre/Wikimedia Commons)
July 2, 2016, 8:40 pm
Romanian police reveal Israel links to illegal binary options firms
Money trail from recent raids across Romania leads to Cyprus, Bulgaria and Israel, Times of Israel told. At least ten detainees facing trial
By Simona Weinglass
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