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Rwandan genocide
Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
January 29, 2018, 6:17 pm
Gabbay, Lapid blast government over Polish, Rwandan genocide initiatives
‘We don’t negotiate over the memory of the deceased,’ Yesh Atid chairman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, says, as Labor party head lambastes the PM for ‘imitating’ far right
By Raoul Wootliff
UN peacekeepers patrol in the disputed Chebaa Farms area between Lebanon and Israel, overlooking the divided border village of Ghajar, southeast Lebanon, February 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
January 29, 2018, 2:18 pm
Hezbollah said to threaten attack over Israeli border barrier
Israeli officials said to dismiss threat conveyed via UN forces, warn the Lebanese terror group will ‘pay dearly’ for any provocation
By TOI staff
From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 28, 2018, 10:39 pm
Breaking with West, Israel backs Rwanda in renaming genocide
Hours before row with Poland, Jerusalem accused of supporting rewriting of history elsewhere, in reported quid pro quo with Kigali over migrants
By TOI staff
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame (center) shakes hands with President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
July 10, 2017, 4:32 pm
Rwanda’s Kagame visiting as Israel looks to boost Africa ties
2-day trip to focus on investment, but also Israel’s bid to counter anti-Israel bias at UN and the shared experience overcoming genocide
By Sue Surkes
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) walks with children during a ceremony to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Stephane Mahe)
June 10, 2017, 7:04 pm
At WWII memorial, Macron urges kids to fight against atrocities
French president commemorates deadliest Nazi massacre, notes similar horrors have continued in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and Syria
By AP
The Kingsa Blues Band performs at Impact Hub, a space for social entrepreneurs and startups, in Kigali, Rwanda, on February 13, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 7, 2017, 1:59 am
Rwanda hopes high-tech can replace genocide as its defining feature
23 years on, and with Israel’s success as a model, the landlocked African nation is harnessing its entrepreneurial spirit to overcome a lack of natural resources
By Melanie Lidman
One of the dance troupes at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda performs on February 17, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 2, 2017, 11:17 am
In Rwanda, Israeli-inspired youth village is walking on sunshine
East Africa’s largest field of solar panels leases land from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, highlighting the rural area as a center of innovation
By Melanie Lidman
A woman goofs around with her neighbor's baby during the Umuganda community meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on February 25, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
March 27, 2017, 10:29 pm
In once-torn Rwanda, fear of a fine molds a nation of do-gooders
Through Umuganda, the monthly government-mandated community service, Rwandans piece together a society shattered by genocide
By Melanie Lidman
Pope Francis welcomes Rwanda's President Paul Kagame during a private audience at the Vatican, March 20, 2017. (Tony Gentile/Pool photo via AP)
March 20, 2017, 5:05 pm
Pope begs forgiveness over Rwanda genocide
Pontiff says some Catholic priests and nuns ‘succumbed to hatred and violence, betraying their own evangelical mission’
By Nicole Winfield
Visitors to the Kigali Genocide Museum in Kigali, Rwanda on February 14, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
February 14, 2017, 9:24 pm
At Rwanda Holocaust tribute, ‘Never Again’ is a hopeful slogan
Genocide may be ‘the same everywhere,’ but in one African nation education and grassroots justice enable victims to come to terms with the crimes perpetrated by their neighbors
By Melanie Lidman
Kelly Watson from the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights sits in a classroom of Cambodian history teachers she is teaching the Holocaust to in October 2016. (courtesy Ouch Makara/Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives)
January 9, 2017, 4:09 am
Through studying the Holocaust, Cambodians deal with own genocide
In a meeting of minds, a small town Indiana teacher and a Cambodian scholar documenting the Khmer Rogue atrocities create a workshop for comparative genocide education in Battambang
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
File: Attorney General Loretta Lynch, accompanied by FBI Director James Comey, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
October 1, 2016, 4:30 am
On anniversary of Nuremberg trials, American AG lauds recognition of rape as war crime
Loretta Lynch describes her frustration that it is easier to bring war criminals to justice after the fact than it is to stop their crimes
By JTA
From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 3, 2016, 5:14 pm
Visiting Israel, Netanyahu’s guide to the Rwandan genocide dreams of a better future
The director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, a survivor himself, reflects on the Holocaust and Iran’s vow to annihilate Israel, agrees incitement drives killing
By Raphael Ahren
From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 6, 2016, 6:09 pm
In Rwanda, mourning the horrors of genocide, Netanyahu sets out a vision of how to prevent it
PM speaks out after visiting memorial in Kigali: Tackle incitement, take the death threats seriously, don’t rely on the international community, make sure you can defend yourself
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at the memorial for the Rwandan genocide in Kigali on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
July 6, 2016, 2:30 pm
At genocide memorial in Rwanda, Netanyahu vows ‘Never again’
Opening third stop on Africa tour, PM lays a wreath in memory of the dead, notes ‘haunting similarities’ to Holocaust
By AFP and Raphael Ahren
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