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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Scandinavia

Illustrative: A special force police officer patrols near the department store Ahlens following a suspected terror attack on the Drottninggatan street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 10, 2024, 3:00 pm
Israeli arms maker said to be target of shooting in Sweden’s Gothenburg
No injuries reported after gunshots heard near local unit of Elbit Defense Systems; suspect, reportedly a young teen, detained amid police probe of attempted murder, weapons crime
By AFP and ToI Staff
ILLUSTRATIVE -- Members of the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement march through the town of Ludvika, central Sweden, on May 1, 2018. (Ulf Palm/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 10:38 am
Scandinavian neo-Nazis circulate anti-Semitic flyers on Yom Kippur
Far-right extremists carried out coordinated campaign in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Jewish holy day, says World Jewish Congress
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A man wearing a protective mask walks next to travelers as they queue up to board a boat at Stranvagen in Stockholm on July 27, 2020, during the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
August 4, 2020, 5:28 am
Northern exposure: Nordic countries defy rest of world to go mask-free
While most of the world moves toward face coverings, Scandinavian countries have not recommended the practice and citizens won’t wear them unless the government tells them to
By Marc Preel and Nioucha ZAKAVATI
Israeli Shimon Hayut is the subject of 'Tinder Swindler', a true crime documentary on Netflix. (Screenshot)
June 28, 2019, 9:59 pm
Israeli arrested in Greece over alleged defrauding of Scandinavian women
Shimon Hayut, said to claim he was son of billionaire Lev Leviev, fooled his victims with private jet flights and lavish lifestyle before asking for repeated financial favors
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A brit, or Jewish circumcision ceremony, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)
February 23, 2018, 6:42 pm
500 Icelandic physicians back bill to outlaw circumcision
Doctors say ‘potential complications’ of Jewish, Mulim practice ‘should offset the benefits, which are few’
By JTA
Illustrative: Tools for a circumcision procedure. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
February 15, 2018, 9:43 am
Circumcision ban will prevent Jewish life in Iceland, leaders warn
Scandinavian Jews say outlawing religious ritual ‘will guarantee’ that no community is established there
By JTA
This picture taken in 2016 shows Sherin Khankan of Denmarka, the female-led mosque posing for a photo in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AFP/Betina Garcia)
October 26, 2016, 12:31 pm
Denmark’s feminist mosque founder challenges norms
Scandinavia’s first female-led house of Islamic worship, where Friday prayers are for women only, is riling conservatives
By Soren Billing
Female and male army recruits stand in their room in the barracks at the armored battalion in Setermoen, northern Norway on August 11, 2016. Norway has become the first NATO member to have compulsory conscription for women as well as men in the army. Recently, the first batch of army recruits joined the ranks in The Armored Battalion in the Norwegian Army located in Setermoen in northern Norway. / AFP PHOTO / KYRRE LIEN / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PIERRE-HENRY DESHAYES
August 27, 2016, 11:00 am
Bras, tanks and guns: Norway’s women join the draft
The army’s gender balance is not entirely equal yet, but almost a third of country’s conscripts born in 1997 are female
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Illustrative photo of a a pro-Palestinian demonstrator waving the Palestinian flag outside the gates of Downing Street in London on September 9, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS)
October 20, 2015, 9:58 pm
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Sweden chant ‘slaughter the Jews’
Israeli envoy insists that ‘incitement’ at Malmo demonstration ‘must be dealt with by the full force of the law’
By JTA
The navy intercepts a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2010. (photo credit: AFP/Uriel Sinai/File/Pool)
June 21, 2015, 12:06 pm
Swedish ship sets sail from Italy in bid to break Gaza blockade
Ship loaded with solar panels and medical supplies to join two others in flotilla; pro-Palestinian activists aboard say no violence will be used
By ToI Staff
In this handout photo taken on Friday March 13, 2015 provided by the Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency shows a police force members arresting man at an unknown location in Bosnia. (photo credit: AP Photo/State Investigation and Protection Agency)
March 13, 2015, 10:46 pm
5 arrested in Bosnia for Scandinavia terror attack plot
Police allege group built explosive device for use in unspecified northern European country
By AP
Olivia Flasch
February 24, 2015, 12:48 pm
Olivia Flasch
The good kind of ‘human shields’
As a Scandinavian Jew, she cannot help but feel that everyone is giving the Oslo ‘peace ring’ the wrong treatment
Swedish artist Lars Vilks in Nyhamnslage, Sweden, on January 3, 2012 (AFP/TT News Agency/Bjorn Lindgren)
February 20, 2015, 5:21 am
Scandinavian satirists fight for free speech amid threats
Finding themselves on al-Qaeda’s hit list doesn’t keep cartoonists and editors from lampooning religion, including Islam
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 23, 2014, 1:44 am
Poll: Majority of Denmark citizens want circumcision banned
Only ten percent of Danes think decision should be left up to parents
By JTA
Illustrative photo of ritual Jewish circumcision. (Max Yelinson/Flash90)
April 12, 2014, 4:22 am
Denmark, Norway resist calls to ban circumcision
Scandinavian states take steps to preserve the practice’s legal status while ensuring medical supervision
By JTA
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