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Migrants descend the Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo upon arrival at the eastern port of Valencia, Spain, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (AP/Alberto Saiz)
June 18, 2018, 3:39 am
After turned away by Italy, migrants finally find dry land in Spain
Week after becoming center of political fight, 629 asylum-seekers from 31 countries rescued at sea near Libya dock in Valencia
By AP
A Red Cross member stands next to tents installed at Valencia´s harbor for the reception of migrants rescued by the Aquarius rescue ship on June 16, 2018 in Valencia. (AFP/POOL/Juan Carlos Cárdenas)
June 17, 2018, 2:41 am
Spain says France to take in marooned migrants from rescue ship
Aquarius, carrying 629 Africans plucked from Mediterranean, set to arrive in Valencia on Sunday after Italy refused to take them in
By AFP
Illustrative: A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot)
June 16, 2018, 11:31 am
In first, a Spanish state adopts BDS as policy
Motion in Navarre receives support of all the parties represented in parliament except one
By JTA
In this photo taken on May 14, 2018 migrants look at the coastline as they stand aboard the French rescue ship MV Aquarius, off the coast of Sicily. (AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI)
June 11, 2018, 6:41 pm
Spain offers to take in migrant ship marooned by Italian politics
Aquarius with 629 people on board, including pregnant women and scores of children, refused port by Italy and Malta
By Lucy Adler and Diego Urdaneta
A view of the Modernisme Plaza of the City Hall of Valencia on 17 July 2010. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons/PMRMaeyaert)
June 8, 2018, 9:54 pm
Spain’s third-largest city votes to boycott Israel
After motion by far-left party to make Valencia an 'Israeli apartheid-free zone' is approved by city council, its leader calls to brand Jewish state a 'criminal country'
By JTA
European Parliament President Josep Borrell gives a farewell speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on January 15, 2007. (AFP PHOTO / Frederick FLORIN/File)
June 6, 2018, 11:25 pm
Spain’s new foreign minister met his first wife on an Israeli kibbutz
Josep Borrell, 71, is a staunch critic of Catalan independence; was European parliament president in 2004-2007
By AFP and TOI staff
Spain's socialist opposition leader Pedro Sanchez sits at the start of the second day of a motion of no-confidence session at the Spanish parliament in Madrid on June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
June 1, 2018, 2:59 pm
Spain’s conservative government falls, Socialist opposition leader takes power
After Mariano Rajoy loses no-confidence motion over kickbacks-for-contracts scheme, Pedro Sanchez set to replace him
By Aritz Parra
View of the walled city of Toledo (Ticia Verveer)
May 11, 2018, 3:31 pm
Toledo: Spanish city of legends
PHOTO ESSAY: Once upon a time, the city was a great spiritual haven, a fusion of Christian, Jewish and Arab culture
By Ticia Verveer
Fulbright scholars McCall Wells, left, and Danielle Elliott are organizing an interfaith seder at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. (Melissa Marazas/via JTA)
March 30, 2018, 3:53 pm
American students organize a Spanish university’s first-ever Passover seder
Thousands of miles away from her Chicago home, Danielle Elliott is hosting a festive meal themed for freedom and human rights
By Margarita Gokun Silver
In this file photo from March 18, 2018, Catalan's fugitive ex-president Carles Puigdemont, takes part in a panel titled "Self-Determination," at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, file)
March 25, 2018, 5:09 pm
Germany arrests fugitive ex-leader of Catalonia
Detainment of Carlos Puigdemont comes just days after Spain reactivated an international warrant for the separatist's arrest
By Joseph Wilson
Illustrative: A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot)
March 20, 2018, 4:03 pm
Pro-Israel activist to be tried for threatening Spanish towns over BDS
Pro-Palestinian group presses charges alleging leader of organization intimidated Spanish municipalities that adopt BDS as policy
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Graffiti sprayed on a roadblock in the West Bank city of Hebron reads 'Boycott Israel' (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
March 1, 2018, 10:21 pm
Spanish municipalities drop Israel boycott policies
Pro-Israel group ACOM says its legal action resulted in court decision to scrap 2016 resolution calling for Barcelona to subscribe to BDS movement
By JTA
SEAT will present its Leon Cristobel Concept Car that will showcase computer vision technology developed by Israel's eyeSight Technologies at the 2018 Mobile World Congress Show in Barcelona on February 26, 2018 (Courtesy SEAT)
February 26, 2018, 4:41 pm
Spain’s SEAT showcases Israeli auto safety tech in new car
eyeSight’s solution uses infrared sensor and computer vision to monitor drivers' direction of sight, alertness
By Shoshanna Solomon
This undated image provided by João Zilhão in February 2018 shows perforated shells found in sediments in the Cueva de los Aviones near Cartagena, Spain. (João Zilhão via AP)
February 24, 2018, 3:56 am
Earliest cave art belonged to Neanderthals, not humans, study finds
Archaeological discovery overturns widely-held belief that modern humans are the only species capable of symbolic thought
By Kerry SHERIDAN
Illustrative copy of Şalom newspaper from 1970, published in Ladino, on display at the Jewish Museum of Turkey in Istanbul. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)
February 21, 2018, 7:26 pm
Spain helps keep alive archaic language of Sephardic Jews
Ladino getting boost from Royal Academy to nurture 500-year-old tongue which UNESCO defines as 'severely endangered'
By CRISTINA FUENTES-CANTILLANA
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