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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

Switzerland

Snow covers the hills around Davos, Switzerland, on January 19, 2020. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber, File)
July 31, 2024, 9:57 pm
Swiss ski store fined over antisemitic discrimination
Sign placed in shop window in February informed customers that it would no longer rent equipment to ‘our Jewish brothers’ due to various incidents, including theft of a sled
By AFP
A picture taken on March 14, 2023, shows "The Sower with Setting Sun," a masterpiece by Vincent van Gogh, part of the Emil Buhrle Collection exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich. (Arnd Wiegmann/AFP)
June 29, 2024, 6:43 am
Swiss foundation panned for inadequate probe into origins of its Nazi-era art collection
Team mandated by Zurich authorities criticizes Buhrle Foundation’s ‘superficial’ investigation, says ‘provenance research must be continued’
By Christophe VOGT and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A picture taken on March 14, 2023 shows "The Boy in the Red Waistcoat" 1888 a masterpiece by Paul Cezanne, part of the Emil Buhrle Collection exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Kunsthaus Zurich, one of Switzerland's top art museums, launched a new review aimed at clarifying whether any of its artworks might be cultural property looted by the Nazis. (Arnd Wiegmann/AFP)
June 15, 2024, 7:53 am
Swiss museum to remove five paintings linked to Nazi looting
Paintings come from collection of Emil Buhrle, a German-born arms dealer who made his fortune during World War II; museum working to to trace descendants of rightful owners
By AFP
Anti-Israel student protesters hang a banner reading in French, "Free Palestine from the Sea to the Jordan River," during a demonstration at Lausanne University in Switzerland on May 4, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
May 15, 2024, 12:27 pm
Swiss police clear anti-Israel encampment at University of Bern
Protest one of many to sprout across Western European campuses over the past few weeks, emulating similar ones in US
By AFP and ToI Staff
Pro-Palestinian student protesters and activists attend a demonstration at the entrance of Lausanne University's (UNIL) Geopolis building, occupied by anti-Israel students, in Lausanne on May 4, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 11:44 pm
Irish, Swiss students join anti-Israel protest wave by staging campus encampments
Protesters at Trinity College Dublin and Lausanne University demand divestment from Jewish state over war against Hamas in Gaza
By Reuters and ToI Staff
File: Members of the Swiss Parliament attend the closing day of the 51st legislature of the Swiss National Council, on September 29, 2023 in Bern. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
April 17, 2024, 7:06 pm
Swiss lawmakers vote to ban Nazi symbols including flags, gestures and speech
Parliament says ban to begin with easily identifiable symbols, such as swastikas, and later widen to include other racist ideologies
By AFP
This picture taken in November, 1984, in Damascus shows Rifaat Assad, the banished younger brother of former Syrian president Hafez Assad. (Philippe Bouchon/AFP)
March 12, 2024, 2:52 pm
Switzerland to try Assad’s uncle for alleged war crimes in Syria in 1982
Rifaat Assad charged at Swiss Federal Criminal Court with ‘ordering homicides, acts of torture, cruel treatments and illegal detentions’ when he led Syrian troops in Hama
By Reuters
Snow covers the hills around Davos, Switzerland, on January 19, 2020. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber, File)
February 12, 2024, 8:15 pm
Swiss ski shop in hot water over sign refusing rentals to Jews
Jewish group denounces Hebrew message hung near Davos denying Jews equipment after ‘annoying incidents, including the theft of a sled’; regional police probing incident
By Jamey Keaten
Swiss police officers stand next to a train, where passengers traveling from Yverdon to Sainte-Croix were earlier held hostage, in Essert-Sous-Champvent, western Switzerland on February 8, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
February 9, 2024, 1:19 pm
Axe-wielding Iranian asylum seeker killed by police in Swiss train hostage situation
Speaking in Farsi and English, hostage-taker holds 14 passengers, train conductor for four hours before authorities storm train, execute maneuver to keep him away from hostages
By Agencies
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024, alongside a photo of Hamas-held Israeli hostage Kfir Bibas. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 19, 2024, 2:46 pm
Swiss prosecutors say criminal complaint filed against visiting President Herzog
After he attends Davos summit, federal prosecutors say charges against Israeli head of state to be ‘examined in accordance with the usual procedure,’ including question of immunity
By AFP and ToI Staff
Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) agency talk together in the playground of an UNRWA-run school that has been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 25, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
December 13, 2023, 2:46 pm
Swiss parliament votes to cut funding for UNRWA amid incitement allegations
Watchdog says educational system of agency for Palestinian refugees ‘taught hate every day’ to those who took part in October 7 massacres
By ToI Staff
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on November 25, 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky (R) greets the President of Switzerland Alain Berset (L) prior to their talks in Kyiv. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP)
November 25, 2023, 6:04 pm
As Swiss president visits Kyiv, Russia launches ‘record number’ of drone attacks
Ukraine marks Holodomor Remembrance Day, commemorating 1930s starvation in Ukraine under Soviet dictator Stalin
By AFP
The main building of the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. (A. Savin/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
September 2, 2023, 3:31 am
Swiss university seeks Jewish studies professor, but Jews blocked from the position
University of Lucerne, a public institution near Zurich, only allows Catholics to teach ‘doctrinal’ courses in theology
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Aleph Farms' cultivated thin-cut steak. (Courtesy)
July 27, 2023, 9:29 pm
Israel’s Aleph Farms gears up to sell first cultivated beef cuts in Europe
Startup applies for approval from Swiss food regulator, marking first cultivated meat submission in Europe; plans to launch in Singapore and Israel in 2023
By Sharon Wrobel
An image of Israel and the US's test launch of the Arrow 3 missile defense system on July 28, 2019. (Defense Ministry)
July 5, 2023, 8:58 am
Switzerland, Austria to join European air defense project using Israel’s Arrow 3
Neutral, non-NATO members say their participation in Sky Shield Initiative, created in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, won’t entail involvement in armed conflict
By AP
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