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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Tunisia beach attack

People react at the site of a shooting attack on the beach in front of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port el Kantaoui, on the outskirts of Sousse south of the capital Tunis, on June 27, 2015. (AFP/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)
May 11, 2019, 8:11 am
Tunisia’s Jewish tourism minister says industry rebounding after terror attacks
Rene Trabelsi says as a Jew in a Muslim country he ‘doesn’t have the right to fail’ in post; travelers returning to North African country after 2015 attacks at museum, beach
By Caroline Nelly Perrot
Guards stand in the Tunisian hotel where foreign tourists were massacred in 2015, as it reopens Tuesday May 2, 2017 in Sousse. (AP Photo/Sami Boukef)
September 14, 2018, 10:30 pm
Tunisian city names 4 streets after prominent local Jews
Sousse was the site of a deadly Islamic State terror attack that killed 38 people in 2015; municipality now praised for ‘encouraging multiculturalism’
By JTA
Tunisian soldiers drive a light gun car during clashes with militants in the southern town of Ben Guerdane, near the Libyan border, March 7, 2016. (AFP/FATHI NASRI)
May 11, 2016, 5:02 pm
2 suspected jihadis killed, 16 arrested near Tunis
Operation comes in shadow of a warning by Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau for Jewish pilgrims to avoid Tunisia
By ToI Staff and AFP
A tourist visits El Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, on the Island of Djerba, southern Tunisia, October 29, 2015. (AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
May 9, 2016, 3:21 pm
Israel warns Jewish pilgrims of ‘severe’ terror threat in Tunisia
As Lag B’Omer festival approaches, counter-terror agency sees ‘concrete’ jihadist threat on historic Djerba island
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Tunisian women celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 14, 2016. (AP/Riadh Dridi)
January 15, 2016, 2:51 am
Tunisians rally to mark 5 years since dictator’s ouster
‘Today we can speak freely and this is no little matter. That’s the main achievement of the revolution’
By AP
Ambulances and police vans are seen at the scene of a bus explosion in the center of the capital, Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 (AP/Hassene Dridi)
November 25, 2015, 1:27 am
Tunisia declares state of emergency after bus blast kills 12
President convenes urgent meeting of his security council to discuss ‘terrorist attack’ in heart of capital
By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA and Angela Charlton
Houcine Abassi, secretary general of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), right, is congratulated by unidentified union members in his office at the headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. Abassi is one of the four members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet to be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. (AP Photo)
October 11, 2015, 5:11 am
For Tunisia, Nobel is good news in troubled, violent year
With economy stagnant after two major 2015 terror attacks, peace prize offers ray of hope in Arab Spring’s lone democracy
By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA
Seifedinne Rezgui, the gunman who allegedly murdered dozens in Tunisia, walking with his weapon on the beach after the massacre, June 26, 2015. (Sky News screenshot)
October 3, 2015, 1:04 am
Tunisia lifts state of emergency imposed after beach attack
Islamic State claimed late June shooting attack in which 38 tourists, mostly from the United Kingdom, were killed
By BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA
A beach in Bodrum, Turkey. (photo credit: CC BY-SA yilmaz ovunc, Flickr)
August 13, 2015, 9:06 pm
Turkey hotel stages fake terror attack
Six weeks after Tunisia beach massacre, staff parade with pretend weapons and douse guest in liquid labeled ‘fuel’
Bodies are covered on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, Friday June 26, 2015. A young man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed at least 28 people. (Jawhara FM via AP)
August 5, 2015, 7:00 pm
Tunisia beach attack linked with earlier attack, British police say
Evidence connecting June massacre with attack at national museum months earlier sent to coroner
Tunisian security forces patrol a beach in Sousse, south of the capital Tunis, on July 1, 2015, as Tunisia started deploying armed police around tourist sites following last week's massacre in Port El Kantaoui by a jihadists gunman. (AFP /BECHIR TAIEB
July 12, 2015, 12:01 am
Tunisian forces kill 5 alleged extremists in security sweep
UK media says suspected IS militants planned ‘imminent’ attack on tourists; Tunis ramps up security measures after beach massacre
By AP and ToI Staff
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (YouTube/US Department of State)
July 10, 2015, 5:37 am
Predicting more terror, UK tells its tourists to leave Tunisia
After last month’s beach massacre in which 30 Britons were killed, Foreign Office says another attack ‘highly likely’
By Alice Ritchie
A memorial dedicated to the 52 people that were killed during the 7/7 terror attacks in London is pictured in London's Hyde Park on July 6, 2015 (Niklas Halle'n/AFP)
July 7, 2015, 7:03 am
Under Tunisia’s shadow, UK marks 2005 London bombings
Ten-year anniversary of terror attacks that killed 52 people comes days after commemorations of most recent jihadist victims
By Alice Ritchie
Seifedinne Rezgui, the gunman who allegedly murdered dozens in Tunisia, walking with his weapon on the beach after the massacre, June 26, 2015. (Sky News screenshot)
July 5, 2015, 7:26 pm
New details emerge about Tunisia gunman’s past
Tunisian PM: Attacker was member of dance club and worked in tourism; mother insists son was ‘brainwashed’
By AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini at a hotel where the Iran nuclear talks are being held in Vienna, Austria on July 2, 2015. (Carlos Barria/AFP)
July 5, 2015, 1:46 pm
Rivlin calls for Jews, Arabs to build trust to combat hate
President makes plea at traditional iftar break fast meal, says PA must do more to stamp out terror
By Avi Lewis
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