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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Venice

Left: Orthodox Jews congregate in Venice’s ancient Jewish ghetto. (Photo by Paolo Raccanelli); Right: Cover of 'Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto,' by Harry Freedman. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2024, 1:00 pm
Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto
In ‘Shylock’s Venice,’ UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of Jewish history that goes far deeper than the famous Shakespeare character
By Rich Tenorio
A view shows 'Tunnel Boring Machine, 2022' by artist Teresa Solar, during a press day at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in Venice on April 19, 2022. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)
February 27, 2024, 7:19 pm
Thousands of artists ask Venice Biennale to exclude ‘genocidal’ Israel over Gaza war
Anti-Israel alliance calls any official representation of Israel on international cultural stage ‘an endorsement of its policies and of Gaza genocide’; no response from organizers
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A screen capture of social media video shows the scene of a deadly bus crash in the Venetian suburb of Mestre, Italy, October 3, 2023. (X screenshot. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 3, 2023, 11:41 pm
At least 21 killed in ‘apocalyptic’ bus crash near Venice
Local official says 15 people aboard vehicle survive after it falls from an elevated street in suburb of Mestre, catches fire
By AP
Rita Ranzato, an art restorer, uses a scalpel to take away layers of old paint from a stuccoed wall inside the 1575 Italian Schola Synagogue in Venice, northern Italy, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Warde-Jones)
June 12, 2022, 5:33 pm
Venice ghetto’s synagogues undergo a restoration renaissance
Effort underway to preserve historic neighborhood’s 16th-century houses of prayer, both for the small remaining Jewish community and for tourists
By CHRIS WARDE-JONES
Gondoliers take tourists by the Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs), in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, June 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
April 23, 2022, 5:06 am
Venice to trial pay-to-visit scheme in bid to ease overcrowding
Trial set to begin in June; from 2023, tourists may be required to pay between 3-10 euros, depending on season, to visit the famed canals
By AFP
Illustrative: A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Jewish Museum of Venice. (Credit: Porcel)
July 13, 2020, 11:00 pm
Renovation brings Venice Jewish Museum into future, visitors into 16th century
The $10 million project is self-financed by the city’s Jewish community and will inject new life into the central complex; includes an immersive replica of ancient ghetto housing
By Giovanni Vigna
An aerial view taken on April 25, 2020 in Venice shows the Rialto bridge over the Grand Canal, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (MARCO SABADIN / AFP)
April 27, 2020, 3:15 pm
Coronavirus calm reveals flourishing Venice Lagoon ecosystem
Pandemic empties Italian city of millions of tourists, giving marine life respite from the thousands of boats, taxis, vaporetti, and gondolas that usually cross them
By Giovanna GIRARDI
Fabio Penazzo, a hotel manager in Venice's Jewish ghetto, says God helped keep the damage to a minimum in record-setting flooding last November. Photo taken on December 28, 2019. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)
January 17, 2020, 5:53 am
Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood
November’s record deluge caused an estimated billion dollars in damage citywide, but the historic enclave central to a close-knit community got off relatively easy
By Giovanni Vigna
Arturo Scotto speaks to Italian media about his attack by far-right extremists, December 2019 (video screenshot)
January 1, 2020, 11:52 pm
Youths hurl punches, anti-Semitic invective in Venice attack
Mayor says police investigating assault on former lawmaker on New Year’s Eve, vows fascist-like incidents ‘won’t be tolerated’
By AP and ToI Staff
People walk near a seagull in flooded Venice, in the morning of November 17, 2019. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)
November 17, 2019, 1:33 pm
Devastated Venice braces for third major flood
With damage from last week’s ‘acqua alta’ estimated at over a billion euros, mayor urges ‘maximum attention’
By Filippo MONTEFORTE and Charles ONIANS
A couple wades their way through water in Venice, Italy, Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
November 16, 2019, 8:01 am
Venice drowns as historic high tides flood the city
Italy declares state of emergency; iconic St Mark’s Square closed and then reopened as fresh sea surge hits Floating City
By Agencies
A gondola boat is stranded atop a bike rack after high tide in Venice, Italy, November 13, 2019. (Alessandra Rallo/AP)
November 13, 2019, 3:37 pm
Venice flooding nearly touches level of infamous 1966 flood
High-water mark hits 187 centimeters (74 inches) indicating more than 85% of the city flooded; ferry, taxi boats and gondolas left grounded on walkways
By Colleen Barry
A view of St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, June 2019 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 23, 2019, 11:04 pm
Israeli tourist holds Venice money exchange worker hostage over rates
Man arrested for kidnapping after raging over amount of euros received for $100, barricading himself inside office with frightened female employee
By ToI Staff
Peggy Guggenheim at the 24th Venice Biennale in 1948 with 'Interior,' a work by her daughter Pegeen Vail. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, via JTA)
May 10, 2019, 4:45 pm
How Peggy Guggenheim helped put modern Israeli art on the map
40 years after her death, and as the 2019 Biennale opens, how the Venice-based collector jump-started the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with a remarkable donation
By Karen Chernick
Destroyed yachts and boats lie in the harbour of Rapallo, near Genoa, on October 30, 2018, after a storm hit the region and destroyed a part of the dam the night before. (MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)
November 4, 2018, 4:15 pm
Italy storms claim 12 more lives, raising death toll to 30
Flooding in Sicily kill 9 members of a family as landslides and flash flooding continue to wreak havoc across the region
By AFP
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