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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Volker Beck

Illustrative: A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community center, after a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Rostock, northern Germany, January 8, 2009. (AP/ Thomas Haentzschel/File)
September 9, 2017, 2:54 am
Far-right is driving German anti-Semitism, government says
Interior Ministry finds 92% of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel offenses in 2017 were committed by right-wing extremists
By JTA
In a tribute to the victims of the ramming attack in Jerusalem, the Israeli flag is projected onto the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, January 9, 2017. (AFP/dpa / Michael Kappeler)
May 3, 2017, 8:03 pm
Amid crisis, Berlin and Jerusalem urged to allow dual citizenship
‘Shattered porcelain’ in German-Israeli relations should be improved by reforming dual nationality laws, German MP Volker Beck says
By Raphael Ahren
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel before his meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, April 25, 2017. /Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 27, 2017, 6:01 am
Why Netanyahu gave Germany’s FM the Silence treatment
The way the PM sees it, he’s snubbed a waning politician from a country most Israelis believe has no right to preach democracy to Jews, for meeting a widely loathed fringe group
By Raphael Ahren
This combination of pictures created on April 25, 2017 shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) attending a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on March 16, 2017 and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel during a joint press conference on April 5, 2017 at the EU headquarters in Brussels. (Amir Cohen and John Thys/AFP)
April 26, 2017, 2:22 pm
German-Israel relationship: No longer so special?
Since perpetrating the Holocaust, Berlin has worked to build a close relationship, but the Jewish state’s right-wing government is testing that bond
By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU
German parliamentarian Volker Beck of the Green Party (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 12, 2017, 1:12 am
Over 33,000 Israelis have taken German citizenship since 2000
Green Party pol calls to expand dual-nationality rules to include citizens of Jewish state, some 13,000 of whom live in Germany
By ToI Staff
German chancellor Angela Merkel (R), Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (C) and presidential candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Bundestag in Berlin, July 7, 2016. (AFP photo/John MacDougall)
February 8, 2017, 12:20 pm
Germany ‘disappointed,’ lost confidence in Israel after outpost law
Trust in Israel’s commitment to two-state solution ‘has been profoundly shaken’ by controversial legislation, Berlin says
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: A neo-Nazi demonstration in Leipzig, Germany. (CC BY-SA Herder3, Wikimedia Commons)
November 10, 2016, 11:10 pm
German neo-Nazis publish list of Jewish sites to mark Kristallnacht
Police launch probe into map circulated on Facebook listing 70 Berlin-area synagogues, schools, restaurants and cemeteries
By AFP
Illustrative photo of security prisoners in an Israeli prison (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 7, 2016, 3:21 pm
UK freezes $30m in Palestinian aid over salaries for terrorists
London says it will investigate whether PA used donor countries’ funds to finance payments to terror convicts in Israeli prisons
By ToI Staff
Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as part of the deal for the release of hostage Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
September 5, 2016, 7:45 am
In first, Germany admits PA is likely paying terrorists’ families
Berlin vows to investigate Ramallah’s system of monthly ‘salaries’ for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons for terror-related offenses
By Raphael Ahren
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, on February 16, 2016, after a joint cabinet meeting. (AFP /Odd Andersen)
July 12, 2016, 2:02 am
Germany ‘concerned’ about political climate in Israel that led to NGO bill
Legislation is ‘one-sided,’ Berlin says; even head of Bundestag Israel friendship group slams it as ‘reminiscent of the Kremlin’
By Raphael Ahren
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, welcomes the German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 24, 2015, 1:40 am
Germany rejects criticism of its business ambitions in Iran
Noting French, Italian rush to ink business deals in Tehran, Berlin’s economy minister defends last week’s visit
By Frank Jordans
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