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World Holocaust Forum

Prince Charles seen during the funeral late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)
September 10, 2022, 7:35 am
King Charles III: A friend to UK Jewry, with special and historic ties to Israel
Royal has long had good relationship with British Jews; outspoken on antisemitism; shored up Israel bona fides in recent years with official visit; also empathetic to Palestinians
By Itamar Sharon and ToI Staff
Britain's Prince Charles, left, welcomes Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Highgrove House, Tetbury, England, Monday November 22, 2021. (Ben Birchall/Pool Photo via AP)
November 22, 2021, 5:00 pm
Herzog meets Prince Charles, announces nursing scholarship in honor of grandmother
President thanks British royal for ‘important work on Holocaust education,’ dedicates new Hebrew University grant to Righteous Among the Nations Princess Alice
By ToI Staff
Israeli pro-Ukrainian activist Victor Vertsner (Facebook)
April 13, 2020, 4:33 pm
Meet the Jewish activists who want Israel to support Ukraine against Russia
Few Israelis are aware of the intense information battle being fought between Moscow and Kyiv over anti-Semitism and Israel. Some believe the Jewish state is on the wrong side
By Simona Weinglass and Sam Sokol
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
February 3, 2020, 8:47 pm
Yad Vashem apologizes for distortions favoring Russia at Holocaust forum
Museum tells newspaper it allowed an unbalanced representation of events during World War II, clarifies that videos shown at ceremony last month do not represent its own position
By ToI Staff
Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
January 27, 2020, 1:08 pm
Putin to decide soon on pardon for jailed Israeli, Kremlin says
Pardon committee to submit recommendation Monday evening on possible freedom for Naama Issachar, who was sentenced to 7.5 years for marijuana found in her luggage
By ToI Staff
US Vice President Mike Pence waves as he disembarks from a plane with his wife Karen, upon their arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport ,to attend the World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem memorial center, January 23, 2020. (Ammar Awad/Pool Photo via AP)
January 26, 2020, 11:27 pm
Cyberattacks targeted world leaders’ planes as they flew into Israel last week
At least 800 attacks, including from Iran and Poland, were beaten back by Israel’s newly upgraded air traffic cyber defenses, officials say
By ToI Staff
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi lays a wreath during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel on January 23, 2020. (Pool/Getty Images via JTA)
January 26, 2020, 5:47 pm
Trump administration, Democratic leadership mark Auschwitz liberation
Democrats tend to emphasize the threat of anti-Semitic violence in the US and Europe, while Republicans focus on Israel’s security
By Ron Kampeas
Naama Issachar, sentenced to 7.5 years in Russia, in an undated photo (Courtesy)
January 26, 2020, 5:11 pm
Israeli backpacker imprisoned in Russia formally asks Putin for a pardon
Naama Issachar was sentenced to 7.5 years after pot was found in her luggage; mother Yaffa, en route to Moscow: ‘We hope for the best’
By ToI Staff
From top left clockwise: President Reuven Rivlin meets in Jerusalem with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prince Charles, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French President Emmanuel Macron. (Flash90)
January 24, 2020, 10:32 pm
From Anastasiades to Zelensky: Rivlin hosts Israel’s largest diplomatic influx
A whole lot of hugs and handshakes as more than 40 kings, princes, presidents, prime ministers, parliament speakers and other dignitaries came to town in a whirlwind of diplomacy
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
January 24, 2020, 5:10 pm
Historians slam ‘completely false’ Putin Holocaust claims at Jerusalem ceremony
Russian president’s assertion that 40% of the Jews who died in the Holocaust were citizens of Soviet Union ‘ridiculous,’ and part of ongoing dispute with Poland over WWII history
By Sam Sokol
Israeli-American Naama Issachar, jailed for drug smuggling, attends her appeal hearing at the Moscow Regional Court on December 19, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)
January 24, 2020, 12:36 pm
Kremlin: Jailed backpacker hasn’t requested pardon, delaying possible release
Moscow appears to take step closer toward freeing Naama Isaachar, jailed in Russia for 7.5 years on drug offenses, day after Putin sounds reassuring at meeting with her mother
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, center, followed by Strasbourg Chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill, second right, walk amid vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, December 4, 2019. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP)
January 24, 2020, 12:07 pm
LISTEN: New AJC survey finds rising anti-Semitism in France is mainstream worry
Episode #20: AJC Europe Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen discusses headline-grabbing bombshell survey * Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a visit to NY’s Museum of Jewish Heritage
By ToI Staff
Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev speaks at an event marking the Jewish new year in the northern Israeli city of Safed on September 3, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)
January 24, 2020, 8:10 am
Regev writes Argentina president’s name on her hand for airport meet
Culture minister apparently wanted to ensure she remembered Alberto Fernandez’s name when she greeted him on the tarmac for his visit for the World Holocaust Forum
By JTA
US Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)
January 23, 2020, 9:58 pm
‘We marvel at Jewish resilience’: Full text of Pence’s speech to Holocaust Forum
The Jews ‘rose from the ashes to reclaim a Jewish future and rebuild Jewish State,’ says vice president. ‘The American people have been with you every step of the way since 1948’
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020, to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
January 23, 2020, 9:41 pm
‘This crime had accomplices’: Full text of Putin’s World Holocaust Forum speech
Those who helped the Nazis ‘were often crueler than their masters,’ Russian president says. ‘The Holocaust was deliberate annihilation. The Nazis intended the same fate for others’
By ToI Staff
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