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Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
November 16, 2024, 2:09 pm
Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint
Polish foreign ministry says ‘such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society’; Israeli envoy urges ‘determined action’ to stop antisemitism
By AFP
Friends and residents gather to place candles and flowers in honor of Damian Soból, a Polish food aid worker who was killed with six other World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza this week, in Soból's hometown of Przemysl, in southeastern Poland, April 4, 2024. (AP Photo)
April 6, 2024, 12:40 am
Poland summons Israeli envoy to protest aid worker’s death in Gaza strike
Deputy Polish FM says Yacov Livne ‘apologized for this unprecedented event in the history of the civilized world,’ calls for local prosecutor to take part in Israeli investigation
By Vanessa Gera
Yacov Livne. (Foreign Ministry)
April 4, 2024, 4:45 pm
Polish-Israeli tensions deepen over Israeli ambassador’s ‘outrageous’ comment
Yacov Livne claims antisemitism is behind what he called accusations that Israel committed ‘intentional murder in the attack’ on aid workers in Gaza
By Agencies
A rabbi says prayers on the eve of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 27, 2024, 9:42 am
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Some 20 camp survivors will lay wreaths at the Death Wall in Auschwitz, hold prayers at the monument in Birkenau
By AP
Screen capture from video of Polish ultra far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun from Confederation (Konfederacja) using a fire extinguisher to put out a Hanukkah menorah placed in the parliament lobby, Warsaw, Poland, on December 12, 2023. (TVN24/AFP)
December 12, 2023, 10:59 pm
Far-right Polish lawmaker extinguishes Hanukkah candles in parliament
Grzegorz Braun, who claims there’s a plot to turn Poland into a ‘Jewish state,’ calls candle lighting ‘satanic worship’; parliament cuts his salary as penalty
By AP and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (left) and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw on March 22, 2023 (Foreign Ministry)
March 22, 2023, 6:48 pm
‘Crisis over’: Israeli, Polish FMs sign deal to mend ties, return envoy to Tel Aviv
Years-long dispute appears to be drawing to a close after Eli Cohen signs agreement in Warsaw on student tours to Nazi camps; contents of deal remain under wraps
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
October 18, 2022, 4:22 pm
Poland maintains ban on armed guards for Israeli school groups
Warsaw says presence of security personnel creates impression Poland is unsafe; incident is latest in string of spats between the two countries in recent years
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne pays his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw on July 12, 2022. (Courtesy)
October 15, 2022, 6:11 pm
Poland summons Israeli envoy over ‘misleading’ remarks on youth Holocaust trips
Warsaw accuses Yacov Livne of refusing to communicate directly over dispute, after he said Poland was preventing education tours
By ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne pays his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw on July 12, 2022. (Courtesy)
July 12, 2022, 6:45 pm
Israeli ambassador reinstated in Poland a year after bitter diplomatic spat
‘Time to return to normal relations’: Polish president says envoy to Jerusalem will be dispatched in coming days, after countries locked horns over Holocaust legislation
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Members of ELNET's delegation from the Baltic states and Poland visit the MDA underground blood bank, June 2, 2022 (courtesy ELNET)
June 9, 2022, 1:56 pm
With Russia threat looming, Europe’s eastern flank looks to Israel for expertise
ELNET delegation of Baltic and Polish officials studies border security, emergency management, cyber defense; visit seen as step in repairing Warsaw-Jerusalem ties
By Lazar Berman
Yacov Livne. (Foreign Ministry)
February 26, 2022, 10:00 pm
Israel moves to end rift with Poland amid Ukraine fighting, sends envoy to Warsaw
Lapid says dispatch of Yacov Livne to Warsaw six months after cutting ties comes in order to ‘enhance assistance to Israeli citizens crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
November 26, 2019, 3:12 pm
Moscow embassy may go months without envoy, as PM keeps post in back pocket
Netanyahu said to refuse to name career diplomat as ambassador in favor of political appointee, likely leaving position vacant until new government formed
By Raphael Ahren
File photo of Ehud Barak, left, meeting with then-Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Flash90)
June 25, 2012, 6:10 am
Never mind Israel’s pleas on Iran, Russia unlikely to change course
Moscow’s support for Tehran and Damascus is strategic, commercial, diplomatic and personal, experts say, and will not be sacrificed because of Israeli concerns
By Raphael Ahren
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 21, 2012. (photo credit: Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, AP /RIA-Novosti,)
June 22, 2012, 3:57 am
Putin visit to Israel next week could be vital in bid to thwart Iran via sanctions
Russian president may be signaling to Tehran that it needs to compromise in order to retain his support
By Amy Teibel
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