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Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists face police forces at the university campus of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2024. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
January 27, 2026, 9:03 pm
UN experts slam trespassing convictions for Swiss students over anti-Israel sit-in
Special rapporteurs on rights to free expression, assembly say activism ‘must not be criminalized,’ after students each fined some $3,500 for occupying Zurich university building
By Agencies
Illustrative: Armed police officers stand outside Swiss National Bank headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, March 21, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
August 11, 2024, 9:50 pm
Swiss police arrest ‘mentally disturbed’ man for pouring gasoline on synagogue
Authorities say 32-year-old ‘acted alone and no extremist motives have been put forward’; suspect detained after fleeing scene when caught by Zurich community’s security guard
By AFP and ToI Staff
Vincent van Gogh's "Der alte Turm," 1884. (Public Domain)
June 21, 2024, 9:46 am
Swiss museum takes down 5 paintings looted by Nazis as part of probe into origins
Foundation that owns pieces, including by van Gogh and Monet, says it is working to reach fair settlement with descendants of former owners
By Jamey Keaten
Illustrative: Anti-Israel activists face police forces at the university campus of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2024. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
May 7, 2024, 8:24 pm
Police disband anti-Israel protesters at Berlin, Amsterdam and Zurich universities
Demonstrations over the war in Gaza and academic ties with Israel have begun to spread across Europe, but remain much smaller in scale than those seen in the US
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Swiss Police officers of the canton of Zurich seen in Davos on May 23, 2022. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 3, 2024, 10:05 am
Teen stabs Jewish man in Zurich, reportedly shouts ‘Death to the Jews’
Victim, an ultra-Orthodox man in his 50s, seriously injured in attack; police say they are looking at all lines of investigation, haven’t ruled out racist assault
By ToI Staff
Kunsthaus art museum in Zurich on August 6, 2011. (Wikipedia/by Roland zh - own work)
March 14, 2023, 4:15 pm
Major Swiss art museum reviewing collection for Nazi-looted pieces
Kunsthaus Zurich announces commission of independent experts to clarify origins of works; ‘We bear a great social responsibility,’ director says
By AFP
A view of the Lowenstrasse synagogue in Zurich. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 20, 2020, 11:16 pm
Former chief rabbi of Zurich, who was a US Marines chaplain, dies at 80
Zalman Kossowsky led congregations on three continents during decades-spanning career; his synagogue in Florida notes he didn’t die of COVID-19
By Sam Sokol
El Al planes at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, March 16, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 6, 2020, 4:56 pm
El Al cancels flights to San Francisco, Europe amid ‘unprecedented’ virus crisis
Israeli airline, hit hard by spread of coronavirus, combines flights, will use smaller planes as global travel slumps
By ToI Staff
A library official shows celebrated author Franz Kafka’s Hebrew vocabulary notebook at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
April 17, 2019, 11:15 am
Long-hidden Kafka trove within reach after series of trials
Zurich court upholds Israeli ruling that several safe deposit boxes in the Swiss city can be opened and their contents shipped to Israel’s National Library
By Aron Heller
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz arrives for the screening of the movie "Remember" presented in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, on September 10, 2015. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
February 16, 2019, 5:04 pm
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, famous for playing Hitler in ‘Downfall,’ dies at 77
Film star, one of the greatest German-speaking actors in post-World War II era, said the role haunted him for years
By AFP
A view of the Lowenstrasse synagogue in Zurich. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
July 9, 2018, 11:15 pm
Knife-wielding drunkard threatens Swiss Jewish family walking to synagogue
Attacker shouts anti-Semitic profanities at Orthodox children in Zurich, is subdued by Jewish passerby; police say knifeman was ‘very drunk’
By JTA
The Limmat river in Zurich, Switzerland, January 2017. (Kuhnmi/Flickr via JTA)
July 7, 2018, 12:28 am
Zurich Jewish school to close for failing to meet standards for secular subjects
Inspectors found teachers lacked sufficient qualifications; separately, UK British school admonished for censoring textbooks
By JTA
Zurich at night (CC-BY SA Andyindia/Wikipedia)
March 15, 2018, 1:14 am
Swiss neo-Nazi sentenced to jail for assaulting Jewish man
Assailant given two years behind bars for shoving victim, making Nazi salute in Zurich’s Jewish district in 2015
By JTA
Police secure the area in front of the Islamic center, in Zurich, December 19, 2016. A Zurich police official said a gunman injured several people in Switzerland's largest city. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)
December 19, 2016, 10:05 pm
Three said hurt in shooting near Muslim prayer hall in Zurich
Police converge on scene of attack; gunman at large
By AFP and AP
An Antonine-era mummy portrait of a young woman from the University of Zurich restituted to the heirs of a German Jewish publisher in April 2016. (Frank Tomio/University of Zurich)
October 25, 2016, 7:30 pm
Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis, recovered, sell for over $300,000
Swiss university bought the two paintings from widow of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ author, recently returned them to heirs of German Jew
By Ilan Ben Zion
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