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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Romain Chauvet

A sports car drives along the Place de l'Etoile, in front of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, France, February 18, 2025. (AP/Aurelien Morissard)
April 14, 2025, 4:01 am
A French taxi app for visiting Israelis is gaining popularity amid rising antisemitism
Monite, an application similar to Uber designed specifically for Hebrew speakers, is catching on beyond its intended audience, as unprecedented levels of hate threaten local Jews
By Romain Chauvet
A photo of the Porto cityscape, June 2024. (Romain Chauvet)
August 13, 2024, 7:52 pm
Looking to escape war at home, Israelis seek refugee status in Portugal
As the Israel-Hamas conflict stretches into its 11th month, locals looking to flee its physical and economic perils find a shortcut – albeit temporary – in applying for EU asylum
By Romain Chauvet
Members of 'penas' (festive groups) unfold a Palestinian flag on the sun section of the bullring at the begining of the fifth bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, on July 11, 2024. (Ander Gillenea / AFP)
July 16, 2024, 3:51 pm
From bullfights to Euro 2024, Spain’s overt Gaza support sparks fear in some Jews
The country, one of Europe’s most outspoken critics of Israel’s war in the Strip, is home to a Jewish community that reports feeling an increasingly hostile environment
By Romain Chauvet
An Israeli representative engages with a French health worker at Europe's first-ever MedEx immigration expo for medical professionals in Paris, March 31, 2024. (Courtesy of Nefesh B'Nefesh)
April 6, 2024, 9:47 am
European aliyah expo for health workers seeks to remedy Israel’s doctor shortage
Hundreds attend continent’s first-ever MedEx event in Paris on Sunday, receive bureaucratic and practical assistance as they consider leaving France amid unprecedented antisemitism
By Romain Chauvet
Paris City Hall is adorned with decorations auguring the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. (Romain Chauvet)
March 6, 2024, 11:37 pm
How the Israel-Hamas conflict could disrupt the Paris Olympic Games
Months before the sporting event of the year, France struggles with mind-boggling security logistics amid fears that violence could spill over
By Romain Chauvet
Illustrative: This picture taken on July 17, 2023 shows a graffito in German and French reading 'Hail Hitler, death to Jews' and with a swastika, on a monument in memory of 55 people executed at this site by the Nazis in 1944 during World War II, in Ploeuc-L'Hermitage, some 20km south of Saint-Brieuc, western France. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP)
January 6, 2024, 7:38 am
‘I’m afraid every day for my children’: As antisemitism soars, French Jews flee to Israel
With over 1,500 antisemitic incidents between Oct. 7 and mid-November – three times the reported number in the entire 2022 – more French Jews seek to escape the climate of fear
By Romain Chauvet
Citizens of Paros, Greece, feel deprived of their beach amid the explosion of beach privatization, and often make signs such as the one pictured here in August 2023. (Romain Chauvet)
September 30, 2023, 7:39 am
Israelis in Greece are taking a stand – against a tourist takeover of their new home
While tourism accounts for 25% of the Greek GDP, the Towel Movement is fighting rising prices and overcrowding, and sabra expats are on the front lines
By Romain Chauvet
Amitai Weissman on the balcony of his new apartment in Athens. (Courtesy)
July 1, 2023, 9:46 am
Under shadow of judicial overhaul, Israelis flee to Greece, birthplace of democracy
As Israel’s uncertain judiciary seems to increasingly push some sabras into exile, many are drawn to Greece’s proximity, lower real estate prices and high quality of life
By Romain Chauvet
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