Eastern Europe
The decision was made months ago, but not publicized due to the coronavirus pandemic; Israel applauds the move.
Protesters march through city chanting anti-fascist songs and holding up pictures of resistance fighters • Bosnia’s Catholic Church claims the Mass honored all innocent victims of the war.
An earlier flight from St. Petersburg with 26 Russian Jews marked the 30th anniversary of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s sponsorship of aliyah from the former Soviet Union.
A spokesperson for the Estonian Internal Security Service said police “intervened in early January because of a suspicion of danger” and “suspended this person’s activities.”
Meer Axelrod was banned in the Soviet Union from artistic work, yet for nearly half a century, he continued to paint about Jewish life and the tragic fate of Jews who died in pogroms.
The country’s Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the march, ruling that far-right demonstrators could only lay wreaths at the home of Bulgarian Gen. Hristo Lukov.
Thousands rally in cities across Iran, holding signs reading “death to America” and “death to Israel” • Tehran dismisses Canada’s complaint over downed Ukrainian airliner • Two Iranians caught in Ecuador using fake Israeli passports.
Alexander Shopotinsky, 38, said “the situation has become very difficult—one of the worst in Europe as a whole.”
Ilir Meta stopped at the Ramle military base, where he awarded the “Golden Eagle Decoration” to the IDF’s National Rescue Unit.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif: Its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal “are finished” • Ukraine to push Iran to deliver black boxes from passenger plane shot down by Iran’s military.
While noting that anti-Semitic acts perpetrated in Ukraine is in decline, Israeli Ambassador Joel Leon stressed that the same cannot be said about overall anti-Semitic sentiment and rhetoric in the country.
Efraim Zuroff, Eastern Europe director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, slammed the proposed legislation as the “final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians” in the Holocaust.
