Europe
The owner of the synagogue building, a local real estate developer, “doesn’t want us there,” said community member David Gurfinkel.
Another 4,200 Ukrainians who fled the conflict have been granted Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.
Funding has gone towards emergency operational costs, temporary housing and transportation, security, humanitarian support and trauma assistance; and in Israel, aliyah and absorption.
The move was part of a series of gestures Israel is making to improve Palestinian living conditions in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The deal has reportedly been finalized, although the number of batteries purchased and their estimated delivery date remain unknown.
The Ypres city council revoked the permit for the Frontnacht music festival, which was to be held the weekend of Aug. 27-28.
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation named the city an honorary member.
The municipality of Hogeveen, northeast of Amsterdam, renamed the former Mayor Tjalma Park as “Raadhuispark” (meaning “Radius Park”).
The effort to drop “My Neighbor Adolf” follows criticism by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
“When a person saves one life, it is as if he or she has saved the whole world. Hans Boerma and his daughter Grietje Boersma risked their own survival to save the world—six times over,” said Consul General of Israel to the Midwest Yinam Cohen.
“We are correcting decades of injustice,” said the Israeli prime minister.
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said he was getting ready to leave, but did not anticipate significant progress.
