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Tons of poisonous black tar wash up along Israel’s entire Mediterranean coastline • Israeli environmental minister says cleanup may take years, vows to find those responsible.
“All differences that have been imposed are political,” said Bahrain’s ambassador to Italy, Naser al-Belooshi. “Instead, we should begin by looking closely at all the endless similarities.”
The pair of decorated stone coffins, which researchers believe likely belonged to “high-status” individuals, were uncovered years ago but then forgotten, say veteran park workers.
The initiatives began several years ago after a rise in hate-filled taunts and anti-Semitic shouts at European football matches.
A neo-Nazi identified in a video as Isabel Peralta tells the crowd in Spanish that “the enemy is always going to be the same albeit wearing different masks—the Jew.”
Under the agreement, starting in April those vaccinated against COVID-19 will be exempt from PCR tests and quarantine when traveling between the two countries.
Trilateral cooperation between Israel, Cyprus and Greece, particularly in the energy sector, is a “key component of regional stability and economic development,” says Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
The prosecution of researchers and journalists who deal with Polish involvement in the Holocaust constitutes a “real threat to academic and press freedom,” says the museum.
A total of 1,668 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded during 2020—an 8 percent drop over 2019’s 1,813 incidents—but still the third-highest yearly total since the group began keeping records.
In response, the Israel Embassy in Portugal tweeted: “As a proud Zionist bulldog, I can promise that If Israel develops a cure for COVID-19, Colonel Sousa e Castro will have access to it if needed.”
“Despite the passing of 75 years since the end of World War II, Poland still struggles to come to grips with its history,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
“The use of the pig theme is intended to humiliate,” said CICAD.
