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“The competitors understand each other, soldier to soldier, and they admire the IDF,” swimmer Shali Zanzuri tells JNS.
One Jewish soldier said classmates were “frozen in shock” when she planned to enlist • German army hired military rabbis in recent years.
Ambassador Steffen Seibert said in a Hebrew-language video that “friends of Israel are looking with a lot of interest toward the Supreme Court.”
There are calls for Hubert Aiwanger, the deputy prime minister of Germany’s largest state, to resign.
Yehuda Teichtal later confirmed with the head of the German police that no such policy was in place.
“The idea is to integrate the system into European air defense, so Arrow 3 will also protect neighboring European countries,” Steffen Seibert tells JNS.
The 23-year-old goalie will travel to the southern German city for medical examinations.
The defense deal is Israel’s largest ever.
Founded by Holocaust survivors in 1970, the fifth-tier team lost to Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg.
“Another Israeli is brutally attacked in the German capital,” said Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor.
MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen filed formal questions to E.U. foreign-policy chief Joseph Borrell in response to JNS’s reporting.
German diplomat Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff’s visit to the coastal enclave marked the end of his posting in the region.
