Germany
“This is 2022 and this is a Western country, and there’s a lot of anti-Semitism throughout the world,” wrote Rabbi David Zwiebel, executive vice president of the Agudath Israel of America.
A senior delegation of the German Bundestag Defense Committee visited the Lebanese border, where members were briefed on threats posed by Hezbollah, as well as Iran’s continuous proliferation of arms, know-how and funds to the Lebanese “terror military.”
The prime minister visited the chancellor following a three-hour talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The Israeli leader said that the German chancellor’s visit, which comes amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as Germany and other world powers are engaged in talks with Iran over its nuclear program, comes at a “very fateful and sensitive time.”
Outside of Ukraine, Germany is home to the largest population of Russian-speaking Jews in Europe. “They take it very personally because for us it’s still part of our identity; it’s not just another war on the map,” said Anna Segal, CEO of the Kahal Adass Jisroel congregation in Berlin.
Annalena Baerbock was “convinced that a full restoration of the JCPOA would make the region more secure, including Israel; otherwise, we would not be having these talks.”
Gen. Eberhard Zorn received briefings from the Israel Defense Forces on both Lebanon and Hezbollah’s regional entrenchment there.
Civil servant Michael Blume defends allegations of impropriety by going on the offensive against his Jewish accusers. The established German Jewish community supports him, demonstrating a partisan rift. Now, allegations of corruption have surfaced.
On the final day of his four-day state visit, Mickey Levy will deliver the first-ever address in the Bundestag by a Knesset speaker.
Report: ThyssenKrupp increased the price tag from 1.8 billion euros (more than $2 billion).
“It’s clear that German culture and society is still coming to terms with the Jewish component of their history. And while the politics have moved forward, we still see many take deep fallback positions when talking about the Jewish community,” said Joel Rubin, executive director of the American Jewish Congress and a former U.S. State Department official.
The father of now-retired pastor Uwe Mader kept the parchments in his office under wallpaper and later locked them in a steel cupboard.
