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As dangerous enemies arm themselves with missiles that can strike anywhere, the strategic value of Israel’s submarine fleet keeps rising. When did they start adding to the military security of the Jewish state, and how did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first get involved in helping purchase them?
“We cannot leave fighting anti-Semitism in this country to the Jews,” stated the country’s new commissioner for Jewish affairs Felix Klein.
German organizations working abroad will have to sign contracts to ensure that they do not support or promote anti-Semitic activity, announced the country’s first anti-Semitism commissioner.
The country will pay $2,800 each to survivors from among the 10,000 who fled the “Kindertransport,” which sent children from Germany to Great Britain as part of the latter agreeing to admit an unspecified number of Jewish children as refugees, beginning in 1938.
Dressed in black, the German Chancellor noted that “Jewish life is blossoming again in Germany—an unexpected gift to us after the Shoah. But we are also witnessing a worrying anti-Semitism that threatens Jewish life in our country.”
Eighty years after the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom, nearly one-third of Germans harbor varying degrees of anti-Semitic beliefs, new research has revealed.
The award was for giving psychological support in Arabic to at-risk refugee women and others affected by gender-based violence living in shelters, in addition to training and counseling for shelter staff.
Angela Merkel lost her mandate as the party’s leader, in large part due to handling of the refugee crisis, and will not seek the chairmanship at the party’s conference in December.
After 13 years as chancellor, Merkel to step down in 2021
“The time has come to open a new chapter,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who announced at a news conference: “I will not be seeking any political post after my term ends.”
The crowd booed as the two activists were removed from the theater by Israeli security personnel.
Iranian official Assadollah Assadi, 46, who worked in disguise as a diplomat, was extradited to Belgium to face trial for his role in a thwarted terrorist plot to bomb a political rally in France on June 30.
Since its founding in 2013 as a Euro-skeptic party, the AfD has been criticized by the mainstream German Jewish community over concerns of its views on Muslim migrants and country’s Nazi past. Yet Jewish supporters see the opposite. “I prefer to be part of a party that wants to help living Jews, not dead Jews,” said one Jewish supporter.
