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Gold medalist Tom with Ankie Spitzer. Pic: Justin Cohen
August 7, 2024, 5:03 pm
Munich Olympics widow: ‘Our record-breaking medallists are the answer to 1972’
Paris ceremony honours memory of the 11 murdered Israelis as IOC president Thomas Bach hails impact of families’ campaign on him
By Justin Cohen in Paris
Vitalii Sazonov is a Ukrainian national judo team doctor. Mr Sazonov is living as a refugee in the UK and has shared his excitement about making it to the Olympics after nearly losing his family to Russia's invasion.
August 6, 2024, 2:03 pm
How World Jewish Relief helped Ukrainian doctor get to Olympics
After taking part in WJR STEP programme the doctor was able to work with judoka team in Paris
By Jenni Frazer
The boat carrying team Israel makes its way down the Seine in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
July 29, 2024, 6:59 pm
French police investigating death threats targeting Israeli Olympians
Threats come amid mounting security concerns for Israel’s delegation of nearly 90 athletes, one of the country’s largest-ever Olympic cohorts
By Jacob Gurvis (JTA)
July 26, 2024, 6:58 pm
Advertising company removes Paris anti-Israel posters
Posters timed to coincide with opening of Olympic Games 2024
By Jenni Frazer
Heightened security at Paris Olympics
July 22, 2024, 11:46 am
Far-left French MP claims Israeli athletes ‘not welcome in Paris’ ahead of Olympics
Thomas Portes, from the ultra-left France Unbowed party, is condemned after calling for Israel delegation ban days before Paris Olympics begin
By JN Reporter
Pic: Twitter/X
June 19, 2024, 1:00 pm
Three teenagers arrested in France following rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl
Boys aged 12, 13 and 14 arrested on Monday after the girl reported the incident in the northwestern Paris suburb of Courbevoie.
By Michelle Rosenberg
John Galliano (left) after a drunken antisemitic outburst lost him his job as creative director of Christian Dior.
May 7, 2024, 4:01 pm
Fashion icon dropped for antisemitism may get job back
John Galliano, fired by Dior over antisemitism, likely to be rehired by group which owns luxury fashion brands
By Jenni Frazer
August 3, 2023, 1:49 pm
‘Paris Memories’ evokes the trauma of the terror attacks in the French capital
Filmmaker Alice Winocour brings her family's personal experience to bear in her new fmovie
By Stephen Applebaum
Smotrich delivers Paris speech in front of banner with Greater Israel map
March 20, 2023, 10:49 am
Smotrich gives speech next to Israel map featuring parts of Jordan and Syria
Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich described the Palestinians as 'fictitious' during a speech in Paris over the weekend.
By Lee Harpin
Jews at the Vel d’Hiv. They were taken to internment camps before being sent to Auschwitz
July 13, 2022, 8:29 pm
‘Britain failed French Jews when we needed her most’
A British Holocaust refugee who was in Paris when Jews were rounded up and deported from the city in 1942 has criticised the government’s response to events 80 years ago this week.
By Stephen Oryszczuk
July 12, 2022, 3:15 pm
G2G mark the 80th anniversary of the Paris round-up
The Vel d’Hiv is the French name for 17 July 1942. This was the date 13,000 foreign-born Jews were arrested in and outside the capital.
French Police (Photo by Paul MARSAN on Unsplash)
February 6, 2022, 5:46 pm
16 teachers at yeshiva near Paris arrested in raid over conditions for students
Police began investigating Beth Yossef after a student left the institution and sought the help of staff at the U.S. embassy in Paris
By JTA
Tel Aviv
December 6, 2021, 11:30 am
Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city to live in, study finds
The Israeli city rose from No. 5 to No. 1 in the annual Worldwide Cost of Living index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit
By JTA
Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, was among the speakers at the event (Photo: Crif)
May 25, 2021, 3:59 pm
Politicians and leaders unite to remember Sarah Halimi
They called on the world to ensure the French Jewish grandmother, whose killer cannot stand trial, is not forgotten
By Michael Daventry
Sarah Halimi (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël)
April 21, 2021, 6:29 pm
London rally called outside French embassy to protest Sarah Halimi verdict
Sunday's event is timed to coincide with rallies across France against a court ruling that said a Jewish woman's killer cannot stand trial
By Michael Daventry
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