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Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Egypt requested that the artifact be returned under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which both it and the Netherlands are beholden to. 

Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.
Students for Palestine and other students have occupied the Academy Building at the University of Leiden, November 26, 2025.

How activists misused Nazi-era Dutch Jewish advocate's name to justify intimidation - opinion

Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport, October 23, 2025.

Netherlands lowers Israel travel advisory to 'yellow' risk level after Gaza ceasefire

The Party for Freedom (PVV) party leader Geert Wilders and Democrats 66 (D66) party leader Rob Jetten attend the final debate in the run-up to the House of Representatives elections, in The Hague, Netherlands, October 28, 2025

Centrist D66 party leads in Dutch election exit polls, Wilders vows to fight on from the opposition


18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off flight in dispute over COVID protocol

Dutch police at Amsterdam’s removed 18 Orthodox Jewish girls from a Delta-KLM flight bound for New York on Friday allegedly because they failed to comply with COVID-19 measures.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl walks past a shop window displaying women's head coverings in Bnei Brak, Israel July 18, 2017. Picture taken July 18, 2017

Nazi-looted art collection to be investigated by Dutch gov't, returned

In their statement, the Dutch government said they "aim to return as much as possible of the art looted by the Nazis during the Second World War to its rightful owners.”

'Gurlitt: Status Report - Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences' exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, November 2, 2017.

Singer-songwriter Dotan to return to Israel in November

On Wednesday, Dotan posted on Twitter: “I’ll be playing my first-ever show in Israel on November 25th at the legendary Barby club in Tel Aviv.”

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Dutch university removes ‘from the river to the sea’ banner after protests

“This chant isn’t about supporting a Palestinian state but all about expelling the Jews from Israel. This will never happen,” wrote Ronny Naftaniel, chairman of the Netherlands CJO.

Kosovo Albanians shout slogans and hold banners against violence in Gaza and in support for the free Palestine during a march in Pristina

Dutch museum pays thousands to compensate for looted Nazi art

The descendants of Richard Semmel's family friends were granted 200,000 euros by the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle in the Netherlands, where the previously-owned painting currently sits.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by  Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644), dated to the first half of 17th century, and currently belonging to the collection of the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

Dutch daily apologizes for drawing Jewish pollster as a puppet master

The caricature depicted a leering Maurice de Hond holding a set of marionette strings. The editor in chief said it recall[s] too many memories of anti-Semitic caricatures of the Nazi period."

Maurice de Hond depicted as a puppet master in the Volkskrant newspaper in the Netherlands on April 19, 2021.

A riveting exploration of human doubts depicted in new book

Even though its author is a professional psychiatrist, this is far from a dry-as-dust scientific textbook.

Deference to Doubt: A young man’s quest for religious identity in first-century Judea

Israeli-Dutch Jew leads new progressive party into Dutch parliament

Israeli- Dutch Jew Itay Garmy ran the campaign for a new progressive political party, Volt, which won three seats in this week’s national election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Dutch Parliament.

Scream, not swab: Did a Dutch inventor just discover a new COVID test?

Instead of unpleasant nasal swab tests, Peter van Wees asks participants to step into an air locked cabin and to scream, or sing.

Peter van Wees opens the door so John Moritz can exit the quick breath analyzer cabin that tests for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a testing location in Amsterdam, Netherlands March 1, 2021.

Lockdown lifted: Israel Museum reopens featuring Dutch art exhibit

After a long string of lockdowns, the beloved cultural institution has reopened. What's on show?

THE SALT of the Earth exhibition features fascinating portrayals of the Dutch working class by leading Jewish artists  of the mid-late 19th century.