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Finnish FM visits Jerusalem for first time since 2016, discusses regional issues with FM Sa'ar

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosted Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen in Jerusalem, marking the first such visit in nearly a decade amid EU discussions on Israel.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosting his Finnish counterpart, Elina Valtonen, at the Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem, February 15, 2026.
Layla Blenden.

Layla Blenden: Jewelry of kindness

HESSY TAFT poses holding a photograph of herself taken in 1935 by well-known German photographer Hans Ballin during an interview with Reuters July 9, 2014.

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

President Isaac Herzog (C) flanked by Dayan and IHRA Secretary-General Michaela Küchler at the IHRA plenary

At the crossroads of Holocaust remembrance


Most troubling manifestation of current antisemitism is its 'academization' - Yad Vashem Chairman

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference 'The Second Front,' Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, expressed concern about what is happening on college campuses.

 Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan

WATCH: The Second Front conference on antisemitism

Broadcast event: The battle for Israel and the Jewish people

 The Second Front  - A Jerusalem Post event.

‘Academic pseudoscience’ against Israel at prestigious US schools - Yad Vashem chair

Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, raised concerns about the rise of what he called “academic pseudoscience” targeting Israel in top US universities.

A sign hangs on a gate of a building at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., July 6, 2023.

Why is this anniversary of Kristallnacht different from all others? - opinion

The short answer is October 7, 2023 and Hamas’s barbaric, genocidal rampage against Israel. 

 Jews rounded up in Stadthagen after Kristallnacht.

Israel's education minister plans Yad Vashem-like October 7 memorial center

The research center would be led by professionals, and the long-term aim would be to educate future generations.

 Education Minister Yoav Kisch seen at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2023

Grapevine: In another theater

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

'Shufersal' supermarket

Israeli ambassador criticized for wearing yellow star at UN

"We were deeply saddened to witness members of the Israeli delegation to the UN donning yellow badges," Dayan stated on Tuesday.

 Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the United Nations Security Council as the Council meets to discuss the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., February 20, 2023.

My friend Alex Dancyg: 75, a Holocaust educator, held captive in Gaza

Alex, a proud member of the Zionist Youth movement Hashomer Hatzair, lives in Kibbutz Nir Oz. On October 7, he was ripped away from his family and disappeared without a trace.

 Alex Dancyg lectures a group of educators in Poland.

US think tank MEMRI opens Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center

The Hamas Atrocities Documentation Center has the goal of documenting the actions of Hamas, which it described as the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

 An aerial view shows damage caused following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October 11, 2023.

Lithuania must acknowledge its role in the Holocaust - opinion

The annihilation of an entire Jewish civilization in Lithuania is an indelible stain on that nation’s history. However, I firmly believe that memories of Jewish Lita must endure.

 JEWS DIG a trench at the Ponary Forest killing site outside of Vilnius.