Barcelona

Maccabi Barcelona inaugurated with over 300 attendees, celebrates Jewish identity, sports

The inauguration of Maccabi Barcelona is particularly significant as it reflects the solidarity of a growing Jewish community in the face of increasing global antisemitism.

|ByJOSHUA HALICKMAN
A GROUP of youth take part in this week's Maccabi Barcelona inauguration.
DAVID OBADIA, president of the Jewish Communities of Spain, presents the EMET-Truth Foundation.

New EMET-Truth Foundation launched to combat antisemitism in Catalonia

Valls, Trias, PSC senator Gabriel Colomé, historian Adriá Fortet, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE), and the Jewish Community of Barcelona presented the foundation on Monday.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Mossos d'Esquadra police officers stand on the stage as they attend a press conference.

Barcelona police arrest Chinese businessman for financing Hamas through his beauty shop

The man is accused of sending Hamas 600,000 Euros (some $710,000) in crypto-assets to finance their terror operations, the police said in a statement.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
A giant portrait of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab who was killed in Gaza in 2024, is unfurled on Barceloneta Beach in the second anniversary of her death and after a film about her death received an Oscar nomination, in Barcelona, Spain January 29, 2026.

Giant portrait of Hind Rajab, girl killed in Gaza war, unfurled on Barcelona beach

Protesters in Barcelona unveil a giant portrait of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl killed in the Israel-Hamas War, as her mother calls for global attention to Gaza's children.

|ByREUTERS

Barcelona revisited

The fruits of free thinking, both indoors and al fresco, can be seen all around the city.

JULY 7, 2018ByBARRY DAVIS
THE INTERIOR of Sagrada Familia – Antoni Gaudi’s yet unfinished weird and wonderful masterpiece

Tel Aviv back on top with Rishon win

Barcelona will be coming to Tel Aviv on the back of the sacking of head coach Sito Alonso on Monday.

FEBRUARY 6, 2018ByALLON SINAI
Maccabi Tel Aviv guard Michael Roll (center) drives to the basket against Maccabi Rishon Lezion’s Drew Crawford (right) and Nitzan Hanochi (left).

Yellow-and-blue has opportunity to quash Barca jinx

NOVEMBER 23, 2017ByALLON SINAI
Maccabi Tel Aviv forward Jonah Bolden has finally settled at the team after an erratic start, averaging 10.0 points and 7.3 rebounds over the past three Euroleague game ahead of tonight’s encounter with Barcelona in Spain.

Whither Catalonia?

The independence movement faces stiff opposition from Spain.

NOVEMBER 21, 2017ByJON IMMANUEL
Unistas at a Barcelona pro-union street rally on October 29

Catalans and Jews

Numbering between 10,000 and 15,000, Barcelona’s Jews are not of the same opinion when it comes to Catalan independence.

NOVEMBER 21, 2017ByRABBI STEPHEN BERKOWITZ
Several Jews were among those attending a unity march in Barcelona on October 29, with a sea of Spanish and Catalan flags in the background

Israeli tourism site says vacations to Barcelona have plummeted

The number of vacations booked to the Catalan region by Israelis has dropped 23%.

OCTOBER 31, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
People wave Spanish, Catalan (known as Senyera) and European Union flags during a demonstration in favor of a unified Spain a day before the banned October 1 independence referendum, in Barcelona, Spain, September 30, 2017.

IN PICTURES: Hundreds of thousands march for unified Spain

Protesters on Sunday turned out in the largest display of support for a united Spain since the beginning of the crisis in Catalonia.

OCTOBER 29, 2017ByREUTERS
Pro-unity supporters take part in a demonstration in central Barcelona, Spain

Jewish-Arab coexistence group in Barcelona celebrate new years together

“Islamophobia and antisemitism have created this situation over time, and it is a vicious circle."

OCTOBER 16, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
FROM LEFT: Leticia Torre, Oumaima Alouiz, Jura Zymantas and Rachel Sair engage in a discussion last Wednesday at the Salam Shalom Barcelona event.

Spaniards take to streets as Catalonia independence tensions rise

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insists the region must give up the independence push.

OCTOBER 7, 2017ByREUTERS
People attend a demonstration in favour of dialogue in a square in Barcelona, Spain, October 7, 2017

My Word: Independence and states of the mind

Some 150 countries are currently involved in territorial disputes. Israel isn’t to blame.

OCTOBER 5, 2017ByLIAT COLLINS
People wave Spanish, Catalan (known as Senyera) and European Union flags during a demonstration in favor of a unified Spain a day before the banned October 1 independence referendum, in Barcelona, Spain, September 30, 2017.