Angela Merkel

Grapevine, November 21, 2025: No age limits

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes one of the final letters in a Torah Scroll dedicated to the memory of fallen soldier Moshe Leiter as Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, looks on.
JUDGES AND DANCERS in the Israel Irish Dancing Championship.

Grapevine, November 16, 2025: The Germans are coming

Israel’s global relationships are deepening with new collaborations with Germany and Africa, focusing on innovative research and expanding diplomatic ties for security and human rights.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
FROM LEFT: Nadav Fattal, Asaf, David Fattal, Orel, and Assaf Fattal.

Grapevine, November 14, 2025: A Woman of valor

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ANGELA MERKEL, then German chancellor, arrives with her spokesman Steffen Seibert for a news conference after a meeting with governors of former East German states at the Chancellery in Berlin, in 2020.

Netanyahu wanted advisor of Germany's Angela Merkel to be fired, investigation finds - report

The former Chancellor's senior advisor conditioned the sale of submarines to Israel in exchange for stopping construction in the West Bank, which prompted Netanyahu to ask Merkel for his dismissal.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Voices from the Arab press: Double standards par excellence

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021ByMEDIA LINE
GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel speaks during the annual report handover of the National Regulatory Control Council in Berlin, September 16.

Grapevine: August 27, 2021: An overdue visit

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 26, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG and Rama Oram, general manager of the Dan Hotel Tel Aviv.

Merkel cancels visit to Israel due to Afghanistan crisis

Merkel told Bennett that she needs to stay in Germany to oversee the evacuation of soldiers from Afghanistan.

AUGUST 26, 2021ByLAHAV HARKOV
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on during the first faceto-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease outbreak in Brussels on July 20

Grapevine August 25, 2021: A new day dawning at Yad Vashem

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 24, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
TRANSPORTATION MINISTER Merav Michaeli arrives to attend the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new government, in Jerusalem in June

Merkel says Germany must do more to tackle climate change

German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the flooding that has devastated parts of Europe as "terrifying" on Sunday after the death toll across the region rose to 184.

JULY 18, 2021ByREUTERS
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Rhineland-Palatinate State Premier Malu Dreyer (3rd L) look up as they stand on a bridge during their visit in the flood-ravaged areas in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate state, Germany July 18, 2021

German Chancellor Merkel to visit Israel next month

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to head to Washington in his first foreign visit and meet with US President Joe Biden.

JULY 14, 2021ByLAHAV HARKOV
German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2019

PM Naftali Bennett thanks Angela Merkel, invites her to visit Israel

Merkel had called Bennett in order to congratulate him on his new role as prime minister and on the formation of Israel's new government.

JUNE 17, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on during the first faceto-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease outbreak in Brussels on July 20

Rivlin bids Germany's Merkel farewell, thanks her for supporting Israel

'You are a personality that brings the free world to understand why should we remain always part of the free world, part of democracy,' Rivlin told Merkel.

JUNE 16, 2021ByHADASSAH BRENNER
President Reuven Rivlin's parting conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Erdan calls on UN to fight threats for Jews: Antisemitism and Iran

“Just as the world has fought the virus of COVID-19, so must it commit to eradicating all forms of the virus that is antisemitism.”

JANUARY 28, 2021BySARAH CHEMLA
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan at the 75 UN General Assembly, September

Angela Merkel participates in historic Torah scroll writing ceremony

The 18th century Sulzbacher Torah, which survived the National Socialist Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 and lay unnoticed for decades in a cabinet in a synagogue in Amberg, Bavaria, was brought back

JANUARY 28, 2021ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
The Torah scroll found in a wooden shack in the Lodz Ghetto.