Angela Merkel

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Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

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

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 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


Germany charges two Syrians with crimes against humanity

No date was set for a trial and no comment was available from the two Syrians.

Migrants from Syria and Iraq take selfies with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after their registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany, September 10, 2015

Algeria shuts down Protestant churches, police arrest worshipers

“This last notification is not the result of coincidence, but a provocative response to the sit-in of October 9 in front of the Bejaia Province headquarters,” said EPA head Pastor Salah Chalah.

A Protestant Berber woman sings during a mass at a church in the Berber capital of Tizi Ouzou, 100 km (60 miles) east of Algeria's capital Algiers, October 2, 2010. Under Algerian law, all faiths are allowed to practise if they meet certain conditions. But there has been tension between the Christia

'Bild': German president, MPs, diplomat ‘make antisemitism respectable’

Bild wrote “Madness: In February, the federal president sent ‘warm congratulations’ to the antisemitic mullah regime on its national day, ‘also on behalf of my compatriots.'”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany December 12, 2018

Merkel ally under police protection after 'Heil Hitler' death threat

Mike Mohring said suspected neo-Nazi extremists threatened to stab him in the neck or attack one of his rallies with a car bomb if he did not stop campaigning for the Oct. 27 regional election.

erman Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during her visit of Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau, Germany, October 7, 2019

Youth org. of Angela Merkel’s party call for Jerusalem as Israel's capital

The JU document said that a continued refusal by the German federal government to relocate its embassy could continue to damage the relationship between Germany and Israel.

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

Germany's far-right AfD loses support after synagogue shooting -report

A survey of 2,500 Germans by research institute forsa showed 11% support for AfD on Thursday, down from 13% at the beginning of the week.

Flowers and candles are seen outside the synagogue in Halle, Germany October 10, 2019, after two people were killed in a shooting

U.S., German Jews oppose Herzl award to Merkel due to anti-Israel activity

Merkel’s government voted 16 times for anti-Israel UN resolutions out of a total of 21 anti-Jewish state resolutions at the UN in 2018.

erman Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during her visit of Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau, Germany, October 7, 2019

Isaac Herzog calls for increased security for Sukkot in Europe

"The recent terrorist aggression on the Halle synagogue... should sound the alarm loud and clear throughout Europe,” Isaac Herzog said.

Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog calls for unity and pluralism in first US visit

Right from Wrong: Merkel’s shameless deflection

The killer, since identified as 27-year-old Stephan Balliet, is a white, right-wing extremist/neo-Nazi, not one of the flood of Muslim migrants German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured after speaking during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as Night of Broken Glass, at Rykestrasse Synagogue, in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2018

ZOA slams Merkel for “absurdly claiming Iran is only Anti-Israel”

The ZOA statement said Chancellor Angela Merkel ignores “ Iranian genocidal ambitions to destroy the Jewish state of Israel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured after speaking during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as Night of Broken Glass, at Rykestrasse Synagogue, in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2018