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Israel beats Belgium, advances to the round of 16 in EuroBasket for first time in a decade

The Belgians nearly erased a 21-point deficit in the final quarter – but the Israelis held on to claim a landmark achievement that has eluded them since 2015.

Israel players celebrate on the court following Tuesday’s 92-89 victory over Belgium, a result that secured the blue-and-white’s spot in the EuroBasket last-16.
 YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

  Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Jewish leader bashes former PM's denial of Poland's Holocaust role

 Donald Tusk, Polish PM

Polish PM: Israel testing Polish solidarity with the war on Hamas


Restitution advocates criticize Polish policies as overly onerous

Both the World Jewish Restitution Organization and an Israeli umbrella organization for survivors groups panned Polish efforts to deal with restitution.

Survivors of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz arrive to the former camp in Oswiecim.

The resurgence of Jewish life in Poland

“Jewish life in Poland is thriving in a way that you won’t see anywhere else in Europe,” said Jonathan Ornstein, director of the Jewish Community Center in Krakow.

Krakow.

Meet the Ambassador: A historian and a history maker

Jacek Chodorowicz, ambassador of Poland, joins in organizing 25th anniversary celebration of renewal of Polish-Israeli diplomatic relations.

LUKASZ KAMINSKI (from left), president of the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation; Avner Shalev, chairman of the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority Directorate; and Polish Ambassador Jacek Chodorowicz meet at Yad Va

Pro-Israel lobby to be formed in Polish parliament

The new Polish Parliamentary Israel Allies Caucus hopes to garner support for the State of Israel through their shared Judeo-Christian values.

President Reuven Rivlin visits newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw October 28, 2014.

Palestinian confesses to strangling Polish tourist visiting Nazareth

Jericho man confesses to strangling woman and hiding body under rocks after she rebuffed his sexual advances.

Nazareth

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, former Polish Foreign Minister, Righteous Among the Nations, dies at 93

Bartoszewski, former Auschwitz inmate, was honorary citizen of Israel.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski.

Thousands walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau in March of the Living

Each year, marchers commemorate more than a million people – the vast majority of them Jewish men, women, and children – who were murdered in the death camp.

March of the Living 2015

Grapevine: The Poles are coming

These days, Warsaw is among Jerusalem’s best friends in Europe.

President Reuven Rivlin visits newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw October 28, 2014.

1.5 million visitors to Auschwitz museum in 2014 sets record

Polish travelers are most frequent visitors to infamous camp, with over 10,000 participating in related programs around the world.

Auschwitz

Grapevine: Poles and Jews – A symbiotic relationship

"I wish to say here, very personally, that a person stays or comes out of hiding when he feels empathy around him, when he isn’t lonely, when he experienced human solidarity…”"

President Reuven Rivlin visits newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw October 28, 2014.