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Sweden's police investigate shooting near Israeli target in Gothenburg, no injuries reported

The shooting took place near a Swedish unit of Elbit Systems, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported, citing police.

 People demonstrate outside the Stockholm District Court as they wait for the verdict in the case of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official accused of crimes against international law and murder in Iran in 1988, in Stockholm, Sweden
 Emergency workers stand near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, January 31, 2024

Stockholm Police investigate shooting near Israeli embassy

 Flowers and candles are placed outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 11, 2023

Iranian agents suspected of targeting Jews arrested in Sweden, deported

 Photo of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden, with Hanna Halpern, the general secretary of the Jewish community.

Sweden's Crown Princess privately visited synagogue as solidarity with Jewish community


Netanyahu calls Swedish PM to protest ‘extra-judicial’ killing comments by Foreign Minister

Netanyahu’s phone call to Lofven, one diplomatic official explained, was taking that protest up a notch.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom

Swedish priorities

Unsurprisingly, Israelis have a decidedly negative view of Sweden.

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Israel condemns ‘hostile’ Swedish comments linking Paris attacks to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Foreign Ministry summons Sweden’s ambassador in Israel for an urgent meeting with its Director-General Dore Gold.

Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom

Protesters in Malmo chant ‘slaughter the Jews’

"These are extremely troubling instances of a grotesque but nevertheless very real – and murderous – incitement," says ambassador to Sweden.

A protester chants slogans near a banner reading "Boycott Israel" during an anti-Israel march in Malmo

Jerusalem irked by Swedish FM’s tweet on ‘violence

Margot Wallstrom's tweet failed to name Palestinians as the ones carrying out terror attacks against Israeli civilians.

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Confronting anti-Israel views in Sweden

Unlike other anti-Israeli organizations that are grassroots movements consisting mainly of Arabs, the “Jerusalem Committee” consists of Swedish politicians.

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Israel needs to reshape its relations with Sweden

Israel’s new government must take a firm stand in its relations with Sweden following Sweden’s acknowledgment of Palestine – otherwise it risks losing Europe

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven gives a news conference in Stockholm

Swedish teens launch anti-fascist campaign after skinheads interrupt Holocaust survivor's lecture

Leftist students set up booths on their schools campus and held signs reading "Sieg Heil - Hell No."

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Palestinians open 'embassy' in Sweden

Prime Minister Lofven had included intention to recognize Palestinian state in inaugural address last year.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the media in Turkey

Interpol warrant leads to arrest of east Jerusalem man for abducting daughter from Sweden

Police said they are now working on extraditing the man to Sweden to face abduction charges.

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