Poland Israel

Hypocrisy from Warsaw: Does Poland want to build bridges with Israel or burn them? - opinion

If Poland truly wants to be taken seriously as a friend of the Jewish people and of the Jewish state, it must do more than send an ambassador and issue empty platitudes.

|ByMICHAEL FREUND
IT’S LAUGHABLE that Poland is positioning itself as a moral beacon; pictured: PM Donald Tusk.
Maciej Hunia met with President Isaac Herzog.

After long hiatus, there is finally a Polish ambassador in Israel

In August 2021, Israel recalled its ambassador to Poland after Warsaw passed a law limiting claims on Holocaust-era property, most of which belonged to Jews.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Yacov Livne, Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, described Jewish life in Poland today, relations with Israel, and the attempts to rewrite the past.

|ByELDAD BECK
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Auschwitz (illustrative).

Poland to 'protect Netanyahu' from ICC arrest warrant during Auschwitz visit - report

Leadership from Poland has previously stated that should Netanyahu enter the country, they would enforce the warrant.

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES, AMICHAI STEIN

Letters to the Editor April 19, 2023: Survivors’ testimony

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

APRIL 19, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Thousands march from Auschwitz to Birkenau

13,000 attend March of the Living • Israeli tech start-up uses AI to revive stories of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

APRIL 18, 2023BySHANNA FULD
The 2023 March of the Living.

Israel abandons Jewish property in Poland – again - opinion

The proposed agreement is nothing less than a spit in the face of Polish Jewry in Israel and around the world, including the survivors and their heirs

APRIL 18, 2023ByARON MOR
POLISH PRIME Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced, in 2021, that his government would under no circumstances pay Jews a single zloty, euro or dollar.

Israel-Poland deal and the distortion of Holocaust history - opinion

The memory of the Shoah must be preserved with accuracy and honesty and the recent Polish-Israeli agreement should be scrutinized for its potential to distort history.

APRIL 18, 2023ByDANIEL SCHATZ
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, Polish President Andrzej Duda and their wives meet at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, in 2017.

In wake of antisemitic incidents, Chikli contacts Ukraine, Poland and Greece

Chikli closed out each letter emphasizing that "it is of the utmost importance for me to reach out to you personally about this problematic incident."

APRIL 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DIASPORA AFFAIRS Minister Amichai Chikli will have to fight in the government on behalf of Jewish communities all over the world, says the writer.

Israeli high schools to add a Polish site to Holocaust trips

Yad Vashem says it won’t be involved in group visits to any site suspected of distorting events.

APRIL 12, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

Cohen, Lapid call each other ‘liars’ over tiff on Israel-Poland ties

Some may be "saddened we resolved the political crisis with Poland that began during the Lapid era,” Cohen charged on Monday.

APRIL 11, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks during a joint press conference of leaders of the opposition parties, in the Israeli Knesset, in Jerusalem, on February 13, 2023.

Polish Deputy FM says Israel consulted on judicial overhaul, then backtracked

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski spoke out as the Histadrut called a nationwide strike to protest the government's judicial reform process.

MARCH 27, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Polish and Israeli flags at a march next to Auschwitz in April

Cohen heads to Poland to sign agreement for resumption of youth trips

Ties between Jerusalem and Warsaw have been strained following the Polish passage in 2018 of legislation against speaking of Polish complicity in the death of Jews during World War II.

MARCH 18, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Foreign Affairs Minister Eli Cohen seen before the arrival of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023.

Poland: details not finalized for resumption of Israeli high school trips

The resumption of trips is seen by Israel as a sign of thawing relations with Poland.

MARCH 7, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.