Vienna

Herzl's grandparents’ remains expected to arrive in Jerusalem for reburial in coming days

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog have both confirmed that they will attend the ceremony.

JULY 27, 2026|ByALEX CARSON

View of the grave of Israeli zionist Theodor Herzl, who was buried on Mt Herzl, in Jerusalem. December 20, 2015.

Hakim Hadid, the owner of Pizzeria Valentino, in Vienna.

'From Palestine to Paris:' Herzl's Vienna home is now a Palestinian-owned pizzeria - interview

In the same building where Zionism moved from idea to organized political movement, now hangs a framed photograph with Yasser Arafat, the longtime leader of the PLO and later president of the PA.

JULY 13, 2026|ByTARA KAVALER/THE MEDIA LINE

Vienna's museums, Michelin heaven and the meaning of life

Vienna isn’t just grand palaces and classical music—it’s a city layered with stories, ideas, and unexpected discoveries.

JULY 7, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS

A woman holds banners denouncing the Iranian regime, June 21, 2026; illustrative.

Israeli flags seen as Iranian diaspora denounces US-Iran MoU in worldwide embassy protests

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for a week of protests to coincide with the week-long funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Activists flew pro-Pahlavi flags, along with Israeli flags at certain sites.

JULY 6, 2026|ByJAMES GENN

Police deploy to sensitive sites in Vienna, warning of Islamist attack

"Our intelligence services have reason to believe that an assault with an Islamist motive is planned to be carried out in Vienna," Vienna police said in English on Twitter.

MARCH 15, 2023ByREUTERS

A police car passes the Palais Coburg, where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran will take place, in Vienna, Austria, March 11, 2022.

How it really was: Why did we create Israel? A reminder

We may have lost sight of why we created the State of Israel. This memoir should serve as a timely reminder.

MARCH 10, 2023ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAI

The Ostbahnhof (Eastern Railway Station) in Vienna, built between 1867 and 1870, was replaced by a new Südbahnhof in 1955, which in turn was demolished in 2009 and replaced by the Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station). Painting based on a photograph by Ellen Harvey: ‘The Disappointed Tourist.’

Vienna's many faces, from cultural hub to antisemitism promoter - review

The author obviously loves Vienna, but he has not allowed his passion for the city to blind him to so many of its residents’ history of hatred and persecution of the Jewish people.

JANUARY 7, 2023ByAARON LEIBEL

THE SHOAH Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna in 2021, bearing the names of more than 64,000 Austrian Jews killed in the Holocaust.

'Saving Freud': How the Jewish psychoanalyst escaped the Nazis - review

In Saving Freud, Andrew Nagorski reviews Freud’s life and provides biographical sketches of the eclectic group of people who helped rescue him as the Gestapo was closing in.

DECEMBER 17, 2022ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

THIS 1929 photo of Sigmund Freud was released by the US Library of Congress in 1998 with the opening of a new related exhibit.

In Historic first, holocaust survivor to tell Her story In Dubai, UAE

Landmarks, institutions, and houses of worship to be lit up to remember

NOVEMBER 3, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Is there a connection between Nobel Prize winners and the Technion?

Two of the three Nobel Prize in Physics laureates for 2022 received honorary doctoral degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

OCTOBER 8, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

The Computer Science Faculty building at Technion University in Haifa, Israel

In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard tackles his own Jewishness for the first time

“Leopoldstadt,” which officially hits Broadway on Sunday after an award-winning London debut in 2019, follows multiple generations of a Jewish family in Vienna.

OCTOBER 1, 2022ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA