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The Holocaust in Latvia: Remembering Simon Dubnow - opinion

His work, initially in Russia, includes one of the first comprehensive descriptions of Jewish history in the context of world history.

|ByJACOB SIVAK
THEN-LATVIAN PRESIDENT Egils Levits speaks to members of the media at the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, in Malmo, Sweden, in 2021. The writer cites that 70,000 – three quarters – of Latvia’s Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Shoah Foundation Executive Director Chair Dr. Robert Williams and NLI chairman Sallai Meridor

National Library, Shoah Foundation preserve Holocaust, October 7 records

This will make Holocaust educational materials more accessible to those with Israeli IP addresses.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
BLUE AND White MK Ruth Wasserman Lande.

Grapevine January 13, 2020: If you want to shoot – shoot

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
(FROM LEFT) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif al Zayani and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed wave from a balcony overlooking the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, after a signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords on S

The top 10 diplomatic events of 2020

2020 is a year that will go down in history as one with one major diplomatic event after the other.

|ByLAHAV HARKOV

US Vice Pres. Pence vows to stand with Israel against Iran

Netanyahu calls on world leaders to unite against Iran, Macron, Charles, Prince of Wales, assert importance of Holocaust remembrance.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
MIKE PENCE

Vladimir Putin to Yaffa Issachar: Everything will be OK

Iran will be at the center of Netanyahu’s planned meeting with Putin, as well as a potential pardon for imprisoned Naama Issachar.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV
Yaffa Issachar meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin together with Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu on January 23, 2020.

Kantor: US most worrisome country for resurgent antisemitism at present

World Holocaust Forum head insists there was no contact between organizers and Putin regarding Polish president.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation Dr. Moshe Kantor

Putin and Netanyahu unveil Leningrad Siege heroes monument in Jerusalem

8.5-meter-high structure honors estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million Russians who died during 900-day Nazi blockade.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend dedication of the Memorial Candle monument to the defenders and residents of besieged Leningrad during World War II, January 23, 2020

Palestinians: World leaders chose wrong site to mark Holocaust ceremony

Protesters denounce Putin’s visit to Bethlehem.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
Jerusalem, from the balcony of Hebrew University Mount Scopus campus

Prince Charles meets Rivlin, visits Israel Museum

UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis accompanies prince

JANUARY 23, 2020ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
The UK's Prince Charles meets with President Reuven Rivlin ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, January 23, 2020

The World Holocaust Forum event has proved to be a remarkable day

The gathering of world leaders turned out to provoke a range of emotions.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByHERB KEINON
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L) and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (C-R) with world leaders pose for a family photo during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020

Putin decries Nazi ‘accomplices and henchmen,’ hints at spat with Poland

The Russian President spoke at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, where he called for world to always remember lessons of Holocaust.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the World Holocaust Forum marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem January 23, 2020

Holocaust event in Jerusalem drags Israel into European memory wars

Determination to learn the lessons of the Holocaust has become mired in controversy even before it has started,

JANUARY 23, 2020BySAM SOKOL/JTA
Visitors at an exhibition, look at Nazi flags and banners bearing Swastikas, at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.

Russian astronauts remember the Holocaust from International Space Station

The two cosmonauts each posed for a zero gravity photo holding up the sign "We Remember" transcribed in both English and Russian.

JANUARY 23, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
Assembly of the International Space Station