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Greece detains Samidoun Europe leader Mohammed Khatib, set to deport him from Crete

The Greek government arrested and detained Khatib at Heraklion Airport while he was en route to a speaking engagement in Crete.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
This screenshot shows the still active Facebook page of Samidoun Deutschland, the German chapter of the international Palestinian-rights activists group Samidoun, on November 03, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The day before the German government announced it is banning Samidoun
IN THE Stalin era’s early days, the Kremlin established a new administrative territory in the Soviet Far East – the Jewish Autonomous Region. The region’s capital was the city of Birobidzhan. This 274-photograph album includes images from the city’s early years, from the late 1920s.

'World Enemy No. 1': Hitler, Stalin, and the crime of being Jewish - review

Hundreds of Jewish Communists who had escaped to the USSR were handed over by the Soviets to the Nazis at the border crossing of Brest-Litovsk.

|ByCOLIN SHINDLER
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 5, 2026

Israeli voters deserve representatives they can trust - opinion

Reform is needed to make Israeli democracy meaningful as voters don't have enough influence over Knesset members.

|ByTOVA HERZL
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (L) meets with Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi for indirect nuclear talks with the US in Muscat, Oman, February 6, 2026.

Iran rejects call to halt uranium enrichment after second round of indirect US negotiations in Oman

An Iranian official told Reuters the direct talks had not officially started, and that Iran’s demands had been conveyed to the US via Oman.

|ByJAMES GENN, REUTERS

This is not pre-Hitler Germany - opinion

While there are several important and certainly worrisome parallels that make the comparison between Hitler’s world and our world valid, as a whole, the parallel does not hold up.

DECEMBER 17, 2025ByMICAH HALPERN
Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream performs onstage in front of a display featuring a swastika-Star of David hybrid during a concert at the Roundhouse music venue on Dec. 08, 2025 in London, England.

German business giants led by DHL chief visit Israel to strengthen economic ties

The 70-person delegation includes industry leaders and senior officials from the German Ministry of Economics and is headed by Tobias Meyer, chairman of the global shipping group DHL.

DECEMBER 16, 2025ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
German and Israeli national flags

Germany sees reality: Why a Palestinian state is no longer realistic - opinion

After the October 7 massacre, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now rejects the idea of a two-state solution.

DECEMBER 15, 2025ByRABBI ABRAHAM COOPER 
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during an industrial sector association BDI event in Berlin, Germany, June 23, 2025.

German police foil allegedly 'Islamist-motivated' Christmas market attack, arrest five suspects

One of the suspects had presented his idea for the Christmas market attack, which the suspects planned to use a car to carry out, while at a mosque in the Dingolfing-Landau area.

DECEMBER 14, 2025ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals.

DECEMBER 13, 2025ByBARRY DAVIS
Kaynar-Kissinger and his fellow actor brother, Doron, (L) put on a Holocaust-related stage production in Germany.

Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations

Shlomo Shamir’s daughter, Yael Driver, uncovers her father’s hidden rescue efforts and role in shaping Israel’s future.

DECEMBER 13, 2025ByBEN BRESKY
Shlomo Shamir (L) with 2nd battalion commander, on the way to secure horses for post-war agricultural training.

Israel's global standing slowly recovers as diplomatic tsunami begins to recede

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Israel's international standing is shifting, moving from isolation to slow, uneven recovery as global engagement grows.

DECEMBER 12, 2025ByHERB KEINON
Has there been a slight shift this week in Israel’s diplomatic outlook? Here, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speak to the media during a joint press conference in Jerusalem on Sunday.

Ex-IDF air defense chief: Arrow-3 protecting Germany defies imagination after Holocaust

Ran Kochav recounts to The Jerusalem Post his time as Arrow commander and the technology's role in making history.

DECEMBER 11, 2025ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
People stand in front of the Arrow 3 system during an event of the German Air Force at the Annaburger Heide Air Base in Schoenewalde/Holzdorf, eastern Germany, December 3, 2025

Europeans discuss Ukraine with Trump at 'critical moment' for peace

The three countries, along with other European partners and Ukraine, have been working frantically in the last few weeks to refine the original US-backed peace proposal.

DECEMBER 10, 2025ByREUTERS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at Quirinale Palace, in Rome, Italy, July 9, 2025.

'Wrong empathy'? Turkish and Arab students say camp visits spark fear for their own safety - study

New research argues memorials shape which emotions are deemed “legitimate,” highlighting tensions over empathy and belonging.

DECEMBER 10, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dr Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa (front), Secretary General of the Muslim World League leads prayers next to the memorial monument in the former German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Those who appear in this photo aren't mentioned in the article.