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The use of the pig theme is intended to humiliate,” said CICAD.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) has obtained and revealed a list of 12,000 Nazis who had been living in Argentina, many of whom held bank accounts with the predecessor of Credit Suisse.
By Ariel Kahana
Senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner, along with other White House envoys, will return to the U.S. from Switzerland together with the president after inclement weather prevented them from catching their flight to Israel.
FM Katz: “We will not tolerate doubts about our right to self-defense and threats of the arrest of senior Israeli officials."
By JNi.Media
It is estimated that the Bernese group produced several hundred to several thousand fake passports between 1941 and 1943.
The court cited a recent Swiss ruling ,which decreed that deporting Eritrean asylum seekers evading military service was “both lawful and reasonable.”
By JNi.Media
Diverse geo-political tensions have moved European countries to re-orient their defense efforts from involvement in far-away conflicts to coping with intensifying homeland and border security challenges.
The TIPH official who hit a Jewish child was sent home to Switzerland.
By JNi.Media
President Rouhani said "the Americans have claimed that they want to stop Iranian oil exports completely," adding a dare, "If you can, do it and you will see the consequences."
Last August, the Ministry of Tourism said it would offer a €45 per passenger incentive to airlines that fly directly to Eilat.
By JNi.Media
“The most striking finding of the report is the remarkable consistency between the happiness of immigrants and the locally born.”
By JNi.Media
Saeb Erekat: “Jerusalem is not off the negotiations table; rather the US is outside the international consensus."
"The Europeans will hold discussions among themselves, and with the US, but she understands that this touches ... the things that could threaten our very existence."
By JNi.Media
Elbit has been very successful in selling the Hermes 900 abroad, including 6 units to replace Switzerland's 15 Ruag Rangers by 2019.
“Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Saudi Arabia must create a joint protection program to remove all anthropogenic stressful conditions."
By JNi.Media
Haley has stated that she plans to make her recommendations to the President on staying in or quitting the UNHRC based on her discussions in Geneva.
By JNi.Media
The event in Basel was secured by local undercover police officers due to fears that Islamic and BDS activists were planning to disturb the event.
By JNi.Media
Even Yad Vashem, whose research on the Holocaust is highly regarded, must now update its archives to reflect the new revelations.
Switzerland may be helping the Palestinian Authority in its war against Israel by funding the Boycott Divest and Sanctions campaign.
By JNi.Media
The leader of the Shuvu Banim (Return boys) movement, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, confessed to indecent assault and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, part of which he has already served since his arrest.
By JNi.Media
MP Eichenberger-Walther is the head of a European association for fighting BDS, and emphasized during her meetings that she is ceaselessly working to improve relations between Switzerland and Israel.
By JNi.Media
On the Global Competitiveness Index for 2016–2017, Israel is ranked in 24th place, behind Switzerland, Singapore, the US, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and directly behind Ireland in 23rd place.
By JNi.Media
Bohm escaped Nazism in 1939 when she was sent to England to finish her schooling, armed with a Leica camera handed to her by her father as she was departing.
The flight is from NY to Tel Aviv. The anonymous threat said the bomb was in the kitchen.
By JNi.Media
"We have a mission to convert Muslims to Christianity. We have a mission to convert the people of all the non-Christian religions [except] Judaism."
By JNi.Media
Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.
Moshe Krausz died alone and almost forgotten despite his saving more Jews than Schindler and Kasztner combined.
At least two people were flown to a hospital and three others were treated locally Wednesday after a foot bridge collapsed at a kosher hotel in Switzerland. Among the injured were Zurich Jewish leader Rabbi Hirsch Padwa, whose father leads the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in London. The accident occurred at the Levin’s Hotel […]
The Foreign Ministry so far has not been able to stop the blood libel juggernaut of the leftist group.
The boycotters submitted a 51-page anti-Israel document to Orange last month, says NGO monitor.
If Kerry confuses Egypt with Israel, what will be on his mind in talks with Iran?
The crimes from the Nazi regime still are being discovered.
By JTA
The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
By JTA
Violent assaults on Jews are becoming more common around the world.
By JTA
He urged the mayor’s office to cancel a public candle-lighting event on Mollard Square scheduled for Dec. 3.
Sometimes anti-Semitism is its own best antidote because it makes its sewage makers look as ignorant as they are. After a Council of Europe body said circumcision violates human rights, its leader rejected the idea.
By David Bedein
I had accidentally happened upon the Jewish ghetto, where Jews were banned from most occupations and their dwellings restricted.
Swiss police staged a mysterious raid on the Geneva home Israeli diamond billionaire Benny Steinmetz, according to an anonymous source close to the incident and who was quoted by Bloomberg News. Geneva’s public prosecutor reportedly ordered the raid on the basis of a request by the Guinea government, but no one is making any comments […]
By JTA
A judge in Geneva sentenced a Swiss blogger on Tuesday to six months in jail for denying the Holocaust and inciting hate. The 55-year-old man, who was not named, directed his comments against all Jews and had denied the Holocaust in 50 articles published between January 2010 and May of this year, according to the […]
By JTA
Holocaust survivors and victims’ heirs have received $1.24 billion from a Swiss fund set up in 1998 following a scandal over dormant accounts of Jews killed in World War II, according to the Swiss Jewish weekly Tachles. It wrote that the figure appeared in a report by New York judge Edward Korman, who oversees the […]
Teva, the world leader in generic medication will be soon be launching a generic version of Pfizer's Viagra in the UK and Europe. Pfizer's Viagra patents expired this past week in the UK and parts of Europe, allowing other manufacturers to move in. In the US, a court ruling has prevented Teva from introducing generic […]
My parents arrived as Austrian Jewish refugees in Switzerland almost exactly sixty years ago.
Israel is the home to 84,000 millionaires, putting it in 10th place in the world’s ranking of the number of millionaires as a percentage of the number of households, according to The Boston Consulting Group, in its report "Maintaining Momentum in a Complex World: Global Wealth 2013." In percentage term, there is a millionaire in […]
By JTA
A man who stabbed an Orthodox Jew in Geneva was found unfit to stand trial in Switzerland because of his clinical paranoia and “irrational fear of an international conspiracy.” A court in Geneva earlier this month found that the 22-year-old man, who was not named, was too “mentally ill” to stand trial for stabbing and […]
By Veli Sirin
Legal obligations and guarantees of human rights should be universally applied – but these should include mutual respect between religious and non-religious people, and members of differing religious communities. Germany would do well to examine thoroughly, respectfully and seriously, the beliefs of its Jewish and Muslim citizens about the circumcision of their sons, not to mention the unquestionable medical advantages.
The half-life of Polonium-210 is 138 days. This means that after 8 years, only about 4.3 x 10-7 — 0.00000043 — of the original amount of Polonium would be left. So even if Arafat’s iconic underwear had been loaded with the stuff after his death, it would be undetectable, or at least at much lower levels than the Swiss laboratory found.
The general secretary of Switzerland’s Jewish community has reprimanded the Swiss government for failing to enact sanctions against Iran, despite full implementation by the EU and US.
It’s virtually impossible to ignore the financial aspects of TEFAF Maastricht, the annual arts and antiques fair in the historic city about two hours south of Amsterdam. More than 250 dealers from nearly 20 countries sell their wares—which span from Greek and Roman antiquities to contemporary sculptures—in the halls of the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre, whose corridors are adorned by nearly 65,000 tulips.
By dvora
Armed with a clever name, an award-winning chef, and a remarkable menu, Meat Me is poised to take the world of Kosher cuisine by storm.
The Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported today that senior Hamas official Ismail al-Ashqar is set to speak before the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday. Al-Ashqar arrived in Switzerland on Sunday, ahead of a talk which will address the issue of Hamas members being held in Israeli jails.
