It won’t be long now before it will be his second birthday in captivity. On November 11, Alexander Sasha Trupanov will be 30 years old. He had to spend the 29th in the hands of Hamas in Gaza. His friends from the university where he had completed his studies in electrical engineering a year earlier … Read more
In Brandenburg, voters are deciding today on the future balance of power in the state parliament. The polling stations opened at 8 a.m. this morning. Around 2.1 million people in the eastern German state can take part. The main focus is on how the AfD will perform. In recent polls, the AfD was just ahead … Read more
A 79-year-old woman from the kibbutz movement in Israel was massively disrupted by anti-Israel activists during a lecture in Hanover. According to the ver.di union on Friday, the group had unexpectedly appeared in the lecture hall the evening before. They disrupted the event with shouts, video recordings, insults and loud music. The police eventually had … Read more
The summer of 2024 was the hottest in the world since records began. Reduced crop yields, heat waves and the current floods are once again clearly demonstrating the effects of climate change in Germany this year. Global warming is making once-in-a-century floods like those we are currently seeing in Poland and Austria more and more … Read more
Zurich, Switzerland. Once, 20 years ago, Ben Oppenheim was a promising young author. His work Caries received the Swiss Book Prize, was made into a film, the press wrote puns, Caries was on everyone’s lips. But since then he hasn’t achieved anything. He hasn’t had much success as a screenwriter either. Outlines and ideas have … Read more
In France, planned attacks on the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been foiled in several cities. Anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen said that, among other things, an attack on “Israeli facilities or representatives of Israel in Paris” during the Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11 had been prevented. The plans were not directly aimed … Read more
The head of the Israeli elite reconnaissance unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, has resigned. The Israeli army announced this. In a letter to the unit’s employees, quoted by the portal “haaretz.com”, Sariel justified the step with the “personal responsibility” he bears for the reconnaissance unit’s failure on October 7 of the previous year. On that day, … Read more
On the morning of May 17, 2024, a shooting occurred near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm. Panic broke out around the embassy and in the surrounding streets, but the attack was over after just two minutes. No one was killed or injured. And because of the high police presence near the embassy, the suspected perpetrators … Read more
The plan was actually to celebrate the diversity of Jewish life in Hamburg’s Grindelviertel. But the “Grindelfest: Culture.Jewish.Colorful,” which was supposed to take place from September 13 to 15 in cooperation with the Kammerspiele and the Jewish community of the Hanseatic city, has now been canceled with reference to the events in Solingen. “Unfortunately, we … Read more
The plan was actually to celebrate the diversity of Jewish life in Hamburg’s Grindelviertel. But the “Grindelfest: Culture.Jewish.Colorful,” which was supposed to take place from September 13 to 15 in cooperation with the Kammerspiele and the Jewish community of the Hanseatic city, has now been canceled with reference to the events in Solingen. “Unfortunately, we … Read more