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| December 13, 2013
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Chagall masterpiece among Munich stash believed looted from Latvian Jews by Nazis

A Marc Chagall masterpiece was identified in the art trove hidden in a Munich flat, was stolen by Nazis from a Latvian Jewish family.

By JTA

BERLIN – A painting by Marc Chagall discovered in a sensational art trove found in Munich is believed to have been looted by the Nazis from a Latvian Jewish family.

Marc Chagall masterpiece in art trove was stolen from Jewish family by Nazis - Screensgot: lostart.de

Marc Chagall masterpiece in art trove was stolen from Jewish family by Nazis – Screenshot: lostart.de

According to the German newspaper Bild, evidence was uncovered that the painting from the collection hidden for decades by the reclusive Cornelius Gurlitt, 80, may have been looted during the Nazi invasion of the former Soviet Union in 1941.

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| November 21, 2013
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Germany’s Council of Jews honoring Pastor, a dedicated defender of Jewish right’s

Council of Jews in Germany is honoring the Protestant pastor for his support of Jewish life in Germany, his dedication to Israel & his “unconditional solidarity in the circumcision debate”.

 

BERLIN — The Central Council of Jews in Germany is giving its highest honor to a pastor who defended the Jewish right to ritual circumcision.

Nikolaus Schneider, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany

Nikolaus Schneider, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany

Nikolaus Schneider, 66, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany — the country’s main Protestant body — will receive the the Leo Baeck Prize on Thursday in Berlin.

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| November 5, 2013
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Jewish group: German officials guilty in concealing Holocaust art for 2 years

 

German gov’t says it was only informed “several months ago” about the private art collection estimated at over 1 billion euros that was seized in early 2011.

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: “We demand the paintings be returned to their original owners,”

By News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

German authorities are investigating a huge art find reported to include hundreds of works seized by the Nazis and considered missing for decades, officials said Monday, but a Jewish group accused the German government of moral complicity in the concealment of the stolen paintings following the revelation that authorities failed for two years to report their discovery.

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| November 4, 2013
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German Police Recover 1500 Paintings Stolen by Nazis

Nearly 1,500 priceless works of art that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered by German Police in a flat in Munich.

By Elad Benari

 

Nearly 1,500 priceless paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered in a flat in Munich, a news report said Sunday, according to AFP.

The German weekly Focus reported that police came upon the paintings during a 2011 search in an apartment belonging to the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had bought them during the 1930s and 1940s.

The search was carried out because the son, Cornelius Gurlitt, was under suspicion for tax evasion, Focus said. Continue Reading »

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| September 24, 2013
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Dutch filmmaker digs up Bavarian soil for hidden Nazi gold

 

Dutch filmmaker begins multiple excavations based on ‘code’ found in the melody & words of old Nazi song.

3 times he dug into Bavarian soil, so far no gold.

By Ynet

 

The quiet life in a German village near the Austrian border was recently interrupted – by a series of archaeological excavations and treasure hunters. The person responsible for this is a Dutch filmmaker who claims to have deciphered a map that leads to a cache of Nazi gold – a map he says is hidden in the musical notes written on a page.

Is there a hidden map to Nazi gold?

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| September 6, 2013
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German Intel Report: Hezbollah Admitted that Assad used Chemical Weapons

German intel publicized it had intercepted a phone call where Hezbollah official admitted that Assad used chemical weapon on his own people.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

German intelligence says that an official with the Hezbollah terror group admitted that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad ordered a poison gas attack last month.

Hezbullah flag – Reuters

According to a report in the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, Hezbollah considered the move a mistake which showed Assad was losing his grip.

Participants at a confidential meeting of German lawmakers on Monday said the head of the BND foreign intelligence agency told them it had intercepted a phone call believed to be between a high-ranking member of Hezbollah and the Iranian Embassy in Damascus. Continue Reading »

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| July 21, 2013
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Germany rejects EU’s anti-Israel policies

German chancellor Merkel’s Bundestag spokesman says new EU guidelines are “pure ideology & symbolic politics,” and do not contribute to peace.

He added that the European regulations are not “objective requirements”

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
 

 

Germany distances itself from the “controversial European Union guidelines” banning cooperation with Israeli entities beyond the Green Line, a foreign policy spokesman in the Bundestag announced on Friday.

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Palestinian sponsored boycott of Israel – Israel news photo screenshot

In a statement issued by MP Philipp Missfedler, the Bundestag spokesman for German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party and its coalition partner the Bavarian Christian Social Union, he stated the guidelines are “pure ideology and symbolic politics” and will not contribute to finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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| July 7, 2013
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Female Muslim student in Germany vandalizes Israeli art exhibit

The University says they reserve option to take legal action against female Muslim vandal who ripped down parts of an Israeli graphic novel art exhibit.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
 

 

BERLIN – A female Muslim student at the University of Duisburg-Essen ripped down parts of a graphic novel exhibit, which included the work of the internationally known Israeli artist Rutu Modan.
Rutu Modan’s graphic novel ‘Exit Wounds,’ the target of vandalism in Germany.

Rutu Modan’s graphic novel ‘Exit Wounds,’ the target of vandalism in Germany. – Photo: Drawn & Quarterly

In a commentary in the left-liberal website Taz on Thursday, journalist Pascal Beucker attributed the June 24 attack on the exhibit “to an anti- Israel, if not anti-Semitic, motive.”

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| May 29, 2013
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Germany adds $800 million for home care to remaining Holocaust survivors

The announcement of additional funding comes amid controversy over revelations related to a bungled investigations in 2001, that failed to detect a fraud at the Holocaust restitution organization.

By Uriel Heilman

 

NEW YORK (JTA) – The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos.

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German officials lay a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Claims Conference officials look on, May 23, 2013. – Photo: Sasson Tiram

The agreement, reached after negotiations in Israel with the Claims Conference, will result in approximately $800 million in new funding for home care for Holocaust survivors from 2014 to 2017.

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| May 26, 2013
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At Beyonce show in Germany, locals call out: ‘Dirty Jews’

 

German members of the audience at the Beyonce concert attack a group of eight Israelis, including 2 soldiers on leave, who arrived early enough to situate themselves at the front row. They got shoved and were called,“dirty Jews.”

By Eran Suissa

 

Israelis attending a Beyonce concert in Berlin over the weekend were met with anti-Semitic chants from the audience.

German fans were not crazy in love with a group of Israelis who succeeded in seating themselves in the front row of a Beyonce show – Photo: AP

The incident took place when a group of eight Israelis, including two soldiers on leave, arrived at Germany’s O2 stadium for a Beyonce concert.

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| May 22, 2013
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Germany backs UK’s proposal of blacklisting Hezbollah’s military wing

The UK submitted application to the EU on Monday to blacklist, the military wing of Hezbollah. 

The Netherlands along with Israel, Bahrain,U.S. & Canada have banned Hezbollah’s entire organization

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle decided Wednesday to support listing Hezbollah’s military wing as a terrorist organization in the European Union, according to German diplomatic sources.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle - Photo Reuters

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle – Photo: Reuters

“In the light of discussions we have had with our partners following the terrorist attack in Burgas, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle supports listing at least the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in the EU,” the officials said.

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| May 17, 2013
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German FM Tells President Peres: Nuclear-armed Iran is not an option

Germany’s FM Westerwelle met with President Peres in Jerusalem and voices his support for U.S. Sec. of St. Kerry’s effort to renew the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday, and said that Iranian nuclear weapons “are not an option for Germany.”

Westerwelle and Peres

Westerwelle and Peres, May 17, 2013 – Photo by Yosef Avi-Yair Engel

 

Westerwelle also voiced support for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to renew Israel-Palestinian peace talks. “I promise you Germany is one hundred percent behind Kerry’s initiative,” Westerwelle told Peres, adding that renewing talks “is not only in the interest of two states and two peoples, but in the interest of the entire world.” Continue Reading »

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| May 14, 2013
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Germany plans to replace Israel in the 2018 UN Security Council

 

Israel has long sought a position on the security council, and it appeared likely when it was scheduled for a seat in 2018, but Germany’s decision to seek the spot eliminates Israel, who lacks the stature to rival Germany’s bid.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

Israel issued a formal complaint against Germany for blocking it from serving on the U.N. Security Council in 2018. Israel has never held a position on the council, although nations such as Syria and Iran have.

The U.N. Security Council – Photo: AP

The Security Council comprises five permanent and 10 rotating members, elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms and chosen from regional groups. Continue Reading »

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| May 12, 2013
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EU’s possible ban of only Hezbollah’s theoretically independent military wing

EU expected to allow Shi’ite Lebanese group’s political arm to operate as legal organization, even though it’s fund-raising facilitates terrorism.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, BERLIN, & JONNY PAUL, LONDON

 

 

 

The European Union has moved toward a consensus on outlawing the armed wing of Hezbollah, with its inclusion on the EU terror list slated to take place in late 2013.

Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters gesture as they march in Beirut, November 2011

Lebanon’s Hezbollah supporters gesture as they march in Beirut, November 2011 – Photo: Reuters/Khalil Hassan

The EU plans to endorse the UK’s model of proscribing Hezbollah’s military wing as a terror entity while permitting the Shi’ite Lebanese group’s political arm to operate as a legal organization, sources well-versed in the inner workings of EU discussions on the matter told The Jerusalem Post last week.

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| April 29, 2013
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Israel’s 5th Dolphin class submarine launched in Germany

The INS Rahav is about to undertake its first long-range classified mission & can carry missiles armed with nuclear warheads, according to foreign sources.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

 

 

Israel and Germany unveiled the Israel Navy’s fifth Dolphin-class submarine on Monday, at a ceremony at the German port of Kiel.

Israel's Dolphin class submarine - Photo courtesy Israel Navy

Israel’s Dolphin class submarine – Photo courtesy Israel Navy

The submarine, called the INS Rahav, is the most expensive defense platform purchased by Israel. It is set to undertake long-range classified missions that are critical for Israel’s security.

The submarine is seen by the navy as a significant “force multiplier” that will enable Israel to cope with threats in the increasingly unstable Middle East region.

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