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Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, left, meets with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw, March 22, 2023. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
April 11, 2023, 10:58 am
Yad Vashem denounces Poland’s demanded additions to Israeli student trips as ‘inappropriate’
Leading historians have condemned the development, arguing that the new trip rules advance what they call Poland’s track record of obscuring its Holocaust record.
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, left, meets with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw, March 22, 2023. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
March 23, 2023, 9:44 am
Israel says ‘crisis’ with Poland is over as the countries agree to resume student trips to Holocaust sites
Poland also agreed to return its ambassador to Israel in the near future. The Polish envoy was recalled in 2021.
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Marek Magierowski (Twitter)
May 18, 2019, 10:55 am
Israeli man, 65, indicted for spitting on Polish ambassador
Arik Lederman of Herzliya accused of banging on Polish envoy's car before spitting at him
By JTA
Prime Minister Netanyahu and US VP Mike Pence signed the guestbook at the adjacent Museum of the History of Polish Jews, during the Israeli leader's visit to Poland. (Israeli PM on Twitter)
February 17, 2019, 1:14 pm
Polish president: Israel rift over Shoah record is ‘journalistic manipulation’
Country's head of state Andrzej Duda rejected claims of a new diplomatic crisis with the Jewish state
By JTA
An Israeli and Polish passport
August 29, 2018, 7:54 am
Poland gives out record numbers of passports to Israelis
Over 20,000 people from the Jewish state get Polish citizenship since 2010, marking an increase of 250 percent
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Professor Andrzej Zybertowicz speaking on Polish television
February 11, 2018, 11:25 am
Advisor to Poland president criticises Israel
Professor Andrzej Zybertowicz says country's reaction to new law, which outlaws blaming Poland as a nation for crimes committed during the Holocaust, was "anti-Polish"
By Jewish News Reporter
Survivors and activists protest outside the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv. Screenshot from a video on Jerusalem Post
February 9, 2018, 2:59 pm
Survivors in Israel protest Poland’s Holocaust law
Dozens of Shoah victims living in the Jewish state demonstrate outside the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv against the controversial legislation
By JTA
Naftali Bennett
February 6, 2018, 4:36 pm
Poland cancels visit by Naftali Bennett over his criticism of Holocaust bill
Israeli minister's planned trip is stopped after he said he would use the opportunity to tell the Polish people the 'truth'
By JTA
Auschwitz's infamous train tracks and death gate
February 6, 2018, 11:04 am
Debate over Polish Holocaust law prompts an anti-Semitic backlash
Large radio station in Poland drops journalist who wrote about a “war with the Jews", while television channel apologises for anti-Semitic remark
By JTA
Auschwitz's infamous train tracks and death gate
October 27, 2017, 2:31 pm
Polish restitution bill ‘discriminates’ against Shoah survivors, Israel says
Jewish state accuses Poland of excluding would-be recipients from compensation
By JTA
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