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Police arrest Palestinian teen who admitted to plan to stab IDF soldier, die as 'martyr'

Earlier on Tuesday, police said that a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in their custody had admitted to planning to attack an IDF soldier when he was initially arrested on Saturday night. 

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Investigators return to Neve Daniel with the 16-year-old Palestinian suspect, who admitted to entering the town with the goal of becoming a "martyr."
Israel players celebrate on the court following Tuesday’s 92-89 victory over Belgium, a result that secured the blue-and-white’s spot in the EuroBasket last-16.

Israel beats Belgium, advances to the round of 16 in EuroBasket for first time in a decade

The Belgians nearly erased a 21-point deficit in the final quarter – but the Israelis held on to claim a landmark achievement that has eluded them since 2015.

|ByJERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF
YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Yacov Livne, Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, described Jewish life in Poland today, relations with Israel, and the attempts to rewrite the past.

|ByELDAD BECK
Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Jewish leader bashes former PM's denial of Poland's Holocaust role

"I say to the former Prime Minister: You cannot control the past. You must live with it, and learn from it. Go and learn,” Menachem Margolin of the European Jewish Association said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Warsaw to attend Visegrad summit as crisis dies down

Netanyahu’s remarks on Polish role in Shoah clarified

FEBRUARY 17, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attends a commemoration event at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau, during the ceremonies marking the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day

Honoring righteous Poles – Gentile and Jewish

Immediately after Yom Kippur, despite the tragedy, the family – whose spirit remains unbroken – began building a sukkah.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A man places tefillin around the arm of a Holocaust survivor during a group Bar Mitzvah ceremony for Holocaust survivors at the Western Wall

Israeli student sent home for stripping at death camp

Majdanek death camp, located in the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin, was a German extermination camp built and ran by the German S.S.

AUGUST 14, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Former Nazi death camp Majdanek in Lublin 370

Study: ‘Surge’ in Polish antisemitism since controversial Holocaust law

“The surge of hostility to Jews and the Jewish State in Polish media and politics in early 2018 took many observers by surprise."

JULY 17, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON
A view of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Catholic leader: Antisemitism in Poland resurfaced due to Holocaust law

The former Roman Catholic primate said there were “glorious moments” in the history of Poland, but also “mean and un-Christian” behavior.

JULY 17, 2018ByJTA
THE PERIMETER fence of Auschwitz II-Birkenau is enveloped in a thick evening fog during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, near Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

Yad Vashem blasts Netanyahu-brokered Israeli-Polish Holocaust deal

Similarly, Education Minister Naftali Bennett called the joint declaration "a disgrace full of lies," his office said in a statement.

JULY 5, 2018ByAVRAHAM GOLD
The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017.

Yad Vashem slams Israeli-Polish statement on Holocaust

“A thorough review by Yad Vashem historians shows that the historical assertions, presented as unchallenged facts, in the joint statement contain grave errors and deceptions."

JULY 5, 2018ByHERB KEINON
The Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) is pictured at the gates of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2017.

How the U.S. pressured Poland into softening its law on Holocaust speech

Trump and Polish president Duda did not meet once during the Polish leader’s five-day visit to the United States last month, while Trump did meet with the president of Uzbekistan at the White House.

JUNE 28, 2018ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
U.S. President Donald Trump stands next to First Lady Melania Trump, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda before his public speech at Krasinski Square, in Warsaw, Poland July 6, 2017.

Senior Polish official says country will amend controversial Holocaust law

"We resign from the criminal provisions," the head of prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, told public radio.

JUNE 27, 2018ByHERB KEINON
A view of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Israeli, Polish presidents fail to resolve Polish ‘Holocaust law’ crisis

15,000 participate in emotional March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

APRIL 13, 2018BySTEVE LINDE
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Polish President Andrzej Duda led the record-breaking procession at the 30th March of the Living.