Holland

Summer 2025’s secret map – are travelers skipping the big cities?

A new study shows: Rotterdam over Amsterdam, Alassio over Positano. “Star chasers” reshape tourism trends, while more travelers opt for authentic, local, and spontaneous vacations near home.

 Alassio on the Italian Riviera
 Anti-Israel protesters arrived in troves "in solidarity" with Thursday's pogrom in Amsterdam.

'This is Auschwitz': Hundreds defy Amsterdam protest ban in solidarity with antisemitic attackers

 A sticker placed by an anti-Israel protester in front of a residential building across from Columbia’s Amsterdam gate, May 2024.. (Shira Dicker/The Media Line)

‘Free Palestine’ stickers backed with razor blades found outside Amsterdam Holocaust museum 

 A Maccabi Tel Aviv fan who landed in Israel after the antisemitic attacks in Amsterdam, November 8, 2024.

Jewish, Israeli organizations combine efforts to support victims of Amsterdam attacks


Dutch police refuse to guard Jewish sites over 'moral dilemmas,' officers say

Marcel de Weerd and Michel Theeboom, from the Jewish Police Network, claimed "“There are colleagues who no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events."

 A Dutch police officer stands guard. March 30, 2024.

Germany arrests teen suspected of planning terror attack on Jews during school trip to Holland

The teenager, who reportedly shared pro-ISIS material on TikTok, was allegedly being groomed online to carry out attacks on Jewish community centers in Europe.

 Police officers secure the area of an incident, after several individuals were killed on Friday night when a man randomly stabbed passers-by with a knife, at a city festival in Solingen, Germany, August 24, 2024.

Israeli-born candidate for minister in Netherlands has candidacy withdrawn

Gidi Markuszower has not shied away from supporting Israel, in particular in the aftermath of October 7.

 Israeli-born Dutch lawmaker Gideon (Gidi) Markuszower (center) claps for Geert Wilders, June 13, 2024

Dutch court orders halt to export of F-35 jet parts to Israel

The Netherlands houses one of several regional warehouses of US-owned F-35 parts, from which the parts are distributed to countries that request them.

 F-35 fighter jet.

MK in Holland urges MPs: Hold UNRWA accountable, permanently cut funding

"I wanted to show them, this is not a few rotten apples, this is a body that is rotten to the core," MK Haskel told The Jerusalem Post. 

MK Sharren Haskel, co-chair of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, with Dutch MP Don Ceder.

Modeling agent Shai Avital to be extradited to Israel

The disgraced modeling agent was arrested in Amsterdam earlier this year in a joint operation by the intelligence divisions of the Dutch and Israel Police.

 Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital (C) poses for a picture with Israeli models during an event on a rooftop in Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2017

Israeli modeling agent suspected of sex crimes arrested in Amsterdam

After a year's investigation, Shai Avital has been arrested for extradition to Israel.

 Israeli modeling agent Shai Avital (C) poses for a picture with Israeli models during an event on a rooftop in Tel Aviv, on September 17, 2017

Israel Embassy to the Netherlands celebrates Independence day with Gala Celebration

 Madurodam Park

Google honors the life of Anne Frank with diary doodles

The Google doodles launched in over 25 countries, including the United States, Germany and the UK.

 Anne Frank, as illustrated by Google Doodles' Thoka Maer

The legacy of Holland's Jewish cantorial music

This year's Hanukkah concert would have been performed in the storied Main Hall of the Royal Concertgebouw, but it will be streamed online due to COVID restrictions.

 HANUKKAH CONCERT in previous years.

Dutch Reform rabbi says COVID-19 policies remind her of Nazi Germany

Tamarah Benima, an outspoken 71-year-old Reform rabbi from Amsterdam, made the comparison on Thursday in a speech in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden.

AMSTERDAM CANAL: At about 2 meters below sea-level, the city is built on 11 million support poles