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'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.

 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.
  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

 Donald Tusk, Polish PM

Polish PM: Israel testing Polish solidarity with the war on Hamas

 Noa Kirel from Israel performs during the first semi-final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, Britain, May 9, 2023.

Poland cannot silence Noa Kirel, or any Israelis, about the Holocaust - analysis


Israel's hollowing out of the Holocaust - opinion

The flurry of outrage, castigation and near damnation was all over the news and commentary programs, the author writes.

Cards are placed between railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz as people take part in the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 12, 2018.

What should Jews think of Poland?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The fact that it wasn’t Nazism’s accomplice doesn't mean it wasn't plagued by antisemitism.

 A MAN carries an Israeli flag during the annual March of the Living through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp last year.

Israel must reassess its handling of Holocaust school trips to Poland - editorial

Reaching an agreement with Poland is an opportunity to reassess how the Holocaust education trips are handled within Israel.

 Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living  seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.

Israeli high schools to add a Polish site to Holocaust trips

Yad Vashem says it won’t be involved in group visits to any site suspected of distorting events.

 A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

Polish Deputy FM says Israel consulted on judicial overhaul, then backtracked

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski spoke out as the Histadrut called a nationwide strike to protest the government's judicial reform process.

Polish and Israeli flags at a march next to Auschwitz in April

Israel seeks to repair Poland ties, resume Holocaust education trips

On Tuesday night, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau, the first such talks between foreign ministers of both countries in two years.

 Jewish Youth from all over the world participating in the March of the Living  seen at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 16, 2015.

ELNET brings historic delegation of Polish MPs to Israel

Israel had not hosted a Polish delegation in four years before this week's visit.

 Polish MP delegation meets with Knesset on January 17, 2023

Polish delegation to Palestinian territories pays tribute to Arafat

Multiple members of the delegation referred to Israel as an apartheid state.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Polish President Andrzej Duda review the honour guard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2017.

Postpone Israeli trips to Poland to a later age - opinion

This may not be a bad thing: Perhaps we can use this “off-time” to think about whether “Israeli children” – those were his words – should be going to Poland in the first place.

 PARTICIPANTS IN the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 2019: The educational and emotional benefits of a well-designed visit to Poland can be huge, says the writer.

Israel and Poland are partners with shared history - opinion

The 800 years of the common Jewish and Polish history and beyond.

 JEWISH YOUTH participating in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, in 2019.

What’s the solution to the Israel-Poland crisis on restitution? - opinion

While in light of the 2020 Just Act Report the US Congress should hold hearings on Polish Holocaust restitution, a win-win deal for Israel and Poland may solve the crisis.

 POLISH PRESIDENT Andrzej Duda.