Angela Merkel

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Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes one of the final letters in a Torah Scroll dedicated to the memory of fallen soldier Moshe Leiter as Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, looks on.
JUDGES AND DANCERS in the Israel Irish Dancing Championship.

Grapevine, November 16, 2025: The Germans are coming

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 ANGELA MERKEL, then German chancellor, arrives with her spokesman Steffen Seibert for a news conference after a meeting with governors of former East German states at the Chancellery in Berlin, in 2020.

Netanyahu wanted advisor of Germany's Angela Merkel to be fired, investigation finds - report


Germany will ban burning of Israeli and other state flags

In December, 2017, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff called for a change of the law in the Federal Republic to prohibit the burning of the Israeli flag.

People shout slogans against Israel while burning a makeshift Israeli flag during a protest against Trump's Jerusalem declaration, in front of the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo, Egypt December 7, 2017.

General Secretary of Merkel’s party calls for Iran sanctions

German politician Paul Ziemiak calls Iran's leadership a "terrorist regime"; his call to sanction the clerical regime stands in sharp contrast to the position of Merkel and her coalition government.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a joint news conference after a Normandy-format summit in Paris, France December 10, 2019.

US ambassador hosts Iranian dissidents grateful for Soleimani strike

Envoy says Soleimani was a “cheerleader of the genocide in Syria.”

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Allen Grenell is pictured in Berlin, Germany, June 4, 2018. Picture taken June 4, 2018.

Merkel expresses shame during Auschwitz visit, vows to fight antisemitism

Dressed in black, Merkel said the crimes committed at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis ran their largest death camp would always be part of German history.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2019

Angela Merkel to give Auschwitz 60 million euros during first visit

More than 3 million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, accounting for about half of the Jews killed in the Holocaust.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Auschwitz for first time

The visit to the former death camp in Poland is reportedly scheduled for December 6.

The former concentration camp Auschwitz

Free Democratic Party urges Merkel to place full ban on Hezbollah

Germany and the EU have merely outlawed Hezbollah’s military wing. Brussels and Berlin still work with Hezbollah’s political wing.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Germany celebrates 30th anniversary of Berlin Wall's fall

In 1990, one year after the toppling of the wall, Germany was reunified.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel lights a candle at the memorial of the divided city and the victims of communist tyranny during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Wall memorial on Bernauer Strasse in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2019

November 6, 2019: Feigning righteousness

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Angela Merkel deserved the WJC award and here’s why

"Have strength … Have strength … and have strength in each other.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a joint news conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2019