Europe

EU questions Trump’s power in Board of Peace, citing constitutional concerns

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday he would be ready to join US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace initiative for the sake of Gaza but could not accept the plan in its current form.

|ByREUTERS
US President Donald Trump holds up his signature on the founding charter during a signing ceremony for the “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 22, 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
An artificial diamond for quantum sensory technology is displayed in June 2025 at the quantum technology fair World of Quantum.

Israel bets on quantum technology as the computing arms race heats up

Exactly where Israel will come out in the quantum race is still up in the air, but the Jewish state is right in the battle.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF commanders visit Auschwitz as part of their training.

After October 7, IDF commanders visit Poland for Holocaust lessons and battlefield reflections

The Jerusalem Post interviewed Col. Yoni Dahan and Col. Nati Keren, who have been serving during the war, about the importance of a trip to Poland.

|ByESTHER DAVIS
US Vice President JD Vance speaks at Royalston Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 22, 2026.

WATCH: Vance: US power stops Russia, China from invading Greenland, not Denmark

"Our entire missile defense system could be destabilized if you don't control the Arctic," the vice president told Newsmax's Carl Higbie on Thursday.

|ByJAMES GENN

When Jewish athletes dominated Polish sport: A lost legacy

From soccer to fencing, Jewish athletes once dominated Polish sports, and now their story is being told in Ramat Gan.

JANUARY 17, 2026ByBARRY DAVIS
The Maccabi Krakow ice hockey team in full flow during a game in 1934.

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize winners, biochemists, and the Baba Sali

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JANUARY 17, 2026BySTEVEN DRUCKER
Baba Baruch, heir of Baba Sali, speaks to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during traditional ceremonies in Netivot, 1988.

Shifting EU politics, Israel's stance analyzed at Jerusalem conference - analysis

At an academic conference in Jerusalem, experts discussed the EU’s political decline, shifting attitudes towards Israel, and the impact of Russian aggression, US geopolitics, and global tensions.

JANUARY 17, 2026ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks at a press conference on the day of an EU-Israel Association Council with European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, February 24, 2025.

'If Israel falls, we fall': Fate of West tied to Israel, former French PM tells 'Post' - interview

"The stakes of the world... the fight against the regime of the Mullahs and its dangers, the links between Iran and Russia, the future of France and Europe is being decided here," he said.

JANUARY 15, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER
France's Minister of Overseas Manuel Valls leaves after a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on September 3, 2025.

How war has reshaped Europe's defense sector

With global unrest and tension from Venezuela to Iran, the sector has drawn greater investor interest

JANUARY 15, 2026ByREUTERS
Dozens of German-made Leopard 1 tanks and other armoured vehicles, owned by Freddy Versluys the CEO of Belgian defence company OIP Land Systems, are seen in a hangar in Tournais, Belgium January 31, 2023.

How one NGO is using AI to change how antisemitism is monitored

Created in 2012 in a collaboration between Hungarian Jewish communities and civil society groups, the Action and Protection Foundation (TEV) began operation in 2013.

JANUARY 14, 2026ByMICHAEL STARR
TEV Chairman Kalman Szalal

What’s driving the rapid adoption of online payments in Finland and Europe

JANUARY 14, 2026ByTAMI DEMSKY
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Key figure in Iran-tied criminal network targeting Israelis, Jews in Sweden arrested in Iraq

The 21-year-old Swedish national, listed as one of Europol's most wanted and a leading member of the Foxtrot network, was arrested in December.

JANUARY 14, 2026ByMICHAEL STARR
A demonstration in support of Palestine and Lebanon marches through Stockholm to Gustav Adolfs Torg, Sweden October 5.

Iranian feminists understood the revolution better than Europe’s intellectuals - opinion

While Foucault praised Iran’s 1979 revolution as spiritual, Iranian women warned it would mean coercion, veiling, and the erasure of their rights.

JANUARY 14, 2026BySAMUEL J. HYDE
Demonstrators gather outside the Iranian embassy during a rally in support of nationwide protests in Iran, in London, Britain, January 11, 2026

Israel will take part in the first Eurovision semifinal, EBU announces

This year’s Eurovision contest will take place in Austria in May, with the semifinals set for May 12 and May 14 and the finals on May 16.

JANUARY 13, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
ISRAEL HAS been singled out as no country ever has been before at Eurovision. Here, viewers cheer as they watch this year’s Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, in May.