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London plane lands in Warsaw-Modlin airport after explosive device reported on board

A passenger plane from London made an unscheduled landing at Warsaw-Modlin airport in Poland after a bomb threat alert on Tuesday, forcing the airport to close.

Illustrative: A fuel tanker truck operated by Orlen Aviation drives past Ryanair aircraft on the apron at Warsaw Modlin Airport in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Poland, April 28, 2026.
Willy Rudolf Foerster with his children,  Willy Jr. and Erica.

The forgotten German who saved Jews in Japan - and the diary that resurfaced 80 years later

Members of the media work next to a cordoned-off area as police and fire fighters work at the site of a deadly attack at a school by a 15-year-old former pupil, in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Wyszkow County, northeast of Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2026.

Three injured in Poland's third youth stabbing attack in four days

Jürgen Stroop watches his troops raze the Warsaw Ghetto.

Nazi war criminal's chilling account of Warsaw Ghetto destruction reaches English readers


Passover and the Holocaust

‘We had entered the unknown, but were holding on to what we cherished’ – Rena Quint.

Holocaust memorial candles

GRAPEVINE: They were there…

Following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 many Jews from smaller towns and cities fled to Warsaw, the city now honors their tales.

Polish children holding flowers near the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

Hundreds to gather in Warsaw for Seder on anniversary of uprising

Before the Holocaust, approximately one-third of Warsaw was Jewish.

SS SOLDIERS patrol Nowolipie Street in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising

Jewish Agency program incorporates Warsaw to 'rediscover Judaism'

Warsaw will join Pittsburgh and the Israeli Karmiel and Misgav, to have the opportunity to rediscover their Jewish culture and faith.

Isaac Herzog

Is Warsaw Jewish museum director being replaced for criticized Polish government?

Stola criticized a controversial law passed last year in Poland that makes it illegal to blame the Polish nation for Nazi crimes.

President Reuven Rivlin visits newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw October 28, 2014.

When Warsaw was Jewish, Poles still celebrated antisemitism

A reporter’s notebook.

The Jewish Community Center that was two doors down from my grandmother's apartment

Gantz to speak at Munich conference, Netanyahu cancels participation

Iran was at the center of the Warsaw conference last week and is the focus of the annual Munich Security Conference this week.

Benny Gantz, chairman of the Israel Resilience Party

Netanyahu warns Arab countries not to reject Trump peace plan - report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he meets with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019

Regional realignment

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to engage with the Americans since the moving of the US Embassy to Jerusalem last year says it all.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Waraw Conference on February 14, 2019

After Warsaw summit, Arabs launch ‘anti-normalization’ campaign

The campaign, launched on Saturday on Twitter, is being waged under the hashtag “Normalization is Treason.”

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) greets Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifah before a working lunch at the conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, on February 14, 2019