Serbia arrests 11 citizens accused of antisemitic incidents in France and Germany

President Herzog was accompanied on the visit by Idit Ohel, an Israeli of Serbian origin whose son Alon was taken hostage when Hamas attacked the Nova music festival.

Early indications connected the attack with people suspected of being linked to the ultra-conservative Wahhabist branch of Islam.

The NGO Haver works to educate kids about the Shoah and promote a diverse and inclusive society.

Antisemitic graffiti were painted on the cemetery entrance reportedly by a group of ultra-right supporters of a Belgrade football club. The vandalism on the cemetery was reported to the authorities.

A ceremony was held  to mark the start of renovation work on the main tower at the Staro Sajmiste concentration camp, which operated under German Nazi control during World War II. “We are starting to restore the memory of the camp by starting to reconstruct the central tower, its iconic symbol,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic […]

The “Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture” Foundation will announce a public urban-architecture competition to select the best design for the future Memorial Center dedicated to the victims of the 1942 South Bačka Pogrom.

German Sculptor Gunter Demnig installed five brass plaques known as Stolpersteine (‘stumbling blocks’) in Belgrade, engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

Israeli news outlet Ynet made a profile of the Jewish community of Belgrade, and interviewed Chief Rabbi or Serbia Isaac Asiel.

On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Belgrade, the President of the Jewish Community of Belgrade Aaron Fuchs, the Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Goran Vesić and the Ambassador of Israel to Serbia Jahel Vilan laid wreaths at the Monument to the Victims of the Shoah. The ceremony was opened by the Baruch Brothers […]

Unknown perpetrators stoned a window at the building of the Jewish cemetery in Belgrade.

Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia congratulated the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Serbia, Robert Sabados, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Serbia, Isak Asiel, and the Serbian Jewish community on Passover.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić decorated Shavei Israel chief Michael Freund at the suggestion of the Association of Jewish Communities of Serbia (SAVEZ) and the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) for his work in building Israel-Serbia relations.