Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu missed the ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz as he deals with legal woes at home and the threat of arrest abroad.

Earlier this month, the Polish government pledged not to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he attended the Auschwitz ceremony on January 27. DW looks back at the heated debate in Poland triggered by the decision.

As world leaders gather at Auschwitz to mark a solemn anniversary, one notable figure will be missing, sparking intrigue and speculation across the globe.

He spoke to Fathom editor Professor Alan Johnson about his new book The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu. This is an edited transcript of their conversation. Alan Johnson: What were the major influences on your intellectual development and how have ...

Back in 2017, I sat with a group of Israeli colleagues in a small hotel conference room in a European capital, listening to Benjamin Netanyahu give the customary media briefing at the end of one of his foreign trips. To one reporter’s question on whether ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is about abuses of power, and people — not the inclusion of nation states like Israel.

The world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday, with some of the few remaining survivors attending ceremonies at the site of the notorious Nazi death camp.Auschwitz was the largest of the extermination camps and has become a symbol of Nazi Germany's genocide of six million European Jews,

Holocaust survivors and scholars said the international community's abandonment of the Jewish state belies its promises to learn from the genocide.

There has also been controversy following rumours about the possibility that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ... from Polish President Andrzej Duda, the Polish government confirmed last month that it would not arrest Netanyahu if he were to ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free) gate is recognized the world over.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday, jubilant to be returning home after months of living in temporary shelter but fearing what might remain of their homes amid the bombed-out ruins.

The world marked on Monday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with some of the few remaining survivors attending ceremonies at the site of the notorious Nazi death camp. Auschwitz was the largest of the extermination camps and has become a symbol of Nazi Germany's genocide of 6 million European Jews,