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Kanye West concert in Prague scrapped as venue owner terminates contract - report

Additional concerts, including ones planned for Poland, Italy, and other countries, have also been canceled in the recent past.

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Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
SLOT MACHINES at a Barriere Group casino in Enghien-les-Bains, in Paris suburb, on March 12, 2026.

Israeli businessman 'King of Slot Machines' Tony Bargig murdered in Prague

Bargig, 54, had been living and working in Prague for several years, Ynet reported, and had owned several gambling businesses.

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Czech Ambassador to Israel, Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova.

Israel-Czech relations are strong, have been so for decades, Prague's ambassador tells 'Post'

Prague will continue blocking anti-Israel measures inside the European Union and opposes publicly setting “red lines” for allies, Czech Ambassador Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova told the 'Post.'

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Police officers and a firefighters stand in front of a burned production hall at an industrial area in Pardubice, Czech Republic, March 20, 2026.

Czechs investigate fire after reports of anti-Israel group claiming responsibility

"Based on what we know so far, it is likely the incident may be related to a terrorist attack," Czech Interior Minister Lubomir Metnar said.

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Middle Israel: The Prague Spring at 50, a status report

Freedom’s victory was inspiring, but tyranny – cunning, brazen and techy – is back on the attack.

AUGUST 23, 2018ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
People stand near a Soviet-made military vehicle as they watch a documentary on the Soviet Union-led occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies to halt former Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms in then Czechoslovakia, broadcasted on a disp

The girl from Prague

"You were the girl from Prague who got out of Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. We all admired you for your tremendous courage.”

AUGUST 22, 2018ByROBERT HERSOWITZ
Jana and her sister Eva with their parents, at her father’s newspaper office in Prague, in 1958, reflected in the glass of his desk

The Weinstein

DECEMBER 11, 2017ByDAVID ROSH PINA
The Jerusalem Post

Low-cost airline expands routes to Eilat

Currently Wizz Air has 18 routes serving both Ben-Gurion and Ovda airports.

AUGUST 9, 2017ByBECKY BROTHMAN
Wizz Air plane seen on the runway

Iconic Prague Synagogue gets first new Torahs since World War II

Before World War Two, there were about 125,000 Jews living in what is now the Czech Republic. About 80,000 were killed during the war.

MARCH 20, 2017ByREUTERS
Members of the Czech Jewish Community dance with new Torah scrolls in front of the medieval Old-New Synagogue in Prague March 19, 2017

Czech schools: Jerusalem can't be labeled Israel's capital in school books

The decision came after a complaint from the Palestinian embassy due to an atlas used in local schools which listed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

AUGUST 30, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Map of Israel

Why did the Czech president ban the US ambassador from Prague Castle?

"I can't imagine the Czech ambassador in Washington would give advice to the American president where to travel," Czech President Milos Zeman says.

APRIL 6, 2015ByREUTERS
Prague Castle

Watch: Historic Jewish text from Prague stolen years ago found in Israel

A priceless piece of historical documentation from 19th century Prague is rediscovered in Petah Tikvah.

APRIL 2, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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105-year-old ‘British Schindler’ receives Czech honor

Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, saved 669 Czechoslovak children from the Nazis while serving as a British diplomat.

OCTOBER 29, 2014ByJERRY LEWIS
Sir Nicholas Winton in Prague

Czech Republic to award ‘British Oskar Schindler’ with highest civilian honor

Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, saved 669 Czechoslovak children from the Nazis while serving as a British diplomat.

OCTOBER 15, 2014ByJTA
Sir Nicholas Winton in Prague