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Can the darkest places inspire humanity’s brightest ideas? - opinion

With so many disruptions around us – and we haven’t even mentioned the climate, the economy, and AI yet – fresh thinking is needed. Not only new solutions, but also new ways of producing them.

HACKATHONERS DISCUSS ‘hasbara’ ideas last week at the Technion
German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader, Friedrich Merz, walks to attend a press conference, after the state elections, in Berlin, Germany, September 21, 2026.

'Unrestrained antisemitism': German politicians, Jewish leaders warn over Left Party’s rise

Demonstrators protest an AfD campaign event in Wietze, Lower Saxony, ahead of the local elections, Sept. 10, 2026.

Germany’s Left Party, AfD win big in German state elections in setback for Merz’s CDU

WEIMAR GERMANY: DEATH OF A DEMOCRACY by Victor Sebestyen

'Death of a Democracy': Exploring the rise and fall of Weimar Germany - review


Syrian national indicted for aiding 2025 Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing

A Syrian national has been indicted in Berlin for aiding and abetting a 2025 knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist critically injured.

A single lit candle lies on a frost covered concrete block at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on January 26, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

Germany’s far-right AfD, riding state win, targets more gains in elections from east to west

The three upcoming elections are being closely watched for signs of the AfD’s wider-scale momentum, said Daniel Schuster, who heads the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s European office. 

People gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the day after the party won in Saxony-Anhalt state elections, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 7, 2026.

Germany charges seven men for Hamas terror plot, weapons procurement

By October 2025, the suspects had already acquired over 700 rounds of ammunition, a fully automatic rifle, and 13 pistols for use in the planned attack.

Police at the Federal Court of Justice before a hearing of Serhii K. with German Federal Public Prosecutor, after Italy's top court approved the handover to Germany of the man, suspected of coordinating the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, in Karlsruhe, Germany, November 28, 2025.

Berlin’s hottest Israeli-owned restaurant refuses the Israeli label

Two years after opening in Berlin, Kanal 61 made Vogue Germany's list of the city's best restaurants. Its Israeli owners say avoiding political labels has allowed food to bridge divides.

Kanal 61 in Berlin serves seasonal modern cuisine with European and Asian influences.

Two killed at school near Berlin, suspected attacker detained

An 18-year-old student and a 30-year-old man were killed in an attack at a school near Berlin, according to local reports. A suspect was detained.

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

Berlin attack highlights Europe’s shift to individualized, multi-layered terror threats - analysis

Online radicalization, lone-actor violence, and Iran-linked networks are placing European security services under pressure from distinct but increasingly simultaneous threats.

Tourists and visitors observe and pay respects at a makeshift memorial set in Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg gate, one week after the Christopher Street Day pride parade attack on August 2, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

Not just Berlin: Israelis return to Germany – and rediscover it

Germany recorded 685,000 Israeli overnights last year, up 11%, offering more than Berlin with 341 Michelin-starred restaurants, scenic nature, culinary routes, and global cultural events.

Hamburg, Germany.

Berlin Pride attacker recorded masked pledge of allegiance to ISIS on phone, prosecutors say

Though the person in the video was masked, authorities assume it shows the suspected attacker, 21-year-old German citizen Abdul Ballout, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutors' office said.

Forensic pathologist van at an allotment garden complex in the Berlin suburb of Spandau after a known Islamist, suspected of ramming a minivan into a crowd near Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade on Saturday evening, was shot and killed in a police operation, in Berlin, Germany

Suspect in Berlin Pride attack shot dead by police in Berlin suburb

Police added on Sunday morning that several of those wounded had been reportedly hurt with "stabbing weapons."

Police officers walk, as emergency responders work on the site, after the annual Berlin's Christopher Street Day Pride parade was called off, after a car crashed into the crowd at Tiergarten park, leaving several people injured, in Berlin, Germany, July 25, 2026.

New York is not Berlin in the 1930s, but the fear is real - opinion

The evil Jew haters must be stopped, and when that is accomplished, Jews will feel safer. t is as simple as that because New York today is not Berlin in the 1930’s.

NEW YORK CITY Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani: What should trouble us most is how many are willing to back someone who openly mocks Jewish holidays, cheers for the Intifada, and tacitly supports antisemitic protests on university campuses, say the writers.