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Two years after the Hamas terrorist attack, on October 7, 2023, the Central Israelite Council of Greece (KISE), the Embassy of Israel in Greece and the I.K. of Athens honored the memory of the Israeli citizens and soldiers who lost their lives with a memorial service held on October 19, 2025, at the Athens Synagogue. The ceremony was attended by the Ministers of Health Adonis Georgiadis, Immigration and Asylum Thanos Plevris, and Shipping Vassilis Kikilias, the Deputy Minister of Labor Costas Karagounis, the Secretary General of the Ministry of National Defense Antonis Economou, the Secretary General of Hellenes Abroad Maira Myrogianni, the Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chrysoula Aliferi, as well as a multitude of parliamentarians, diplomats, journalists, personalities from the academic community and co-religionists.
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With deep emotion and participation of representatives of the state, the Israeli Community of Athens and the diplomatic corps, the Memorial Ceremony for the victims of the Holocaust in Athens was held on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at the Beth Shalom Synagogue.
The event was dedicated to the Jews who were arrested in Athens during the Persecution (September 1943-September 1944), deported and murdered in the death camps, as well as to those who were murdered within Greek territory in their attempt to escape arrest and deportation.
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On April 13, 2025, we celebrated the second night of Pesach in the packed hall of the National Museum of Modern Art overlooking the Acropolis! An evening that brought us all together, celebrating our freedom, while reflecting on the unjust deprivation of it by our fellow human beings, who are still in the depths of Gaza, far from their families and loved ones.
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On Sunday, March 23, 2025, in a packed hall, the presentation of the essay entitled “The Burden of Being a Jew” by Aris Emmanouil took place at the Community Center of the Athens Community Center. A distinguished panel consisting of Mr. Thrasyvoulos Papastratis (lawyer-researcher of Jewish Hellenism), Ms. Ariella Asser (psychoanalyst and translator), Mr. Mino Moysis (mathematician) and Ms. Luna Emmanouil (field coordinator in a Program for the Reception of Unaccompanied Minors), spoke in detail about the essay.
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On Thursday, March 27.3.2025, XNUMX, the I.K. of Athens welcomed to the Community Center Elias Messinas, architect, who presented his new book entitled "The Good", and through it his recent and very important work with photographs and comments on the synagogues of the Jewish communities of Greece, most of which no longer exist.
The author was also joined by Savvas Kalenderidis, publisher, Giorgos Lianis, journalist, and Annita Tsopanelli, architect, who referred to Mr. Messina's work and personality.