Latvia

Sa'ar tells Estonian officials there are positive signs for a breakthrough in hostage talks

Sa'ar also announced that Israel has decided to open its first embassy in Estonia.

 Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna speaking with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar in Estonia, July 2, 2025.
 German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria,March 20, 2025.

Five countries elected to UN Security Council for 2026/27

 Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965.

Latvia reopens criminal investigation into 'Butcher of Riga' following condemnation

HERBERTS CUKURS, deputy commander of the infamous Latvian death squad in 1937

Yad Vashem denounces Latvia closing investigation on 'Butcher of Riga' Herberts Cukurs


Direct to Latvia: Another airline returns to Israeli skies

The airline Air Baltic announced that it will resume flights to Israel starting April 2025 with a convenient schedule and a futuristic Starlink internet revolution.

 airBaltic (צילום: שאטרסטוק)

The Holocaust in Latvia: Remembering Simon Dubnow - opinion

His work, initially in Russia, includes one of the first comprehensive descriptions of Jewish history in the context of world history.

 THEN-LATVIAN PRESIDENT Egils Levits speaks to members of the media at the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, in Malmo, Sweden, in 2021. The writer cites that 70,000 – three quarters – of Latvia’s Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

War beyond Ukraine? Romania, Latvia report Russian drones breach airspace

NATO member Romania shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine and has had Russian drone fragments stray into its territory repeatedly over the past year.

 Latvian and Russian border signs are seen at the Latvia-Russia border near Lidumnieki, Latvia August 8, 2023.

This artist is fighting for a memorial for the 4000 killed in at Jungfernhof, a Nazi camp in Latvia

Over the last 17 years, Frostig has worked with a dogged determination to recognize the victims of Jungfernhof, a camp that’s not extensively documented.

Karen Frostig has been working for nearly two decades to build a memorial at Jungfernhof, the Latvian site where the Nazis likely murdered her grandparents.

Historic Jewish communities, roots travel, palaces and beach resorts in western Latvia

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 72. This episode was recorded prior to the events of October 7, 2023.

 Jurmula, a short drive or train ride from Riga

Latvia, Lithuania pay Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property

Both of the Baltic nations contained rich centers of Jewish life and history before World War II.

 The flags, from left to right, of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a ceremony in Riga, Latvia, in 2012.

New technology helps uncover Holocaust gravesites in Latvia and Netherlands

A mass grave left behind by the Nazis after a bloody massacre of Latvia's Jews was unearthed this week, following decades of efforts to locate it.

A memorial marker for Jews killed in the Holocaust can be seen in Rumbula forest, Riga, Latvia.

A proud people with nothing to hide: Expanding the Riga Holocaust Museum

Linda Ozola is one of those behind the plan to expand the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum.

 RIGA CITY COUNCIL Deputy Chairman Linda Ozola.

Riga: A Baltic gem with more than a dash of Jewish history

While Latvia has seen very dark days for both its Jewish and non-Russian communities, it is also the home to a rich Jewish history.

 RIGA, LATVIA’S gorgeous, compact capital, is full of history.

Riga, Latvia: history, architecture, Jewish past, present & future

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 64.

 Old Town Riga

NATO flexes muscle to protect Vilnius summit near Russia, Belarus

"You know where you are situated geographically, and you know pretty well where the threat is coming from", said Lt Col Steffen Lieb, commander of the Patriot deployment.

A member of Lithuanian Riflemen's Union and a Border Guard officer patrol along Belarus border in Kaniukai, Lithuania July 7, 2023.