The mural was painted by Italian artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo in Piazzale Loreto, a major city square in Milan, in late September. It is titled 'Anti-Semitism, History Repeating.'

So far, the perpetrators have not been identified, according to the regional French newspaper Le Progrès.

Construction of the museum, funded by the German government and Greek municipal authorities as well as private donors, began earlier this year and is expected to take about two years.

Yad Vashem calls on Jewish communities worldwide to illuminate synagogues and centers on November 9-10.

The Wall of the Righteous at a Holocaust memorial in Paris was defaced with painted blood-red hands, sparking outrage from French authorities and Jewish leaders.

A concealed Torah scroll, discovered in a ravaged Polish synagogue after World War II, has been donated by the Gerbowitz family to Yad Vashem.

Kibbutz Yad Mordechai has been under continuing rocket fire since it held off terrorist infiltrators on Oct. 7.

In a show of desecration of the Holocaust victims, Russian bombs damaged the memorial center.

World leaders, heads of state, and other dignitaries are coming to the Jewish state to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz and commit to battle anti-Semitism in the 21st century.