A proposal to rename a Dublin park named after a former Israeli president has sparked controversy. Ireland’s chief rabbi says it would be “a shameful erasure” of the country's Jewish history.

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and The Netherlands will boycott next year's song competition in protest of the decision.

Authorities in Ireland have officially been asked to investigate Microsoft over allegations the software giant unlawfully processed data for the Israeli Defense Forces.

Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands announced their withdrawals Thursday from next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after organizers decided that Israel will be allowed to compete.

Chaim Herzog was Israel’s president from 1983 to 1993. Born in Belfast in 1918, Herzog spent his childhood in Dublin when his father Issac Herzog was chief rabbi of Ireland. He celebrated his bar mitzvah in Adelaide Road synagogue and was educated at Wesley College in Dublin.

Israel's Foreign Minister has posted a video of an exchange with the Irish Ambassador to Israel in which he criticizes Ireland over efforts to rename Herzog Park in Dublin.

Israel's president, son of the park's namesake, and Ireland's prime minister had both criticized the proposal.

Renaming proposal faced antisemitism accusations; Ireland reportedly to drop move to boycott Israeli settlement products