At a political rally in Berlin in June, 34-year-old Marcel Yaron Goldhammer — a homosexual and dual Israeli-German citizen wearing a turquoise kippah — launched his campaign to represent one of Germany’s most ethnically diverse constituencies in parliament: …But he’s not running for a liberal party, or one promoting multiculturalism — [the] former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces,... 

Opel cars are parked in front of Opel’s plant in the western German city of Bochum on June 8, 2009. US auto giant, General Motors, has decided to stop car production at a plant of the troubled and loss-making German carmaker, Opel, after 2016. Head of the Opel works council, Rainer Einenkel, said on Friday that there will be no more auto production at Opel plant in Bochum, situated about 442...