Ioannina

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) on Monday welcomed the election of the first Greek Jew as mayor, describing it as a "milestone" for the community and the country.
Moisis Elisaf, a prominent doctor in the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, prevailed in a second round of local authority elections.

Moisis Elisaf, a prominent doctor in the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, became the country's first Jewish mayor after prevailing in a second round of local authority elections.

Moisis Elisaf, a prominent doctor in the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece, appeared poised to be elected city mayor, possibly becoming the first Greek-Jew to win a mayorship in the country, based on initial results in the second round of the local elections on Sunday.

The trial against nine former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina on charges of causing grievous bodily harm to classmate Vangelis Giakoumakis - a 20-year-old who committed suicide at the school in 2015 - was adjourned until June 6 on Tuesday.

The court in northwestern Greece heard from three witnesses, including a classmate who said she never saw the 20-year-old being bullied.

Embroidered epitaphioi and ecclesiastical vestments associated with Holy Week and Easter rituals make up the core of the exhibition "Embroidered Epitaphioi from Epirus - 18th and 19th Centuries." The sacred satin garments on show are exquisite examples of ecclesiastical handicraft.

An exhibition of embroidered and richly adorned cloths dating to the 18th and 19th centuries bearing the image of the dead body of Christ opens on Friday at the Silversmithing Museum in the castle of Ioannina in northwestern Greece.

Three men are expected to appear before a prosecutor after their arrest near Athens on Tuesday for illegal possession of an ancient marble grave stele.
The three suspects - aged 44, 43 and 36 - had hidden the Hellenistic era stele in an olive grove in the suburb of Spata, east of Athens.

A Greek appeals court on Monday commuted an eight-year prison sentence that had been passed down to a hospital cleaner for forging her education record to a three-year suspended sentence.

The region of Epirus in northwestern Greece is setting the bar for the rest of the country in terms of waste management with the formal launch of a state-of-the-art unit through the collaboration of the private and state sectors.

Judges in the northwestern city of Ioannina on Monday postponed the trial of the father of a college student who committed suicide after being subjected to violent and vicious bullying from a group of peers, accused of attacking the former director of the school where the tragedy transpired in 2015.