Israeli President Isaac Herzog was greeted with pomp and ceremony at the palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, marking the first time a leader from Israel has visited Ankara in nearly a decade and a half.
Israel believes Russia and Ukraine are at a critical juncture and pending a possible ceasefire, but if talks fail, the Russian invasion of Ukraine could become far more brutal, the Axios news site reported Wednesday citing government officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told American Jewish leaders on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was guilty of “pure Nazi behavior,” and compared Putin’s rhetoric against the Ukrainian people to that of chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, The Times of Israel reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed gratitude to Israel for its mediation efforts on the Ukraine-Russia war in a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Tuesday in Latvia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin would have never invaded Ukraine if he “had known what was going to happen,” the Russian president’s former speechwriter and political consultant told Israeli media on Sunday.
Four hundred Ukrainian refugees arrived in Israel on Sunday in what is expected to be the start of a mass immigration of tens of thousands from the war-torn country in the next year.
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel expressed his appreciation for Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s ongoing mediation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying his efforts were “priceless” and “worth more than weapons.”
Russia’s envoy to the Iran nuclear talks said on Saturday that Tehran “got much more than it could expect” in the latest iteration of the nuclear deal, expected to be inked by Iran and world powers imminently as talks in Vienna intensify.
Israel has a “moral duty” to do everything in its power to bring an end to the human suffering in Ukraine, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday after returning to Israel from a flash trip to Moscow and Berlin. His travels involved meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Ex-soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Golani brigade have joined the fight against Russia alongside the Ukrainian army, Hebrew-language media reported Wednesday.
The United Arab Emirate’s decision to abstain from a U.S.-led resolution at the UN Security Council condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the result of frustrations over the U.S.’ response to a recent attack on Abu Dhabi weeks earlier, the Axios website reported citing Emirati, U.S. and Israeli sources.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called on fellow Jews around the world to speak out against the Russian “erasure” of his country.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemned a Russian missile attack that on Tuesday struck the Babi Yar memorial site in the heart of Kyiv marking the place tens of thousands of Jews were massacred during the Holocaust, but made no mention of Russia was made.
Before becoming president of a war-torn country and the unwitting hero of most of the west, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a pianist extraordinaire. So extraordinaire, in fact, he was able to play Israeli folk tunes using only his penis.
More than 5,000 Ukrainians have requested Israel allow them to immediately immigrate amid the ongoing invasion of their country by Russia, the Jewish Agency said Monday.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said Israel should be more cautious about its attitude to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and instead put its focus on the Iran nuclear deal, which was more of an “existential security threat.”
Israel will co-sponsor a U.S. and Albanian United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request to provide military assistance to the embattled eastern European nation, Israeli media reported Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett offered to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine during a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, a statement from the Kremlin said.
In its first statement on the Russia-Ukraine standoff, Israel’s Foreign Ministry expressed concern Wednesday over the “serious escalation” and supported Ukraine’s sovereign rights, but stopped short of blaming Moscow.
Israel ranks sixth in the world in terms of grocery costs, according to a study by money.co.uk which compared food supply costs in 36 countries around the world.
Israel on Monday appointed an Arab Muslim to serve as in the country’s highest court as one of four new Supreme Court justices.
Israel announced this week unvaccinated tourists will be allowed entry from March 1, as the country begins rolling back most coronavirus restrictions.
The executive director of Amnesty International’s Israel branch came out against the human rights organization’s recent report accusing Israel of apartheid, saying it was doing more harm than good.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday that Israel was making preparations for the day after the “weaker and shorter” nuclear agreement with Iran is signed.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman’s new memoir has sold more books in its first week than any other book on Israel in the last decade, its publisher said on Thursday.
Australia on Thursday announced it will designate Hamas as a terror group in its entirety, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to praise the country for “standing strong in the face of terror.”
The establishment of the State of Israel is the greatest accomplishment of the 20th century, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told reporters at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Wednesday.
A Jewish couple in Israel who celebrated their 91st anniversary told the BBC they were still in love.
Israelis staged their own Canada-style “Freedom Convoy” demonstration against coronavirus restrictions on Monday, with thousands of cars converging onto the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in the capital of Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday flew to Bahrain in what would be the the first-ever official visit by an Israeli leader to the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday called on Israeli citizens in Ukraine to “come home” while there was still time, amid fears of a Russian invasion.
Violence broke out between Israelis and Palestinians in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Sunday after an Israeli lawmaker reopened a makeshift “office” at the site in protest over a firebombing of a Jewish home. The move prompted the Hamas terror group to warn “Palestine would burn over Jerusalem.”
The leader of the Arab Islamist Ra’am party in the Israeli government, Mansour Abbas, denied Israel was an “apartheid state,” adding Jews are Arabs were “creating miracles” by ruling side by side in a coalition for the first time in Israel’s history.
The United Nations covered up the murder of two aid workers by the Assad regime in Syria in 2016, the Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday.
The Biden administration’s nominee for antisemitism envoy, Deborah Lipstadt, slammed Israel’s characterization as an apartheid state, saying it was a danger to Jews everywhere and part of a campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned this week that a new nuclear deal with Iran would enact a “heavy price” on the region and would “damage the ability to deal with the nuclear program.” “The greatest threat against the State of
Three armed Palestinian terrorists were killed in a rain of bullets by Israeli forces Tuesday in a rare daytime operation in the West Bank, in what the Palestinian Authority referred to as a “horrific crime.”
A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor who was seriously wounded when a rocket fired from the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip hit her home in southern Israel last year died this week.
Israel aided the U.S. in eliminating the Islamic State terror leader leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi last week, Israeli media reported.
