Eastern Europe
“This is not just a meeting of friends, but it is, of course, to strengthen relations with each of these countries,” says Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In honor of the 70th anniversary of Israel’s first diplomatic mission, Israel’s ambassador to Poland re-enacted the moment when the flag of Israel flew for the first time in Warsaw.
Vilnius had been known for centuries as the “Jerusalem of the North” for its importance to Jewish thought and politics. Each year, the September anniversary is commemorated with readings of the names of Jews killed by Nazis or Lithuanian partisans or deported to concentration camps.
The latest immigrants succeed 740 others across 19 flights from eight countries who arrived in the Jewish state earlier this summer.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and wife, Sara, visited the only synagogue in Vilnius to survive World War II and viewed ancient texts at the National Library’s Jewish Studies Center.
Critics warn that a law barring public access to archive materials on individuals aged 100 and over will silence research into Croatian government’s wartime collaboration with Nazis.
Czech Member of the European Parliament Tomas Zdechovsky: “The fact that Israel is the focus of nearly half of the Human Rights Council’s condemnatory resolutions is absurd.’'
The ESJF was founded in 2015 to protect Jewish burial sites in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in places where Jewish communities were wiped out during the Holocaust. So far, it has placed fences around 102 Jewish cemeteries in six European countries and conducted mass field surveys of sites.
The excellent bilateral relations between Bulgaria and Israel could be deepened and developed in a number of sectors, including technology.
Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named as the honorary consul.
From the potential move of its embassy to Jerusalem and an uptick in economic ties to a shared history of belligerent neighbors, the Czech Republic is becoming closer to Israel at a time when allies in Western Europe are moving away.
“It isn’t popular, but I think that it’s the right thing,” said Miloš Zeman, president of the Czech Republic. “In any event, allow me to finish with one sentence: ‘Next year in Jerusalem!’ ”
