Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

FM Sa’ar to depart for visit to three Baltic states

Israel’s top diplomat will be in Lithuania on Tuesday, Latvia on Wednesday and Estonia on Thursday.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar holds a press conference at the ministry in Jerusalem, May 22, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar holds a press conference at the ministry in Jerusalem, May 22, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar was scheduled to depart Monday night for a diplomatic visit to the three Baltic states—Lithuania on Tuesday, Latvia on Wednesday and Estonia on Thursday.

The foreign minister will meet with his counterparts and other senior officials, including the Estonian prime minister and defense minister, as well as the Latvian president.

Sa’ar is also set to visit the Holocaust memorial near the railway station at Ponary (now Paneriai), where approximately 100,000 people—most of them Jews—were murdered by German forces and their Lithuanian collaborators, the Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, between July 1941 and August 1944.

In addition, Sa’ar will hold meetings with members of the Jewish communities in all three countries.

At least 21 people, all noncombatants, have been killed in hundreds of Iranian ballistic missile attacks targeting civilians in the Jewish state.
Argentinian president denounces Iran on 34th anniversary of Israeli embassy bombing
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reported that Natufian hunter-gatherers produced 142 beads and pendants uncovered by archaeologists.
Bar-Ilan University researcher Anat Fanti: “Israel’s results reflect resilience, but not the psychological cost of war.”
Despite significant degradation, Israeli observers warn that Hezbollah retains the capability for localized cross-border raids.
“This could have been the greatest terrorist tragedy in America since 9/11,” Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, told JNS.