Israeli Foreign Policy
“Jews and Ukrainians are united by more than a thousand-year history, and this history has a lot to teach us about the challenges we face today,” said president of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Boris Lozhkin, specifically noting anti-Semitism and the COVID-19 pandemic.
King Mohammed VI’s plan is expected to see the renovation of hundreds of synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish heritage sites across the kingdom.
“The Egyptians are mediators, the conveyor of messages. No one’s paying attention to what’s not happening. There has not been one incendiary balloon for a month. Sometimes, what doesn’t happen is a very important thing,” said Eran Lerman, vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
“The relationship between Greece, Cyprus and Israel now is so strong and so coordinated, it’s easy to forget that it hasn’t always been that way. And for a long time, the relationship was pretty contentious,” said Julie Fishman Rayman of the American Jewish Committee.
The tension has resurfaced despite attempts to resolve a crisis around a Polish restitution law limiting property claims by Holocaust survivors.
During his diplomatic visit to Egypt, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, in cooperation with the Israel Antiquities Authority, will hand over Egyptian archeological items seized in Israel.
“The most important achievement was becoming [my country’s] first resident ambassador to Israel,” says Job Daudi Masima.
The grant is “in keeping with Algeria’s revolutionary history,” says the country’s president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Cyprus is among the “positive forces” working together to secure the eastern Mediterranean, says Israel’s premier • Israel and Cyprus sign a science and technology agreement.
The leaders plan to discuss energy cooperation, strengthening tourism, and jointly dealing with climate change and the ongoing pandemic.
It will enable the Gulf state to send fuel to Gaza via Egypt; Hamas can then resell the fuel to cover its expenses.
