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The Caucasus and Central Asia political map, 2000. Credit: CIA via Wikimedia Commons.
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and normalization
If Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were to sign the Abraham Accords and deepen cooperation with the United States, they could gain an edge over other countries in the region.
Ayoob Kara
June 8, 2025
The red carpet at the International Astana Action Film Festival in Kazakhstan, 2010. Photo by K. Zhestovskaya via Wikimedia Commons.
Kazakhstan textbooks offer positive portrayal of Judaism
The curricula in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan also present sympathetic views of Jews and their religion.
JNS Staff
April 10, 2025
President Isaac Herzog receives the diplomatic credentials of Japanese Ambassador to Israel Arai Yusuke, July 11, 2024. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.
Herzog receives credentials from five ambassadors
The new envoys to Israel are from Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Peru.
July 12, 2024
Israeli passengers at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport celebrate with Air Astana staff the inaugural direct flight between Israel and Kazakhstan on Sept. 7, 2023. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS.
Kazakhstan launches direct flights to Israel
The new flight between Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport and Almaty International Airport is scheduled to operate twice weekly.
Pesach Benson
Sept. 7, 2023
Spiritual leaders gather in Jerusalem, June 6, 2023. Photo by Alexander Khanin.
Religious leaders urge interfaith dialogue in Jerusalem
Kazakhstan leads conference promoting interreligious dialogue in the Holy Land.
Etgar Lefkovits
June 6, 2023
The VII Congress of Leaders of World And Traditional Religions in Astana, Kazakhstan in Sept. 2022. Credit: Courtesy.
Pope Francis, Israel’s chief rabbis discuss interfaith coexistence in Kazakhstan
Religious brotherhood is a prerequisite for “global international brotherhood,” the grand imam of al-Azhar said at the conference.
Sept. 22, 2022
The 2022 Kazakhstan protests. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Kazakhstan calm restored, but riots leave more questions than answers
“The bottom line is that Kazakhstan is a very problematic country. Why? Because basically, it’s a target of many important global players, including Russia, Turkey, the U.S. and China, not to mention Islamist groups. They all have interests there,” said Zvi Magen, a researcher at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies.
David Isaac
Jan. 14, 2022
A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet lands at Kubinka Air Base. Credit: Fasttailwind/Shutterstock.
Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan to hold naval drills in Caspian Sea
The activity is scheduled for early September; it would include small missile and artillery ships from Iran, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
Aug. 31, 2021
U.S. Chief of Protocol Cam Henderson assists U.S. President Donald Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the documents during the signing of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. Credit: Andrea Hanks/White House.
A Central Asia model for Israel and the Middle East
The demise of the Soviet Union mirrors the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War I and the development of separate independent states in the Mideast.
Ariel Ben Solomon
July 1, 2021