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Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi meets with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Aug. 13, 2020. Credit: Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Greece, Israel sign deal to allow 600 Israelis to visit per week

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Israel and Greece agreed on Thursday to permit up to 600 Israelis a week to visit four Greek locations beginning next week. The agreement was announced by Israel’s Foreign Ministry following a meeting in Israel...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inside the Hagia Sophia. Source: Twitter.

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia opens as mosque with Erdoğan reciting first prayer

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan joined hundreds of Muslim worshippers in Istanbul on Friday for the first prayers from the Koran in nearly 90 years inside the Hagia Sophia, once one of Christianity’s most...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo (left), President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades (second from left), and former Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Greek Parliament ratifies defense agreement with Israel

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The Greek Parliament on Tuesday ratified an agreement with Israel for the supply of defense equipment and services between the two countries in a move widely seen as further strengthening ties between the two...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem. Photo: Haim Zach/GPO.

Greek premier visits Israel to discuss tourism, Turkish threat

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem to discuss tourism and cooperation in various areas, as well as the Turkish threat. “Turkey...
Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Credit: European People's Party via Wikimedia Commons.

Netanyahu holds virtual toast with Greek prime minister, marking 30 years of ties

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a virtual toast by video conference on Thursday from the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to mark 30 years since the establishment...
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Semitic vandalism strikes Jewish sites in France, Greece and Ukraine

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Anti-Jewish vandalism has struck France, Greece and Ukraine within the past week. About a dozen graves were vandalized in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area, in southwest France. The damage was sighted by...

Is Turkey trying to sabotage massive new Israel-Cyprus-Greece EastMed gas deal?

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Tensions are reaching a new high in the eastern Mediterranean region after the Turkey’s parliament approved a measure to deploy Turkish troops to Libya to support the U.N.-backed government there. The move by Turkey...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Credit: Flickr.

Greece endorses universal definition of anti-Semitism

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis endorsed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism on Friday. The IHRA definition says: “Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and...
At the Hall of Names in Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Greek rescuer Melpomeni Dina, 92, reunites with (left) Sarah Yanai, 86, one of the survivors she saved during the Holocaust, Nov. 3, 2019. Photo by Eliana Rudee.

Greek woman reunited with siblings she saved during Holocaust and their 40 descendants

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“There is no way to describe the acts of heroism and the danger they took upon themselves and all those around them to shelter an entire family,” said Sarah Yanai upon reuniting with the...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu, Pompeo meet with Cyprus president, Greek prime minister to talk energy

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on Wednesday to...