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Indonesia to normalize relations with Israel—report

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Israel is set to normalize relations with Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, Ynet reported on Thursday. The move comes after three months of secret talks between Jerusalem and Jakarta. In exchange for establishing diplomatic...
Professional soccer. Credit: Pixabay.

FIFA removes Indonesia, which banned Israel, as youth soccer tournament host

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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) removed Indonesia on Wednesday as host of the under-20 U-20 World Cup soccer tournament, previously slated to take place from May 20 to June 11 in Bali, Indonesia. It...
MK Avi Dichter, now minister of agriculture, and then-MK Nira Shpak attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, March 21, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Israel engaging four Muslim nations to expand Abraham Accords

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Israel is working to expand the Abraham Accords with four other nations, Israel Hayom learned this week.  Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is working to normalize ties with Mauritania, Somalia, Niger and Indonesia, sources said.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Israeli Knesset members Avi Dichter (Likud) and Nira Shpak (Yesh Atid) attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, March 21, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli Knesset members make first official visit to Indonesia

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Israeli Knesset members Avi Dichter and Nira Shpak were in Indonesia on Monday to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. This is the first time Israeli MKs have visited the country, with which Israel has...
Shaar HaShamayim Synagogue in Indonesia. Source: Google Maps screenshot.

First permanent Holocaust exhibit comes to Muslim-majority Indonesia

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In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem opened the first permanent exhibition in Indonesia about the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II, reported Ynet. It is one of Yad Vashem’s “Ready2Print” exhibitions aimed at...
A skyline view of Jakarta, Indonesia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/yohanes budiyanto.

Indonesia could get billions in additional US financing if it normalizes ties with Israel

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Indonesia could get billions in additional U.S. financing if it normalizes ties with Israel, according to a U.S. official. Adam Boehler, CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), told Bloomberg on Monday that the government agency,...
Rescue workers sort through debris in the aftermath of a tsunami that struck Indonesia on Dec. 22, 2018. Credit: Screenshot.

American Jewish group sends aid to Indonesia, stricken by yet another tsunami

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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced that it is providing assistance to Indonesia following a tsunami on Saturday killed at least 373 people with hundreds injured and at least 24 missing. The JDC said that it would...
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo examines the destroyed Balaroa residential area in Palu following the Sept. 28, 2018 earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Credit: Presidential Staff of Indonesia/Wikimedia Commons.

Israel sends emergency aid to an Indonesia grappling in wake of earthquake, tsunami

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Despite the fact that Indonesia refuses to conduct diplomatic relations with Israel, the Jewish state has sent water purifiers to the earthquake and tsunami-devastated country, and is preparing a delegation of aid workers to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Yahya Cholil Staquf, secretary general of the 60-million member Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, at his office in Jerusalem. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu gets impromptu visit from head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got an impromptu meeting with the leader of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization. Yahya Cholil Staquf, secretary general of the 60-million member Nahdlatul Ulama, visited with Netanyahu at his office in...