Tag: Israel-Azerbaijani Relations
Israeli president cancels Azerbaijan visit after Erdoğan closes airspace
Israeli President Isaac Herzog canceled a scheduled visit to the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan refused to allow the Wing of Zion state plane to pass through...
Israel grain deal with Baku and Tashkent to ‘ensure food security’
Israel has signed a major grain deal with Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan to secure all of the country’s wheat needs at a time of disruptions in the global food supply amid the war in Ukraine,...
Jewish Cultural Center to be built in Azerbaijan
A Jewish Cultural Center will be constructed in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku near the city's main synagogue, Azerbaijani officials announced on Thursday.
The center will include Jewish and Bible classes, a Sunday School for...
Israel and Azerbaijan are ‘strategic partners,’ Baku says
Jerusalem and Baku have forged a “strategic partnership” with relations between the two nations at an all-time high and only expected to grow, a senior Azerbaijani presidential representative said Monday.
The remarks come four months...
Azerbaijan’s president hosts Israeli defense minister in Baku
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met on Thursday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku.
They discussed "various regional and global developments... avenues to further strengthen strategic ties and cooperate in the face of...
Azerbaijan’s relations with US, Israel, ‘not against’ anyone
Azerbaijan's alliances with Israel and the United States are about its national interests and vision, and are not designed to threaten anyone, the country's ambassador to Washington told JNS.
Khazar Ibrahim said on Monday that...
Azerbaijan embassy in Israel a ‘catalyst’ to ever-growing ties
The inauguration in March of Azerbaijan’s first-ever embassy in Israel marks the burgeoning of relations between the two countries just as Baku’s ties with Tehran hit rock bottom, according to Mukhtar Mammadov, Azerbaijan’s first...
Cohen heads to Turkmenistan to open Israeli embassy
Eli Cohen is set to become the first Israeli foreign minister to step foot in Turkmenistan in nearly three decades when he arrives in the Central Asian country’s capital Ashgabat on Wednesday night to open an...
Azerbaijan becomes first Shi’ite country to open embassy in Israel
Azerbaijan on Wednesday became the first Shi’ite Muslim country to open an embassy in Israel, with the two countries’ foreign ministers meeting in Jerusalem ahead of the inauguration ceremony.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen called the...
Azerbaijan’s new ambassador to Israel meets with senior US Jewish leader in Jerusalem
Azerbaijan’s ambassador-designate to Israel Mukhtar Mammadov met last week in Jerusalem with Malcolm Hoenlein, the vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.
At the meeting,...