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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Russia’s displeasure with Israel simmers as Putin readies to visit for Yad Vashem event

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Russian President Vladimir Putin will leave his controlled environment in Moscow to enter a media firestorm when he alights from his plane in Israel this Thursday as he arrives for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at...

‘Historical Justice’ Restored in Irkutsk

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FJC’s Jewish community of Irkutsk, Russia came together for a moment of “historical justice” as the locals called it, at the opening of a monument on the Jewish part of a destroyed city cemetery...

Russia: New downloadable tourist guide to Jewish Kaliningrad

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If you get to Kaliningrad, Russia — formerly Königsberg, East Prussia — you can now follow a Jewish heritage itinerary in the city. Just a year ago, exactly 80 years after the grandiose New Synagogue...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. Photo by Kobi Gideon.

Moscow’s trouble with Israelis has a deeper meaning

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Israel has long had a complicated relationship with Russia. As an ally of some of the Jewish state’s fiercest enemies, such as Iran and Syria, Jerusalem interacts with Moscow carefully and purposefully, walking a...
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi prior to their bilateral meeting on May 21, 2017, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

US threatens Egypt with sanctions over possible Russian arms deal

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The United States has threatened Egypt with sanctions were the latter to acquire Russian warplanes. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki in...
Israeli and Russian leaders attend the cornerstone-laying ceremony in Jerusalem of the Memorial Candle Monument, dedicated to defenders and residents of Leningrad during the German siege on the city during WWII, Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Elisha Henkin.

Jerusalem hosts cornerstone ceremony for monument to heroes of Leningrad Seige

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The cornerstone of a monument commemorating the World War II Siege of Leningrad was laid in a ceremony in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Memorial Candle Monument is dedicated to the estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million...
Aleksey Burkov, a Russian IT specialist and alleged hacker wanted by the United States, arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Nov. 3, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s High Court stays extradition to US of suspected Russian hacker

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Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered a temporary postponement of the extradition to the United States of Russian IT specialist Aleksey Burkov, who the family of an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia...
Family, friends and supporters protest as they calling for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli woman imprisoned in Russia for drug offenses, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Oct. 19, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israel to extradite Russian hacker to US, ending hopes of prisoner exchange

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Israeli Justice Minister Amir Ohana on Wednesday signed the extradition order of Russian hacker Aleksey Burkov, who is wanted in the United States on suspicion of cyber crimes. Burkov’s extradition ends hopes of a prisoner...
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Kremlin.

Erdoğan, Putin reach ‘historic agreement’ on Syria ‘buffer zone’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Tuesday that Turkey and Russia had reached a “historic” agreement that would remove all Syrian Kurdish fighters from the Syria-Turkey border region. The announcement came following six...
U.S. President Donald Trump, June 20, 2019. Credit: White House Photo.

Trump on the Kurds in Syria: ‘They’re no angels’

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 U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria even as criticism points to the United States having betrayed its Kurdish allies in the region. In talking about...