Tag: South Korea
Israel-South Korea free trade agreement passes final hurdle
South Korea ratified its free trade agreement with Israel on Tuesday. It’s the first FTA that Israel has signed with an Asian country. The agreement goes into force on Dec. 1.
Israel exports about $1.5...
‘Nations don’t let nations go out of existence,’ she said
It was December 1983 and Yael Dayan—Labor Party Knesset member, novelist and daughter of legendary general and defense minister Moshe Dayan—had been booked into town as featured speaker for the Columbus Jewish Federation’s annual...
South Korea endorses IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
South Korea’s Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong told his Israeli counterpart, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, during a phone call this week that the East Asian nation has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working...
Israel and South Korea sign COVID-19 vaccine pact
Israel and South Korea signed a COVID-19 vaccine supply agreement on Tuesday, allowing for more effective use of present and future inventories for both countries.
Under the deal, Israel will transfer about 700,000 doses of...
Israel-South Korea free-trade agreement in final stages
Israel and South Korea are in the final stages of reaching a free-trade agreement in the next few weeks.
Israel’s business daily Globes reported on Tuesday that talks between Jerusalem and Seoul have been ongoing for a...
200 Israeli students quarantined after contact with coronavirus-infected South Koreans
At least 180 Israeli students have been put in isolation after coming in contact with a group of South Korean tourists who tested positive for Covid-19, the disease spread by the SARS-Cov-2 virus (aka...
Chabad of South Korea completing construction of first-ever mikvah
Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Seoul, South Korea, are completing the first-ever mikvah built in the country.
Jewish women seeking ritual-bath services have thus far had to travel quite a distance—to China or Japan—to use a mikvah for Taharat Hamishpachah, or family...
South Korea to buy Israeli radar systems to counter potential missile threats
South Korea announced that it is buying two Israeli-made radar systems to counter missile threats, despite warming ties with North Korea, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday.
Seoul is purchasing two Green Pine radar arrays made...
South Korean Ministry of Unification sees results of ‘aliyah’ up close in Israel
Nefesh B’Nefesh hosted a four-person delegation on Monday from the South Korean Ministry of Unification, the government office that is preparing to handle the possible future integration of North and South Korea.
To be prepared...
The Iran-North Korea nexus after the Singapore summit
The summit that took place in Singapore in June 2018 between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un likely had a significant impact on the Pyongyang-Tehran nexus. Given the depth of strategic cooperation...