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Another emerging de facto Israeli FM

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In a departure from Israel’s traditional foreign policy, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has been quietly cultivating relationships with far-right parties across Europe, many of which have shown support for Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas...

Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews

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This is a perilous time to be a Jew. The world responded to the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with a surge of antisemitism and sympathy for those who committed the...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán celebrating his election victory. April 3, 2022. Source: Fidesz/Facebook.

Orbán’s election victory highlights shift among Hungarian Jews

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In an unusual Hungarian election, whereby ideologically disparate opposition parties united to attempt to prevent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from serving his fourth consecutive term (and fifth total), the Hungarian people gave him the...
Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, answers questions at the press conference at the federal chancellery in Berlin. Credit: Photocosmos1/Shutterstock.

Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in a changing Europe

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According to most of the international media, democracy was defeated in this week’s Hungarian election. The victory of incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party over a multi-party opposition coalition of parties...

Hungary and anti-Semitism: A reply to columnist Ben Cohen

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I read Ben Cohen’s July 23 column on anti-Semitism in Hungary with great interest. Basically, I don’t consider Cohen’s article to be a bad one: as a Holocaust researcher and deputy editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest Jewish news...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis in Jerusalem on March 11, 2021. Photo by Alex Kolomoisky/POOL

Kosovo to open embassy in Jerusalem as Czech Republic institutes new office

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Kosovo is set to become the third country after the United States and Guatemala to open an embassy in Jerusalem. Israel Hayom has learned that senior diplomats from both countries will attend a ceremony in Jerusalem...
A view of the Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue, in Budapest, Hungary. It is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second-largest in the world. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

What is the real story behind Judaism in Hungary?

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The history of Europe and the Jewish people is one that has seen some of humanity’s most remarkable triumphs and darkest periods. Despite the Jewish population nearly being wiped out in the Holocaust, the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hold a joint press conference at the Parliament building in Budapest on July 18, 2017. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Is Netanyahu making deals with the devil?

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Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been severely criticized for cozying up to sundry dictators, autocrats or governments that downplay or deny their country’s role in the Holocaust. Among those he has either visited or...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with Czech President Milos Zeman in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90

The historic nature of Miloš Zeman’s speech in Jerusalem

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Shifts in perceptions among European Jews on where they feel safest is not due entirely to demographic change. It also has to do with Eastern European leaders like the Czech Republic’s Miloš Zeman, who,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in in Jerusalem on Sept. 17, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu praises Viktor Orban and Sebastian Kurz for their contribution to the fight against...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for their contribution to the fight against anti-Semitism. He was reacting to the results of a CNN poll...