Posts Tagged: Israel foreign Ministry
Israeli Diplomats Call for a Worldwide Strike Over Budget Cuts
JNS.org - Dozens of Israel’s representatives around the world have threatened to close the country’s diplomatic missions due to a severe budget crisis at the...
Netanyahu Gives Up Role as Israel’s Foreign Minister
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday handed over his role as foreign minister to Intelligence and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, giving up the portfolio he has held...
Israel Foreign Ministry Warns: Check Bags for Loose Bullets Before Flying Abroad
JNS.org - Israel’s Foreign Ministry is warning Israeli travelers to be sure to leave all their bullets at home, following the detainment of an Israeli in...
Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem Warns That Syrian Chemical Weapons May Spillover Into Israel
JNS.org - A classified cable sent to Israeli ambassadors by Israel’s Foreign Ministry warned that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may again utilize chemical weapons in an...
Foreign Ministry Offers Support to Moroccan Journalists Facing Criticism for Israel Visit
Israel's Foreign Ministry celebrated on Sunday the arrival of a delegation of Moroccan journalists to Israel, even as they faced criticism for the trip in...
Israeli Foreign Ministry Evacuates Diplomats Ahead of Hurricane Irma’s Expected US Landfall
JNS.org - Israel’s Foreign Ministry issued a warning to Israelis residing in areas expected to be hit by Hurricane Irma, and evacuated its diplomats from the...
Female Israeli Muslim Diplomat to Serve in Turkey as Embassy’s First Secretary
JNS.org - Israel’s Foreign Ministry this week appointed its first female Muslim diplomat, 31-year-old Rasha Atamny, to serve in Turkey as the Israeli embassy’s first secretary. Atamny,...
Israel Summons EU Head Over ‘Obsessive’ Support of Illegal Palestinian Construction
The Foreign Ministry said it “summoned” the EU’s Deputy Head of Mission Mark Gallagher on Monday to demand the EU’s stop its “obsessive” support for...
Home Sweet Home: From Amona to Shiloh
Like Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, the legal saga of some fifty families in the Jewish outpost of Amona “drones on.” Founded...
Dore Gold Resigns From Top Israeli Foreign Ministry Position
JNS.org - Veteran Israeli diplomat Dore Gold announced Thursday that he is resigning from his post as the director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Israel Rejects US Condemnation of West Bank Settlement Policy
The Israeli government pushed back Thursday against the latest U.S. condemnation of its settlement enterprise as commentators called it another sign of fraying relations between...
Yad Vashem Holocaust Seminar Helps Rwandans Commemorate Genocide
JNS.org - The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and Israel's Foreign Ministry held a seminar on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, whose anniversary took...
Hungary Arrests 2 Suspects in Connection With Murder of Israeli
JNS.org - The body of a missing 40-year-old Israeli man was found in a forest in southern Hungary on Sunday. Ofir Gross, a Jerusalem native who...
Israel Donates Water-Purification Vehicle to Papua New Guinea
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs donated a mobile water purification system to the drought-stricken independent island of Papua New Guinea, Israel21c reported on Sunday. The GalMobile is a mobile water-treatment,...
