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Russia's embassy in Israel will open a branch office in Jerusalem as part of an agreement with the city, the embassy and an Israeli foreign ministry official said on Friday. The Russian embassy in ...
The Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union, Golda Meir, is surrounded by crowd of 50,000 Jews near Moscow Choral Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 1948. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Joseph Stalin reversed his long-standing opposition [citation needed] to Zionism and tried to mobilize worldwide Jewish support for the Soviet war effort.
In Africa, Ethiopia is Israel's main and closest ally in the continent, due to common political, religious and security interests. [262] However, relations were severed between the years 1973 and 1989. Many towns in Ethiopia are named after biblical Israel settlements, including Ethiopia's third largest city of Nazret . Israel also provides ...
Russia welcomed a ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday and said humanitarian pauses were the only way to make progress towards a settlement. Israel's government and ...
The Israel-Hamas war has forced Russia into a delicate balancing act, with Moscow urging a quick end to the fighting without apportioning blame. The careful stand is due to Russia's long ties to ...
Putin suggested that Russia could be a mediator in the conflict. [36] In December 2023, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia's goals of "demilitarization" and "denazification" in Ukraine were similar to Israel's stated goals of defeating Hamas and extremism in Gaza. [37] [38]
Israel, which has failed to negotiate a two-state resolution with the Palestinians, could seem poorly cast as a diplomatic powerhouse in efforts to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Russia condemned both the initial Hamas attack and Israel's response. [3] Russia maintained relations with both parties and presented itself as a potential mediator. [4] After the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, which initiated the war, Russia condemned the attack as "terrorism". [3]