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President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas visited Serbia accompanied by Riyad al-Maliki in 2015 and opened the embassy of Palestine in Belgrade, in the presence of the President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolić. On that occasion, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the ministries of foreign affairs and was agreed to hold consultations on an ...
The Government of the Kingdom of Serbia, in exile at the time because of the German-Austrian occupation during the World War I, was the first government to officially endorse the Balfour Declaration, which announced the establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine. Serbian diplomat to the United States and Zionist leader David Albala ...
The history of the Jews in Serbia is some two thousand years old. The Jews first arrived in the region during Roman times. The Jewish communities of the Balkans remained small until the late 15th century, when Jews fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions found refuge in the Ottoman-ruled areas, including Serbia.
Diplomatic relations between Palestine and Serbia (then constituent part of Yugoslavia) were established in 1988 as Yugoslavia was one of the first countries to recognize the State of Palestine. Palestine has voiced support for Serbia's territorial integrity over the Kosovo issue while Serbia favors a two-state solution .
Israel–Kosovo relations refer to bilateral relations between Israel and Kosovo. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. Israel and Kosovo agreed on 4 September 2020, as part of negotiations for the Kosovo and Serbia Economic Normalization agreements , to mutually recognize each other. [ 1 ]
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
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Even though many Jews who spoke Arabic, identified as "Arab" and maintained intellectual networks in Cairo, Beirut, and Istanbul many of them were also supporters of Zionism and the Jewish colonization of Palestine. Jewish newspapers such as the HaHerut which dealt with Sephardic issues were Pro-Zionist and Pro-Ottoman and in many ways, similar ...