Israel and Russia

Under Ukraine pressure, Israel blocks suspect Russian grain ship

"The Russian supplier of the cargo will have to find an alternative destination to unload it," read a statement issued by Israel’s Grain Importers Association.

View of the Haifa port in the Northern Israeli city of Haifa, November 17, 2024.
THE RUSSIAN Navy’s landing ship ‘Caesar Kunikov’ sails in the Bosphorus near Istanbul earlier this month on its way to the Mediterranean Sea.

Ukraine seeks answers from Israel after Russian shadow fleet ship docks in Haifa

Grain field

Israeli vessel breaks through Moscow’s Black Sea grain blockade - report

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Did Israel warn Russia against judicial reform interference? - analysis


Edelstein hopes to 'close gaps' with Russia on defense issues

Edelstein called the meetings "very serious" and that a lot was learned.

Yuli Edelstein

WATCH: Russian Ambassador to Israel - Hamas, Hezbollah not terrorists at all

Russia envoy: Hamas, Hezbollah are "radical organizations which sometimes adhere to extremist political views."

ALEXANDER SHEIN

The great embassy race: US and Russia elbowing each other, eyeing Jerusalem

Russia already owns a substantial amount of property in Jerusalem’s Russian Compound that could house an embassy.

A panorama of early 20th-century Jerusalem, showing the city walls, the Dome of the Rock and the Aksa Mosque

Analysis: How worried are Israel’s leaders about Putin’s Syrian warning?

Judging from statements by Israeli leaders and military commanders over the past two days, it seems they are not seriously worried.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, March 9, 2017

Une visite en forme de signal d’alarme

Israël a alerté la Russie sur les possibles implications d’une présence permanente de l’Iran en Syri

Un entretien entre Benyamin Netanyahou et Vladimir Poutine

Russia summons Israeli envoy over Syria air strike

Netanyahu: IAF acted to stop weapons transfer to Hezbollah

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Israel Navy official: Russia is here to stay in the region

Israel Navy Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Dror Friedman tells Army Radio that the Russians appear to be setting down roots in the region.

An image grab taken from a video footage made available on the Russian Defence Ministry's official website on November 15, 2016, reportedly shows a jet taking off from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast during a strike against Islamic State (IS)

Senior Russian lawmaker: Jews still seeking to destroy our churches

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, one of the largest Jewish groups in the country, deemed Tolstoy’s statements antisemitic.

Russian servicemen, dressed in historical uniforms, take part in a military parade rehearsal in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in central Moscow

Toward a Pax Russica in Syria?

The US is the odd man out as Moscow works with Tehran and Ankara to map out Syria’s future.

FOREIGN MINISTERS Sergei Lavrov of Russia (center) Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey (right) and Mohammad Zarif of Iran issued a declaration Tuesday on bringing an end to the Syrian civil war.

Israel's envoy to Ankara received letter from Russian ambassador day after assassination

Karlov was one of the first to respond to a letter Israel's ambassador to Turkey sent to colleagues, and apparently it was one of his last official acts before being killed.

Flowers are placed near a portrait of murdered Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov