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Hungarian Jewish community extend olive branch to Magyar, including Orban allies

Magyar said on Sunday that he would aim for a "pragmatic relationship" with Israel, but would not provide a blanket block of the European Union's decisions regarding Israel.

Election winner Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition Tisza Party looks on, on the day of a meeting with Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok after the parliamentary election, at Sandor Palace in Budapest, Hungary, April 15, 2026.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts onstage as people applaud after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026.

Viktor Orban will always be the man who kept Hungary’s Jews safe - opinion

 (L to R): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu andHungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban (illustration).

Hungary: How politics and familiarity can make culture more open to Jews - interview

Rabbi Shmuel Raskin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Budapest becomes unexpected haven for Israelis as post–Oct. 7 migration surges


Middle Israel: Two questions for George Soros

Middle Israel: Who will fight antisemitism if not the Jewish state?

Hungarian government poster portraying financier George Soros and saying "Don't let George Soros have the last laugh" is seen at a tram stop in Budapest, Hungary

Hungarian Jews ask PM Orban to end 'bad dream' of antisemitism

Some Soros billboards, which are part of Orban's campaign against migration and foreign influence, have been defaced with the words "stinking Jew" in magic marker.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech during the 14th Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress in Budapest May 5, 2013

The Jewish queens of chess

The story of Hungary’s famed Polgár sisters gains a new lease on life in an Israeli documentary.

Laszló Polgár watches as his daughters Zsuzsa (left) and Zsófia play chess at the family’s Budapest home in the early 1980s

Hungary’s controversial $22 mil. Holocaust museum enters year 3 of disuse

The museum director has said Nazism was no worse than Soviet communism.

The controversial Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Hungary.

A whole new Jew: The antisemite who turned out to be one of the Jews he despised

Csanád Szegedi was a far-right politician, who trivialized the Holocaust and blamed Jews for the wrongs of the world – before finding out that he was one himself.

Former far-right politician Csanád Szegedi at prayer with Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, head of Chabad’s mission in Budapest

Books: Worlds turned upside down

Novelist Joseph Kertes draws from his own life to paint a vivid picture of two young Jewish brothers fleeing Hungary after the failed revolution.

A Jewish family on the run in the ’50s heads from Hungary to Vienna, Paris, then finally Canada

Hungary's Jobbik gets double rebuff for Hannukah greetings to Jews

The Jewish community has been growing in recent years, especially in Budapest, but is worried by resurgent anti-Semitism.

 A member of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party, delivers a speech to hundreds of far-right supporters during a rally against the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Budapest May 4, 2013.

Jewish-born Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at age 99

Although she eventually became a practicing Roman Catholic, the Hungarian-American actress was born to Jewish parents.

Zsa Zsa Gabor ‏

Suspected neo-Nazis vandalize Holocaust memorial in Hungary

Budapest's 'Living Memorial' was reportedly desecrated a few weeks after an article threatening to destroy the site was published on a neo-Nazi website.

The controversial Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Hungary.

Hungary's Tokaj wine region revives Jewish heritage

From the village of Mád, around 250 Jews were deported. Their properties and vineyards on a plain of volcanic soil near the Carpathian mountains were mostly confiscated.

 Three rabbis, the sons and grandson of a leading Hasidic rabbi Eliezer Ehrenreich walk in the cemetery in the village of Mad, Hungary, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016