Viktor Orban

EU leaders agree on joint borrowing to fund Ukraine, set aside plan to use Russian frozen assets

The leaders also gave the European Commission a mandate to continue work on a so-called reparations loan based on Russian immobilized assets, but that option proved unworkable for now.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with European Council President Antonio Costa as they attend a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2025.
 (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

 L to R: Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, Orban's senior advisor and Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Relations of Hungary Zoltan Kovacs.

Hungary denies report PM Viktor Orban plans to introduce presidential system

ISRAEL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Chair Yael Arad continues to strengthen Israel’s sporting ties worldwide.

Israel Int'l Olympic Committee member Arad heads to Hungary at request of Orban


Hungary opens ‘first European diplomatic mission in Jerusalem in decades’

Netanyahu thanks Orban for stand against antisemitism.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Hungarian Foreign Minister at the dedication ceremony of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in Jerusalem

Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovakia leaders to meet Netanyahu in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has forged ties with central European countries viewed as more sympathetic to Israel's struggle.

 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, and Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini

Senior source: 'Netanyahu got almost all he wanted from Pompeo'

"Israel had eight requests, and seven were granted," the source said. "The only issue that is still under discussion is the sale of aircraft to Croatia."

Benjamin Netanyahu and Mike Pompeo meet at UN Security Council, September 26, 2018

Viktor Orban reportedly sends letter defending Hungarian magazine accused of antisemitism

Orban also accused World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder of having a "left-wing and liberal bias" in Hungarian public affairs.

HUNGARY’S PRIME Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a Visegrad Group meeting in Brussels.

Which foreign leaders should Israel welcome?

One does not have to sympathize with Orban to welcome him. Neither does one have to like the illiberal character of his government.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Hungary's controversial right-wing, anti-immigrant prime minister, Viktor Orban who is visiting Israel

Hungary’s Viktor Orban fosters antisemitism

Hungarian antisemitism is the highest in Europe.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 8, 2018

Sometimes false friends are better than none

Why Israel’s government is under pressure to accept the support of far-right foreign leaders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Hungary's controversial right-wing, anti-immigrant prime minister, Viktor Orban who is visiting Israel

Hungary's Orbán and the Jewish nation-state law

Which team do you support – Team Merkon or Team Orbvini?

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

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits Western Wall

He is following in the footsteps of other important leaders who visited Judaism's holiest site before.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits the Western Wall as part of his trip to Israel

Rivlin to Orban: Neo-fascism is a danger not only to the Jewish people

As a Jewish and democratic state, Israel is responsible not only for her own citizens but for all the Jews in the world.

Hungarian Prime Minister visits Yad Vashem, July 19, 2018