Viktor Orban

Hungary reverses decision to leave ICC, Magyar announces

This decision comes a month after Magyar stated that if Hungary remains an ICC member and a person wanted by the court enters its territory, “that person must be taken into custody.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar speaks during a press conference with Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker (not pictured) in Vienna, Austria, May 21, 2026.
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks alongside former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in Budapest last year. Orban transformed Hungary into a quasi-autocracy, while Netanyahu has not achieved the same in Israel, the writer says.

Are new Knesset proposals pushing Israel toward Hungary-style governance? - opinion

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar and new members of government.

Hungary PM Magyar gives veto power to key ministers in his cabinet following new EU sanctions

PETER MAGYAR, leader of the opposition Tisza Party, speaks during a press conference a day after the parliamentary election, in which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat, Budapest, Hungary, April 13, 2026.

The end of an era: Why the Orban-Netanyahu axis collapsed - opinion


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

Orban: Antisemitism rising in western Europe, declining in eastern Europe

The Hungarian leader said Budapest has ‘zero tolerance’ to antisemitism, and that Jews in Hungary live in security.

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

Analysis: Putting the Western Wall on the itinerary for world leaders

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be the latest leader to officially put the Western Wall on his itinerary on Friday.

The Western Wall in Jerusalem

Friend or foe?

Israel needs to watch out for itself and continue to engage with countries and leaders who can help in implementing its goal.

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

Viktor Orban, Hungary's controversial prime minister, set to begin Israel trip

Orban, reelected easily to a third term in April, is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, as well as President Reuven Rivlin.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during Hungary's National Day celebrations in Budapest

Analysis: When realpolitik crosses the line

So where should the line be drawn? For the one and only Jewish state, antisemitism is a good place to start taking a strong stand, as is the Holocaust.

THE PERIMETER fence of Auschwitz II-Birkenau is enveloped in a thick evening fog during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, near Oswiecim, Poland, January 2018

Controversial Hungarian prime minister Orban to visit Israel in July

The visit will take place from July 18-20, a year after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Budapest.

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

George Soros foundations' office to pull out of Hungary

"The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain."

George Soros.