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One of the terrorists was from Gaza.
The Greek islands of Santorini and Amorgos have been rattled by earthquakes and tremors since Feb. 1, with the strongest being 5.3 on the Richter scale.
The 24-year-old Christian Arab from Nazareth was left hospitalized by the assault.
The underwater electric cable project (The Great Sea Interconnector) will connect the local electricity grid to the European grid through Cyprus and Greece.
“We are connecting Israel to Europe through Greece, diversifying Europe’s energy sources in the midst of the energy crisis and strengthening Israel’s position in the region.”
The announcement came during a trilateral summit held in Nicosia.
Israel is poised to finalize an energy deal with Greece and Cyprus which will include a mammoth electricity project connecting the power grids of the three countries, and a potential future regional natural gas pipeline between the eastern Mediterranean allies.
The EuroAsia Interconnector submarine power cable will link the countries' grids and provide Israel with a reliable way to export natural gas in the form of electric power.
Mayor Adams receives Combat Antisemitism Movement Civic Leadership Award in Greece.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Jewish community is an integral part of Greek identity, a fact that has been too often denied for centuries,” Greece’s Chief Rabbi Gabriel Negrin said at the exhibition’s inauguration ceremony. “This history should be passed on to future generations in order to combat ignorance and prejudice.”
By David Isaac
Prior to the war in Ukraine, energy issues were judged by a single yardstick: their environmental impact. What the West is coming to realize is that energy is also about national security and deterrence, said Aykan Erdemir, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Called the Eurasia Interconnector, it could replace plans for a pipeline connecting the three countries to transfer gas.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israelis across the country reported feeling the tremor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greece is experiencing its worst heatwave in more than 30 years and in the last 10 days, more than 56,000 hectares have been burnt in hundreds of fires.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The diplomats discussed opportunities for promoting regional projects in the fields of energy, tourism, and the fight against the Coronavirus, as well as the possibility of opening “Green Corridors” for travel in COVID-19 times between the countries and managing emergencies.
By Steve
Israel sent a Saar 4.5 class frigate and a submarine to the international exercise.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The “Minerva Helen” was not the source of the ecological disaster, says Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry after inspecting the vessel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Dead marine animals have been washing up on Israel’s beaches, including a 17-meter baby fin whale.
The $1.86 billion agreement, which will be signed between the defense ministries of the two countries.
By Israel 21C
For five years, IsraAID has been helping tens of thousands of Syrian, Iraqi and Afghani refugees in Lesbos. Last week, it burned down, leaving 12,000 people homeless.
Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin called the move “long overdue,” insisting that “Cyprus is a new hot spot. Cyprus is our ally. Those threatening Cyprus are not.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Athens and Ankara are holding naval exercises in the area amid an ongoing dispute over energy resources.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israelis can fly to Greece, Bulgaria and Croatia, but must be tested for COVID-19 before flying and remain in quarantine upon arrival until receiving the results.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israelis will reportedly be limited to four locations and will have to remain in quarantine until receiving the results of a pre-flight COVID-19 test.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Greece, Israel, and Cyprus have established an alliance to counter Turkey. Greece and Cyprus are historic adversaries of Turkey.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The agreement, reached with Cyprus, Greece and Italy, reportedly will see the 1,200-mile pipeline built by 2025.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the agreement, Israel and Cyprus will jointly export gas through Greece and Italy to the rest of Europe • Netanyahu: “We have established an alliance in the Middle East of tremendous importance.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lebanon claims parts of Israel's gas fields are in Lebanon's exclusive economic zone.
By JNi.Media
The earring will be on display for the general public at the City of David's annual archeological conference. “Whoever wore it belonged to Jerusalem's upper class.”
This was only a small earthquake.
By JNi.Media
"Our ability to take all our units and fly a great distance, perform a task and return, is substantial."
"Cyprus, Greece and Israel defend in this volatile and fragile region not just common interests, but also the interests of Europe."
By JNi.Media
Israel, Cyprus and Greece are three democratic countries in a "challenging and complex region."
By JNi.Media
Greek energy company in negotiations for natural gas deal with Israel Chemicals, OPC Energy and Oil Refineries Ltd.
By JNi.Media
Never mind historical and theological inaccuracies, PM Netanyahu is all about the future, and business.
By JNi.Media
IAF chief of international affairs Lt. Col. Richard Hecht brags that 'everybody wants to engage and cooperate with the IAF. It’s a privilege.'
The Greek royal family had been well acquainted with the family of Haimaki Cohen, a Jewish former member of Parliament, from northern Greece.
An earthquake near Crete was felt in parts of Israel.
By JNi.Media
In August 2016 two Be-200s were sent to Portugal to help in extinguishing forest fires. Four days later it was reported that the fire was prevented from spreading in the direction of two settlements and a national park.
The UK-based Jewish relief organization has helped thousands of refugees in Greece and Turkey, including thousands of children, over the past year.
By JNi.Media
Among the many artifacts is a hand grenade that was common in Israel during the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods.
Mahmoud Abbas proclaims the 'Palestinian Authority' no longer exists -- it has officially been replaced by the "State of Palestine."
Netanyahu invited Prince Charles, who visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar in February, when they met at the Paris climate conference.
The annual conference features 22 legislators from 18 countries and will attack the BDS movement.
By JNi.Media
Kammenos was accused of making fun of EU supporters last June, posting a photoshopped image of the gate of Auschwitz.
The Greek Coast Guard may have prevented massive terrorist attacks in Libya Tuesday with the seizure of a vessel carrying explosives and weapons suspected of being linked with the Islamic State (ISIS). Greek media reported. Authorities said more information would be released later. Initial suspicions are the that the cargo was being shipped to Libya […]
Approximately 70,000 passengers on 430 flights will have passed through Ben Gurion Airport by the end of Thursday, making it the busiest day of the year so far. Tourism is up by approximately 7 percent, and 1.7 million passengers are expected to arrive and depart at the airport next month. Israel suffered a sharp decline […]
He wants to show everything is "business as usual," which everyone knows is not.
Pro-Arab activists are warning that they will charge the IDF with a war crime if it stops the flotilla.
Greece is the only NATO member that has an S-300 system in service.
More than a dozen bullets were fired from two Kalashnikov rifles. No one was injured.
By JTA
Greek police officers are among those who support the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.
By JTA
Greece may be the cradle of democracy, but anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in the country
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The World Jewish Congress urged Germany to address a request by the Greek Jewish community of Thessaloniki to be paid back for a ransom it had surrendered to the Nazis when they occupied Greece during the Second World War. In 1942, the Greek Jewish community paid 1.9 billion drachmas (about $61 million in today's money) […]
Greece’s Ambassador to Israel Ambassador Spyridon Lampridis said Wednesday that the European Union is a friend of Israel and that Greece will make sure the EU does not boycott or isolate the country, despite differences of opinion. He told Israel radio that Greece will do everything it can to prevent a diplomatic fight between Israel […]
By JTA
The northern Greek city of Thessaloniki will build a Holocaust research center at the site where some 50,000 of the city’s Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. “This is the fulfilment of a historic responsibility for Thessaloniki,” city Mayor Yiannis Boutaris told reporters. The agreement to establish the Memorial Center on Holocaust Education Remembrance […]
By J. E. Dyer
Monday, November 11, Russia’s Slava-class missile cruiser Varyag pulled into Alexandria for the Russian navy’s first port visit in Egypt since 1992.
By JTA
A Greek court has ordered the head of the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party held in jail until his trial following six hours of testimony that ran through the night. Nikolaos Michaloliakos was arrested last week with several other lawmakers and senior Golden Dawn members on charges of forming a criminal organization, part of an unprecedented […]
A smoke detector warning in a bathroom forced an El Al airplane with 324 passengers on the New York-Tel Aviv route to land in Athens late Wednesday night, according to the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper. All of the crew and passengers are safe, and the airline placed them in hotel rooms before they could resume […]
By JTA
A report released by the Council of Europe says that Greece could legally ban the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party, but Greece has rejected the idea. The Council of Europe is based in Strasbourg, France and runs the European Court of Human Rights. The 32-page was issued Tuesday by the council’s human rights commissioner Nils Mutinies, […]
By JTA
A Greek soccer player has been banned for life from playing for the national team after giving the Nazi salute during a game. Giorgos Katidis, 20, who plays for the AEK Athens team, gave the salute after scoring the winning goal in a match on March 15, the same day Greek Jews marked the 70th […]
By JTA
Greece’s Jewish community has complained to authorities in Athens after a controversial entertainer used a symbol of an intertwined swastika and a Star of David to promote his night club shows. “The design depicted on the poster fiercely insults our very religion as well as the memory of the six million Jews, victims of the […]
Israel must respond to its Western neighbor's recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Greek police on Thursday said they had discovered hundreds of Jewish marble headstones destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II.
By Malcolm Lowe
After Greece's second parliamentary election this year (June 2012), there was a collective sigh of relief in Europe. The political parties that negotiated the bailouts of Greece in 2010 and 2011 had secured a majority in the new parliament and formed a government that was committed to avoiding a Greek default. Europe's political leaders could now hasten to damp down the next brush fire in the Eurozone, the crisis of the Spanish banks. What those political leaders overlooked was that the Greek political scene has undergone a revolution.
Should you sell out of your portfolio now?
If Obama and other world leaders want Merkel to keep propping up the euro with German taxpayers' money, they will have to share some of the burden. Soon, the world will have to come to the rescue of Europe, and help to bail out the eurozone. So until November, the euro's problems are Obama's problems, too.
Greece's neo-Nazi party Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn) won between 6.0 and 7.5% of the vote in Sunday’s elections, according to exit polls, European Jewish Press reports. Last month, Golden Dawn, riding a wave of anti-immigrant anger, received 6.97% of the vote, winning 21 seats in the 300-member Parliament. The head of Golden Dawn, Nikos Mihaloliakos, […]
Russia undoubtedly has strategic interests when offering financial support to debt-ridden Europe. Many will lose through the eurocrisis, but Russia will not be among them. So far, Brussels has not turned to Moscow for help -- yet. But if the situation deteriorates, that soon might be the case.
By J. E. Dyer
The holiday from history is over, although we may be the last ones to see it. Neither Russia nor Iran – nor China, North Korea, or Syria, for that matter – is very interested in signing anything with the West right now. Good deals based on the old assumptions aren’t as tempting when better ones seem to lie just over the horizon.
The extreme-left Greek Syriza party became the second biggest party in the country on May 6, surpassing the socialist Pasok party. Syriza has a party platform which includes "disengagement from NATO" and "termination of the military cooperation with Israel."
By JTA
Jewish reaction was mixed to the election of the Socialist Party’s Francois Hollande as the president of France while Jewish leaders in Greece expressed concern and disappointment after the fascist Golden Dawn party was poised to enter the Greek parliament for the first time.
By JTA
Jewish leaders in Greece expressed concern and disappointment after the fascist Golden Dawn party was poised to enter the Greek parliament for the first time. Speaking to a news conference on Sunday, Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos warned Greece's enemies – inside and outside the country – that they should be "very afraid." "We are […]
The drill, called "Noble Dina", will continue through April 5, and will also include the U.S. Sixth Fleet. It is aimed at simulating submarine combat, airborne dogfights, as well as coordinating the defense of offshore natural gas platforms.
AFP reports that Israel and Cyprus have signed an accord Sunday to lay an underwater electricity cable between the two countries. It's the first stage in an effort to transfer power between mainland Europe and Israel. The cable, to be complete by 2016, will stretch 178 miles, at a depth of 6,550 feet. Israel Electric […]
Ehud Barak and Dimitris Avramopoulos pledge to deepen bilateral ties.
July 3, 2026 
