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


Netanyahu won’t attend Russian victory parade for 70th anniversary of World War II

Israel joins US, France and Germany in not attending important celebration for Russia; decision comes amid high tension with Moscow over sale of S-300 to Iran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russia's decision to sell S-300 to Iran makes military option less viable

Israel's diplomatic efforts to keep Russia from selling the air defense system to Iran have failed to keep Moscow from worrying about its own interests.

S-300 anti-aircraft missile system [file]

Ya'alon: Russia's S-300 deal with Iran is 'direct result of Lausanne agreement'

"We continue to warn about the bad agreement that is developing with Iran," defense minister says.

S-300 anti-aircraft missile system at a parade in Moscow

Car in Bat Yam allegedly defaced over Ukraine war

Alexey Ostapenko is involved with efforts to ship aid to Ukraine and believes that the presence of the logo of Azov militias shows the attack was nationalistically motivated.

Alexey Ostapenko's car, vandalized with  swastikas and the logo of the Ukrainian Azov battalion

Jewish woman killed in Ukraine; rocket hits near synagogue

Dovid Mondshine of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS has expressed interest in evacuating the Jewish community of Donetsk to the nearby Russian city of Rostov.

Jews pray in the synagogue in Donetsk

Letters: January 15, 2015

Lesovoy’s own story is a miracle; Only someone like him can give over the wonder and miracle of Israel to Russians, who can contribute so much of their talents and abilities to the State of Israel.

Letters

Duma official: Israel-Russian relations strong - if US doesn't intervene

Russian lawmaker makes comments after US questioned Israel's decision not to take a position on Ukraine crisis.

PM Netanyahu with Russian President Putin 370

Construction in capital of one of the nation’s largest business centers nears approval

Final approval of the project, estimated to cost the Treasury approximately NIS 1.2 billion, is expected in the coming days or weeks.

City construction

Ochi chornye - Black Eyes in New Jersey

Extraordinarily, it seems that we old-timer Israelis are more familiar with the melodies than the Russian speakers themselves.

Yoram Drori and his wife (far left), Yesh Atid MK Ronen Hoffman, singer Iryna Rosenfeld, philanthropist Matthew Bronfman, Chaim Chesler and (far right) Foreign Ministry senior official Gideon Meir and his wife.