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Israel's peculiar state of affairs: Arab nations friendlier, Europe's relations fall - editorial

There is something deeply strange about an Israel increasingly able to discuss its future with Arab and Muslim states while European nations grow increasingly hostile.

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at Museumplein ahead of a 6 km march through the city as part of a protest demanding a tougher stance from the Dutch government against Israel's war in Gaza, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 5, 2025.
German and Israeli national flags

German business giants led by DHL chief visit Israel to strengthen economic ties

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 17, 2025

Ben-Gvir accuses Germany of 'once again supporting Nazism' as FM visits Israel

 GERMAN CHANCELLOR Olaf Scholz’s government sees itself attacked on two fronts because of weapons sales to Israel. Here, the chancellor meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv last October.

How committed is Germany to Israel's security? Only time will tell


German MP: Six million reasons for our unprecedented wartime support

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: “To be honest, Germany has six million reasons why we have to support a Jewish state. Full stop.”

 GERMAN CHANCELLOR Olaf Scholz cleans the 'stumbling blocks' for the couple Hans Goslar and Ruth Judith Goslar (née Klee) in Berlin in November.

Germany's Bundestag approves €560 million payment for Israel's Arrow-3

Though the deal is not yet final, this first payment is a major step forward.

Israel, US carry out successful test of Arrow-3 missile over Alaska

Reviving Iran deal will spark arms race, terror wave, Lapid tell Scholz

"It is time to move past the failed negotiations with Iran. They can not and will not achieve the goals we all share to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon," said Lapid.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, September 12, 2022.

First commercial medical cannabis export from Israel lands in Germany

Germany is home to the fastest-growing medical cannabis market outside the US.

Assi Rotbart, Chief Business Officer and Director at Panaxia, stands with Yuval Landschaft, the director of the Healthy Ministry's Medical Cannabis Unit alongside Israel's first commercial export of medical cannabis products to Germany.

German government funds new initiative to connect with Israeli startups

This is the first time that the German government, on the basis of an official decision by the Bundestag, will invest in the Israeli start-up ecosystem.

German and Israeli national flags

IAF lands in Germany for historic first joint drill

As part of the drill, the IAF will fly over Dachau Concentration Camp and over the Bavarian city of Fürstenfeldbruck, in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the 1972 Olympics.

The German and Israeli air forces participate in a historic exercise in August 2020

Germany’s annexation dilemma – and Israel’s non-answer

The view from Berlin is that they are about to get caught between two values, its alliance with Israel and the importance of the EU and international law, that they view as on the way to a collision.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2020

Should Israel trust Germany?

German Chancelor Angela Merkel shaking hands with President Reuven Rivlin, October 4, 2018

Israeli embassy slams German Social Democrats for hosting Iran antisemites

The social democrats, including German social democratic foreign minister Heiko Maas, have been under fire for mainstreaming Iranian regime antisemitism and Tehran's goal to destroy Israel.

AMBASSADOR JEREMY ISSACHAROFF

Germany’s parliament favors Merkel’s anti-Israel U.N. voting pattern

German Chancellor Angela Merkel