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Police officers stand guard as pro-Palestinian demonstrators stage a demonstration against the arrival of Israeli cruise passengers in Heraklion Port, on the island of Crete, on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Costas METAXAKIS / AFP)
June 7, 2026, 1:54 pm
Greece arrests suspected Hamas operative said planning terror attack on Israeli cruise ship
Gaza man, granted asylum in Greece, was reportedly planning to target Israeli vessel due in Crete on Tuesday; material to make bombs said found in his home
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A dust storm as seen from the Tel Aviv suburb of Givatayim, April 2, 2026. (Michael Horovitz/The Times of Israel)
April 2, 2026, 4:42 pm
Dust storm turns Israel’s skies gray on Passover, drives up pollution
Environmental Protection Ministry warns sensitive populations to reduce physical activity
By Michael Horovitz and Reuters
A screenshot from a 2019 Forbes profile of Tal Dilian, founder of the Intellexa Consortium, sanctioned by the US. (Screenshot/Forbes)
March 25, 2026, 8:22 pm
Israeli spyware maker to appeal conviction in Greece’s Predator case
Intellexa founder Tal Dilian says he won’t be a scapegoat in scandal, in which he was handed an eight-year prison sentence for surveillance of politicians and journalists
By Reuters
A repatriated dog after arriving at Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos on March 18, 2026, after being evacuated from Abu Dhabi amid the escalating US-Israeli conflict with Iran. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
March 19, 2026, 8:39 pm
Special Greek flight airlifts pets and their owners from war-hit Mideast
Passengers arriving in Athens from Abu Dhabi say it was hard to find a flight that would accept their canine and feline companions; one says her cat dealt with war better than her
By SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC and Elena Becatoros
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) visits the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, deployed to the Mediterranean following Iranian drone strikes on Cyprus on the Mediterranean Sea, on March 9, 2026, on the sidelines of his trip to Cyprus to discuss regional security. (Gonzalo Fuentes / POOL / AFP)
March 9, 2026, 8:20 pm
Macron says France, allies preparing ‘defensive’ mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz
French, Greek, and Cypriot leaders announce mission to protect maritime traffic, reopen strait when conflict’s ‘hottest phase’ is over; Dutch send a frigate at Paris’s request
By Agencies
The Greek frigate Kimon enters the port of Limassol as the Akrotiri air base is seen in the background, Cyprus, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
March 5, 2026, 1:08 pm
Italy, Spain, France and others send naval vessels to protect Cyprus after Iranian strike
UK and Greece have also announced deployment of sea and air resources to island nation after drone attack on British airbase; UK’s defense secretary arrives in Cyprus
By Agencies
A pair of finials, which adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll, are among the artifacts being returned to Greece. (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
March 4, 2026, 11:19 pm
Poland, in a first, returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece that were stolen by Nazis
Judaica was plundered from once-thriving Jewish community of Thessaloniki in 1941; found in Poland after the war, it was kept for decades in Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute
By Shira Li Bartov
A protester shouts slogans in a megaphone during an antifascist demonstration outside of the Greek court of appeal during the trial of far-right party Golden Dawn, March 4, 2026. (Aggelos NAKKAS / AFP)
March 4, 2026, 7:39 pm
Greek court upholds convictions in neo-Nazi party trial
Judges confirm group functioned as criminal organization behind violent assaults, 2013 murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas; sentencing still to come
By John Hadoulis
Supporters of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party at a rally in Athens, February 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
March 4, 2026, 9:08 am
Greek court to sentence over 40 neo-Nazi party members for crimes during economic crisis
Appeal court to rule on convictions including anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas’s murder in 2013, savage beating of Egyptian fishermen; prosecutor: Group a ‘true child of Nazi ideology’
By AFP
A screenshot from a 2019 Forbes profile of Tal Dilian, founder of the Intellexa Consortium, sanctioned by the US. (Screenshot/Forbes)
February 26, 2026, 1:46 pm
Israeli spyware maker sentenced to 8 years in Greece’s Predator case
Greek court convicts 4, including Intellexa founder Tal Dilian, over surveillance of politicians and journalists in ‘Greek Watergate’
By AFP and ToI Staff
A man walks through a memorial site at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in the Kaisariani suburb of Athens, February 16, 2026, where 200 Greek communist political prisoners were executed by Nazi forces on May 1, 1944. (AP/Petros Giannakouris)
February 18, 2026, 8:30 pm
Greece to claim possession of Nazi atrocity photos found on eBay, minister says
Culture minister says an ‘entire collection’ of photos apparently taken by a Nazi serving in Greece has been declared a national monument ‘due to its particular historical value’
By AFP
Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 4, 2026, 2:03 pm
Delays expected at Ben Gurion Airport after Greece shuts its airports over radio issue
Israel Airports Authority says airlines working ‘to find alternate routes’ after Greek aviation shutdown, expected to last at least until 4 p.m., empties country’s airspace
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Lightning illuminates the sky over the Upper Galilee during a rain storm on November 13, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
December 9, 2025, 1:16 am
Storm Byron bears down on Israel as torrent expected to hit in force Wednesday
After battering Greece and Cyprus, Byron brings with it severe warnings from Israel’s weather service, with forecasted downpours expected to cause widespread flooding
By ToI Staff
This undated handout image from Elbit Systems shows a PULS artillery rocket-launcher system. (Elbit Systems)
November 14, 2025, 4:21 pm
Greece in talks to buy anti-aircraft, artillery systems from Israel
Athens to create ‘Achilles Shield’ multi-layered air defense system, wants to purchase weaponry from Israel for $750 million
By Lefteris Papadimas
Saint Catherine's Monastery in southern Sinai, in Egypt. (CC, BY-SA, Berthold Werner/Wikimedia)
October 16, 2025, 9:42 pm
Greece, Egypt agree on future of monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Greek PM says
Agreement comes after Athens expressed concern about plans by Egypt to develop a tourism project around the site, where, by Biblical tradition, Moses received the Torah
By Agencies
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