Topic: Israel-Hungary relations

December 22, 2015
9:35 pm

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó speaking at the Israel Council of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, November 16, 2015 (Andres Lacko)

Hungary: Labeling of settlement goods is counterproductive

Initiative ‘merely substitutes real actions,’ weakens EU’s position in peace talks, Budapest foreign ministry tells Times of Israel

By Raphael Ahren

November 29, 2015
11:48 pm

Palestinian workers on November 11, 2015, at a date packaging factory in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. This produce will be labeled if exported to the EU as 'Product of the West Bank (Israeli settlement' (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

The battle over EU settlement labeling has just begun

The union’s guidelines are mandatory for all member states, but it’s not all black and white, and Israel can yet try to soften the blow

By Raphael Ahren

November 16, 2015
6:16 pm

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó speaking at the Israel Council of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, November 16, 2015 (Andres Lacko)

In Israel, Hungary’s FM says his country opposes settlement labels

In first public defiance of Brussels’ guidelines, Péter Szijjártó calls EU initiative ‘irrational,’ harmful to peace efforts

By Raphael Ahren

May 27, 2015
10:49 pm

Budapest's parliament building (Wikipedia/AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 2.5)

Hungarian held for calling Israeli envoy ‘dirty Jew’

Suspect detained in Budapest after he reportedly shouts, ‘It’s a shame Hitler didn’t finish the job’

By JTA

September 12, 2014
11:56 pm

Thousands participate in march commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary in April. (photo credit: AFP/ATTILA KISBENEDEK)

Jewish leaders, Hungarian government meet for first time in a year

The sides suspended contacts over disagreements on rise of anti-Semitism, memorial statue commemorating Hungarian victims of World War II

By JTA

February 17, 2014
2:00 am

Thousands of people attend a protest called Mass Demonstration Against Nazism, in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Dec. 2 (photo credit: AP/MTI, Laszlo Beliczay)

Israeli official: Hungary not ready to face Holocaust role

Budapest’s ambassador tells media that foreign ministry said country was unwilling to confront past

By JTA

December 10, 2012
4:56 am

A model for Israeli designer label Frau Blau struts the runway on a Wizz Air flight from Tel Aviv to Budapest this week (photo credit: screenshot from Jewish News One)

Ministry sponsors mile-high runway

Israeli label Frau Blau provides the entertainment on Wizz Air’s first TLV to Budapest flight

By Times of Israel staff

July 17, 2012
3:36 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Hungarian President Janos Ader in Jerusalem on Tuesday (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Hungarian president assures Netanyahu of his opposition to anti-Semitism

Visit marks a warming of relations following strife over a memorial service for a Nazi sympathizer

By Stuart Winer