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Sunday, May 7, 2023
Envoy for Hungary’s Orban reportedly to visit Israel next week, will meet Netanyahu
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is dispatching an envoy to Israel next week for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials, the Walla news site reports.
The report, which cited two Israeli officials, said Gergely Gulyas — who heads the Hungarian prime minister’s office — will also give an address to the Israel Council on Foreign Relations during his stay.
Gulyas will be the first Hungarian official to visit Israel since the swearing-in of the new hardline government, with Netanyahu and Orban long having close ties.
Opponents of the government’s currently frozen plans to overhaul the judicial system have evoked efforts to weaken the judiciary in Hungary, which Orban has spoken of making an “illiberal democracy.”
The Times of Israel Community.