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FILE: Anti-Israel protesters and BDS activists hold Palestinian flags and a banner reading 'Country of apartheid ... Israel,' during a demonstration prior to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, May 17, 2025. (SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)
November 18, 2025, 6:33 pm
Eurovision host Austria says it’s ‘time for diplomacy’ to ensure Israel’s inclusion
Austrian broadcaster has carried out ‘intense work’ to convince other countries to participate in song contest, ahead of meeting next month to take up calls for Israel’s expulsion
By AFP
People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, May 17, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)
November 12, 2025, 3:24 pm
As Eurovision decision looms, host Austria lobbies for Israel to remain in contest
After scrapping vote on issue, EBU declines to say how decision will be made; Israel nevertheless marches ahead with finding next year’s representative to song competition
By Amy Spiro
State Secretary to the Minister for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria Sepp Schellhorn addresses a speech as he attends the 14th edition of the Art History festival in Fontainebleau near Paris, on June 6, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
September 19, 2025, 9:31 pm
Eurovision boycotts ‘dumb and pointless,’ says senior official from 2026 host Austria
Austrian official says foreign minister will send letters to European counterparts to discourage them from withdrawing from song contest over Israel’s participation
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A man holds a smartphone showing the app for ride-sharing service Uber in London, on March 17, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)
August 19, 2025, 12:28 pm
Jewish family assaulted and called ‘child killers’ by Vienna Uber driver
Driver said to have been immediately suspended; community leader demands ‘decisive action,’ warning that otherwise ‘soon there will be no place left for Jews in Europe’
By ToI Staff
Palestinians sit in a vehicle loaded with sacks of humanitarian aid outside the distribution center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 3, 2024. (AFP)
May 18, 2024, 3:14 pm
Austria says will resume funding to UNRWA, but ‘a lot of trust has been squandered’
Vienna says it analyzed refugee agency’s action plan after Israeli allegations of employees’ involvement on Oct. 7; says some cash will go ‘to improve internal control mechanisms’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians queue to receive aid in front of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024 (Photo by AFP)
January 29, 2024, 12:16 pm
Austria joins countries freezing funds to UNRWA over Oct. 7 accusations
Vienna contributed $8 million to UN agency for Palestinian refugees in 2022; halt in funding comes day after report reveals details of allegations against employees
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People wave Israeli flags during a demonstration against antisemitism and to show solidarity with Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 25, 2023, 8:28 pm
Germany looks to bar antisemites from gaining citizenship amid spike in incidents
Meeting Israel’s envoy, German interior minister says new bill excludes those who have committed anti-Jewish acts from gaining nationality, adds Hamas supporters to be tried
By ToI Staff
Yasser Arafat, left, Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky, and former West German chancellor Willy Brandt at a press conference after three days of talks on the Middle East situation in Vienna, July 11, 1979. (AP Photo)
April 13, 2023, 4:52 am
How Austria’s Jewish chancellor helped country evade responsibility for Nazi past
A new book by Israeli diplomat Daniel Aschheim examines Bruno Kreisky, Austria’s longest-serving leader, and his ambivalent relationship with his own Judaism and the Jewish state
By Robert Philpot
Prime Minister Yair Lapid, right, meets Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Tel Aviv, July 12, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
July 12, 2022, 8:45 pm
Lapid, visiting Austrian chancellor sign strategic partnership, discuss Iran threat
PM stresses to visitor Nehammer importance of international community opposing 2015 Iranian nuclear deal; two leaders discuss combating antisemitism, preserving Holocaust memory
By ToI Staff
Then- Minister of Finance Yair Lapid at the name reading ceremony for victims of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day at the Knesset, April 8, 2013. (GPO)
January 25, 2022, 10:09 pm
Lapid to speak at Mauthausen concentration camp on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Foreign minister set to fly to Austria for Thursday ceremony alongside Austrian chancellor and other top officials; will also deliver address at Vienna’s new Shoah memorial
By Lazar Berman
Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer speaks with the media at an EU Summit at the European Council building in Brussels, on December 16, 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool Photo via AP)
December 23, 2021, 11:49 pm
Bennett congratulates new Austrian Chancellor Nehammer, invites him to Israel
Two leaders hold first call, vow to maintain close relations between Jerusalem and Vienna
By ToI Staff and Agencies
An Israeli analog astronaut walks inside a simulated spacesuit next to a space rover in the Ramon Crater in the Negev on October 31, 2021. (Amy Spiro)
November 1, 2021, 4:50 pm
Astronauts ‘touch down’ in Negev’s Ramon Crater after mission to ‘Mars’
In a collaboration between the Israel Space Agency and the Austrian Space Forum, 6 analog astronauts spent several weeks simulating life on Red Planet and conducting experiments
By Amy Spiro
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz arrives to give a press statement on the government crisis at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, Austria, on October 9, 2021. (Georg Hochmuth/APA/AFP)
October 9, 2021, 10:28 pm
Austria’s Kurz quits amid accusations of abusing funds for positive coverage
Like erstwhile ally Netanyahu before him, the 35-year-old chancellor faces allegations he broke the law to influence media’s treatment of him
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks to the media as he arrives to meet Austria's President at Hofburg Palace in Vienna, on October 7, 2021. (Alex Halada/AFP)
October 7, 2021, 11:14 pm
Austrian leader said to cancel Israel visit amid corruption allegations
Sebastian Kurz had been slated to arrive next week but is under investigation over claims government money was used to obtain positive coverage in a tabloid
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Leaders of the G7 pose for a group photo on overlooking the beach at the Carbis Bay Hotel in Carbis Bay, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Friday, June 11, 2021. Leaders from left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
June 14, 2021, 3:41 am
World leaders congratulate Bennett and Lapid on new government
Merkel, Johnson, Trudeau, Putin all promise to continue to expand ties under new government that ousted Netanyahu after 12 years in power
By ToI Staff and AFP
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