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Israel-Azerbaijan relations

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks to reporters on June 29, 2026. (Screen capture/YouTube)
July 1, 2026, 5:16 am
Armenian PM offers cold response to Israeli recognition of genocide against his people
Nikol Pashinyan suggests decision was politically motivated amid major decline in Israel’s ties with Turkey, which denounces the move and highlights Gaza deaths
By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
An Armenian flag and a remembrance day poster hang in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, as the community marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, on April 24, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 29, 2026, 12:38 pm
Azerbaijan slams ally Israel’s recognition of Armenian genocide: ‘Distortion of historical facts’
Baku urges Jerusalem to ‘reconsider the decision’; Azerbaijan, while close with Israel, takes Turkey’s line in rejecting label for WWI atrocities
By ToI Staff and Nava Freiberg
Illustrative: An Iranian watchtower overlooks a section of the Aras river on the border with Azerbaijan, in Jolfa, northern Iran, on September 18, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
June 5, 2026, 2:29 pm
Israel reportedly deployed elite forces in Azerbaijan, operated Somaliland base, during Iran war
Operations by dozens of commandos and Mossad agents along Iran’s northern border included killing of IRGC special operations chief, CNN says; Baku rejects ‘entirely baseless’ report
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A woman member of the Basij paramilitary, affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, holds her gun and an Iranian flag during a state-organized rally in support of the supreme leader marking National Girl's Day in Tehran, Iran, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 20, 2026, 1:29 pm
Israel announces exposure of Iranian terror network targeting Israelis abroad
Arrests by Azerbaijan over planned synagogue and embassy attacks exposed drone plots and intelligence gathering operations; ringleaders killed during Iran war
By Lazar Berman
A general view of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on September 19, 2023 (TOFIK BABAYEV / AFP)
March 6, 2026, 10:59 pm
Azerbaijan says it foiled Iranian terror attacks on synagogue, Israeli embassy
Authorities say at least 7 Azerbaijani nationals detained; plot also said to include targeting Jewish community leaders, attack on pipeline servicing Israeli oil imports
By AFP and ToI Staff
Azerbaijani troops return home from deployment in Afghanistan on August 7, 2016. (Azerbaijan Defense Ministry)
December 10, 2025, 3:39 am
Was US premature in thinking Azerbaijan will join International Stabilization Force in Gaza?
US highlighted Azerbaijan and Indonesia as likely ISF contributors, though Azeri official indicates Baku has many of the same conditions preventing Arab countries from joining mission
By Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump, center, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, right, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, at a trilateral signing ceremony in White House, August 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
August 22, 2025, 4:28 pm
After decades of conflict, Armenia-Azerbaijan peace plan gives Caucasus Jews new hope
Jewish communities in the two former Soviet countries have had no communication, while Armenian ties to Israel have been strained over arms sales to its foe. All that may change
By Larry Luxner
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets with Azerbaijani Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov in Baku on April 18, 2023. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)
August 2, 2025, 12:51 am
Trump looks to bring Azerbaijan, Central Asian nations into Abraham Accords
US president’s team in talks with several countries that already recognize Israel about largely symbolic move, as Saudi normalization efforts have stalled amid Gaza war
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right, and Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, second left, stand on the balcony during their meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 12, 2025. (Azerbaijani Presidential Press Office via AP)
July 12, 2025, 8:15 pm
Syrian and Israeli officials expected to meet in Azerbaijan as Sharaa visits
Diplomatic source says Syrian leader won’t attend meeting in Baku, which will focus on ‘the recent Israeli military presence in Syria’
By AFP and ToI Staff
An Israeli army soldier closes the gate behind a Merkava main battle tank that crossed the barbed-wire fence into the UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights near the UN Quneitra checkpoint on March 2, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
June 3, 2025, 11:53 am
Azerbaijan engaged in quiet diplomacy between Turkey and Israel to defuse Syria tensions
Baku using close ties with Jerusalem and Ankara to mediate between rival heavyweights, as they both maneuver in Syria’s post-Assad landscape
By AFP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
May 3, 2025, 11:30 pm
Netanyahu postpones Azerbaijan visit scheduled for coming week
PM’s office cites ‘developments’ in Gaza as reason for postponement though report says the real reason is Turkish overflight refusal
By Lazar Berman
A view of the Leviathan natural gas processing rig from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)
March 10, 2025, 6:44 pm
Israel and Azerbaijan’s state oil firm set to seal plan for offshore gas exploration
Azerbaijan’s SOCAR along with Israel’s NewMed Energy and British oil and gas company BP win natural gas exploration licenses for blocks in proximity to the Leviathan reservoir
By Sharon Wrobel
Tamar natural gas field off the coast of Israel. (Courtesy)
February 2, 2025, 6:22 pm
Azerbaijan’s state oil company to buy 10% stake in Israel’s Tamar gas field
Union Energy, controlled by Israeli businessman Aaron Frenkel, signs an agreement for a share of Israel’s second-largest offshore natural gas field
By Sharon Wrobel
F-35i fighter jets are seen at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, in an undated handout photo. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 25, 2024, 3:13 pm
Alleged spy ring that took pictures for Iran charged with aiding enemy in wartime
Seven Israelis accused of photographing hundreds of sites, including IDF bases, ports, Iron Domes, a soccer stadium and a southern town, over several years
By ToI Staff
Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Iran hit a school in the town of Gedera, October 1, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
October 21, 2024, 6:35 pm
Seven Jewish Israelis arrested for spying for Iran on security figures, IDF bases
Residents of the north who emigrated from Azerbaijan accused of carrying out some 600 missions over two years for their Iranian handlers, causing damage to the country
By ToI Staff
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