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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Azerbaijan

People pass by a flag on the wall in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, February 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
August 12, 2024, 10:34 am
IDF places limitations on soldiers’ travel abroad amid fears of Iranian attack
Air Force bars career officers, NCOs from traveling, as army said to order any servicemembers in Georgia, Azerbaijan to leave
By ToI Staff
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 4, 2024. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)
June 21, 2024, 3:25 pm
Armenia recognizes Palestinian statehood; Israel summons ambassador for reprimand
Move follows similar ones by Slovenia, Spain, Ireland and Norway, with 145 UN member states now recognizing ‘State of Palestine’; statement affirms support for two-state solution
By ToI Staff
Red paint is seen smeared on the facade of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center in Yerevan, Armenia, following a suspected antisemitic incident on October 3, 2023. (CER)
October 4, 2023, 5:30 pm
Synagogue vandalized in Armenia, apparently over Israeli-Azeri ties
‘The Jews are the sworn enemies of the Armenian state,’ reads text that circulates after red paint poured on Yerevan’s only Jewish center
By Canaan Lidor
Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are seen in the center of the town of Goris on September 30, 2023 before being evacuated in various Armenian cities. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/AFP)
October 2, 2023, 11:01 pm
Israel among Armenia’s geopolitical concerns after Nagorno-Karabakh collapse
The fall of the breakaway statelet could shift the balance of power in the region
By Joris FIORITI
Screen capture from video shows smoke rising after a fuel depot explosion near Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, September 25, 2023. (Twitter via AP)
September 26, 2023, 11:09 am
At least 20 dead, 200 injured in Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
Local official say victims were lining up for fuel to join thousands of others fleeing to Armenia following Azerbaijani military rout of Armenian forces in separatist region
By Agencies
In this photo taken from video released by the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan on September 20, 2023, smoke rises over an area which Azerbaijan says hosts Armenian forces' positions in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan via AP)
September 20, 2023, 4:34 pm
Azerbaijan halts operation in breakaway region as Armenian separatists vow to disarm
Ceasefire announced day after Azeri forces launch offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh; director of Israel’s Defense Ministry, a major arms supplier to Baku, visited just before fighting
By AFP and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) walks with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Minister of Defense Col. Gen. Zakir Hasanov in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 13, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
July 13, 2023, 9:38 pm
Israel and allies foiled 50 Iranian terror plots in recent years, Gallant says
During official visit to Azerbaijan, defense minister accuses Tehran of leading ‘worldwide terror campaign’ against Israeli and Jewish targets
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) talks with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 13, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/IMoD)
July 13, 2023, 1:56 pm
Gallant discusses expanding ties with Azerbaijan’s president in visit to Baku
Defense minister set to meet Azerbaijani counterpart, other senior officials during two-day trip marking rapidly growing links between Baku and Jerusalem
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Fawzan Mosa Khan, an Afghan arrested in Azerbaijan on suspicion of planning an attack on Israel's embassy. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
July 13, 2023, 2:08 am
Iran behind failed attack on Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan, foreign minister says
Eli Cohen says Tehran a ‘global terror threat’ orchestrating series of attempts to harm Israelis abroad, after Afghan national arrested in Baku for terrorism
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant arrives at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2023, 1:24 pm
Gallant headed to Baku to meet Azerbaijan president as ties grow
Defense minister’s visit is latest in series of high-profile meetings with key ally on Iran’s northern border
By Lazar Berman
Fawzan Mosa Khan, an Afghan arrested in Azerbaijan on suspicion of planning an attack on Israel's embassy. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
July 11, 2023, 3:18 pm
Azerbaijan arrests Afghan man for planning attack on Israel’s embassy
Fawzan Mosa Khan under interrogation for potentially deadly plot in Baku; security forces searching for members of cell
By Lazar Berman
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the ceremony of signing an agreement on the construction of the Rasht-Astara railway with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 17, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
May 17, 2023, 2:46 pm
Russia and Iran ink deal for rail link as part of intercontinental trade route
Rasht-Astara railway will form part of International North-South Transport Corridor; leaders Putin and Raisi declare it will diversify global traffic, improve Moscow-Tehran ties
By ToI Staff
Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem and members of the Armenian Christian community of Haifa during the renaming ceremony of the Armenian Genocide Square in Haifa, Israel on March 20. (Haifa Municipality)
April 4, 2023, 5:29 pm
Turkey’s feathers ruffled by Haifa’s newly unveiled Armenian Genocide Square
The northern city, where many ethnic Armenians live, is the first Israeli municipality to give such recognition to the World War I atrocities
By Canaan Lidor
Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek speaks to Azeri media in a residential neighborhood of the city of Ganja after it was hit by Armenian missiles, October 2020. (Courtesy of Israeli Embassy in Baku)
January 13, 2023, 9:45 am
For Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, Iranian death threats are all in a day’s work
When he began in 2019, George Deek was the first Christian Arab to represent the Jewish state. Now his host country will be the first Shi’ite state to open an embassy in Israel
By Robert Sarner
The flags of Israel and Azerbaijan in Baku's presidential Zagulba Palace, right before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, December 13, 2016. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
December 30, 2022, 1:51 am
Azerbaijan announces appointment of first-ever ambassador to Israel
A month after saying it plans to open an embassy in Tel Aviv, Baku’s government taps Deputy Education Minister Mukhtar Mammadov to head the mission
By ToI Staff
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