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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Cyprus

Travelers leaving Israel arrive at Cyprus' main port of Limassol aboard the cruise ship Crown Iris, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Inside story
Cyprus Chabad inundated by thousands of Israelis trying to find way home
By Zev Stub
With little notice, emissaries have stepped up to organize food and housing, arrange travel, save lives — and get grooms to their weddings on time
With Israel’s airspace closed, fleeing tourists and homeward-bound Israelis take to the sea
By Sharon Wrobel
With skies shuttered, Birthright participants leave Israel on Cyprus-bound cruise ship
By Grace Gilson
With Israel’s airspace closed, fleeing tourists and homeward-bound Israelis take to the sea
By Sharon Wrobel
Travelers leaving Israel arrive at Cyprus' main port of Limassol aboard the cruise ship Crown Iris, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
June 22, 2025, 6:49 pm
Cyprus Chabad inundated by thousands of Israelis trying to find way home
With little notice, emissaries have stepped up to organize food and housing, arrange travel, save lives — and get grooms to their weddings on time
By Zev Stub
Police officers stand guard at the gates of the Royal Air Force Akrotiri base, a British overseas territory near the Cypriot coastal city of Limassol on January 14, 2024. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)
June 21, 2025, 4:16 pm
Alleged member of Iran’s IRGC arrested in Cyprus over plot to attack military bases
Report says Azerbaijani national detained after security services received intel from ‘cooperating foreign service’; suspect seen taking photos at British, Cypriot bases on island
By ToI Staff
Evacuees from Israel arrive at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
June 19, 2025, 6:53 am
Stranded Israelis, evacuees from Israel find shelter and kosher meals in Cyprus
Mediterranean island’s senior rabbi says it has become ‘a door to Israel,’ as he enlists colleagues to find accommodations for the some 6,500 Israelis trying to get back home
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
Passengers stranded in Larnaca readying to board a sailing boat chartered by Israel's Sailor Yacht Club to return home to the Herzliya harbor, June 2025. (Courtesy)
June 18, 2025, 8:50 pm
With Israel’s airspace closed, fleeing tourists and homeward-bound Israelis take to the sea
A growing maritime travel route is helping stranded people get in and out of the Jewish state amid war with Iran, but prices for the yacht and ferry trips are stratospheric
By Sharon Wrobel
Approximately 1500 Birthright Israel participants board a cruise ship in Ashdod, Israel headed for Larnaca, Cyrpus. (Erez Uzir/Birthright Israel via JTA)
June 18, 2025, 4:29 am
With skies shuttered, Birthright participants leave Israel on Cyprus-bound cruise ship
Some 1,500 young adults set sail on secret voyage after start of Israel-Iran war puts halt to all flights, requiring visitors to seek alternative ways to depart the Jewish state
By Grace Gilson
Known as Maya in Israel and Anassa in Cyprus, this Mediterranean monk seal, one of the rarest marine animals in the world, rests with her pup in Cyprus in October 2024. (Courtesy/Haris Nicolaou)
May 16, 2025, 12:09 pm
Israeli and Cypriot researchers team up on extreme cave makeover for rare monk seals
A rehabilitation project in northern Israel aims to provide safe and dry breeding places for the endangered marine mammals, of which only 600-700 remain in the world
By Diana Bletter
Cypriot women demonstrate on September 16, 2021 in front of Nicosia's supreme court, in support of a young British woman who alleged she was raped by up to 12 Israelis in a hotel room in the seaside party resort of Ayia Napa in July 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)
February 27, 2025, 2:56 pm
European Human Rights Court: Cyprus failed UK woman who claimed Israeli gang rape
ECHR agrees with complainant that Cypriot authorities breached obligations to effectively investigate and prosecute her 2019 allegations against group of tourists who were released
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The coastal city of Paphos, on the Greek side of Cyprus, September 23, 2024. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
January 27, 2025, 10:49 am
Shin Bet suspends Israeli flights to Paphos in Cyprus, citing security concerns
Instructions reportedly sent to El Al, Arkia, and Israir airlines; flights will land at Larnaca airport instead; no travel advisory issued on visiting Paphos
By ToI Staff and Reuters
A view of a Greek Air Force F-16 aircraft after landing at Cyprus' Andreas Papandreou Air Base near the southwestern coastal city of Paphos, Cyprus, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
January 23, 2025, 8:14 pm
US air force seeking to upgrade Cyprus airbase as Mideast humanitarian staging post
Cyprus has been transit point for repatriation of foreign nationals fleeing conflicts in Middle East and for delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza amid Israel-Hamas war
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
Mizrahi singer Amir Benayoun performs with the Ashdod Andalusian Orchestra in Larnaca, Cyprus, on December 29, 2024 (Credit Mike Edry)
January 2, 2025, 9:13 am
Israeli and Greek music mesh in Cyprus concerts on Hanukkah
Amir Benayoun, Cypriot crooner Demetris Souroullas, and Ashdod’s Andalusian Orchestra perform pair of shows in Limassol and Larnaca, with candle-lighting
By Jessica Steinberg
French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz looks on as he arrives for the third day of his appeal against a corruption sentence linked to mining rights in Guinea, at the Geneva's courthouse, on August 31, 2022. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
October 14, 2024, 4:03 pm
Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz held in Greece on Romanian arrest warrant
Businessman detained hours after arriving on private aircraft at Athens International Airport; Romania has convicted him in absentia for real estate fraud
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Greek citizens, who were evacuated from Lebanon with a Greek military transport aircraft stand outside the Greek Foreign ministry building in central Athens, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
October 3, 2024, 10:20 pm
Foreigners flee Lebanon on flights and ferries as Israeli offensive intensifies
As many airlines end flights to region, dozens of nations are putting contingency plans into action to evacuate citizens; several countries send military aircraft
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations in New York, on September 25, 2024. (Leon Neal/Pool/AFP)
September 25, 2024, 6:52 pm
UK sends troops to Cyprus anticipating mass evacuation of its nationals from Lebanon
700 soldiers to join two navy ships already on hand along with aircraft; PM Starmer says very important for British subjects in war-torn country to ‘leave immediately’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: People on a beach as a drilling platform is seen in the background outside from Larnaca port, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, October 15, 2017. (Petros Karadjias/AP)
September 1, 2024, 4:51 pm
Israel’s NewMed and partners submit $4b plan for Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus
Partners in the field seek to supply natural gas from the Aphrodite field to the domestic market in Cyprus, and to export natural gas by pipeline to other markets, including Egypt
By Sharon Wrobel
US amphibious assault ship USS Wasp is pictured docked at the port in Limassol, Cyprus, on August 9, 2024. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)
August 10, 2024, 8:39 pm
US says warship docked in Cyprus can ‘support civilians’ if regional conflict erupts
Amphibious assault ship arrives in Limassol for pre-scheduled visit amid fears of broader Mideast war; Cyprus offers to facilitate evacuations if tensions boil over
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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