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L: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. R: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, at the Palacio de Viana in Madrid, Spain, July 29, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90, Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)
US ambassador to Israel: 'The Brits have lost it'
Huckabee accuses UK government of ‘Jew hate’ over claim Israel blocking medicine from Gaza
By ToI Staff
British foreign secretary alleges children in Gaza are dying while waiting for medical treatment, prompting anger from both US and Israel, which denies his accusation
Katerina (Katya) Sakovich (MFA, courtesy of the family)
August 31, 2026, 5:07 pm
Second Israeli confirmed missing as death toll continues to climb in Nepal floods
More than 900 people confirmed killed in natural disaster, with over 4,000 still missing, including Israeli-Belarusian Katya Sakovich and a second unidentified Israeli man
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Migrants cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
August 31, 2026, 3:18 pm
Spanish PM accuses Israel, Russia of spreading disinformation on Ceuta migrant crisis
Pedro Sanchez claims EU research indicates nations encouraged breach of 70,000 migrants from Morocco into Spanish enclave; Israel slams Spanish leader for ‘brazen lie’
By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Undated portraits of Jonas Sjöstedt (left) and Hanna Gedin, members of Sweden’s Left Party. (European Parliament official website)
August 24, 2026, 12:58 am
Israel bars 2 Swedish MEPs from entering country over alleged anti-Israel activity
FM Gideon Sa’ar says Left Party lawmakers backed legal action against Israelis, spread claims about genocide and starvation in Gaza
By Stav Levaton
IDF troops arrive at the site of a collapsed building to assist with rescue operations following an earthquake in Cali, Colombia, on August 14, 2026. (Raul ARBOLEDA/AFP)
August 15, 2026, 12:46 pm
IDF rescue teams join search for survivors after deadly earthquake in Colombia
Spokesman says team coordinating with local authorities in effort to find hundreds of people still missing days after 7.4-magnitude temblor: ‘Hopefully, we can contribute our small part here’
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
A protester holds a flare as others chant pro-Palestinian slogans outside Greece’s Foreign Ministry after Israel’s navy intercepted an activists flotilla in waters off of Cyprus, in Athens on May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
August 9, 2026, 12:00 pm
Israelis in Greece warned to lie low ahead of pro-Palestinian ‘day of rage’ protests
Foreign Ministry tells visitors to avoid displaying Jewish or Israeli symbols ahead of Sunday’s nationwide rallies; same event came and went without incident last year, after similar alert
By Lazar Berman
Armenian Christians, accompanied by Israeli volunteers, enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
August 7, 2026, 11:11 pm
Foreign Ministry, Huckabee pan WSJ report on harassment of Christians in Israel
Jerusalem argues story on rise in attacks on clerics ‘took radical voices, extreme cases and turned them into the face of a country’; US envoy: Attacks ‘occasional but rare’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez center, meeting with Israeli representatives in a photo released on July 22, 2026. (IDF Spokesperson)
July 22, 2026, 5:13 pm
Israel ends Venezuela quake mission, will continue assisting remotely
Foreign Ministry says acting President Rodriguez met with Israeli delegation before its departure, thanked it for ‘key’ contribution to rescue efforts, as strained ties thaw
By Nava Freiberg
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) meets with Nauruan Foreign Minister Lionel Aingimea in Fiji, June 2025. (Gideon Sa'ar on X)
July 22, 2026, 10:40 am
Tiny Nauru to open embassy in Jerusalem, will be tenth country to do so
Pacific island nation, with some 12,000 inhabitants, is firmly pro-Israel, recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2019; FM Sa’ar met his Nauruan counterpart in Fiji last year
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
UK ISAR (International Search and Rescue) are pictured in Caraballeda, La Guaira, Venezuela, June 30, 2026, following two powerful earthquakes. (Miguel Medina/Pool Photo via AP)
July 1, 2026, 10:43 am
Israeli aid delegation, including military advisers, heads to quake-hit Venezuela
FM says move a ‘humanitarian act’ toward country with no diplomatic ties to Israel; group includes engineering professionals, Home Front Command experts; toll rises to over 1,900
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
L-R: German pro-Palestinian activist Nesrin Zeaiter is seen lying on a stretcher with a neck brace at an airport in Istanbul, Turkey, where Israel deported her on May 21, 2026; and flashing a victory sign, on her feet and without the neck brace, upon arrival in Germany's Hanover Airport on May 23, 2026. (Screen capture: Israeli Foreign Ministry via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 27, 2026, 10:02 am
Foreign Ministry accuses detained flotilla activists of faking their injuries
Ministry mockingly hails ‘miracle’ recovery of German activist filmed lying on a stretcher with a neck brace when deported to Turkey, standing upright two days later in Germany
By ToI Staff
Israeli naval forces sail a confiscated Gaza-bound flotilla boat into Israel's Ashdod port after intercepting the vessel on the Mediterranean Sea, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 20, 2026, 4:11 am
IDF intercepts all ships in Gaza-bound flotilla, over 400 activists being transferred to Israel
Foreign Ministry denounces Global Sumud Flotilla’s attempt to break blockade as ‘a PR stunt at the service of Hamas,’ stresses rubber bullets were fired at ships and not activists
By Stav Levaton, Agencies and ToI Staff
The Israel Prison Service dresses Palestinian prisoners set for release in shirts featuring its logo, a Star of David and the sentence in Arabic: 'We will not forget or forgive,' February 15, 2025. (Israel Prison Service)
May 12, 2026, 1:16 pm
‘Blood libel’: Israel rejects NYT column alleging widespread rape of Palestinian inmates
After Nicholas Kristof cites report by Euro-Med Monitor as evidence, Israeli Ambassador to US Leiter highlights its leaders’ photos with Hamas officials
By ToI Staff
Protesters with the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace block traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of US Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the US-Israel war with Iran and opposing US weapons support, April 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
April 30, 2026, 3:11 pm
Israel just quintupled its PR budget to $730 million; experts say it won’t work
Skeptic say that country’s image after Oct. 7 has become so tarnished by government policy and dereliction that even with vast public relations funds, it’s too late for a face lift
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A man running in front of a sign for the Venice Biennale in Italy in an undated photo. (Stefano Mazzola via Getty Images via JTA)
April 28, 2026, 9:57 am
Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant
Artist and sculptor Belu-Simion Fainaru, representing Israel, says he believes ‘art thrives on openness’; Foreign Ministry: ‘Spectacle of false, anti-Israeli political indoctrination’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
View of the Haifa port, March 15, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
April 15, 2026, 9:34 am
Ukraine says Russian ship carrying stolen grain docked at Haifa, asks Israel to detain it
Ambassador said to have initially asked Israel to prevent the vessel from docking; Ukraine’s FM tells Sa’ar ‘illegal trade with stolen goods must not be allowed’
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
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