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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Israel-Armenia relations

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
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)
October 5, 2023, 9:41 am
Israeli weapons quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh — sources, data
Flight tracker info shows many visits to Ovda airport in southern Israel by Azerbaijani planes before offensive, amid strategic partnership against Iran; region’s Armenians dismayed
By Isabel Debre
Armenian ceramist Vic Lepejian in his Old City studio, April 23, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2023, 4:27 am
On genocide memorial day, Jerusalem Armenians hold out hopes for Israeli recognition
The Jewish state has prioritized ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan over recognizing the WWI Ottoman massacre, critics say, as Armenian community voices shame over country’s stance
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Gershon Burshteyn, spiritual leader of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center of Armenia, seen outside the center he leads. (Larry Luxner)
October 23, 2022, 2:27 am
Armenia has had few Jews and a poor relationship with Israel. That could be changing
Most of the Jewish community fled in the early 20th century, and Israeli-Azerbaijani relations have been a damper, but ancient ties and renewed diplomacy sow hope for the future
By Larry Luxner
Illustrative: Then-defense minister Benny Gantz, on a state visit to Azerbaijan, October 3, 2022. (Nicole Laskavi/MOD)
October 3, 2022, 8:21 pm
In Azerbaijan, Gantz discusses defense ties with president and other top officials
Defense chief touts ‘strategic relations’ between Jerusalem and Baku, as he wraps up trip, which comes 2 weeks after skirmish between Azerbaijan and Armenia over disputed territory
By Ash Obel
Religious leaders sing at a ceremony remembering the victims of the Armenian Genocide at the Montebello Armenian Genocide Monument in Montebello, California, Saturday, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
April 25, 2021, 4:38 am
After Biden acknowledges Armenian genocide, Israel stops short of doing the same
Jerusalem recognizes ‘terrible suffering’ of Armenians in early 20th century killings by Ottomans, says nations of world must ‘ensure events like this do not again occur’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A local resident examines the ruins of a residential house destroyed in a shelling attack in the disputed Caucasus Mountains territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Sergei Bobylev/TASS via Getty Images)
October 19, 2020, 11:12 pm
Armenian leader accuses Israel of aiding ‘genocide’ against his people
Arayik Harutyunyan claims Jewish state ‘responsible’ for deadly clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh region, due to weapons sales to Azerbaijan
By Cnaan Liphshiz
President Reuven Rivlin (R) with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on January 26, 2020. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
October 5, 2020, 6:33 pm
Armenian envoy expects Israel will halt arms sales to Azerbaijan amid conflict
Ambassador Armen Smbatyan says talks between Yerevan and Jerusalem ongoing; Rivlin speaks to Armenian counterpart days after country recalls Smbatyan in protest
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 7, 2017. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
September 19, 2019, 8:58 pm
Israel says Armenia planing to open embassy
Foreign Ministry hails Yerevan for ‘important’ move, but Israeli news station reports process far from a done deal
By Raphael Ahren
Mehmed Talaat Pasha, left, with Ismail Enver Pasha and Turkish colonel Halil Sami Bey. (Courtesy University of Princeton Press)
September 7, 2018, 6:14 am
Before the Holocaust, Ottoman Jews supported the Armenian genocide’s ‘architect’
Author Hans-Lukas Kieser says a desperate Zionist press praised the empire even during the slaughter of its minority population, a murder which Israel continues to gloss over today
By JP O’ Malley
An ORBITER 3 small tactical UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) model on display at the UVID 2014 Conference, at Airport city, Israel on September 17, 2014. (Illustrative photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 14, 2017, 8:24 am
Investigation launched into Israeli dronemaker suspected of bombing Armenia
Court puts gag order on probe of deal between Aeronautics Defense Systems and an unnamed ‘significant customer’
By Judah Ari Gross
An Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. Orbiter 1K drone. (Screen capture: YouTube/Practical Information)
August 29, 2017, 10:36 pm
Drone sale to Azeris halted as maker accused of bombing Armenia in demo
Aeronautics Defense Systems reports it stands to lose $20 million deal, denies it illegally used its UAV against Armenian forces during demonstration in Baku
By Judah Ari Gross
An ORBITER 3 small tactical UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) model on display at the UVID 2014 Conference, at Airport city, Israel on September 17, 2014. (Illustrative photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 14, 2017, 9:04 am
Complaint claims Israeli drone maker tried to bomb Armenian army for Azeris
Aeronautics Defense Systems denies it illegally used its suicide drone against Armenian forces during demonstration in Baku; Defense Ministry says it is investigating
By Judah Ari Gross
Israel W. Charny
April 27, 2016, 12:46 pm
Israel W. Charny
Would Israel sell a drone to a Hitler?
Ashamed at the government’s arming of Azerbaijan and its failure to acknowledge the Armenian genocide
Soldiers stand guard in front of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, during a commemoration ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, on April 24, 2015. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
October 22, 2015, 8:12 am
IDF soldier ‘rescued’ after 2 months stuck in Armenia
On a family visit to country of his birth, Arik Martoyan discovered he was drafted under nation’s military service law
By ToI Staff
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