Israel-Canada relations

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to AFP journalists in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Lars Hagberg)

June 13, 2018, 9:16 am

Free trade between Canada and Israel: a success story

Our growing economic ties with the only liberal democracy in the Middle East are a model for how Canadians can better tap into key markets that otherwise fall under the radar

By Rick Ekstein

Canadian Opposition leader, Conservative Andrew Scheer on September 18, 2108. (Screen capture: YouTube)

February 26, 2018, 10:15 pm

Canada’s Conservatives would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Opposition head Andrew Scheer vows to follow US lead if elected to govern in 2019, says all sovereign nations can determine their capitals

By AFP and TOI staff

African migrants march from Holot detention center to the Saharonim Prison, on February 22, 2018. (AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)

February 25, 2018, 3:22 pm

In deal inked with Canada, Israel agrees to hold off on deporting 2,000 migrants

African asylum seekers who have already been accepted for resettlement in Canada won't be at risk of imprisonment when deportations begin in April, even if resettlement takes years

By TOI staff

African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

February 20, 2018, 5:28 am

Canada voices concern to Israel over migrant expulsion

Canada, which takes in more African refugees from Israel than any other nation, says it is in touch with Jerusalem over plan to send the asylum seekers to a third country

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Davos, Switzerland, on January 24, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershon/ GPO)

January 24, 2018, 5:03 pm

In Davos, Netanyahu urges world leaders to act on Iran nuclear deal

PM holds meetings with heads of state from Germany, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Azerbaijan on sidelines of World Economic Forum

By Jacob Magid

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a press conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Fred Dufour)

December 7, 2017, 6:15 pm

Trudeau says Canada’s embassy to remain in Tel Aviv

His foreign minister says Jerusalem's status must be resolved through negotiations

By AFP and TOI staff

African asylum seekers are seen in their make-shift dwelling, as children play sports nearby, at the Levinski Park in south Tel-Aviv on April 11, 2013. (Roni Schutzer/ FLASH 90/File)

September 6, 2017, 10:38 am

Thousands of African migrants have left Israel for West — report

Canada, seeking to fill jobs, said to have taken in most of the more than 3,000 migrants who departed voluntarily

By Stuart Winer

View of Montreal from Mount Royal on March 8, 2015. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

May 23, 2017, 12:08 pm

Israel, Quebec set up $12 million bilateral R&D program

Program aims to boost joint industrial projects, foster long-term alliances between firms and entities

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Air Canada flight at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, September 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

February 15, 2017, 11:30 am

Tel Aviv-bound flight diverted to London over ‘disruptive’ passenger

Witness says woman 'was choking random passengers'; traveler taken into custody at Heathrow; Air Canada flight resumes journey to Israel

By TOI staff

Gil and Jenna Lewinsky plan to open an ecological heritage park and educational farm for their 113 sheep, pictured here on January 15, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

February 1, 2017, 7:10 pm

After bleating a path to Israel, Jacob’s sheep frolic in new home

With flock's 5,000-year exile and difficult quarantine beset by rains behind them, biblical sheep are baaaack in the Holy Land

By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress

Chrystia Freeland is sworn in as minister of foreign affairs during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

January 12, 2017, 4:37 pm

Trudeau shuffles cabinet, ousts FM who ruffled feathers in Israel

Chrystia Freeland to replace Stephane Dion, who wanted to strengthen ties with 'other legitimate partners in the region'

By AP and TOI staff

Palestinian children attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in April 2013 (Illustrative photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

November 17, 2016, 9:35 pm

Canada reinstates funding to UN agency that aids Palestinians

Ottawa to restore financial support to UNRWA after the previous Conservative government halted all assistance

By JTA

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the Knesset, Monday, January 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)

August 26, 2016, 10:20 pm

Canada’s former PM Stephen Harper quits politics

Ex-Tory leader, known for being staunch Israel supporter, leaves public life 10 months after losing election to Justin Trudeau

By Michel COMTE

Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May. (Courtesy)

August 11, 2016, 8:27 am

Head of Canada Green Party may resign over pro-BDS vote

Boycotting Israel is 'polarizing, ineffective,' passed without 'consensus-building process we normally would have had,' says Elizabeth May

By JTA

The skyline of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 12, 2013. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

July 14, 2016, 6:47 am

Canadian political leader ‘torn’ over resolution endorsing BDS

Elizabeth May supports 'unequivocally Israel's right to exist' but has 'deep sympathies for plight of Palestinians'

By JTA