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Worker erects wooden panels around Israeli defense industry booths at the Eurosatory exhibition in Paris, June 15, 2026. (Defense Ministry)
June 15, 2026, 12:44 pm
Israeli defense industry booths walled off at leading French arms exhibition
Move comes after France barred Israeli pavilion, government officials from Eurosatory, a year after black partitions surrounded Jerusalem’s exhibits at Paris Air Show
By Stav Levaton
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference with mayors of settlements in the West Bank, at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2026, 5:58 pm
Smotrich banned from France as 4 countries introduce new sanctions against settler violence
Britain says joint action with France, Canada, and Norway will target ‘networks financing and enabling settler attacks’; Israel hits back, saying move will increase antisemitism
By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies
France's President Emmanuel Macron attends a joint statement with Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, June 1, 2026. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
June 7, 2026, 4:31 am
France, allies eye coordinated sanctions to pressure Israel over West Bank, diplomats say
EU deadlock on Israel measures pushes some countries toward national measures, expected to be imposed within days; France to host civil society, ministerial meeting on June 12
By Reuters
Visitors stand at the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) booth at the Eurosatory international land and air defense and security trade fair, in Villepinte, a northern suburb of Paris, on June 13, 2022. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)
June 1, 2026, 7:00 pm
France bars Israel from leading defense expo, sparking outcry from Jerusalem
Defense Ministry pans ‘disgraceful’ move by Paris to prohibit Israeli firms from showing offensive systems and ban government participation, amid growing strain between two nations
By Stav Levaton and Nava Freiberg
France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot gives a press conference after a crisis meeting in Paris on March 2, 2026. (Thibault Camus / POOL / AFP)
May 23, 2026, 7:04 pm
France bans Ben Gvir over ‘reprehensible actions’ toward Gaza flotilla activists
French FM joins calls for EU to sanction far-right minister over video of him taunting bound activists; Poland bans him for five years as ‘a threat to public order’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Far-right party National Rally president Jordan Bardella, left, attends a press conference to support far-right candidate for Marseille mayoral election, Franck Allisio, right, in Marseille, south of France, on March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Philippe Magoni)
May 7, 2026, 6:01 pm
French far-right leaders quietly meet Israeli, German envoys ahead of run for presidency
National Rally party chief Marine Le Pen and deputy Jordan Bardella play down significance of talks with ambassadors, as faction seeks to shed its reputation for antisemitism
By AFP and ToI Staff
Roy Peled, boyfriend of Lee Zeitouni, 25, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident by French driver Eric Robic two months earlier, holds Robic's picture as he calls for justice during a memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on December 8, 2011. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
April 19, 2026, 3:28 pm
Eric Robic, Tel Aviv hit-and-run perpetrator shot in Paris, had long history of financial crime
Jewish Frenchman who fatally struck Lee Zeitouni was convicted a dozen times since 1994, probed with PM’s associate in prison bribery scheme, but friends insist he cleaned up act before death
By Charlie Summers
France's Marine Le Pen speaks at an assembly of European far-right parties in Budapest, Hungary, March 23, 2026. (Denes Erdos/AP)
April 16, 2026, 12:41 pm
Israeli ambassador said to meet discreetly with French far right’s Marine Le Pen
National Rally party leader’s reported meetings with Israeli, Lebanese envoys come amid her criticism of Macron’s stance on Israel, and as Jerusalem sidelines Paris from Lebanon talks
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
France's President Emmanuel Macron (L), flanked by France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (R), speaks during a statement to the press with members of the Government and of the French Army, following a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on November 25, 2025. (JULIEN DE ROSA / POOL / AFP)
April 15, 2026, 4:51 pm
Israel boxes Paris out of Lebanon talks, halts arms buys as French disconnect grows
Reacting to criticism of fighting against Iran and Hezbollah, Jerusalem calls France irrelevant and accuses it of harming security, though French official says claim ‘total BS’
By Nava Freiberg
Lebanese civil defense workers search for casualties in the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in central Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, 2026. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
April 9, 2026, 12:36 pm
‘Unacceptable’: European countries slam IDF strikes on Hezbollah amid US-Iran truce
UK says it is ‘deeply troubled’ by Israeli attacks, France calls them ‘unacceptable’; Italy condemns ‘bombings on civilian population’
By Agencies
Israeli military vehicles and tanks are seen in Upper Galilee, northern Israel, amidst the ongoing war between Israel-US and Iran and Hezbollah, March 14, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
March 15, 2026, 1:08 am
Direct Israel-Lebanon truce talks said expected in coming days, though challenges abound
Agenda not set, and Jerusalem refuses to halt fire during negotiations; France denies report it has drafted plan that includes Beirut recognizing Israel, countries ending state of war
By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Former French prime minister Manuel Valls speaks to The Times of Israel in Jerusalem, January 15, 2026. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
January 15, 2026, 7:51 pm
Anti-Zionism ‘profoundly linked’ to hatred of Jews, former French PM says in Jerusalem
Calling Macron’s decision to avoid antisemitism march a ‘wound,’ Manuel Valls claims most in France don’t support Palestinian recognition though Paris’s stance toward Israel a ‘paradox’
By Lazar Berman
A view of Esh Kodesh, an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, on December 14, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
December 24, 2025, 9:55 pm
14 countries condemn Israeli approval of new West Bank settlements
France, Britain, Germany and others say authorization of 19 sites is illegal under international law, warn unilateral actions in West Bank could derail fragile Gaza ceasefire
By AFP and Jeremy Sharon
France's human rights ambassador Isabelle Lonvis-Rome speaks to The Times of Israel in Jaffa, December 18, 2025. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
December 19, 2025, 1:23 pm
‘From the river to the sea’ chant is antisemitic, says France’s human rights envoy
Speaking to The Times of Israel from Jaffa days after deadly Sydney shooting, Isabelle Lonvis-Rome says attacking Israel’s ‘existence’ is intolerable
By Lazar Berman
Riot police officers patrol by the Israeli pavilions at the Paris Air Show, June 16, 2025 in Le Bourget, north of Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
November 12, 2025, 4:21 am
France to allow Israeli firms to take part in defense expo after reports ban was weighed
French official tells ToI that the decision to let companies from Israel participate in Milipol Paris was a French call ‘and not the result of Israeli pressure’
By Nava Freiberg
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