Israel-Ireland relations

In this file photo, then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman waits outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem for a meeting with his Irish counterpart, Eamon Gilmore, Jan 29, 2012 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

July 12, 2018, 4:05 pm

Liberman wants Dublin embassy shut over Ireland’s anti-settlement legislation

'We won't turn the other cheek,' defense minister says after Irish Senate advances bill to ban settlement goods, despite Irish FM opposing it

By Raphael Ahren

Screen capture from video of Irish Ambassador to Israel, Alison Kelly. (YouTube)

July 11, 2018, 10:36 pm

Israel summons Irish envoy for dressing down over anti-settlement bill

Alison Kelly to be reprimanded by Foreign Ministry officials after Irish Senate advances bill setting prison time for those who import settlement goods

By Raphael Ahren

The Irish Senate debating a bill that would ban trade with settlement goods, July 11, 2018 (screen shot oireachtas.ie)

July 11, 2018, 7:30 pm

Ireland moves to criminalize trade with settlements, drawing Israeli ire

Palestinians welcome Irish Senate's advancement of bill setting prison time for those who import settlement goods; proposal still faces hurdles to become law

By Raphael Ahren

Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh (C) leads the party's weekly faction at the Knesset, October 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

July 11, 2018, 2:06 pm

Arab Knesset party backs Irish bill to criminalize trade with settlements

Joint (Arab) List says Israel 'deserves all the sanctions and boycotts,' encourages European countries not to give in to 'the Zionist lobby'

By Raoul Wootliff

Irish Senator Frances Black speaks ahead of of a Senate vote on the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, January 30, 2018 (screenshot www.oireachtas.ie)

July 4, 2018, 10:51 am

Israel slams ‘immoral’ Irish bill banning trade with settlements

Embassy in Dublin says bid to prohibit sale and import of settlement goods, which will be voted on next week, will empower Hamas

By Raphael Ahren

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)

May 31, 2018, 11:44 pm

Israel urges Ireland to cancel speech by Palestinian terrorist

Minister Gilad Erdan sends Irish education minister protest letter, calls planned video address at Dublin club by plane hijacker Leila Khaled a 'theater of the absurd'

By Michael Bachner

The site where a mortar shell from Gaza hit a kindergarten in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 29, 2018, 8:00 pm

International sympathy rains down as Israeli diplomats go on offensive

US calls rocket and mortar fire 'reprehensible,' Italy tweets solidarity, and Ireland blames Hamas, in flurry of condemnation of attacks from Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Protesters hold up a banner that reads "London-Irish Abortion rights Campaign" as they protest in Parliament Square in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London against the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), June 10, 2017. (AFP Photos/Justin Tallis)

May 25, 2018, 1:57 pm

Ireland’s double standard on foreign meddling

How strange that the Irish fund left-wing Israeli NGOs, but prohibit foreigners weighing in on the abortion debate

By Olga I. Deutsch

Ireland's Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, speaks to the media, at Iveagh House in Dublin, August 16, 2017. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

May 15, 2018, 1:33 pm

Ireland dresses down Israeli ambassador over Gaza border deaths

Irish FM tells Ze'ev Boker of his government's 'shock and dismay' at the dozens of fatalities; China calls for restraint, Moscow expresses concern

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

Dublin Mayor Micheal Mac Donncha speaks in a conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

May 14, 2018, 11:58 pm

Dublin mayor calls for Irish boycott of 2019 Eurovision in Israel

Micheal Mac Donncha, a long-time vocal supporter of boycotting the Jewish state, says his country should show solidarity with Palestinians

By TOI staff

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump unveil the inauguration plaque during the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

May 14, 2018, 6:11 pm

European countries blast US embassy move to Jerusalem

Turkey calls relocation 'legally null and void;' Ireland says it 'inflames a very tense situation'; Netherlands terms it 'unwise'

By Agencies and TOI staff

Demonstrators in Dublin protest Israeli military operations in Gaza in early 2009. (CC BY/albertw via Flickr.com)

April 12, 2018, 6:33 pm

Israel slams Ireland over Dublin mayor’s Ramallah trip

Foreign Ministry summons Irish envoy after capital's city council endorses boycott and mayor seems to endorse Palestinian mufti who met Hitler

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: People stand in line to go through passport control at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel, September 21, 2008. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

April 11, 2018, 2:37 am

Israel tries to bar Dublin mayor, but fails because it spells his name wrong

Immigration officers were told to prevent Mícheál Mac Donncha from entering Israel en route to Ramallah after Irish capital passed two anti-Israel resolutions; too late, he tweets

By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren

The Palestinian flag flies over Dublin's City Hall on May 9, 2017 following a vote by the city council. (Michael Riordan/Times of Israel)

April 10, 2018, 11:41 pm

Dublin council calls to expel Israeli ambassador, endorse BDS

In retaliation, Israel's interior minister instructs immigration officers to prevent mayor from entering Israel en route to pro-Palestinian conference in Ramallah

By Raphael Ahren

January 31, 2018, 8:43 pm

Israel summons Irish envoy over settlements bill

While Alison Kelley tells Foreign Ministry official that her government does not support legislation proposed by 'independent,' she insists that it does not amount to BDS

By Jacob Magid and Raphael Ahren