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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

Israel-Romania relations

Medication belonging to hostages found at Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout image published by the IDF on February 18, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 19, 2024, 10:49 am
Families sent meds for hostages, and for Gazan children, in EU aid shipment – report
Medicines were purchased in Germany and entered Strip from Egypt; relatives set up WhatsApp group to coordinate on October 8, with first known shipment made in mid-November
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Israeli Ambassador to Romania Reuven Azar, AUR party leader George Simion and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan meet at the Romanian parliament in Bucharest, August 28, 2023. (Courtesy: AUR)
August 28, 2023, 8:10 pm
Israeli envoy meets head of Romanian party accused of antisemitism, drawing rebuke
Foreign Ministry lifts ban on AUR party, which issues statement partly walking back glorification of fascists and objection to Holocaust studies; Yad Vashem: We weren’t consulted
By Michael Bachner and Lazar Berman
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attends a Knesset committee hearing, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2023, 6:57 pm
Foreign minister denies lifting ban on Romanian party accused of antisemitism
But Eli Cohen acknowledges assessing whether the Alliance for the Union of Romanians has undergone ‘a real change that will open the door for Israel to revisit its boycott’
By Lazar Berman
Israel's Revolution Orchestra performing at the Sibiu Festival in Romania, June 2023 (Courtesy Daniel Basin)
June 27, 2023, 2:55 pm
Israel’s Revolution Orchestra befriends Iranian theater group
Representatives from each organization speak of friendship and peace at Sibiu Festival in Romania
By Jessica Steinberg
The scene of a hostage situation in the Bucharest suburb of Chiajna, May 6, 2023. (Israel Police)
May 6, 2023, 10:07 pm
Israeli police negotiation team helps Romanian law enforcement end hostage crisis
Experts assist local police forces in rescuing young girl held by father as he threatened to blow up home in Bucharest suburb
By ToI Staff
An Israeli Air Force pilot is seen next to a C-130 transport aircraft in Romania, July 4, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 4, 2022, 9:02 pm
Israel launches low-altitude air transport exercise over Romania
Senior officer says training C-130 and C-130J planes in European skies is an opportunity to ‘challenge ourselves, improve, become stronger, beyond Israel’s borders’
By Emanuel Fabian
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă in Bucharest, March 13, 2022 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)
March 13, 2022, 3:41 pm
Lapid says ‘no justification’ for Russia invading Ukraine as he meets Romanian PM
On three-day trip to countries bordering Ukraine, foreign minister set to hold talks on humanitarian crisis; calls on Russia to stop attacks and resolve conflict with negotiation
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. (Niv Musman/GPO)
March 11, 2022, 12:06 pm
Lapid to travel to Romania, Slovakia for Ukraine talks, visit border rescue efforts
Foreign minister to meet leaders of two nations, visit Israeli Foreign Ministry officials working to rescue Israelis, Jewish Ukrainians, and other refugees
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
President Reuven Rivlin spoke at a joint session of the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
June 10, 2021, 4:58 pm
Rivlin wraps up trip to Romania after celebrating warm ties
President attends business conference, addresses memorial ceremony for 7 people killed in an IDF helicopter training accident in 2010
By Amy Spiro
Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban (L) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, November 3, 2020 (GPO)
November 3, 2020, 3:03 pm
Netanyahu scolds EU, says bloc doesn’t understand changing nature of Middle East
UAE, Bahrain, Sudan made peace with Israel and ‘obviously’ view regional situation differently from ‘traditional bureaucracies’ in Brussels, PM says at meeting with Romanian PM
By Raphael Ahren
Jordan's King Abdullah II at the US Capitol in Washington, on March 13, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
March 25, 2019, 9:12 pm
Jordan’s king cancels trip to Romania over PM’s embassy move pledge
Viorica Dancila told AIPAC she would move her country’s mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but president, who has final say, strongly opposes step
By AFP
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă speaks at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2019. (Screen capture/AIPAC)
March 24, 2019, 11:19 pm
With Romanian PM powerless, celebration over embassy move premature
Despite promise by Viorica Dăncilă to AIPAC on Sunday, it is President Klaus Iohannis who has the final word on relocating mission, and he has not been shy about his opposition
By Raphael Ahren
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, left, stands next to Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, after the swearing in of her cabinet, in Bucharest, Romania, on January 29, 2018. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
March 24, 2019, 8:48 pm
Romanian president rebuffs his ‘ignorant’ PM over pledge to move embassy
Final decision on relocating mission ‘rests with me,’ stresses Klaus Iohannis, contradicting government head’s statement at AIPAC conference
By ToI Staff
Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
March 24, 2019, 7:52 pm
Palestinians blast Romanian prime minister’s pledge to move embassy
Saeb Erekat urges European Union to intervene; transfer of mission unlikely, as president has opposed move
By ToI Staff
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila during an EU Tripartite Social Summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 20, 2019. (JOHN THYS / AFP)
March 24, 2019, 5:40 pm
Romanian prime minister says she will move embassy to Jerusalem
But transfer unlikely as president has opposed move; Honduras president tells AIPAC confab his country will immediately open diplomatic office in capital, to be followed by mission
By ToI Staff
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