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Jewish visitors seen in the street of Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90/ File)
September 8, 2025, 12:37 pm
Annual Uman pilgrimage faces obstacles as Israel-Moldova talks break down
Costly plan for ad hoc terminal near Chisinau airport falls through after Moldova demands to keep Israeli-financed equipment; Israel now plans to charter flights to Romania, Poland
By ToI Staff
Presidential candidate George Simion speaks to media after polls closed for the second round of the country's presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
August 18, 2025, 1:53 am
After a contentious election, Romania’s few Jews remain on guard against antisemitism
While Jewish communities in Western Europe are on edge due to the Gaza War, their Romanian counterparts worry over a rising far-right fueled in part by lack of Holocaust awareness
By Larry Luxner
A SPYDER surface-to-air missile is fired in a test in an undated photograph. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.)
July 21, 2025, 8:10 pm
Romania, on edge over Russia, to buy Israeli anti-aircraft system for $2.3 billion
NATO member state signs 7-year framework agreement with Iron Dome maker Rafael for six short-range air defense systems
By Reuters and Emanuel Fabian
Leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians party George Simion speaks to supporters after first exit polls were announced, in the second round of the presidential election in Bucharest, Romania, on May 18, 2025. (Mihai Barbu / AFP)
May 19, 2025, 11:11 pm
Politician whose party called Holocaust ‘minor topic’ loses Romania presidential bid
George Simion met with Israel’s envoy to Romania in 2022 amid criticism from Yad Vashem over far-right party’s antisemitism record, ending official Israeli boycott of group
By Grace Gilson
Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 2, 2024, 5:56 am
Romania ‘shocked’ by Israeli minister’s call with candidate who praised WWII antisemites
After Amichai Chikli talks with Calin Georgescu, Bucharest’s ambassador denounces ‘insult,’ demands apology for the apparent backing of far-right figure who lauded murderers of Jews
By Lazar Berman
Video screenshot from X of widespread littering around Romania’s Bacău "George Enescu" International Airport, October, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 3:26 pm
Jewish pilgrims returning from Uman leave piles of trash at Romanian airport
Images on social media show widespread littering, long lines, clashes with police in Bacău airport, as some passengers say local authorities ‘made it impossible’ to fly home
By ToI Staff
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
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