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Israel-Thailand relations

A married couple from Thailand, known as Qwon, left, and Tay, participate in the Shavuot celebration in Shavei Zion, Western Galilee, where they work in the avocado groves, on May 21, 2026. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
July 11, 2026, 9:35 am
Braving war losses and tough conditions, Thai workers stay rooted in Israeli agriculture
51 foreign laborers from Thailand have been killed by terror groups since 2023, and 31 were among the Oct. 7 hostages, but that hasn’t caused them to flee Israel’s fields and groves
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Thai police escort a suspect into a van, Bangkok, Thailand, January 13, 2025. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)
June 2, 2026, 6:04 pm
10 Israelis deported from Thailand amid crackdown on foreign-linked crime — report
Local media alleges the Israeli nationals were involved in extensive nominee company scheme involving 32 businesses, estimated to have caused over $6 million in damage
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Thai police escort a suspect into a van, Bangkok, Thailand, January 13, 2025. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)
May 3, 2026, 8:11 am
Thai police raid illegal school run by Iranian couple, find 89 Israeli kids enrolled
Thai security agency says raid came after complaints of ‘foreigners operating businesses that could threaten national security’; 2 Iranians and a Thai national arrested, charged
By ToI Staff
Workers move a coffin containing the body of Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai laborer who was killed and whose body was taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, attack, as it arrives at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn, Thailand, December 10, 2025. (Surakit Kaewmorakot/AP)
December 10, 2025, 6:46 pm
Remains of Sudthisak Rinthalak, last Thai hostage in Gaza, arrive home
Body of captive slain by terrorists on Oct. 7 and held for two years arrives at Bangkok airport, where family waits to perform Buddhist funeral rites in his hometown
By AFP and ToI Staff
Sagi Mor and his family. (Courtesy of the family)
November 20, 2025, 11:28 pm
Israeli tourist drowns off coast of Koh Phangan after jumping into sea to rescue son
Body of Sagi Mor, 45, found Thursday morning after hundreds of volunteers helped search alongside police; Foreign Ministry working to bring body back to Israel
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A couple sit on a swing hanging from the palm trees on a beach on Ko Pha Ngan island. August 15, 2017. Photo by (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
November 5, 2025, 5:51 pm
Israeli couple arrested in Thailand over public sex at popular waterfall
Tourists charged with public obscenity after clip on social media shows them having midday sex on Ko Pha Ngan island
By ToI Staff
Israeli search and rescue experts are seen in Thailand on March 30, 2025, to assist following a major earthquake. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 30, 2025, 11:44 pm
Israeli delegation assists Thailand with search and rescue efforts after major quake
Engineers, doctors, rescue professionals dispatched to Bangkok after 7.7 magnitude earthquake downs skyscraper, rattles buildings in Thai capital
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Heavy construction equipment is used to find people trapped in the rubble at the site of an under-construction building collapse as the sun sets in Bangkok on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar and Thailand. (MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP)
March 29, 2025, 7:09 pm
Israel to send search and rescue delegation to Thailand after deadly earthquake
Team of 22 set to depart Saturday night to help build ‘intelligence picture’ for search and rescue efforts
By Emanuel Fabian and AFP
Tourist Police office D'Tom Tomarito holds a sign with instructions in Hebrew on how to behave for Israeli tourists to Pai, Thailand. (Eliyahu Freedman)
March 22, 2025, 12:52 pm
As war-weary Israeli reservists head to Thailand, poor behavior could spoil relations
A culture clash has left residents of a resort town complaining about travelers from the Jewish state, with the issue escalating to the Thai Interior Ministry
By Eliyahu Freedman
A Thai hostage who was freed from Hamas, Pongsak Thenna, center, hugs a relative upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi International Airport, in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, February 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
February 9, 2025, 5:26 am
‘Tears of joy’: 5 freed Thai hostages land in Bangkok, are greeted by loved ones
Sarusak Rumnao, Watchara Sriaoun, Sathian Suwannakham, Pongsak Thenna and Bannawat Saethao say they’re ‘very happy that we get to return to our homeland’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Thai citizens, who were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, leave Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
February 8, 2025, 3:24 pm
5 Thai hostages released from hospital, 10 days after they were freed by Hamas
Pongsak Thenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Watchara Sriaoun, Bannawat Seathao and Surasak Lamnau spent 482 days in Hamas captivity, are now set to fly back to Thailand
By ToI Staff
Wiwwaro Sriaoun, 53, a mother of a remaining Thai hostage captured by Hamas, Watchara Sriaoun, attends Sunday church service, in Kut Yang village, Udon Thani province, Thailand, October 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Thomas Suen)
October 7, 2024, 11:21 am
Rural Thai church resounds with prayers for return of captive son from Gaza
One of six Thais believed to be held hostage by Hamas, Watchara Sriaoun had worked in Israel with his brother to repay the family debt and cover his father’s medical bills
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Aleksandr 'Shura' Uman, left, and Egor Bortnik perform during the Bi-2 rock band concert in Moscow, Russia, December 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
February 1, 2024, 11:36 am
Dissident Russian rock band Bi-2 lands in Israel after deportation from Thailand
Bands members, four of whom are reportedly Israeli, arrested last week after concert in Phuket following suspected Kremlin pressure
By Melanie Lidman
A billboard bearing portraits of Israeli hostages taken by Palestinian terrorists in the October 7 attack in southern Israel is displayed during a demonstration calling for their release, in Tel Aviv on November 15, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
November 16, 2023, 4:37 pm
Mediator: 25 Thai hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are ‘safe’
Thai politician Lepong Syed says hostages could be released in ’10 days or less’ if ceasefire is agreed on by Israel and Hamas
By AFP and ToI Staff
A relative hugs a Thai overseas worker who was evacuated from Israel after Hamas's October 7 attacks, as he and others arrived at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, on October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
November 3, 2023, 1:17 am
Thai workers face dilemma: Stay and endure war, or flee but lose vital wages
7,000 Thai laborers left Israel after 23 were kidnapped to Gaza, 32 killed in October 7 massacre; others stay to keep earning salary 8 times higher than in Thailand
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
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