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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) attend the funeral service for US Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Washington National Cathedral on July 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
July 30, 2026, 5:16 pm
Giving Ukraine the cold shoulder in DC, Netanyahu freezes out ally against Iran
Ukraine and Israel are both fighting the Iran-Russia axis; there are many areas of potential cooperation, including drone defense, but Israel won’t move much closer
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) attend the funeral service for US Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Washington National Cathedral on July 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
July 29, 2026, 2:06 am
At Graham funeral, Netanyahu and Zelensky speak in person for first time in 3 years
Report says PM’s office rebuffed request to meet with Ukrainian leader, as FM stresses threat that Iran poses to both Israel and Ukraine during call with his counterpart in Kyiv
By Lazar Berman and Agencies
A fiber optic-guided FPV drone is seen in footage published by Hezbollah on May 7, 2026. (Hezbollah media office)
May 12, 2026, 12:52 am
Ukraine’s envoy laments lack of Israeli ‘interest’ in country’s drone expertise
Korniychuk says Israelis frustrated over missed chance to save more soldiers lives’ in Lebanon, as IDF chief said to still be searching for solution
By ToI Staff and Stav Levaton
Illustrative: View of the Haifa port, March 15, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
April 30, 2026, 3:11 pm
Ship Ukraine says carries stolen grain will not offload in Israel after diplomatic row
Israeli official says decision made by importer, not government; Kyiv praises ‘welcome development,’ but Foreign Ministry keeps fight going online
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks to the media at the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)
April 30, 2026, 2:24 am
Senior diplomat meets Russian envoy, spurns EU rep amid stolen Ukraine grain fight
Jerusalem says ‘tweets’ from Kyiv not sufficient to prove grain seized by Russia is reaching Israel; Ukraine working with EU to sanction those involved in ‘this theft and illegal trade’
By Lazar Berman
Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, January 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 28, 2026, 9:42 pm
Sa’ar scolds Ukraine for doing Twitter diplomacy — but he does just the same, as does everyone else
Foreign minister regularly praises and lashes out against his counterparts on X, like other politicians. After a decade-plus of Trump tweets, it’s the new diplomatic normal
By Ben Sales
Left: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky reacts during a press conference at the German-Ukrainian government consultations in Berlin Germany, on April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi); Right: Gideon Sa’ar speaks during a meeting of the Subcommittee on Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, March 23, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2026, 7:05 pm
Israel says no proof Russian grain shipment ‘stolen,’ as Ukraine threatens sanctions
FM Sa’ar again accuses Zelensky of ‘Twitter diplomacy,’ after Ukrainian president says Israel ‘cannot be unaware’ cargo at Haifa port came from Russian-occupied territory
By Stav Levaton, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Workers load grain at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
April 28, 2026, 4:46 am
Kyiv summons Israeli envoy, EU warns of sanctions after 2nd ‘stolen’ grain ship incident
Ukraine says it ‘reserves right to deploy full suite of diplomatic and international legal responses’ if if Israel does not reject latest cargo from Russian-occupied lands
By Reuters and Nava Freiberg
View of the port in the northern city of Haifa, April 10, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)
April 16, 2026, 8:32 pm
Israel tells Ukraine too late to seize Russian grain ship as it left Haifa — report
Jerusalem said to have known about ship allegedly holding stolen Ukrainian grain for two weeks before it arrived; if confirmed, Israel would have violated sanctions
By Stav Levaton
View of the Haifa port, March 15, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
April 15, 2026, 9:34 am
Ukraine says Russian ship carrying stolen grain docked at Haifa, asks Israel to detain it
Ambassador said to have initially asked Israel to prevent the vessel from docking; Ukraine’s FM tells Sa’ar ‘illegal trade with stolen goods must not be allowed’
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky meet on the UN General Assembly sidelines on September 19, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/File)
March 31, 2026, 4:00 am
Zelensky: Putin helping Iran, yet Netanyahu wants to ‘balance’ between Russia and Ukraine
Ukrainian president says he showed Arab counterparts proof Moscow gave Iran intel against them, while Israel didn’t take up Kyiv’s offer to share expertise in shooting down Tehran-made drones
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Ukraine's former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov speaks to The Times of Israel in Tel Aviv, February 26, 2026 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
March 9, 2026, 3:44 pm
Backing strikes on Iran, Ukraine’s ex-defense chief says Kyiv can help defeat common foe
Oleksii Reznikov, who guided country during 2022 invasion, tells ToI that Israel and Ukraine can boost cooperation against Russia-Iran axis, and Europe should support Jerusalem, too
By Lazar Berman
A screen displays the voting results approving a draft resolution in support of lasting peace in Ukraine during the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Ukraine at UN Headquarters in New York, on February 24, 2026. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)
February 25, 2026, 12:52 am
Israel backs United Nations vote voicing support for Ukraine, as US abstains
Israeli ambassador to UN says Jerusalem and Washington ‘each have their own calculations’; FM Sa’ar announces 117 power generators will be sent to Kyiv region
By AFP and Lazar Berman
 Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka speaks to The Times of Israel in Jerusalem, December 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Embassy in Israel)
December 11, 2025, 6:33 pm
Pressured by Trump and threatened by Iran, Ukraine looks to revamp ties with Israel
Deputy PM Taras Kachka, the most senior Ukrainian official to visit Israel since 2022 Russian invasion, says bilateral relationship looking up, but strains over Russia persist
By Lazar Berman
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks during his press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
September 27, 2025, 5:54 pm
Zelensky says Israeli Patriot missile defense system is operating in Ukraine
Israel has denied supplying Kyiv with weapons, saying that the systems were American and returned to the US, which reportedly refurbished them and sent them to Ukraine
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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