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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

Karin Kneissl

A protester holds a sign depicting Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, and Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache during a rally in Vienna, December 15, 2018. (ALEX HALADA/AFP)
March 3, 2019, 8:09 am
Austria’s Jews wary of far-right charm offensive
Jewish FPOe member says party fights Jew hatred, but wider community largely keeps its distance in the face of repeated scandals suggesting anti-Semitic attitudes are still present
By Sophie MAKRIS
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl meets delegates at an international conference on the Middle East in Warsaw, February 14, 2019 (Angelika Lauber)
February 22, 2019, 2:14 pm
Unfazed by current boycott, Austrian FM has fond memories of her time in Israel
Karin Kneissl, still shunned by Jerusalem for her ties with far-right Freedom Party, nostalgically recalls meeting Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Yitzhak Shamir in the late 80s
By Raphael Ahren
Austrian FM Karin Kneissl, left, addressing delegates at the Warsaw Middle East summit, February 14, 2019 (Angelika Lauber)
February 18, 2019, 1:41 pm
Despite official boycott, PM approached Austrian FM, senior Vienna official says
PM’s office denies conversation took place; Netanyahu said to have had a ‘short, friendly exchange of words’ with Karin Kneissl, who is affiliated with far-right Freedom Party
By Raphael Ahren
Oskar Deutsch, left, with Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen, meeting Jews in Jerusalem, February 2019. (HBF/Peter Lechner)
February 7, 2019, 1:06 pm
Austrian Jewish leader: No reason for Israel to end boycott of far-right FPOe
Oskar Deutsch, accompanying Austria’s president here this week, praises Jerusalem’s no-contact stance on FPOe as ‘Jewish foreign policy,’ says the party is ‘obviously’ anti-Semitic
By Raphael Ahren
Top PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, left, and Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl in Vienna, January 1, 2019 (Twitter)
January 2, 2019, 6:34 pm
Austrian Jews slam foreign minister for hosting top PLO official
Karin Kneissl invited Hanan Ashrawi to New Year’s concert in Vienna; community leader says she used visit to ‘demonize Israel’
By Raphael Ahren
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks to an Israeli Holocaust survivor from Austria in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
December 14, 2018, 12:26 am
Vienna says still wants to give citizenship to descendants of Holocaust victims
Rebutting claim that far-right Freedom Party stalling the move, Austrian envoy says it has broad consensus but is part of a ‘slow process’
By Raphael Ahren
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, seen writing a new Torah scroll at an event attended by Israeli and European rabbis, marking the Hebrew date of 69 years since the liberation of Jews in Europe, in the Western Wall tunnels, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 21, 2014. (Flash90)
December 4, 2018, 3:25 am
Top European rabbi sounds alarm on rise of far right
‘We’re going back to 1914,’ says Pinchas Goldschmidt; laments EU’s instability and that the US ‘replaced the State Department with Twitter’
By Raphael Ahren
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 29, 2018 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
November 17, 2018, 6:42 am
Austrian FM vows to stand up for Israel, which is currently boycotting her
Karin Kneissl, who is affiliated with the far-right Freedom Party, stresses need to oppose both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, says EU’s attitude to Israel requires ‘more realism’
By Raphael Ahren
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, and Defense Minister Mario Kunasek give a press conference in Vienna, Austria, on November 9, 2018, to comment on the case of a retired colonel in the Austrian army suspected of having spied for Russia for several decades. (Helmut Fohringer/APA/AFP)
November 9, 2018, 1:54 pm
Austria accuses colonel of spying for Russia for decades
‘Russian spying in Europe is unacceptable,’ says chancellor Sebastian Kurz of latest case, which follows Skripal poisoning in Britain and Russian cyber op in Holland
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. left, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 11, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)
November 7, 2018, 6:53 pm
Netanyahu to visit Vienna, a first for an Israeli premier in 20 years
PM will attend conference dedicated to fighting ‘anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism;’ won’t meet with officials from far-right Freedom Party
By Raphael Ahren
Minister of Housing and Construction Yoav Gallant speaks at a signing ceremony for an agreement to build new apartments in Haifa, March 19, 2018. (Flash90)
October 8, 2018, 11:36 pm
Israeli minister meets Austrian FM, breaking boycott of far-right FPOe
Though Karin Knessil notes talk at international forum was ‘unofficial,’ Yoav Galant becomes first cabinet member to hold contact with representative of controversial party
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (Avi Ohayun/GPO)
September 27, 2018, 3:14 am
Netanyahu hails ties with Austria after meeting with Kurz
Relations between Jerusalem and Vienna increasingly close despite the presence of the far-right Freedom party in the Austrian government
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)
June 11, 2018, 7:35 pm
As Kurz visits, Israel signals it may ease boycott on far-right Austrian party
Netanyahu heaps praise on chancellor, says Jerusalem to ‘intensify’ contacts with Vienna despite ban on Freedom Party-affiliated minister
By Raphael Ahren and Tamar Pileggi
Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl (C) and Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders attend a foreign affair council at the European Council in Brussels, January 22, 2018. (AFP photo / Emmanuel Dunand)
January 25, 2018, 3:41 pm
Austria’s new FM once dismissed two-state solution as ‘too complicated’
In 2014 interview, Karin Kneissl said she ‘never believed’ in the idea, because the territory is ‘eaten up’ by Israeli settlements
By Raphael Ahren
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl (George Schneider)
January 15, 2018, 3:29 pm
New Austrian FM denies having compared Zionism with Nazism
Boycotted by Jerusalem due to her affiliation with the far right, Karin Kneissl says her controversial quote was taken out of context, affirms Israel’s status as Jewish state
By Raphael Ahren
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