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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Russian embassy in Israel

Demonstrators carry placards during a protest following the death in jail of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on February 16, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
February 17, 2024, 11:01 am
Hundreds rally for Navalny in Tel Aviv, Haifa as Israeli officials stay silent on death
Kremlin critic’s death, widely blamed on Putin, sparks protests among Russian diaspora; rallies also held in Jerusalem, Netanya, Karmiel; rights group says 100 detained in Russia
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A Syrian fireman works to extinguish a fire caused by an alleged Israeli airstrike on the port of Latakia on December 28, 2021 (Screencapture/YouTube)
February 27, 2022, 1:15 pm
Russia says military coordination with Israel in Syria will continue as usual
Embassy says cooperation is daily and ‘useful,’ indicates condemnation over Ukraine invasion won’t influence Syrian arrangement
By Jacob Magid
Demonstrators carry placards and flags during a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, on February 24, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 24, 2022, 9:32 pm
‘Putin is the new Hitler’: Israelis protest invasion outside Russian embassy
Police arrest 4 over graffiti on outer wall of diplomatic mission; hundreds also gather by Russian consulate in Haifa
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia for drug offenses, at a rally at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 18, 2019, 9:17 pm
Israel to push for backpacker’s release, discuss travel limits with Russia
Delegation from the Kremlin set to arrive in Israel on Thursday, as jailed Israeli-American Naama Issachar faces appeal, and a day after 46 Israelis held up in Moscow for hours
By ToI Staff
This photo from May 17, 2015, shows the Domodedovo Airport in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)
December 18, 2019, 4:05 pm
Dozens of Israelis detained at Moscow airport, with no reason given
Foreign Ministry says only one Israeli still held, expected to soon be released; Russian embassy notes some 20 Russian tourists denied entry to Israel every day
By ToI Staff
PM Netanyahu places a small wheat basket at a monument the victims of the Holodomor, a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians and others, Kyiv, August 19, 2019 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 20, 2019, 7:39 pm
Russia denies seeking to stop Netanyahu from honoring Holodomor victims
Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv says it doesn’t interfere in Israel-Ukraine ties after report claims Moscow asked PM not to attend ceremony in Kyiv
By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, center, visits soldiers searching for Hezbollah attack tunnels on Israeli-Lebanese border on December 4, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 5, 2018, 1:31 pm
Russia backs Israel’s tunnel-busting op, calls for ‘restraint’
Moscow says Jerusalem has right to ‘prevent anyone from entering the country,’ but hopes IDF activities in the north won’t violate UN Resolution 1701
By Raphael Ahren
The Russian Embassy on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv. (Google maps)
September 20, 2018, 1:31 pm
In apparent about-turn, Russian embassy tears into Israel for downing of plane
Diplomatic mission blames ‘irresponsible and unfriendly actions’ of IAF for Syrian air defenses’ deadly targeting of aircraft
By ToI Staff
This image released Sunday, April 8, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a child receiving oxygen through respirators following an alleged poison gas attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria. Syrian rescuers and medics said the attack on Douma killed at least 40 people. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
April 10, 2018, 5:52 pm
Moscow censures Israel’s condemnation of ‘fake’ chemical gas attack
As bilateral tensions mount, Russian embassy slams Israel’s ‘hasty conclusion’ that Assad regime was behind deadly Douma raid
By Raphael Ahren
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the complete lifting of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow on January 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Vasily Maximov)
March 27, 2018, 10:36 pm
In spy wars, Israel chooses Russia over UK, but Trump could play spoiler
London expects solidarity after Salisbury poisoning, but Jerusalem is unlikely to start antagonizing Moscow — unless Washington gets involved
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Protesters hold signs during a demonstration calling to end the war in Syria near the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv on December 18, 2016.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 9:40 pm
As Britain’s key allies expel Russian diplomats, Israel opts not to
Russian official says Israel joins China, Brazil and India in trying to avoid controversy over nerve gas attack; Foreign Ministry mum
By Raphael Ahren
British military personnel wearing protective coveralls work to remove a vehicle connected to the March 4 nerve agent attack in Salisbury, from a residential street in Gillingham, southeast England, on March 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)
March 16, 2018, 8:56 pm
Moscow warns Israel of ‘anti-Russian hysteria’ over spy’s poisoning
After Jerusalem condemns attack on former agent, Russian embassy in Israel says UK, other countries trying to draw Jewish state into ‘political and propagandistic campaign’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Maxim Shipenkov)
February 15, 2018, 10:59 am
Russian official: If Iran attacks Israel, we’ll stand with you
Moscow’s deputy ambassador in Tel Aviv says while Israel was right to shoot down intruding drone, he doesn’t buy IDF’s assertion that Tehran was behind Saturday’s launch
By Raphael Ahren
Knesset Finance Committee chair MK Moshe Gafni. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 17, 2018, 12:49 pm
Moscow protests ultra-Orthodox MK’s anti-Russia sneer
After Moshe Gafni fumed that Israel ‘is turning into Russia,’ country’s embassy decries ‘longstanding Russophobic propaganda’
By Raphael Ahren
Russian Ambassador to Israel, Alexander Petrovich Shein, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. November 9, 2015. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
November 20, 2017, 4:06 pm
Iran is only in Syria to fight ‘terror,’ says Russia’s Israel envoy
Alexander Shein defends Iranian presence on Israel’s border, but insists Moscow respects Jerusalem’s security concerns
By Raphael Ahren
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