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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Viktor Orban

Voters fill in their ballot papers at a polling station during the European Parliament and the local elections in Salgotarjan, Hungary, June 9, 2024. (Peter Komka/MTI via AP)
June 9, 2024, 11:15 am
Polls open in 20 EU countries on final day of voting for European Parliament
Four-day election cycle winds up as citizen members of European Union bloc cast votes for 720 elected members; all eyes on possible gains by far-right parties
By LORNE COOK
Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, in New York, May 31, 2024. (Julia Nikhinson/AP)
June 2, 2024, 10:03 am
Trump’s attacks on US justice system could be useful to autocrats like Putin
Authoritarian leaders could manipulate convicted former president’s claims of an unfair trial to boost their own standing at home, tarnish US image as a reliable democracy
By Emma Burrows
Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
March 12, 2024, 6:49 pm
Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin, former staff claim in new book
Excerpt from Jim Sciutto’s ‘The Return of Great Powers’ shares insight into former, and would-be, US president’s desire to emulate the ‘tough guy’ authoritarians he looks up to
By ToI Staff
VVD party members watch on a screen Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders addressing a speech after the announcement of the first exit polls of the general election, at the VVD party headquarters in The Hague, on November 22, 2023 (JOHN THYS / AFP)
November 23, 2023, 12:27 pm
Far-right anti-Islamist Wilders wins Dutch election, sending shockwaves through Europe
Wilders will begin talks with right and center parties in order to form a coalition, which, if successful, will make him the Netherlands’ most right-wing prime minister ever
By Mike Corder and Raf Casert
Israel's Raz Shlomo, left, tries to block Switzerland's Ruben Vargas during the Euro 2024 group I qualifying soccer match between Israel and Switzerland at the Pancho Arena in Felcsut, Hungary, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. (AP/Denes Erdos)
November 16, 2023, 2:51 am
Israel and Switzerland draw 1-1 in Euro 2024 qualifying game in Hungary
Match held in small village of around 1,900 people after all scheduled games in Tel Aviv were postponed due to war
By AP
Regent of Hungary Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (left) with Adolf Hitler, year unspecified. (Wikimedia Commons)
September 6, 2023, 5:52 pm
Hungarian minister slammed for feting Nazi-allied WWII leader as hero and patriot
Israel says praise of Miklos Horthy, a self-described antisemite, ‘has no place in a modern Hungary’; US expresses concern over Budapest’s efforts to rehabilitate his legacy
By BELA SZANDELSZKY
Illustrative: In this August 3, 2014, photo, an armed Israeli drone circles over Gaza City. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
August 18, 2023, 6:59 pm
Hungary to produce combat drones in cooperation with Israel and Germany
Orban: ‘If I heard about a country that produces and develops military technology together with Germans and Israelis, I would think twice about messing with them’
By BELA SZANDELSZKY
Participants march during the 28th Budapest Pride parade in Budapest, Hungary, July 15, 2023. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP)
July 16, 2023, 5:32 pm
Israel refuses to sign joint statement slating Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ laws – report
Foreign Ministry official quoted saying Jerusalem seeking to avoid ‘attack’ on allied government; Lapid says coalition ‘taken hostage by extremist minority of fanatics’
By ToI Staff and AP
File: Alexander Soros attends the 2016 Gordon Parks Foundation awards dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on May 24, 2016. (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images North America/AFP)
June 17, 2023, 12:02 am
Hungarian government, media set sights on Soros’s son
Reaction to rise of bete noire’s son shows methods of pro-government media in a landscape where independent outlets have been marginalized
By Ede ZABORSZKY
Gergely Gulyas, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, interviewed in Jerusalem, June 14, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
June 16, 2023, 4:51 am
In Israel, top Orban aide says Russian aggression violates international law
Hungary’s Gergely Gulyas, minister in PM’s office, meets Netanyahu and Dermer, as rumors swirl of embassy move
By Lazar Berman
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) with his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó in Budapest, May 31, 2023. (Israeli Embassy in Hungary)
June 1, 2023, 7:07 pm
Hungary denies it’s decided to move embassy to Jerusalem
After FM Eli Cohen says announcement coming in matter of weeks, Budapest — seemingly caught off-guard — tempers expectations
By Lazar Berman
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the parliament in Budapest, Hungary, on March 27, 2023. (Denes Erdos/AP)
May 24, 2023, 10:26 am
Hungary’s Orban says Ukraine can’t win against Russia, calls for negotiated peace
Right-wing prime minister tells economic conference in Qatar that Russian invasion was result of ‘failed diplomacy’ and that Europe needs a new security accord with Moscow
By AFP
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 10:50 pm
FM Cohen headed to Hungary next week, with Orban meeting in the works
Top diplomat to also visit Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovakia on Europe tour; Budapest has been called model for proposed judicial overhaul
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban hold a joint press conference at the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary on July 18, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)
May 8, 2023, 1:54 am
Envoy for Hungary’s Orban will reportedly visit Israel next week, meet Netanyahu
Top Budapest official would be first Hungarian figure to visit Israel since swearing-in of new hardline government, with Netanyahu and Orban long having close ties
By ToI Staff
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, looks on as Pope Francis walks away after a welcoming ceremony at Sandor Palace in Budapest on April 28, 2023. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)
April 29, 2023, 12:39 am
Pope urges ‘openness toward others’ at event in Hungary with nationalist PM Orban
Pontiff calls for recovery of ‘European spirit,’ warns against ‘withdrawing into oneself’ during speech in Budapest to audience including anti-immigrant prime minister
By AFP
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