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A woman wearing a protective face mask and gloves to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus carries her purchases as she leaves a store which sells dates, a favorite fruit for the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tehran on April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 19, 2020, 11:56 pm
Israel sees ‘dramatic’ increase in Iranians asking for help emigrating
Even before pandemic, thousands of Iranians reached out through Israeli government’s social media accounts, diplomats say, but stress Jerusalem cannot offer more than information
By Raphael Ahren
The 36th Foreign Ministry cadet's course, March 2020 (MFA)
March 15, 2020, 12:36 am
Entire Foreign Ministry cadet course in quarantine due to case of COVID-19
21 future diplomats and three instructors in self-isolation after cadet found infected with coronavirus
By Raphael Ahren
In this photo from October 8, 2019, technicians walk at the three thematic districts at the under construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
December 10, 2019, 9:27 pm
Israel confirms participation in 2020 Expo world fair in Dubai
Top Foreign Ministry official visits UAE to sign deal to take part; FM Katz says shift ‘reflects the rise in Israel’s status’ in Arab world
By ToI Staff
A screen shot from a Foreign Ministry video showing a preview of the Israeli pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai (courtesy MFA)
September 16, 2019, 4:55 am
Israel offers preview of its pavilion at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai
‘Towards tomorrow’: Israel’s booth at UAE exposition a rare opportunity to showcase Israeli innovation in water technology, health and hi-tech to the Arab World
By Raphael Ahren
FM Katz, right, speaks at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, August 6, 2019 (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset)
August 6, 2019, 5:54 pm
Foreign minister says he’s working toward open ties with Gulf ‘frenemies’
Formal deals ‘realistic’ even if disagreements over Palestinians persist, Israel Katz says at maiden appearance before powerful Knesset panel
By Raphael Ahren
Israel Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)
May 29, 2019, 8:40 pm
With temporary term up, Netanyahu makes Israel Katz official foreign minister
Even with possibility of new elections looming, appointment of top diplomat made permanent; PM gave up portfolio in response to court petition
By Raoul Wootliff
Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera, left, and the director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry Yuval Rotem open Israel's new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, April 1, 2019 (courtesy MFA)
April 1, 2019, 3:48 pm
Boosting diplomatic drive to Africa, Israel opens embassy in Rwanda
New mission in Kigali is Israel’s 11th embassy on the continent; ‘Rwanda has proven to be a steady, true friend,’ Foreign Ministry says
By Raphael Ahren
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2018. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Pool/Flash90)
February 17, 2019, 10:55 am
Netanyahu taps Israel Katz as acting foreign minister
Katz vows to work with PM to promote Israel’s interests abroad; PM gives up portfolio in response to court petition over the number of ministerial positions he held
By ToI Staff
Russia's special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, right, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, July 26, 2018 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar/File)
January 28, 2019, 8:53 pm
Netanyahu to meet top Russian diplomats Tuesday, with Syria reportedly on agenda
Moscow’s deputy foreign minister and envoy on Syria hold ‘productive’ talks with Israeli Foreign Ministry chief
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) prepares to shake hands with Chadian President Idriss Deby as they deliver joint statements in Jerusalem November 25, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)
November 29, 2018, 12:42 am
Chad said to condition resumed ties with Israel on ‘extensive’ weapons sales
Foreign Ministry officials say ‘very extensive’ list of demands presented during Idriss Déby’s historic visit last week has caused ‘serious concern’
By Tamar Pileggi
Leah, right, and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin whose body was kidnapped by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attend a press conference in Ramat Gan, April 25, 2018. (Flash90)
September 2, 2018, 7:46 pm
Family of slain IDF soldier say PM doing ‘nothing’ to retrieve son’s remains
After meeting PM, parents of Hadar Goldin, whose body is believed held by Hamas, blast ceasefire negotiations with terror group
By ToI Staff
The cover page of an Israeli Foreign Ministry Facebook page, 'Israel in Iraqi dialect,' launched in May 2018 (screen shot: Facebook)
May 6, 2018, 10:16 pm
Israel reaches out to Iraqis on Facebook
Foreign Ministry’s new ‘digital embassy’ seeks to harness war-torn country’s supposed affinity for Israel with page highlighting ‘glorious’ Jewish-Iraqi history
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Flowers are placed at the memorial to Janusz Korczak who died in the gas chamber of the Treblinka Nazi German death camp in 1942 together with the children of the Jewish orphanage that he ran in the Warsaw Ghetto, at the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
March 2, 2018, 4:46 pm
Polish official: Germany may owe us $850 billion for WWII war crimes
Parliamentary team in Warsaw is working on potential reparations demand to compensate ‘for destroyed cities, villages and the lost demographic potential of our country’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A student on a trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in modern-day Poland on April 27, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 29, 2018, 2:03 pm
Poland signals talks with Israel will not change controversial Holocaust bill
Spokesperson says dialogue with Jerusalem over legislation that criminalizes the blaming of Poland for Nazi crimes ‘will not concern sovereign decisions of parliament’
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
US Vice President Mike Pence, 2nd left, and his wife Karen, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2nd right, and his wife Sara during a ceremony at the remembrance hall at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Yad Vashem)
January 25, 2018, 8:10 am
Foreign ministry official chided for comments on ‘First Lady’ Sara Netanyahu
Chief of Protocol Meron Reuben tells a reporter that Prime Minister’s Office apparently invented the term, which doesn’t officially exist in Israel
By Stuart Winer
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