Budapest

Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats, foreign minister says in major break from Viktor Orban era

"(Those expelled) were engaged in activities in Hungary that are unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention," Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban said in a statement.

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Hungary's Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Orban (R) looks at German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul as she speaks during a joint press conference after talks in Berlin, on June 10, 2026.
A drone view shows people swimming near a sunken German warship from World War II, exposed due to low Danube River levels caused by drought and extreme heat, in Prahovo, Serbia, July 30, 2026.

Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River

Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM, REUTERS
The founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, is buried on the mountain named after him in 1949.

Is Israel the Jewish state that Theodor Herzl dreamed of? – opinion

As Herzl’s grandparents are reburied in Jerusalem, the Jewish state should revisit his ideas

|ByTOVA HERZL
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during Hungary's National Day celebrations in Budapest

Hungarian opposition party Fidesz's office raided by prosecutors, party claims

"The Tisza Party's plan to eliminate Fidesz and with it the resistance to tyranny through political means has failed," the post read.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Historic Budapest synagogue to reopen amid Jewish cultural revival

Tamas Irsai was a teenager when he last sang in the choir in Budapest's Rumbach synagogue during World War Two.

AUGUST 19, 2019ByREUTERS
Budapest's Great Synagogue: 'In Europe,' I could always tell where the synagogues and Jewish schools were located because they were protected by concrete barriers and heavily armed police.'

Operatic milestone

We are due to get a taste of the Middle East, albeit a musically presented historic slice, straight from Budapest.

AUGUST 14, 2019ByBARRY DAVIS
‘The Queen of Sheba’

2,300 Jewish athletes gather in Budapest for European Maccabi Games

This year’s games, which takes place at several venues, includes 20 categories, including swimming, chess, fencing, soccer and boxing.

JULY 31, 2019ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
2019 Maccabi Europe Games To Be Held In Budapest

IHRA to advise on Budapest Holocaust Museum

Controversial historian Maria Schmidt is no longer involved in the project.

JUNE 6, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A STAR of David is seen at the new Holocaust museum called the House of Fates in Budapest, Hungary, last year