Greece israel relations

New Greek air defense deal reflects its growing regional alliance against Turkey - analysis

Greece will procure a multi-layered air defense system from Israel for around euro 3.5 billion, which will be integrated into its Achilles Shield defense system.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems's SPYDER air defense system
Newly acquired Polish F-35 Lightning II stealth strike fighters, named 'Husarz' in reference to the Polish "winged hussar" cavalry units, fly in formation accompanied by F-16 jets during a flypast over Westerplatte, as part of the celebratory event dubbed "Welcome to Poland", in Gdansk, Poland, June

Greece says US selling F-35s to Erdogan is concerning, demands security guarantees from Ankara

 TURKEY-IRAQ-KURDS-MILITARY-DRILL A photographer takes pictures as soldiers stand next to tanks bearing Turkish and Iraqi flags during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border at Silopi district in Sirnak on September 26, 2017.

Iraq, Turkey discuss protocol to keep oil exports flowing, Iraqi foreign ministry says

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi leave after a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2026.

Israel looks from the Mediterranean to India for a new strategic front to contain Iran - analysis


A democratic bloc in the eastern Mediterranean

Political elites’ agreements need some public support.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades (C) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attend a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus May 8, 2018.

Whither Greece-Israel relations?

Eight years after prime ministers George Papandreou and Benjamin Netanyahu took the first steps for opening a new chapter in Greek-Israeli relations, the bilateral partnership is stronger than ever

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN inspects a guard of honour during a welcome ceremony in Athens in January, 2018..

The last Renaissance man

A search for the Jewish soul of Chania.

INTERIOR OF the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania, Greece.

Greek firm Energean to invest $1.3b in Israeli reservoir

The Greek firm has a goal of supplying natural gas to Israel by 2020.

AN AERIAL SHOT of Prinos, a Greek oil reservoir that belongs to the energy firm Energean.

Netanyahu flies to Thessaloniki for trilateral summit with Greece, Cyprus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises Swiss, Dutch for reassessing funding to terrorist-glorifying Palestinian NGOs.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive in Thessaloniki, Greece

American fighter pilots in Israel for joint drill

Exercises will take place near the southern city of Eilat at the Air Force’s Uvda airbase.

IAF fighter jets during the Red Flag joint exercise at Nellis air force base in Nevada

Government approves sale of Karish and Tanin gas reservoirs

Greek developer Energean: Gas expected to flow by 2020.

AN AERIAL SHOT of Prinos, a Greek oil reservoir that belongs to the energy firm Energean.

Israel, Greece, Cyprus to hold second trilateral summit

Meeting in Jerusalem comes less than a year after ‘strategic alliance’ announced in Nicosia.

Trilateral consultations between Israel, Greece and Cyprus hosted by the Foreign Minister in Jerusalem

My Ioannina

Even though it was all very pleasant and it was 2016, the Holocaust hovered over us.

'The cantor blew the shofar so beautifully that it brought many to tears.’

‘Time has come to dream and imagine a new Eastern Mediterranean’

Glafcos Clerides and Shimon Peres: The legacy of two realistic statesmen with a vision for peace.

PROTESTORS HOLD a Cyprus flag during a demonstration in favor of a peace settlement on divided Cyprus