Greece

A representative from Israel is looking to purchase a number of small Greek islands to serve as a safe haven for Jewish people, according to the newspaper Haaretz. Avri Steiner, a representative of the centrist party Kahol Lavan, proposed that...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is visiting Greece on Thursday ahead of a trip to Turkey that he will take in early March. Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou welcomed her Israeli counterpart to Athens. Herzog is in Greece as part of an...

An Israeli company, Israel Aerospace Industries, is now leasing maritime reconnaissance drones to Greece, which will have an option to buy.

Greek authorities have decided to accept 10,000 vaccinated Israeli tourists per week as part of its ‘Green Pass’ initiative.

An Israeli consortium of the firms SK Group and Plasan intend to acquire 90% of the Hellenic Vehicle Industry (ELVO), which will manufacture tanks for the Greek Army as well as the Greek police. As reported in Auto News, the...

Greece will acquire drones from Israel to defend its borders, in the very first military deal between the two countries which includes an option to buy the system, Reuters reports. The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that the agreement...

Israeli Professor Yuval Noah Harari said recently in an online interview that he would prefer Greece to lead the world in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, due to the results it has experienced so far. Harari, a historian and...

Governmental delegations from Greece, Israel and the Republic of Cyprus signed the agreement for the construction of the EastMed pipeline in an official ceremony at Athens' Zappeion Megaron today. Upon its completion the natural-gas pipeline will connect the three countries, transporting...

The Cypriot government denied on Sunday reports in the Israeli press that Turkish navy ships intercepted an Israeli research ship in Cypriot waters two weeks ago and drove it away. A government spokesman told Cypriot daily Phileleftheros that no such...

More than 700 VIP guests gathered at a club on the cosmopolitan Greek island of Mykonos on Thursday for a party thrown by Israeli business magnate and philanthropist Idan Ofer. The extravaganza was organized by Ofer to celebrate the tenth...

Twelve Israeli tourists were arrested at the popular Cyprus resort of Ayia Napa on Wednesday after a British woman said that she had been raped. State broadcaster RIK reported that the alleged rape happened early Wednesday in the hotel where...

Students from schools in Israel and Greece met on Wednesday in Athens as part of the "Young Ambassadors" initiative from Israel's "Young Leadership Center." Pausanias Papageorgiou, the Secretary General for Lifelong Learning of the Greek Ministry of Education, praised the eighty...

A large number of tourists from Israel are expected to visit Greece in 2019, as the two countries have formed a new, strategic relationship with cooperation in various fields. The Greek Ministry of Tourism has already outlined its strategy to...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a statement on his personal Twitter account on Saturday night accusing the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the Turkish occupation of the northern part of Cyprus, calling him an ''occupier''. https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1076553913065705475 The...

Energean Oil, an international oil and gas exploration and production company based in Greece which has developed sites in Israel and in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, announced on Monday that it has signed an new agreement. The new compact...