April 12, 2023
Greece, Politics
Israeli police will curb the number of worshippers in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem for safety reasons during Orthodox Easter ceremonies on Saturday, drawing anger from church leaders who said they would not cooperate. With huge crowds expected in the cramped alleyways of the Old City, …
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March 29, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The supply of SPIKE-NLOS missiles systems for the needs of the Armed Forces was approved by Greece’s Government Council on National Security & Foreign Affairs (KYSEA) at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday morning. SPIKE-NLOS is an Israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with …
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March 16, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece and Israel signed the 2023 Defense Cooperation Program in a meeting in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (HNDGS) announced. On Greece’s side, the program was signed by HNDGS’s Director of International Relations Brigadier General Nikolaos Holevas, and from Israel by Colonel Gil Dolov, the …
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November 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
The defense ministers of Israel and Greece on Friday stressed the importance of maintaining strong alliances to tackle global and regional threats, citing challenges such as the war in Ukraine and ongoing tension in the eastern Mediterranean. “The world is changing,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said after meeting in …
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November 15, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Multinational exercise “Niriis-22” took place from November 5 to 13 in the wider area of Crete and south of the Peloponnese, with the participation of personnel and media of the armed forces of Greece, the USA and Israel. Also participating in the exercise was the Standing NATO Maritime Group Two, …
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July 24, 2022
FEATURED, Sky
Αn array of bright dots quickly crossed the night sky in Greece late on Saturday sparking rumors and speculations. The mysterious lights were seen in Central and northern Greece but also in parts of Israel, Turkey, Boulgaria, Lebanon. According to local media lamiareport.gr residents of Fthiotida and thus in various …
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July 14, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greek-Israeli srael joint Air Force exercise “Frizis Damas 2022” took place in the FIR of Tel Aviv and Nicosia on Tuesday, July 12. The impressive exercise included air-to-air missions and attacks on ground targets The Hellenic and Israeli Air Forces took part in a joint exercise called “Frizis Damas …
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March 31, 2022
Economy
A potential gas pipeline project between Turkey and Israel is not possible in the short-term and building an alternative system to cut dependence on Russia will not happen quickly, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. Turkey and Israel have in recent weeks been working to mend their long-strained …
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March 18, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
An Israeli politician has reportedly floated the idea of purchasing Greek islands as a contingency plan for the evacuation of Israelis in case of an Iranian missile attack. Avri Steiner, a representative of the Blue and White party (Kahol Lavan) led by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, suggested the idea …
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February 16, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greece-Israel Defense Cooperation Program 2022 was signed on Tuesday, as announced by the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (HNDGS). It was signed by HNDGS’s Director of International Relations Brigadier General Nikolaos Holevas, and Head of the International Cooperation Department of the General Staff of Israel’s Armed Forces Colonel Gil …
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January 9, 2022
Greece, Politics
With a non-paper the US State Department has ‘ended” the EastMed project, Greek media have been reporting in the last two days. With a length of 1,900 km and a cost of some 6 billion euros, the Eastern Mediterranean pipeline (Eastmed) was planned to transfer natural gas from the Levantine …
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December 7, 2021
Greece, Politics
“Our relations with Israel have never been better,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in joint statements with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The prime minister referred to the strategic alliance between the three countries. Speaking about the pandemic, he stressed the …
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August 23, 2021
Greece, Politics
“There are countries in our neighborhood that, even in contrast to the interest of their societies, are trying to revive old empires and old perceptions,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said after the Greece-Cyprus-Israel tripartite meeting held in Jerusalem on Sunday. “Literally buried in the sand of the past and they …
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August 6, 2021
Politics, World
International aid finally started to arrive in Greece to assist against the horrendous forest fires that burn down the country and make homeless thousands of people.The aid from France, Sweden, Cyprus, Switzerland and Romania comes after the Greece activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism a few days ago. Greece has …
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June 15, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Israel’s Aerospace Industries (IAI) is leasing Maritime Heron drones to Greece for a period of three years, with an option to purchase the system upon completion of the leasing period, the IAI said in a statement released last week. The flexibility of leasing agreements is demonstrated by the recent contracts …
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May 18, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“I condemn in the clearest way the firing of thousands of rockets by Hamas against Israel,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told reporters on Tuesday following meetings with officials of the Israeli government and the Palestinian authority. He reiterated Greece’s position that “Israel, like every country in the world, has …
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May 17, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday and Egypt on Thursday, a foreign ministry announcement said on Monday. According to media, Greece aims to assume a mediator role between Israelis and Palestinians. Dendias will hold meetings with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem …
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May 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
The escalation of violence in Jerusalem and Gaza must stop, the Greek foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. It stressed that Greece was deeply concerned about the recent rocket attacks on civilians in Israel, which were reprehensible, and called for an immediate end to them. “At the same …
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May 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece has begun clinical trials of an Israeli coronavirus treatment in two hospitals. The treatment with EXO-CD24 will be administered to a total of 90 patients suffering from mild or moderate Covid-19 infection at the Sotiria and Attikon hospitals in Athens. Speaking on Mega TV on Wednesday, Mina Gaga, director …
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April 30, 2021
Very Mix
An El Al civilian aircraft that took off from New York for Tel Aviv was escorted back to Israeli airspace on Good Friday, April 30, after entering the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR). As the aircraft entered the Athens FIR, the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre in Torrejon, Spain alerted …
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