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Orban’s paradox: A friend of Israel, a challenge for Jews - analysis

Orban may have been an ultra-nationalist. He may have been anti-immigration. He may have been illiberal. But he had Israel’s back. Repeatedly.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands in Budapest in April 2025.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts onstage as people applaud after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026.

Israel loses Hungary as key EU ally as Viktor Orban exits power - analysis

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reacts onstage as people applaud after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026.

Israel must avoid taking sides in foreign elections - opinion

PETER MAGYAR, leader of the opposition Tisza Party, speaks during a press conference a day after the parliamentary election, in which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat, Budapest, Hungary, April 13, 2026.

Hungary, Israel share 'special relationship,' Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar says


Why the academy matters: Combatting antisemitism on university campuses

The effort to create scholarship on antisemitism within the academy today is essential for the continued flourishing of Jewish communities.

 JAPAN’S EMPRESS Masako leaves the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford after receiving an honorary degree, accompanied by Emperor Naruhito and academics, last year. The jargon used against Israel today was created in British universities, the writers inform.

Israeli PM Netanyahu to visit Hungary before Easter -Hungary PM Orban's chief of staff

Orban said he would guarantee that Netanyahu's recent ICC arrest warrant would "not be observed."

Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during joint statements at the Prime Minister’s Office.

'Budapest is ours': Annual neo-Nazi holiday celebration commences in Hungary

Thousands of individuals—many of whom wore far-right insignia and Nazi uniforms—participated in a 'memorial hike' from Buda Castle.

 European far-right groups gather in Budapest each year for the so-called "Day of Honour" to mark a failed attempt by Nazi and Hungarian troops in 1945 to break out of the city during the Soviet army's siege.

240 Hungarian schools evacuate over bomb threat, including Jewish school

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced heightened security measures and ongoing investigations following the series of bomb threats that disrupted schools across Hungary.

 A traffic warden and a police officer stand in front of an empty school in Budapest on January 23, 2025 following bomb threats. Schools across Hungary received bomb threats on January 23, 2025.

Hungary's Orban: Donald Trump will set off new right-wing surge in Europe

The nationalist premier, a long-time Trump supporter, envisages a "golden era" for relations between the US and EU member state Hungary under Trump's presidency.

 US President Trump meets with Hungary's Prime Minister Orban at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2019

Raoul Wallenberg Day: Remembering the hero who saved 100,000 Jews – opinion

Remembering Raoul Wallenberg, a hero who risked it all to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.

Raoul Wallenberg

Bow, horn plate, a silver hair ring: 10th century female warrior tomb found in Hungary

Researchers identified the first known female burial mound in the Carpathian Basin from this period.

 Bow, horn plate, a silver hair ring: 10th century female warrior tomb found in Hungary.

Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel on fascism

Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather wrote WWII-era laws that Jews from public spaces, will be writing a book on fascism.

 Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber.

Hungary's EU minister to 'Post': 'If we lose our Jewish communities, we lose our European identity'

ANTISEMITISM AFFAIRS: Bóka warned that the threat to Jewish life in Europe, resulting from rising antisemitism in the Western countries of the EU is a threat to Europe.

 DURING THE last six months Hungarian Minister for EU Affairs János Bóka had the very delicate mission of managing the rotating Hungarian presidency of the EU. Here, Boka attends a panel discussion at the Budapest Balkans Forum 2024 meeting in Budapest in March.

US Supreme Court questions Holocaust restitution lawsuit against Hungary

Supreme Court justices signal skepticism about allowing Holocaust victims to pursue stolen property cases against Hungary in US courts.

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building on the first day of the court's new term in Washington, U.S. October 3, 2022.