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Hungary pledges stable ties with Israel as Herzog meets President Baka, PM Magyar in Budapest

“Hungary has been a friend and an ally on this long and difficult path,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said. It has a “clear and unequivocal policy of zero tolerance for antisemitism."

President Herzog welcomed by Hungarian President Baka in Budapest on October 20, 2026.
President of Israel Isaac Herzog attends the Israel Police President’s Outstanding Officers Ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, September 6, 2026.

Herzog to travel to Hungary, meet with PM Magyar, at Netanyahu's request

ALTHOUGH SET after World War II, ‘Orphan’ references the war in nearly every disconsolate frame, and captures the melancholy of trying to pick up the pieces after a tragedy of such a grand scale.

‘Orphan,’ the new film by László Nemes, tells a bleak story of a Jewish boy in 1950s Budapest

The rededication of Budapest's century-old Rákospalota synagogue.

Budapest Jewish community reopens, rededicates 100-year-old historic Rákospalota synagogue


Jewish 'guerrilla' group mobilizes against takeover of historic synagogue

Representatives of Chabad have repeatedly rejected the allegation of a takeover of the Budapest synagogue.

 Worshippers hold morning services outside the locked doors of the Kazinczy Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, July 21, 2023

Visiting the ghosts of Jewish Budapest

Budapest is an increasingly popular tourist destination for Israelis drawn by round-trip fares as low as NIS 260 for the three-hour direct flight from Tel Aviv.

 THE DOHÁNY Street Synagogue.

Jewish Israeli singer, Muslim Moroccan musician bring North African music to Budapest


Jews of Budapest, Hungary: The rise, fall of 'Judapest'

Jews were once the drivers of modernization in Hungary’s capital of Budapest, dominating its cultural and economic life. Then disaster struck.

 The Great Synagogue of Pest is said to be the largest synagogue in Europe.

KKL- JNF launches an outdoor unique exhibition of Israeli photographs

The exhibitions' opening ceremony was held with the participation of 7th district of Budapest's mayor and president of KKL-Hungary and Central Europe.


Budapest’s Chabad-run Milton Friedman University eyes a major expansion

The school, which goes by MFU, currently has about 700 full-time students, only about 15% of them Jewish. But thanks to a $22 million government grant awarded in May, the school is looking to expand.

 Budapest and the Danube River, August 29 2021.

IDF officers learn about Herzl, leadership in Budapest

The "Leadership Sees the Future Journey," as the program is called, deals with the importance of formulating a Zionist vision even today.

 20 IDF officers go to Budapest to learn about Zionism and leadership.

Sagi Muki loses to Iranian Saieid Mollaei in Grand Slam judo competition

Even though Muki was eliminated from the competition, he and Mollaei showed mutual respect and the two hugged each other after the fight.

IRANIAN SAIEID MOLLAEI, who fled his country after ignoring orders to drop out of a match in 2019 to avoid facing Israeli judoka Sagi Muki, won a silver medal over the weekend at the Tel Aviv Grand Slam at the Drive-In Arena.

Ukrainian refugees celebrate personal exodus during Passover

The Jewish Agency's main Passover Seder took place at the Jewish emergency center in Warsaw, Poland, while another one took place in Budapest for thousands of Jewish refugees from Ukraine.

 Ukrainian Jews celebrating the Passover Seder in a Jewish Agency aid center in Budapest, Hungary.

Jews in Hungary, Moldova, Poland Celebrate Purim with Ukrainian Refugees

Even if not physically, we can fight the war spiritually,” Chief Rabbi Shlomo Köves said.

 Celebration of Purim in Hungary with child refugees from Ukraine.