"Israel has stood by the Ukrainian people over the past year," Foreign Minister Eli Cohen says ahead of meeting with Ukrainian leadership. Cohen was expected to announce measures to help Ukraine and rededicate embassy.
Ofer Sofer is said to believe that his predecessors missed out on a great opportunity by not encouraging aliyah from France in the past decade, especially as the country experienced an increase in terror and antisemitic attacks.
"It would be an honor to be twinned with Tel Aviv,” Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida says. Speaking to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, he offers "Madrid's commitment to democracy and freedom."
The Ukrainian president arrives at the European Union's legislature in Brussels on Thursday. “The European Union will stand by Ukraine with steadfast support for as long as it takes,” a draft of the summit conclusions says.
Ada Colau says she made the decision "at the request of more than 100 entities and thousands of Barcelona neighbors."
Operation "Olive Branches" is the IDF's 30th search and rescue mission in the past 41 years. "We are also ready for humanitarian aid, but the Turkish government has requested search and rescue teams at this stage. We are aware that other earthquakes could happen," delegation leader Col. Golan Vach says.
The former prime minister said that during his mediation, the Russian president dropped his vow to seek Ukraine's disarmament and Zelenskyy promised not to join NATO.
"Any attempts – implemented or even unrealized but announced – for the supply of additional, new or some other weapons will lead to an escalation of this crisis," says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
Netanyahu tells CNN that he received an "unofficial" request in 2022 – at the start of the Russian invasion – for him to mediate, but turned it down because he was not prime minister.
While in Belgium, Isaac Herzog is scheduled to meet NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg whom he will brief on Israel's strategic situation.