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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and visiting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin laid the foundation stone for a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on Tuesday. "Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Museum is a tribute to the thousands of Greek Jews exterminated in concentration camps," Tsipras...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin started his official visit to Greece on Monday by laying a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square, Athens. Afterwards Rivlin made his way to the presidential mansion, where he was received...

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the country's president, Reuven Rivlin, asked that his itinerary for this week's state visit to Greece be changed so he can see a Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki. The memorial had been tampered with by...

  A 2,300-year-old image depicting the birth of the Greek goddess Athena has been unearthed by scientists studying the remains of a Biblical site in Israel, local media have reported. The find in e-Tell, just north of the Sea of Galilee,...

Students and clubs of the University of Thessaloniki (UoT) demonstrated at the United States consulate in Thessaloniki, against the continuing detention of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, 16, who is awaiting trial in Israel for hitting two Israeli soldiers in...

Ten activists of the radical leftist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon), on Monday, vandalized the Israeli embassy building in Athens, Greece, with bottles of red paint. They arrived riding motorcycles at around 6:00 in the morning while the building was unmanned, and...

Members of Israeli far-right groups disrupted a Jerusalem community center's Hanukkah celebration, which incorporated Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and Mohammed's birthday. The protesters called the participants "Hellenists" and told them to "go back to Greece. The protest took place on Wednesday...

An Israeli mother and her daughter discovered an ancient clay candle holder dating back to the Hellenistic period – when Judah Maccabee fought against the ruler of Antiochus 2,200 years ago. While making their way through the mounds near the...

Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Israel agreed on Tuesday to back the construction of a gas pipeline from newly discovered fields in the eastern Mediterranean, to Europe. The project, known as East Med, involves a 2,000km long pipeline to channel offshore...

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the construction of the world’s longest underwater natural gas pipeline is to be signed by the the energy ministers of Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and the European Union on Tuesday. The MOU, to be signed...