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How committed is Germany to Israel's security? Only time will tell

Germany's devotion to Israeli security is now more in question than in years prior under different governments.

 GERMAN CHANCELLOR Olaf Scholz’s government sees itself attacked on two fronts because of weapons sales to Israel. Here, the chancellor meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv last October.
 GERMAN CHANCELLOR Olaf Scholz cleans the 'stumbling blocks' for the couple Hans Goslar and Ruth Judith Goslar (née Klee) in Berlin in November.

German MP: Six million reasons for our unprecedented wartime support

Israel, US carry out successful test of Arrow-3 missile over Alaska

Germany's Bundestag approves €560 million payment for Israel's Arrow-3

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, September 12, 2022.

Reviving Iran deal will spark arms race, terror wave, Lapid tell Scholz


First commercial medical cannabis export from Israel lands in Germany

Germany is home to the fastest-growing medical cannabis market outside the US.

Assi Rotbart, Chief Business Officer and Director at Panaxia, stands with Yuval Landschaft, the director of the Healthy Ministry's Medical Cannabis Unit alongside Israel's first commercial export of medical cannabis products to Germany.

German government funds new initiative to connect with Israeli startups

This is the first time that the German government, on the basis of an official decision by the Bundestag, will invest in the Israeli start-up ecosystem.

German and Israeli national flags

IAF lands in Germany for historic first joint drill

As part of the drill, the IAF will fly over Dachau Concentration Camp and over the Bavarian city of Fürstenfeldbruck, in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the 1972 Olympics.

The German and Israeli air forces participate in a historic exercise in August 2020

Germany’s annexation dilemma – and Israel’s non-answer

The view from Berlin is that they are about to get caught between two values, its alliance with Israel and the importance of the EU and international law, that they view as on the way to a collision.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2020

Should Israel trust Germany?

German Chancelor Angela Merkel shaking hands with President Reuven Rivlin, October 4, 2018

Israeli embassy slams German Social Democrats for hosting Iran antisemites

The social democrats, including German social democratic foreign minister Heiko Maas, have been under fire for mainstreaming Iranian regime antisemitism and Tehran's goal to destroy Israel.

AMBASSADOR JEREMY ISSACHAROFF

Germany’s parliament favors Merkel’s anti-Israel U.N. voting pattern

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Merkel stays silent on pro-Iran policy ahead of Israel visit

Merkel was silent on her government’s advocacy for the controversial 2015 Iran atomic deal.

Angela Merkel gestures during a cabinet meeting in Berlin

BDS activists shut down Berlin festival event due to Israeli sponsorship

The podium panel was titled “Boycott” and had to be ended because of the hostility created by the anti-Israel activists in the audience.

Activists from the BDS movement against Israel [File]

Merkel: Bad Iran deal better than no deal

In special Independence Day interview, the German chancellor discusses antisemitism, Mideast peace and Berlin's pledge to maintain Israel's national security.

Angela Merkel gestures during a cabinet meeting in Berlin

Israel-German ministerial meetings back on after year hiatus

Disagreements over settlement policy had prevented diplomatic meetings from happening between Israeli and German ministers.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak before a lunch as part of a one day governmental meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 16, 2016