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Sir — Blue Monday is tomorrow, January 15. It’s reputed to be the most depressing day of the year due to inclement weather, dark evenings, overdrawn bank accounts, maxed out credit cards, broken new year resolutions and the Christmas spirit fading fast.
Are Irish-Israeli relations irrevocably doomed? They have never been more than lukewarm at best. Ireland only established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1975 and only in 1996 did it open a resident embassy in Israel. The relations between us in almost every field of human and state endeavour have not substantially deviated from this mindset and Ireland has consistently taken the most critical position towards Israel of any country in the EU.
The families of the hostages, together with the diplomatic team of the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum headquarters, has sent a letter to the Qatari delegation that arrived in Israel on Saturday, seeking an urgent meeting.In their ...
Movers and shakers in Israeli society
In an exclusive conversation with WION's correspondent Jodie Cohen, former ambassador of Israel to India, Mark Sofer has said that he is hopeful that diplomacy will solve the Ukraine crisis. Russia has massed an estimated 150,000 troops on three sides of Ukraine, the biggest such buildup since the Cold War. Moscow denies it has any plans to attack, but wants Western guarantees that NATO won’t allow Ukraine and other former Soviet countries to join as members.