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Hanukkah 2026: The new top Israeli destinations

With no direct flights, Dubai bookings plunge, while Western Europe drops 30%. Travel agents report a surge in Eastern Europe, where Israelis feel welcome and prices remain affordable.

Budapest, Hungary.
A member of the Orthodox Jewish community presents a creation by Hungarian designer Hajnalka Forizs during the "Kosher & Chic" fashion show in Budapest, Hungary, November 8, 2026.

Budapest Orthodox Jewish women host 'Kosher & Chic' fashion show to redefine modest style

Esports desks flank a trophy.

Singapore’s CS2 Major final follows the best-of-five format introduced in Budapest

Congregants dance outside the historic Wagon Drivers' Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, October 22, 2026.

'The future of Hungarian Jewry’: Budapest opens synagogue run entirely by teens


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.

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

This trip will be the first visit to Hungary by a senior Israeli official since Magyar took over the prime ministership from Viktor Orbán in April. 

President of Israel Isaac Herzog attends the Israel Police President’s Outstanding Officers Ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, September 6, 2026.

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

A brilliant, hopeless portrait of troubled childhood, Orphan references the war in nearly every disconsulate frame.

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.

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

The building, originally constructed exactly one hundred years ago, has been restored to its original purpose after decades of serving as a book warehouse and storage facility.

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

Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats, foreign minister says in major break from Viktor Orban era

"(Those expelled) were engaged in activities in Hungary that are unacceptable for diplomats under the Vienna Convention," Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orban said in a statement.

Hungary's Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Orban (R) looks at German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul as she speaks during a joint press conference after talks in Berlin, on June 10, 2026.

Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River

Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.

A drone view shows people swimming near a sunken German warship from World War II, exposed due to low Danube River levels caused by drought and extreme heat, in Prahovo, Serbia, July 30, 2026.

Is Israel the Jewish state that Theodor Herzl dreamed of? – opinion

As Herzl’s grandparents are reburied in Jerusalem, the Jewish state should revisit his ideas

The founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, is buried on the mountain named after him in 1949.

Hungarian opposition party Fidesz's office raided by prosecutors, party claims

"The Tisza Party's plan to eliminate Fidesz and with it the resistance to tyranny through political means has failed," the post read.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during Hungary's National Day celebrations in Budapest

Israeli flags seen as Iranian diaspora denounces US-Iran MoU in worldwide embassy protests

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called for a week of protests to coincide with the week-long funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Activists flew pro-Pahlavi flags, along with Israeli flags at certain sites.

A woman holds banners denouncing the Iranian regime, June 21, 2026; illustrative.

Cruising the Danube from Budapest to Vienna through centuries of Jewish history - review

A Danube cruise from Budapest to Vienna traces Jewish history, from a Jerusalem-born Roman centurion in Aquincum to Holocaust memorials, synagogues, and Jewish museums.

THE HUNGARIAN Parliament Building at night.