The Greek Municipality of Volos participated in the International Mediterranean Tourism Market of Tel Aviv with its own stall under the auspices of the Municipality of Zagoras-Mouresiou and businessmen of the region. The International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM 2012) has established itself as a premier business to business exhibition for the travel industry. Travel and [...]
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Greek Municipality of Volos Promoted At International Mediterranean Tourism Market of Tel Aviv
Israel and Thessaloniki Develop Stronger Ties with Tourism
Overnight stays of Israeli tourists in the hotels of Thessaloniki have increased fivefold in 2011, reaching 59,000, while estimates for 2011 expect a further rise. The fact indicates the warming up of bilateral relations between Israel and the Greek port city, which was also called “second Jerusalem” because of its increased Jewish presence over the [...]
Ultranationalist Jewish Vandals Attack Baptist Church in West Jerusalem
Vandals daubed “Death to Christianity” on a Jerusalem church on Monday in the second such attack in the holy city this month, police said. The words “Price Tag”, a slogan used by ultranationalist Jewish settlers, were also scrawled on the walls of the Baptist Narkis Street Congregation in a quiet residential neighborhood in Jewish west [...]
Unknown Vandals Spray Graffiti Threat on Greek Orthodox Monastery in Jerusalem
A Jerusalem monastery, built on the site where tradition says the tree used in the making of Jesus’s cross once stood, was defaced with “Death to Christians” graffiti on Tuesday. The words “Price Tag” daubed on a vandalized car parked outside the 11th-century Monastery of the Cross suggested that militant Jewish settlers were responsible and [...]
Scholars Call for Israeli Knesset To Recognize Assyrian and Greek Genocide
In a significant milestone for efforts towards the worldwide recognition of the Assyrian genocide, nearly thirty internationally renowned holocaust and genocide scholars, and Assyrian and Greek social, cultural and religious groups, have written to the Israeli Knesset calling for the inclusion of Assyrians and Greeks in the Knesset’s forthcoming legislation on remembrance of the Armenian [...]
PASOK Leader George Papandreou Meets Peres and Netanyahu in Israel
A meeting was held in Israel on Tuesday among PASOK party leader George Papandreou, Israeli President Shimon Peres and the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Papandreou said that during the meeting they discussed the crisis in the Eurozone as well as the proposals suggested by Greece and PASOK for a “developmental prospect of the European [...]
Trilingual Greek Tragedy to Be Presented in Israel
According to the Mainichi Daily News, Japanese theater director Yukio Ninagawa is planning to direct “The Trojan Women,” a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, in Tel Aviv and Tokyo in December. The actors will speak in Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew. The director believes that his plans for the production of a trilingual Greek tragedy [...]
Cypriot Defence Minister Proclaims ‘Beginning of Long Friendship Between Cyprus and Israel’
It is the beginning of a long friendship between Israel and Cyprus, said Defence Minister Demetris Eliades after signing agreements on aspects of common defence and the exchange of intelligence with his counterpart Ehud Barak in Israel. Cyprus and Israel share common principles and want peace with neighboring states, said Eliades, who has invited Barak [...]
Cypriot Minister of Commerce to Visit Israel
Cyprus Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Mrs. Praxoula Antoniadou is expected to visit Israel at the end of January, in order to further discuss the natural gas and oil drilling in the Cypriot EEZ. According to Mrs. Antoniadou, she will be meeting with the Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure to elaborate on the emerged [...]
AHI President’s Visit to Israel Highlights Overseas Trip
Annually, American Hellenic Institute (AHI) President Nick Larigakis embarks on a year-end trip to Greece and Cyprus that aims to strengthen ties between the Greek American community and Greece and Cyprus in sectors such as government, commerce, and defense. This year’s trip, which spanned from November 27 to December 9, 2011, integrated the Institute’s first-ever [...]
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