Budapest

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.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM, REUTERS
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.
The founder of political Zionism, Theodore Herzl, is buried on the mountain named after him in 1949.

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

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

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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman holds banners denouncing the Iranian regime, June 21, 2026; illustrative.

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.

|ByJAMES GENN

Operatic milestone

We are due to get a taste of the Middle East, albeit a musically presented historic slice, straight from Budapest.

AUGUST 14, 2019ByBARRY DAVIS
‘The Queen of Sheba’

2,300 Jewish athletes gather in Budapest for European Maccabi Games

This year’s games, which takes place at several venues, includes 20 categories, including swimming, chess, fencing, soccer and boxing.

JULY 31, 2019ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
2019 Maccabi Europe Games To Be Held In Budapest

IHRA to advise on Budapest Holocaust Museum

Controversial historian Maria Schmidt is no longer involved in the project.

JUNE 6, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A STAR of David is seen at the new Holocaust museum called the House of Fates in Budapest, Hungary, last year