Germany israel relations

German FM warns weakening PA could create power vacuum, would compromise Israel's security

"The PA is not perfect and is in urgent need of reform. However, weakening the PA does not serve Israel's security," said German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul during a visit to Jerusalem.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul speaks during a press conference on the day he meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, July 7, 2026.
Flags flutter in front of a radom of the "Arrow Weapon System for Germany" pictured in Annaburg, Germany, December 3, 2025.

Mysterious drone over Germany’s Arrow 3 battery may open door for Rafael, Elbit laser deal

Israel's Iron Dome aerial defence system intercepts a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, above the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.

VW's Qatari investors push back against Iron Dome plant deal talks with Rafael, sources say

Logo of Israeli defence electronics firm Elbit Systems is seen at their offices in Haifa

Elbit signs deal with German submarine manufacturer TMKS to expand ties between Israel, Germany


Grapevine May 14, 2023: A crisis of another kind

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ANGELA MERKEL, then German chancellor, arrives with her spokesman Steffen Seibert for a news conference after a meeting with governors of former East German states at the Chancellery in Berlin, in 2020.

Israeli MK takes part in Berlin March of Life, commemorates Holocaust

MK Matan Kahana gave a keynote speech and also met with German Bundestag MPs known for their commitment to Israel and Jewish life in Germany.

March of Life 2023 in Berlin under the motto "Uprising against Antisemitism!" including MK Matan Kahana.

Should Israel heed German warnings about a failing democracy? - analysis

Netanyahu has rejected the idea that judicial reform would harm democracy. But should he listen to German warnings, and lessons of the past?

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Platform 17 (Gleis 17), the memorial to those who were deported to the death camps by Deutsche Reichsbahn trains in 1941-1945, at Berlin-Grunewald train station in Berlin, Germany March 16, 2023.

Scholz urges Netanyahu to accept Herzog’s compromise on judicial overhaul

Scholz said that “democracy is not just minority rule but its also about the security of those who remain a minority,” he said.

 President Isaac Herzog meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Germany.

Dozen NATO allies aim for joint air defense systems such as Israel's Arrow 3

Germany, Britain, Slovakia, Norway, Latvia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovenia took part in the considerations,

SPYDER quick reaction air defense system of Indian Air Force firing a Derby missile

With the Jewish New Year coming up, we should ask forgiveness - opinion

Slihot is a special prayer recited in the lead-up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So should Israel really be this friendly with Germany?

 ONE OF the Holocaust survivors who accompanied Prime Minister Yair Lapid on his trip to Germanyl ast week stands between the prime minister and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on a visit to the Wannsee Villa.

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

"It is time to move past the failed negotiations with Iran. They can not and will not achieve the goals we all share to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon," said Lapid.

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

An Israeli president in the Bundestag: Still moving after all these years - analysis

Even though an Israeli president addressing the German parliament is no longer novel, it remains symbolic and significant and moving.

 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, his wife Elke Buedenbender, Israel's President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal Herzog visit the memorial site of the former WWII concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Lohheide, Germany, September 6, 2022.

Germany agrees to $28m. in compensation for families of Munich Olympics victims

The federal government will contribute 22.5 million euro, while 5 million euros will come from the state of Bavaria and 500,000 euros will come from Munich.

 A stone cutter renovates a memorial stone for the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympic Games, at the site of the hostage-taking at the former Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, August 18, 2022

Lapid to US, Europe: Walk away from Iran talks or look weak

The renewed deal, as drafted by the EU, does not extend the JCPOA’s nonproliferation benefits, while offering the same sanctions relief as in 2015.

 Prime Minister and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid speaks to party members during a Yesh Atid party conference in Tel Aviv, August 3, 2022