Nepal

Nepal restarts Gulf work permits after Iran conflict halted labor migration

About 75% of Nepali workers abroad are in the Middle East, mostly in construction, and remittances make up over a quarter of the country’s $42 billion economy.

|ByREUTERS
Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs attend a press briefing in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 1, 2026, providing details on the number and condition of Nepali citizens residing in conflict-affected Middle Eastern countries.
, Israeli Ambassador Yaron Mayer, celebrating his first Vietnamese new year.

Vietnam looks to Israel’s hi-tech industry for opportunity as diplomatic ties at a high - interview

Israeli ambassador Yaron Mayer told the ‘Post’ that Jerusalem-Hanoi relations were at an all-time high.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
An Israeli Jew worshipper prays during a Passover ceremony in Kathmandu on April 14, 2014. Jewish travellers in Asia came together to celebrate the Passover Seder in Nepal.

Nepal Chabad evicted from Jewish center over landlord's antisemitism fears

The Chabad emissaries moved out and are looking for a new home, but the Rebbetzin wrote that it was difficult to leave the house where they had built their life's work.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Cityscape skyline of Nepalese capital Kathmandu with the Himalaya snow capped mountains in the background.

Israeli tourist in Kathmandu says he was assaulted with metal club due to his nationality

"They hit me in the head with an iron club,” Almog Armoza told Ynet. “If I hadn't run away, there's a good chance I wouldn't be alive today."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Grapevine September 23, 2022: Something personal

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
NEPALESE AMBASSADOR Kantal Rizal.

Bodies of all 22 victims of plane crash recovered - Nepal

Nepali soldiers and rescue workers had retrieved 21 bodies from the wreckage, strewn across a steep slope at an altitude of around 14,500 feet on Monday. They recovered the last body on Tuesday.

MAY 31, 2022ByREUTERS
A general view of the Tara Air plane crash site during the rescue operation at Thasang, Nepal May 30, 2022.

Nepal authorities recover bodies of 20 out of 22 people on board crashed aircraft

The aircraft was on a 20-minute flight before losing contact with the control tower.

MAY 30, 2022ByREUTERS
THE IDF evacuates an injured person on a stretcher for transport via helicopter to a hospital, in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015.

Nepal plane missing with 22 people on board, teams head site of fire

Police official said a land rescue-and-search team had been sent to the area near Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest peak.

MAY 29, 2022ByREUTERS
Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, tail number 9N-AET, in Simikot, Nepal December 1, 2021. Picture taken December 1, 2021.

Passover: What was your most unique Seder? - opinion

‘For the shankbone, they had a part of a leg of some animal – complete with fur!’

APRIL 20, 2022ByBRIAN BLUM
KATHMANDU: LOTS of coleslaw.

Flood deaths in India and Nepal cross 150

Some 42 people have died in the last week in the southern Indian state of Kerala, according to a statement from the chief minister's office.

OCTOBER 21, 2021ByREUTERS
Israeli firefighters sit in a rescue boat as they search for people at a parking lot that was flooded following heavy rainfall in Ness Ziona, November 21, 2020.

Grapevine October 6, 2021: The American component in Aliyah Bet

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 5, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Arjun Ghimire, Itsik Kamilian, Snjan Shakya, yitzhak Eldan

Grapevine September 24, 2021: More to Jewish culture in Poland than is generally realized

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MICHAL HERZOG, President Isaac Herzog, Avraham and Israel Maidanchik and Avraham's son.

Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, seven missing in Nepal

The Bhutan villagers, who had been collecting cordeyceps, a fungus used in medicine, were sleeping when the floodwaters hit just after midnight.

JUNE 16, 2021ByREUTERS
A stream runs through the Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan, December 14, 2017.

Floods, landslides kill 40 in Nepal, many missing

"We are searching for eight people who are still missing," said Kishore Shrestha, a senior police official.

JULY 11, 2020ByREUTERS
Israeli aid to Nepal