Two years after the Hamas terrorist attack, on October 7, 2023, the Central Israelite Council of Greece (KISE), the Embassy of Israel in Greece and the I.K. of Athens honored the memory of the Israeli citizens and soldiers who lost their lives with a memorial service held on October 19, 2025, at the Athens Synagogue. The ceremony was attended by the Ministers of Health Adonis Georgiadis, Immigration and Asylum Thanos Plevris, and Shipping Vassilis Kikilias, the Deputy Minister of Labor Costas Karagounis, the Secretary General of the Ministry of National Defense Antonis Economou, the Secretary General of Hellenes Abroad Maira Myrogianni, the Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chrysoula Aliferi, as well as a multitude of parliamentarians, diplomats, journalists, personalities from the academic community and co-religionists.
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Today marks two years since the heinous terrorist attack on Israel that cost the lives of civilians and caused widespread and dangerous escalation across the region. Our thoughts continue to be with the families of the hostages and we call for their immediate release. At the same time, the rise in anti-Semitism, such as the recent attack in Manchester, calls for collective action.
The deadly attack that took place in Jerusalem on September 8.9.2025, 6, which claimed the lives of six Israeli civilians and injured dozens of other passengers on a city bus, is a tragic reminder of the terror and threats that the Israeli society constantly faces. A reminder that the hatred which erupted on October 7, 2023, with the massacre of 1.200 Israelis by Hamas and other terrorist organizations, has not subsided.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, during his visit to Thessaloniki, on 4 & 5.9.25, visited the headquarters of the Thessaloniki International Trade Union and met with the president of KISE – IKTH Mr. David Saltiel, the general treasurer of KISE Mr. Daniel Benardout and the Security Manager Mr. Maurice Saporta.
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On Saturday 12.7.2025, a group of 6 people attacked the Israeli-owned kosher restaurant King David Burger, located in Monastiraki, spray-painting the following slogans: "No Zionist is safe here", "Crush Zionism, fascism, colonialism", "Israel's forces of death - rapists, torturers, murderers" on the walls, on the tables and at the cash register.
The perpetrators also threw banners with the slogan "Freedom in Palestine."
According to the restaurant's owner, Zvika Levinson, the police "found the person who spray painted and arrested them all."