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During the official opening of Israel's first Embassy to Lithuania on Thursday, diplomats emphasized the exceptional importance of Vilnius in the Jewish history.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with incoming Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon on Tuesday and said he hoped for cultural exchanges between the two nations.

On 12 February, Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius received Israel's new Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon. Minister stressed that the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Vilnius would further strengthen the partnership between Lithuania and Israel and people-to-people contact...

Israel's first ambassador residing in Vilnius, Amir Maimon, says Lithuania should be more active in inviting tourists from his country and step up cooperation in the fields of defence and high technologies.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Israeli Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon, the presidential press service informs.

Second-degree state pensions were granted to 98 Lithuanian residents who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said.

An embassy of Israel was opened in the Lithuanian capital on Monday, its representatives said.

The United Nations Security Council, in a 8-2 vote with five abstentions, rejected a resolution on Palestinian statehood which sets a deadline for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian territories by 2017, CNN reports.

We offer you a recent interview with Grigory Kanovich who several weeks won the National Prize of Lithuania for Art and Culture and was named an Honorary Citizen of his hometown, Jonava.

As a member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Lithuania intends to get constructively involved in discussions on Palestine's statehood. The Lithuanian government notes, however, that it supports direct talks to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The world's most militarized country is Israel, according to the Global Militarization Index compiled by experts at the Bonn International Center for Conversion.

Philadelphia can lay claim to a few superlatives in art. Probably nowhere are so many paintings by Renoir and sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz on public display within less than 1 square mile but in Philadelphia. Both have a connection to France and Lipchitz life story even leads all the way to Druski...

Lithuania's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned Tuesday's terrorist attack in the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem.

Lithuania does not agree with unilateral recognition of Palestine, saying a decision needs to be reached by way of negotiations, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius stated on Monday.

Some fifty people gathered in the forest at midday on Sunday at the mass grave at Poligón, outside Švenčioneliai (Yiddish: Svintsyánke), in northeastern Lithuania, where around 8,000 Jews were murdered on 7 and 8 October 1941 after more than a week of barbaric incarceration and humiliation.

Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called on the Government of Israel to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Diplomat Amir Maimon should be appointed as Israel's first ambassador to Lithuania.

Nobuki Sugihara, a son of famous Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War Two, is coming to Vilnius on Thursday.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Vilnius on Thursday and emphasized Lithuania's interest of boosting exports of food products to the country.

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who paid a working visit to Lithuania, said the nuclear programme of Iran was a threat to the whole world and compared the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the Middle East to a horror film.