Albania

Start-Up Nation vs Lock-Up Nation: What is slowing Israel-Albania economic ties? - opinion

Israelis are no strangers to risk as they thrive in complex environments, but they insist on legal predictability.

 On April 6 this year, President Isaac Herzog awarded Albania's Edi Rama the Presidential Medal of Honor, Israeli's highest civilian decoration, in a ceremony in Jerusalem.
Flags of Albania and Israel side by side (Illustrative).

Albania becomes 64th nation to join Israel Allies Foundation

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (right) and his Albanian counterpart, Elisa Spiropali, sign a cooperation agreement in Jerusalem on Oct. 22, 2025

'System rotten to the core': Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar slams ICJ, UNWRA

A member of parliament from the Democratic Party, Albania's biggest opposition party, sets off a smoke flare as the parliament gathers for a vote on whether to lift the immunity of opposition leader Sali Berisha so he can face corruption charges, in Tirana, Albania, December 21, 2023

Bribe-proof official: Albania appoints first AI minister to tackle corruption


Albania first Muslim majority state to adopt IHRA antisemitism definition

Balkan country is first Muslim-majority counties to adopt formally adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Police stand guard during an anti-government protest in front of the Parliament in Tirana, Albania May 25, 2019

Ex Albania minister becomes 1st Muslim to join Combat Antisemitism Movement

"Antisemitism is not just a danger to Jews and Jewish communities. It is a threat to every decent society and therefore to people of all backgrounds: Muslim, Christian and beyond."

Valentina Leskaj

Kadri Cakrani - An unknown Albanian hero of the Holocaust

He served as a commandant-general of the town of Berat, and in 1943, he called for help as he tried to protect the Jews in his area.

JEWISH MUSICIANS perform in the streets of Tirana, Albania, in preparation for Passover.

Kosovo is a test of Israel’s moral character

In the 1990s, 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died and about one million were displaced as a result of Serbia’s aggression.

‘ISRAEL’S RECOGNITION of Kosovo would affirm its commitment to justice and ethics in international relations.’ Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti talks to media outside the Assembly building in Pristina early this summer.

Architect designed a memorial honoring Albanians who saved Jews

Jacobs, 81, agreed to work on the memorial after learning that Albania was the only country in Europe that had more Jews after World War II than it did before.

Stephen Jacobs has designed two Holocaust memorials in Europe.

Albania honors locals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust with memorial

The Albanians protected the Jews despite Nazi German forces occupying the country.

Beqir Xhepa, 80, an Albanian who was caught as a partisan courier by the Germans during World War Two and sent to the concentration camps at Mathausen and Auschwitz, points at himself in a picture taken when he was a prisoner, in Tirana, January 27, 2005

War crimes prosecutor indicts Kosovo president Hashim Thaci

War crimes allegations against the KLA first surfaced in the 2011 Council of Europe rights agency report that accused guerrillas of killing civilian Serbs and ethnic Albanian political opponents.

Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci attends a ceremony of security forces a day before parliament's vote on whether to form a national army, in Pristina, Kosovo, December 13, 2018.

The new Israeli government should finally recognize Kosovo

Despite Kosovo’s continuous efforts – and its people’s sincere admiration for the Jewish state – Israel has so far refused to establish relations with the youngest country in Europe.

A MAN holds a Kosovo flag

Albania bans psychologists from practicing gay conversion therapy

The Order of Psychologists said members would face disciplinary proceedings if they carried out the treatment.

Police stand guard during an anti-government protest in front of the Parliament in Tirana, Albania May 25, 2019

MDA offers assistance to Turkey after earthquake

"I view this as an opportunity for collaboration... offer all assistance towards saving lives anywhere," and have "great appreciation" for Turkish Red Crescent, MDA's director-general Eli Bin wrote.

Earthquake aftermath in the Turkish eastern city of Elazig, Jan. 25, 2020