TBILISI, DFWatch – The issue about returning management of Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem to Georgia has no connection with the government of Israel, says Yitzhak Gerber, Israel’s Ambassador to Georgia.
On May 1, before an event Sheraton Metekhi Palace Hotel in
TBILISI, DFWatch – There are intense preparations going on between Georgia and Israel to cancel visa restrictions between the two countries.
There are also talks with Israeli airlines regarding direct flights between Georgia and Israel, and Knesset is ready to give control
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Speaker of Parliament, Davit Bakradze, March 12 began an official visit to Israel.
Bakradze has been invited by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, according to the parliament press office.
During his stay, Bakradze will have meetings with Israeli
TBILISI, DFWatch – Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, is unfamiliar with there being negotiations regarding returning church control over the Monastery of the Cross to Georgia.
The Patriarch said this in an exclusive interview with the online portal
TBILISI, DFWatch – Israeli officials deny that there are in talks with Georgia about handing over control over the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem.
“This is news for us. We have heard nothing like that,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Yigal Palmor said,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, which in its time was built with the support of the Georgian king and for centuries was considered a Georgian cultural center, may placed under Georgian control.
The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili announced