July 21, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blocked the process of putting the issue of recognizing the events of 1915 as “Armenian genocide” to a vote in the Knesset. As reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the decision was taken after the application of the Azerbaijani side.
According to the newspaper’s source, Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant to the president of Azerbaijan, contacted the office of the Prime Minister of Israel on the instructions of Ilham Aliyev. After that, Netanyahu blocked the initiative put forward earlier by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
Israeli officials later assured Baku that the issue had been removed from the Knesset agenda and would not be put to a vote in the last plenary session before the parliamentary summer vacation.
Earlier, the Israeli government had unanimously supported the proposal to recognize the events of 1915, but a parliamentary vote was needed for final approval. The Knesset has not yet adopted such an official decision.
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