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{{short description|'''Slovakia: its Jewish community and relations with "Israel"'''}}<br />
About 2,600 Jews live in '''Slovakia''', according to the [[World Jewish Congress]] (WJC).<ref name="WJCSK">World Jewish Congress, [https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/communities/SK Community in Slovakia] ''worldjewishcongress.org'', accessed 25 October 2026.</ref> In 2024 Slovakia ordered six Israeli Barak-MX air defence systems.<ref name="SIPRI">Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, [https://armstransfers.sipri.org SIPRI Arms Transfers Database] ''SIPRI'', trade register for Israel as supplier, 1950–2025, data generated 20 October 2026.</ref><br />
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==Jewish community==<br />
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Slovakia is the WJC's affiliate. The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation runs a Jewish kindergarten together with Chabad of Slovakia, which also runs other educational programmes.<ref name="WJCSK" /><br />
===Chabad===<br />
:''Main article: [[Chabad-Lubavitch movement]]''<br />
The WJC notes that Chabad of Slovakia runs educational programmes.<ref name="WJCSK" /><br />
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==Holocaust==<br />
According to the WJC, the Tiso regime actively assisted the Nazis in concentrating Slovak Jews in camps, and in 1942 some 58,000 Slovak Jews were sent to extermination camps, notably Auschwitz-Birkenau. Deportations resumed after the Slovak National Uprising in 1944.<ref name="WJCSK" /><br />
==Israeli state and commercial ties==<br />
===Diplomacy===<br />
The Israeli foreign ministry's 2011 list of missions records relations with the Slovak Republic as established in January 1993, with "Israel" represented by its embassy in Bratislava.<ref name="MFA2011">Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110805075305/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/about%20the%20ministry/diplomatic%20missions/Israel-s%20Diplomatic%20Missions%20Abroad Diplomatic Missions Abroad: Status of relations] ''mfa.gov.il'', archived 5 August 2011.</ref> The WJC says that full diplomatic relations were established in 1993. The Israeli embassy is at Gorkého 106, 810 00 Bratislava.<ref name="WJCSK" /><br />
===Arms trade===<br />
SIPRI records Slovak orders for six Barak-MX air defence systems with Barak-ER missiles (2024), 11 M-2084 radars (a EUR148 million deal from 2021, including component production in Slovakia) and Spike-LR2 anti-tank missiles (2020).<ref name="SIPRI" /><br />
===Trade===<br />
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reports that "Israel" imported goods worth $126.8 million from Slovakia in 2025 (2024: $194.5 million) and exported goods worth $28.4 million to it (2024: $22.1 million).<ref name="CBS">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2026/fr_trade12_2025/td1.pdf Foreign Trade Statistics Monthly, Table D1: Trade Countries – Imports and Exports] ''CBS'', December 2025 issue (library copy).</ref><br />
==Political interference==<br />
===UN voting===<br />
Slovakia voted in favour of the September 2025 General Assembly resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on a two-state solution.<ref name="UNNY2025">United Nations General Assembly, [https://www.alquds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Voting-rec-L.1-Rev.1.pdf Recorded vote on A/80/L.1/Rev.1: Endorsement of the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution], 12 September 2025 (copy hosted by ''Al-Quds Al-Arabi'').</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Austria]]<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Czechia]]<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Hungary]]<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Poland]]<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Portugal]]<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Spain]]<br />
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Switzerland]]<br />
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