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In an historic turnout for Hungary\u2019s elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s 16-year leadership ended with a major victory for his opponent Peter Magyar.<\/p>\n
The massive defeat is raising concerns about the future of Jewish life and the freedom of Israelis visiting the country.<\/p>\n
Orb\u00e1n had strong ties with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump \u2013 taking dramatic steps to show his support for Israel. Netanyahu visited Budapest in early April 2025, defying an ICC arrest warrant as Orb\u00e1n pledged not to enforce it.<\/p>\n
Orb\u00e1n\u2019s opponent Magyar\u2019s victory is weighty, securing a two-thirds parliamentary majority (138 out of 199 seats) giving him the power to reverse the constitutional changes Orb\u00e1n implemented in building a conservative democracy.<\/p>\n
Some of those changes focused on protecting Hungary\u2019s borders and resistance to EU migration policies. Hungary has been paying 1 million euros per day in fines since June 2024 to keep its borders closed to illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n
About 100,000 Jewish people live largely worry-free in Hungary. Its capital, Budapest, is a popular destination for Israelis \u2014 not only for its beautiful architecture, thermal baths, and great food, but also because visitors can openly express their Israeli and Jewish identity and speak Hebrew freely.<\/p>\n
\u201cBudapest may be the only European capital city you can walk through without seeing any anti-Israel graffiti. There are no furious demonstrators waving Palestinian flags and chanting \u2018From the river to the sea\u2019 and no worries about possible harassment on the streets or at university campuses,\u201d explains The Jewish Independent.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rare to meet someone who is openly pro-Palestinian. One Palestinian businessman named Jozeph told CBN News<\/em> earlier he likes his Hungarian Jewish friends but not Israelis, arguing that all of Israel is really Palestine.<\/p>\n The future of Hungarian\u2013Israeli relations is now in question. Some believe ties will endure, while others warn a growing distance could emerge between the two allies.<\/p>\n Daniel Cohen from the\u00a0Real Life Network posted on Instagram, \u201cHungary just made a massive mistake removing Viktor Orb\u00e1n. Voters bought the bribe from the EU to install Peter Magyar, an opportunist backed by the entire EU propaganda machine and George Soros. For 16 years, Orb\u00e1n stood like a firewall for things Europe stopped defending a long time ago\u2014strong borders, national identity, and the courage to say \u2018no\u2019 to forced Islamic migration. Hungary is about to become the UK, Paris, Brussels, Spain, Germany. INVADED.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an historic turnout for Hungary\u2019s elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s 16-year leadership ended with a major victory for his opponent Peter Magyar. The massive defeat is raising concerns about the future of Jewish life and the freedom of Israelis visiting the country. Orb\u00e1n had strong ties with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1546,1047,1373,8716,1391,1745,1565],"class_list":{"0":"post-26538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jesus","8":"tag-communities","9":"tag-concern","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-hungary","12":"tag-israeli","13":"tag-jewish","14":"tag-sparks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}