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Armenia–Israel relations are bilateral relations between Armenia and Israel. During the period of 1993–2007 Armenia was covered from the Embassy of Israel in Georgia. In 1996 Mr. Tsolak Momjian was appointed as Honorary Consul of Armenia in Jerusalem. Since 2007 the residence of the Embassy of Israel to Armenia moved to Jerusalem and in October 2010 Shmuel Meirom was appointed as Ambassador of Israel to Armenia. In 2012 Mr. Armen Melkonian was appointed as Ambassador of Armenia to Israel with residence in Cairo. In October 2012 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Israel Mr. Armen Melkonyan presented his credentials to the Israeli President Shimon Peres. ==Armenians in Israel== The Armenian community has been residing in the Levant for around two millennia. According to Yoav Loeff, a professor of Armenian language and history at the Hebrew University, the Armenian presence in Jerusalem dates back to 301 AD, thanks to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, that dates back to the Apostolic Age.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.archive.org/web/20110706153235/http://www.ncsj.org/Armenia.shtml )〕 Tigranes the Great, under whom Armenia reached its greatest extent, deported thousands of Jews into Armenia in the 1st century BC.〔 Israel itself is home to the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Jewish Virtual Library )〕 The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem was founded in 638 and it is located in the Armenian Quarter, the smallest of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. According to a 2006 study, 790 Armenians live in the Old City alone. One of the earliest mentions of the Armenians and the Jews is in the 1723 book ''Travels through Europe, Asia, and into parts of Africa'' by French traveler Aubry de La Motraye, where the author writes that the Armenians and Jews are "reckon'd more honest" compared to the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. Roughly 25,000 resided in the former British Mandate of Palestine by the time of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, but the majority fled the area in the ensuing violence.〔 After the establishment of the State of Israel, most of the remaining Armenian community took up Israeli citizenship and settled in the Old City's Armenian Quarter.〔 Israel supported Azerbaijan with weapons and ammunition during the Nagorno-Karabakh War against Armenia in the early 1990s, for geopolitical reasons. The threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran was taken into account.〔R. Hrair Dekmejian & Hovann H. Simonian. ''Troubled Waters: The Geopolitics of the Caspian Region'', 2003, p. 125 "In addition to commercial links, Israel has given strong backing to Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, which reportedly has included military assistance."〕〔Sedat Laçiner, Mehmet Özcan, İhsan Bal. ''USAK Yearbook of International Politics and Law 2010'', Vol. 3, p. 322 "Israel was one of the strategic partners and supporters of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh War with Armenia."〕〔Bahruz Balayev, ''The Right to Self-Determination in the South Caucasus: Nagorno Karabakh in Context'', Lexington Books, 2013, p. 73 "Israel has supported Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenia for the enclave of Nagorno Karabakh."〕 The ''Journal of Turkish Weekly'' has stated that the relations between Israel and Armenia deteriorated because of this exact reason, although the blame was partly on the Jews of Azerbaijan as well, therefore creating all sorts of conspiracy theories from unscrupulous sectors of the Armenian society. There have been several spitting incidents during recent years in the Old City of Jerusalem, usually by some Haredi Jews who study at yeshiva. ''The Jerusalem Post'' reported in 2009 that out of all Christians living there, Armenians were most often spat on by the ultra-Orthodox Jews. In 2011, several instances of spitting and verbal attacks on Armenian clergymen by Haredi Jews were reported in the Old City. The Jerusalem district police responded: "''All complaints of mutual assault are treated with the utmost severity. In the past, more than one case ended with charges being filed and the deportation of clergy involved in assault. As opposed to the situation about three years ago, the frequency of spitting has declined dramatically.''" Nourhan Manougian, the current Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem (an independent and self-governing Christian patriarchate that dates back to the Apostolic Age), stated in 2013 that ''If Israel recognizes the Armenian Genocide it won't be the end of the world'' and that Armenians in Jerusalem are currently being treated as ''third-class citizens'', referring to the bureaucracy in the State of Israel, that is established for obvious strategic and security reasons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armenia–Israel relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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