[1] The Armenian diplomatic mission to Israel was located in Georgia from 1993 to 2007, although Tsolak Momjian was appointed honorary consul of Armenia in Jerusalem in 1996.

[6] In 2003, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II visited Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger.

In response to continuous Israeli military support for Azerbaijan in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia recalled its ambassador to Israel.

On June 21, 2024, the Israeli Foreign Ministry recalled Akopian for a "stern reprimand conversation" in response to Armenia's decision to acknowledge Palestinian statehood.

[24] One of the earliest mentions of Armenians and Jews is in the 1723 book Travels through Europe, Asia, and into parts of Africa by French traveler Aubry de La Motraye, in which de La Motraye writes that the Armenians and Jews are "reckon'd more honest" than the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.

[21][dubious – discuss] Israel supported Azerbaijan with weapons and ammunition during the first Nagorno-Karabakh War against Armenia in the early 1990s for geopolitical reasons; the perceived threat of the Islamic Republic of Iran was considered.

[26][27][28] According to the Journal of Turkish Weekly, relations between Israel and Armenia deteriorated because of the conflict; blame was also partly placed on the Jews of Azerbaijan, who circulated conspiracy theories in Armenian society.

St. James Convent is a complex of several churches with open spaces and gardens covered with a variety of greenery.

Behind its main gate, the convent contains a priest's quarters, a library building, a museum, printing press, elementary and high schools and residences, youth and social clubs and residential shelters for the poor and employees of the Patriarchate.

[35] A team of Armenian and Israeli historians and archaeologists excavated the site of the original discovery, and found 64 more graves.

It is fantastic how they could gather cultural, architectural symbolism of Jewish Armenians ... and they were connected, and built one of the strongest kingdoms during [the] time of [the] Mongols.

[37] A Russified Jewish community of 800 officially remains in Armenia, primarily in Yerevan, in addition to the Subbotniks who live near Sevan.

[39] On 23 October 2004, Armenian Department for Ethnic and Religious Minority Issues head Hranoush Kharatyan accused Israeli leaders of promoting intolerance toward non-Jews[40] in response to an incident where a yeshiva student spat on Archbishop of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian during a religious procession in the city.

[42] During her 2012 visit to Armenia, Israeli Minister of Agriculture Orit Noked said: "We are like each other with our history, character, with our small number of population and having communities abroad.

[45] Recognition of the genocide became a subject of debate in Israel in the years following Armenia's 1991 independence from the Soviet Union.

By a unanimous 20–0 vote, the Israeli parliament approved a public session on the issue by the Education, Culture and Sports Committee at the request of Meretz Knesset member Zahava Gal-On;[49] it stopped short of passing a bill put forward by Gilad Erdan, an Israeli cabinet minister and close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for political reasons.

[50] Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, one of the bill's supporters, said: "It is my duty as a Jew and Israeli to recognize the tragedies of other peoples.

[52] The Armenian community of Jerusalem believes that the genocide denial is due to fear of jeopardizing diplomatic relations with Turkey.

"[54] In response, Israel Charny, executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, wrote: "It seems that because of your wishes to advance very important relations with Turkey, you have been prepared to circumvent the subject of the Armenian genocide in 1915–1920 ... it may be that in your broad perspective of the needs of the state of Israel, it is your obligation to circumvent and desist from bringing up the subject with Turkey, but, as a Jew and an Israeli, I am ashamed of the extent to which you have now entered into the range of actual denial of the Armenian genocide, comparable to denials of the Holocaust.

"[54] In 2008, Yosef Shagal, an Azerbaijani-born former Israeli parliamentarian from Yisrael Beiteinu said in an interview with an Azerbaijani news outlet: "I find it is deeply offensive, and even blasphemous to compare the Holocaust of European Jewry during the Second World War with the mass extermination of the Armenian people during the First World War.

[70] Since 2010, due to the Gaza flotilla raid and the suspension of relations between Israel and Turkey, public opinion was strengthened in favor of Armenia.

A survey from 11 August 2014 which was conducted in 31 countries shows that the percentage of young Israelis (16-29 years old) recognizing the Armenian genocide is the third highest and above the average, as follows: France (93%), Greece (90%), Israel (88%), Croatia, Honduras, Italy, Poland and Switzerland (87%), Spain and Serbia (86%), Austria (85%), Latvia and Russia (84%), Finland and Germany (83%), Average European Union (82%), Belgium, Denmark and Estonia (81%), China (80%), Average (77%), Netherlands (76%), Czech Republic (74%), Romania (72%), Canada (71%), Lithuania (70%), Japan and United Kingdom (68%), Australia (67%), Ukraine (65%), United States (64%), India (51%), and Turkey (33%).