[21] In 2016, a Slovenian supermarket chain Mercator decided to boycott products from Israel after pressure from local BDS activists.

Two days after the supermarket reversed the decision to boycott products from Israel after protest from Israeli Foreign Ministry.

In the letter the Simon Wiesenthal Center describes antisemitic behavior by journalist's Twitter account with twits like, “the vaccination campaign exposes the essence of Israel’s Apartheid regime,” and "the policy of Jewish supremacy in Israel means that the government restricted vaccines to its Arab citizens.” and journalist who claim the terror organization Hamas as “a liberation movement of freedom fighters.”[23] After the massacre of 7 October made by Hamas and other Palestinians, as around 1,200 murdered the Slovenian government and institutions became more anti towards Israel.

[24] A delegation of Israeli families of hostages visited Slovenia and meet with the Slovenian president Nataša Pirc Musar.

The grove is named after three bunkers built by the British during World War II to store bombs and ammunition for the RAF base in Ramat David.