Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, on his microblog X yesterday, announced that he will introduce a resolution during an upcoming cabinet meeting calling on Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

I will bring before the Israeli government at its next meeting a proposed resolution for the official recognition by the Government of Israel of the Armenian Genocide.

Recognizing the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in the final years of the Ottoman Empire is…

— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) June 25, 2026

Ynet, Israel's largest news and general-content website, reports that Saar’s post comes one day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is his friend because he “refrained from interfering in the conflict with Iran” and promised that there will be no confrontation between Israel and Turkey.  

The explanatory note attached to the resolution states that the Armenian Genocide began in April 1915 with the arrest, deportation, and murder of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, leaders, and educated figures in Constantinople. “After that, the Ottoman government began the systematic extermination of the Armenian population,” the document emphasizes. The document also notes that thirty-two countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide in various ways, and Israel “must do so in light of its moral and historical duty.”

The issue of recognizing the Armenian Genocide has been discussed repeatedly in Israel, but to date it has not become the official position of the country’s government. 

In 2016, the Knesset Education Committee of the Israeli parliament issued a statement recognizing the Armenian Genocide. In May 2018, amid worsening relations between Israel and Turkey, the Knesset plenary session approved a motion to consider and vote on the issue of recognizing the Armenian Genocide.