The recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has left many Armenians in Israel angered by their adopted homeland’s reported role in helping arm Baku and its ongoing refusal to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide as a holocaust
On January 19, when the Armenian Orthodox-Christian community traditionally celebrates Christmas in Israel, a decorated tree stood tall but abandoned in the Armenian compound in Jerusalem’s Old City. This year, it seems, no one wanted to celebrate following the brief but bloody war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.