The World - News from Sept. 16, 1988

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said that Israel and Hungary have agreed to gradually restore diplomatic ties after a 21-year break. After talks with Hungarian Premier Karoly Grosz in Budapest on Wednesday, Shamir said that Grosz was “convinced that we should reach a normalization of relations.” Shamir told Israel Radio from Budapest that “the question is only when (renewed ties) will come, and the feeling is that it’s close.” Hungary, along with all Soviet Bloc countries except Romania, severed ties with Israel after the 1967 Middle East War.