1. Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem, to Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens; 2 November 1961
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3317/3
The Foreign Ministry believes that the elections in Greece and other recent events will make it easier to work towards the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Israel and Greece.

2. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 14 November 1961
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3317/3
Talk with Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff: he will do everything possible to solve the problem of relations with Israel, although there are "certain obstacles".

3. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 22 November 1961
ISA/RG 130.02/MFA/3317/3
Kapel requests permission to present the Greeks with a proposal to raise the level of Israel's diplomatic representation in Greece to that of a legation.

4. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 22 November 1961
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3317/3
According to the Greek deputy prime minister, Panayotis Canelopoulos, the prime minister, Constantine Caramanlis has raised the question of Greece's anomalous relations with Israel in discussion with a select group of ministers.

5. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 13 December 1961
ISA/RG 130.02/MFA/3317/3
Kapel's discussion with the Greek minister of education, Gregorios Cassimatis, on improving cultural ties between Greece and Israel.

6. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 5 April 1962
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3410/4
Kapel's talk with Cassimatis about the visit of Israel's Education Minister Abba Eban to Greece.

7. Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem, to Abba Eban, Minister of Education and Culture, Jerusalem; 14 May 1962
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3410/4
A survey of relations between Greece and Israel in preparation for Eban's visit to Athens: there has been movement for the better on various fronts, but the Arab states are pressing Greece not to put its relations with Israel in order.

8. Abba Eban, Minister of Education and Culture, Jerusalem, to Golda Meir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem; 11 June 1962
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3410/4
Eban's report on his visit to Greece: the Greek leadership is beginning to see the lack of proper diplomatic relations with Israel as a "striking paradox", but consideration for the Greek community in Egypt is holding up the establishment of relations.

9. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of West European Division, Jerusalem; 14 August 1962
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3410/4
Conversation with the Greek foreign minister Averoff: change in the status of diplomatic relations with Israel must be postponed for the time being because of the interests of the Greek community in Egypt.

10. Aharon Remez, Director of the International Co-operation Division, Jerusalem, to Moshe Dayan, Minister of Agriculture, Jerusalem; 22 October 1963
ISA/RG 130.17/MFA/1929/3
A programme for Israeli agricultural aid to Greece.

11. Aharon Remez, Director of the Division for International Co-operation, Jerusalem, to the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem; 21 January 1964
ISA/RG 130.17/MFA/1929/1
Background to the Israeli decision to give Greece aid in planning development of the island of Crete.

12. Ya'acov Yannay, Counsellor in the Israel Mission to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva to Aharon Remez, Director of the Division for International Co-operation, Jerusalem; 17 February 1964
ISA/RG 130.17/MFA/1929/1
The agreement signed between Israel and Greece on the development of Crete.

13. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Aharon Remez, Director of the Division for International Co-operation, Jerusalem; 11 June 1964
ISA/RG 130.17/MFA/1928/19
Speech by the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, on the subject of the development of Crete.

14. Shmuel Kapel, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Shmuel Bendor, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 14 July 1964
ISA/RG 130.23 MFA/3551/6
Survey of Greece-Israel relations: over the past year there has been some movement in a positive direction in several fields, such as economic ties and trade, cultural ties and co-operation in development programmes. However the problem of establishment of full diplomatic relations has not yet been solved.

15. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 9 September 1964
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/17
The invitation to Israel's minister of posts, Eliahu Sasson, to take part in the celebrations of the wedding of the king of Greece, has been cancelled due to Arab pressure. Greece suggests that Israel should announce that he has been prevented by illness from attending.

16. Zeev Shek, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem, to Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens; 10 September 1964
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
Foreign Minister Golda Meir has told the Greek charge d'affaires ad interim Antoine Coundakis that Israel will not make any announcement about Sasson's illness. If the cancellation of the visit is publicised, Israel will make it clear that the cancellation of the visit was the result of Greek capitulation to Arab pressure.

17. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens, to Zeev Shek, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 24 September 1964
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
Further ramifications of the cancellation of Sasson's attendance at the royal wedding and a description of the ceremony, at which Israel was represented by Shai.

18. Amiel (Emil) Najar, Ambassador of Israel in Brussels (from New York), to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 8 December 1964
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
In a conversation between the deputy prime minister of Israel, Abba Eban, and the Greek foreign minister, Stavros Costoupolos, Eban stated that Israel is in favour of solving all disputes by peaceful means. Costopulos said that Greece is trying to prevent the use of force to solve the Cyprus problem. Parliamentary considerations at the U.N. are preventing the regulation of Israel-Greek relations.

19. Baruch Gilead, Counsellor in the Diplomatic Representation of Israel in Athens, to the West European Division; 21 December 1964
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
Greece has agreed to allow Israel Air Force planes to land in Athens for refuelling on their way from France to Israel.

20. Baruch Gilead, Counsellor in the Diplomatic Representation of Israel in Athens, to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 4 January 1965
ISA/RG 130.13/MFA/3555/1
Survey of visits by Israel Navy ships to Greek ports and the attitude of the Greek authorities.

21. Baruch Gilead, Counsellor in the Diplomatic Representation of Israel in Athens to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 11 January 1965
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/18
The role of Greece as a transit station for immigrants to Israel from Eastern Europe, especially Romania, and from the Middle East, especially Egypt.

22. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 10 March 1965
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
Shai's conversation with the Greek prime minister on Greece-Israel relations.

23. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 6 April 1965
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
Shai's proposals for Israel's reaction to Greek affronts to its diplomatic representatives in matters of protocol.

24. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Zeev Shek, the Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 27 May 1965
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3551/5
Shai's first meeting with King Constantine of Greece.

25. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem; 28 July 1965
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3555/3
Visit of an Israeli naval squadron to the port of Piraeus.

26. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Zeev Shek, Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem; 14 October 1965
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/3604/4
Greece's request for Israel's support on the Cyprus issue, asking it to oppose the use of force by Turkey to solve the problem of Cyprus. The island must be free to decide its own path in settling its internal problems. The Turkish minority has no right to determine the fate of Cyprus.

27. Victor Eliachar, Deputy Director of the West European Division, Jerusalem, to Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens; 24 February 1966
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4029/24
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided that action must be taken to change Greece's attitude towards Israel in matters of protocol.

28. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem; 23 May 1966
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4029/24
The new Greek foreign minister, Ioannis Toumbas, has told Shai that he will do his best to regulate the matter of Greece-Israel relations when the right moment comes.

29. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the West European Division, Jerusalem; Athens, 14 December 1966
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4029/37
Greece's claim for compensation from Israel on damage to the property of Greek citizens during the 1948 War of Independence.

30. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem; 26 May 1967
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4082/13
The statement by the Greek government on the situation in the Middle East.

31. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 1 June 1967
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4029/24
Shai's proposal to raise the question of Greece's relations with Israel with the government formed as a result of the military coup in April 1967.

32. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to Yosef Tekoah, Assistant Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the West European Division, Jerusalem; 16 July 1967
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4082/13
Greek Foreign Minister Pavlos Economou-Gouras told Shai that he rejoiced in the "magnificent victory" of the IDF in the Six Day War and would do everything possible to help Israel, although, because of Greece's special interests in the Arab world, he could not adopt the line he wanted in public "for the moment".

33. Joshua N. Shai, Diplomatic Representative of Israel in Athens to the West European Division and the Economic Division, Jerusalem; 1 August 1967
ISA/RG 130.23/MFA/4029/24
The minister for economic co-ordination and one of the leaders of the Greek military junta, Nicolaos Makarezos, promised Shai that he would try to bring about the regulation of relations between the two countries, although the subject was under the jurisdiction of the foreign minister, Economou-Gouras.