ZAGREB, March 23, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Friday that the Defence Council would convene next week to discuss bids for the procurement of fighter jets.

Israeli airplanes, which are reportedly about to be bought, are just ten years younger than the current MIGs and about as old as the MIGs were when, in the middle of last decade, the government began to publicly and seriously consider buying a new fleet.

ZAGREB, February 16, 2018 - Croatian Defence Minister Damir Krstičević said on Thursday, when asked if there might be difficulties if Croatia selected Israeli fighter jets given the political crisis in Israel, that Croatia was considering the bids at state level, making arrangements with a state, so it did not matter who was in power. There is a possibility that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu might be indicted soon.

The cooperation would include eight megaprojects.

ZAGREB, February 3, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Friday met with Israeli's deputy parliament speaker and head of the Israel-Croatia inter-parliamentary friendship group, Esawi Frej, and the chairman of the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, Avraham Neguise, the government said in a press release.

ZAGREB, February 2, 2018 - Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić on Friday promised members of the Israeli-Croatian Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group that before he retires from politics he will erect a monument to the Holocaust victims in Zagreb and rebuild the synagogue in the city's Praška Street, destroyed by the Ustasha regime that ruled Croatia in World War II.

Cooperation in shipbuilding is the latest economic sector where Croatian ties with Israel are strengthening, reports The Medi Telegraph on January 28, 2018. 

ZAGREB, January 27, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Friday that the procedure for the evaluation of bids for the procurement of fighter jets for Croatia's Air Force was under way, and added that this topic was on the agenda of his talks in Davos not only with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but also with his Greek counterpart Alexsis Tsipras as well as with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven in mid-November.

According to reports in Israeli media, Israeli and Croatian prime ministers discussed the deal yesterday at Davos.

ZAGREB, January 25, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković arrived in Davos on Thursday to attend the traditional World Economic Forum, the Croatian government said in a press release.