The Israeli prime minister has called the Hungarian leader a “warm” supporter of the Jewish state.
Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister since 2010, conceded to Péter Magyar in what he reportedly called a “painful” election on Sunday.
Magyar’s party led with 52% to 38% for Orbán’s party, with 60% of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Orbán a “warm” supporter of the Jewish state, and the Austrian politician has met and spoken several times with Netanyahu and with U.S. President Donald Trump.
In April 2025, Orbán gave Netanyahu a royal welcome in Hungary despite an arrest warrant that the International Criminal Court issued ofr the Israeli prime minister. Orbán subsequently said that his country was withdrawing from the court, an independent judicial body in The Hague that is not part of the United Nations.