Eli Guttman, Israel’s football coach, said the team had been warned about "possible terrorist attacks” following last month’s attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria.
Avi Luzon, the head of Israel’s Football Association, said threats would not dissuade Israel from playing in matches abroad.
“We have no other country, and we are proud to represent Israel anywhere in the world.”
Relations between Hungary and Israel have deteriorated since Laslow Kover, speaker of Hungary’s national assembly, recently attended a ceremony that honoured the pro-Nazi writer, Jozsef Nyiro.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “anxious” about the rise of antisemitism which he called a “dangerous phenomenon” during a meeting with Hungarian President Janos Aler in Jerusalem last month.