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President Isaac Herzog (center right) with Somaliland’s first ambassador to Israel, Dr. Mohamed Hagi (center left), during a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, May 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Somaliland’s first-ever embassy anywhere will open in Jerusalem, envoy says
By Nava Freiberg
Diplomat from East African breakaway state says Israel will also open embassy in capital city of Hargeisa
President Isaac Herzog (center right) with Somaliland’s first ambassador to Israel, Dr. Mohamed Hagi (center left), during a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, May 18, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 19, 2026, 8:41 pm
Somaliland’s first-ever embassy anywhere will open in Jerusalem, envoy says
Diplomat from East African breakaway state says Israel will also open embassy in capital city of Hargeisa
By Nava Freiberg
From left: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the Fijian embassy in Jerusalem on September 17, 2025 (Rafi Ben Hakoon/GPO)
September 17, 2025, 8:05 pm
Flower-bedecked Netanyahu and counterpart from Fiji open new embassy in Jerusalem
FM Sa’ar vows to continue to work to relocate embassies to capital after island nation becomes 7th country to do so; Fijian PM acknowledges ‘special bond’ with Israel
By Nava Freiberg
Police are shown in front of the US embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, December 9, 2017. (Atila Altuntas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
April 9, 2025, 8:58 am
Iran directed teens who attacked Israel’s embassy in Stockholm last May, police says
Tehran’s embassy slams Swedish Security Service accusation as ‘fake and propagandistic,’ as US treasury sanctions local gang allegedly contracted by Iran to stage another attack
By JTA and ToI Staff
Fiji’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sitiveni Rabuka meets Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Munich, February 15, 2025 (Foreign Ministry)
February 19, 2025, 3:16 am
Fiji to open embassy in Jerusalem, becoming 7th country to do so
FM Sa’ar hails Pacific nation ‘for its historic decision,’ after Fijian premier told him last week of plan to move diplomatic mission
By Lazar Berman
A drone carries an Israeli flag above the Turkish flag, which is lowered to half-mast in a show of mourning for slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, over Turkey's embassy in Tel Aviv, August 2, 2024. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 4, 2024, 3:08 pm
Drone with Israel flag trolls Turkey’s Haniyeh-saluting TLV embassy
Turkish ambassador, recalled to Ankara since November, complains after UAV hoists Israeli national banner over Turkish flag, lowered to half-staff to honor slain Hamas leader
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape (C) open Papua New Guineas embassy in Jerusalem, September 5, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)
September 5, 2023, 11:20 pm
Citing ‘God of Israel,’ Papua New Guinea becomes 5th nation to open Jerusalem embassy
Standing next to Prime Minister Netanyahu, country’s leader James Marape says Christians can’t fully respect God without recognizing Jewish state’s capital
By Lazar Berman
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape, 17 November 2022 (public domain)
August 27, 2023, 3:52 pm
Papua New Guinea to open Jerusalem embassy next week, Israeli official says
Port Moresby expected to inaugurate mission in capital during visit by Prime Minister James Marape, amid wave of similar announcements
By Lazar Berman
Israel Ambassador to Paraguay Yoed Magen, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, Paraguay President Santiago Peña and First Lady Leticia Ocampos
August 16, 2023, 5:59 am
New Paraguay leader to reopen Jerusalem embassy within year, Israel says
Top diplomat Eli Cohen meets with Santiago Peña at inauguration, says president accepted invitation to visit Israel; Israel to reopen mission in Asunción 5 years after closing it
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/ GPO/ Flash90)
March 3, 2023, 9:14 am
In apparent gesture to Netanyahu, Orban to move Hungary’s embassy to Jerusalem
Foreign Ministry sources link decision by Budapest to Hungarian leader’s desire to help out PM amid controversy over plans to weaken judiciary, which have been likened to Hungary
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Chile's President Gabriel Boric attends a welcome ceremony at the National Palace in Mexico City, November 23, 2022. (Marco Ugarte/AP)
December 22, 2022, 1:04 pm
Chile president says he’s planning to open embassy ‘in Palestine’
Left-wing President Gabriel Boric makes announcement at Christmas event for local Palestinian community, the largest outside of the Middle East
By AFP and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) and his British counterpart Liz Truss at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in London, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell)
October 1, 2022, 6:30 am
Arab states said to warn UK that moving embassy to Jerusalem could risk trade deal
Ambassadors from countries, including Abraham Accords members, penned letter to British PM before she notified Lapid she’d be launching review of mission’s location
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Suriname's Foreign Minister Albert Camdin with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on May 30, 2022 (Jorge Novomisky/GPO)
May 30, 2022, 3:46 pm
Suriname says it’ll open embassy in Jerusalem in the near future
Visiting Surinamese FM Albert Camdin informs FM Lapid of development during talks in capital; Israel to offer humanitarian aid to flood-stricken South American nation
By Lazar Berman
Ukrainians attend a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 12, 2022, during a protest against the potential escalation of the tension between Russia and Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
February 22, 2022, 9:32 pm
Russia pulls diplomatic staff from Ukraine amid escalating tensions
Russia says Ukraine has ‘plunged deeper into chaos’; Western countries continue to relocate embassies as Russian lawmakers approve use of force abroad
By Agencies
People walk past an entrance of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
November 5, 2021, 7:09 pm
Russian embassy in Berlin calls mysterious death of diplomat a ‘tragic accident’
Embassy denies speculation in German media that man, found dead after falling from upper floor of building, was a Russian intelligence agent
By AP
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández inaugurate the new Honduran embassy in Jerusalem, June 24, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
June 24, 2021, 4:14 pm
Honduras becomes 4th country to open embassy in Jerusalem
In his first meeting with a foreign leader since becoming PM, Bennett thanks visiting President Hernández for ‘having done a brave and justified deed for the State of Israel’
By Amy Spiro
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