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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)
October 21, 2026, 11:46 am
Israel accepted as Pacific Islands Forum partner, FM says, as ties warm
Sa’ar hails opportunity to participate in forum’s efforts in ‘water management, desalination, agriculture, climate change adaptation, innovation and sustainable development’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, right, and Nauru’s Vice President and Foreign Minister Lionel Rouwen Aingimea inaugurate Nauru’s embassy in Jerusalem, September 7, 2026. (Shlomi Amselam/GPO)
September 11, 2026, 10:12 am
‘The connection is spiritual’: Pacific island nations see prophecy in Jerusalem embassies
After Nauru becomes latest nation to set up shop in Israel’s capital, Fijian ex-diplomat says ‘Christianity is the biggest underlying factor’ in region’s support for Jewish state
By Steven Trask
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
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
Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby (Masalai at English Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0)
February 26, 2023, 2:49 pm
Papua New Guinea to open Jerusalem embassy, Israel announces
Port Moresby expected to make move by end of year; Fiji might follow suit after decades-long campaign by Christian organization
By Lazar Berman
President Reuven Rivlin with Fiji's President Jioji Konrote, Fiji, February 20, 2020 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
February 20, 2020, 3:09 pm
In Fiji, Rivlin asks island nation to be an ally on ‘biased’ UN rights council
President thanks Fijian PM for contribution to UN peacekeeping forces, vows Israel will defend itself against Iran; announces agriculture scholarships for Pacific Island students
By Stuart Winer
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 17, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 17, 2020, 8:43 pm
President to make first official visit to Australia
Reuven Rivlin will also stop in Fiji Islands for a summit with leaders, sign visa waiver agreement; a stopover in Los Angeles will see president honored at UCLA
By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with visiting Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, in Jerusalem, November 7, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg)
November 4, 2018, 5:52 am
Fiji prime ministerial candidate promises closer Israel ties
Fiji Unity party head Savenaca Narube says he will build an embassy in Israel if he wins elections this month
By ToI Staff
An island in the Mamanuca Islands group, Fiji. (Wikipedia/Isderion/CC BY-SA)
June 2, 2017, 12:55 pm
Pacific islands accuse US of ‘abandoning’ them to climate change
US will ‘eventually rejoin our struggle because scientific evidence of man-made climate change is well understood,’ says Fiji PM
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with visiting Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, in Jerusalem, November 7, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg)
November 15, 2016, 9:20 pm
Netanyahu announces first-ever visit of an Israeli PM to Fiji
PM also plans trips to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Singapore, Australia and West Africa in bid to combat UN’s automatic anti-Israel majority
By Raphael Ahren
American troops belonging to the Multinational Force and Observers prepare for takeoff on the coast of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on January 27, 2004. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
May 29, 2016, 2:09 pm
Fiji pulls some peacekeepers from Sinai amid security fears
Several dozen troops withdrawn from restive peninsula in Egypt; US and Colombia also said planning to reduce numbers
By AP
Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014. (AFP/Rami al-Sayed)
October 10, 2014, 11:34 am
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels free priest, other Christians in Syria
Franciscan spokesperson says al-Nusra Front released Father Hanna Jallouf to house arrest
By AFP
Undated image, attached in a statement released on August 30, 2014, on the Hanin Network website, a militant website, shows Fijian UN peacekeepers who were seized by the Nusra Front on August 28, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Hanin Network Website, File)
September 17, 2014, 10:34 pm
UN: Syrian militants kept weapons of Fijian troops
Uniforms, cars were confiscated by al-Nusra Front in a move that is ‘of concern’ to international body, spokesman says
By AP
Illustrative: Smoke rises following an explosion in Syria's Quneitra province as Syrian rebels clash with Assad regime forces, seen from the Golan Heights in 2014. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
September 13, 2014, 1:11 pm
Syrian rebels said to control most of the border with Israel
UN evacuates equipment from main HQ into Israel as insurgents capture two more towns; Qatar reportedly paid high ransom for release of Fijian troops
By ToI Staff
This image made from video posted on a militant social media account on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 shows U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji, background, held captive by militants from the Nusra Front in Syria. Al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels on Thursday released all 45 Fijian peacekeepers they had held captive for two weeks, the United Nations said, bringing an end to a crisis that had pulled the U.N. monitoring force into the chaos of Syria's civil war. (photo credit: AP Photo via militant social media account)
September 12, 2014, 9:45 pm
Freed Fijians want to continue Golan peacekeeping job
45 UN troops call home, celebrate after release by Nusra Front rebels at Syria-Israel border after two weeks in captivity
By Nick Perry and Pita Ligaiula
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