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<\/p>\n\n Updated 42 min 22 sec ago <\/p>\n
\n June 04, 2026 17:56 <\/p>\n
\n Israel to open embassy in Slovenia\n <\/p>\n
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\u201cToday, I am proud to announce that Israel will open its first-ever embassy in Ljubljana,\u201d Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on X<\/p>\n
\n Updated 42 min 22 sec ago <\/p>\n
\n AFP <\/p>\n
\n June 04, 2026 17:56 <\/p>\n
\n\tJERUSALEM: Israel announced on Thursday that it will open an embassy in Slovenia, marking what it hopes will be a new chapter in relations with the European country under the newly formed government in Ljubljana.
Ties between Israel and Slovenia had soured after the previous center-left government of Robert Golob recognized Palestinian statehood in 2024 and also characterised Israel\u2019s military offensive in Gaza as \u201cgenocide.\u201d
With the formation of a new government under conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa, however, Israel is now looking to rebuild its relationship with Slovenia.
\u201cToday, I am proud to announce that Israel will open its first-ever embassy in Ljubljana,\u201d Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on X.
He said the election of Jansa \u201cmarks a new chapter in relations between Israel and Slovenia.\u201d
\u201cAfter years of the hostility of the previous government, we now have an opportunity to rebuild, strengthen, and deepen a real partnership.
\u201cAn Israeli embassy is more than a diplomatic mission… We are turning today a new page,\u201d Saar added as he announced plans to establish the embassy.
Under the previous government, Slovenia also announced a ban on all weapons trade with Israel over the war in Gaza.
It also declared a ban on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing ICC proceedings against him over alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.
That move followed the then government\u2019s ban against two Israeli far-right ministers, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
It accused them of inciting \u201cextreme violence and serious violations of the human rights of Palestinians\u201d with \u201ctheir genocidal statements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 42 min 22 sec ago June 04, 2026 17:56 Israel to open embassy in Slovenia \u201cToday, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-476436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}