The Israeli Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the

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. It is located in the

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district of

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at Auguste-Viktoria-Straße 74. Since August 22, 2022, the Israeli ambassador to Germany is

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History

There have been diplomatic relations between the state of Israel and

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since 1965. The first embassy, opened on August 24, 1965, was located in

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's Ehrenfeld district. The following year, the embassy was moved to the

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district of

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

. With the relocation of the German seat of government after unification, the Israeli embassy was moved in August 1999 from Bonn to Berlin. Until then there had been an Israeli

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at Schinkelstraße 10 in the

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district of West Berlin. The current embassy building was built in the period 1999–2001. It was designed by Israeli architect Orit Willenberg-Giladi. She is the daughter of the late

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, the last known survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka revolt, and his wife

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. In 2013 she was selected to design the Holocaust education center planned for the former site of

Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka () was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Mas ...

Ambassadors in Germany

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External links

* https://embassies.gov.il/berlin/Pages/default.aspx * https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/AboutTheMinistry/Israeli%20ambassadors/Pages/Germany.aspx {{Authority control 1999 establishments in Germany Diplomatic missions of Israel Diplomatic missions in Berlin Germany–Israel relations

History

Ambassadors in Germany

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