Tanzania to open first-ever embassy in Israel – African nation which severed ties with Israel in 1973 to establish first embassy in Jewish State next week near Tel Aviv. | Israel National News

Tanzania announced Tuesday that it will open its first embassy in Israel, Yisrael Hayom reported.
Tanzanian Foreign Minister Dr. Augustine Mahiga will attend the opening of the embassy on May 8. The new embassy located at 12 Abba Hillel Silver Street in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv
The east African nation of Tanzania has never opened an embassy in Israel before. Tanzania severed diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 following the Yom Kippur War. Relations between the two nations were reestablished in 1995, However, Israeli contacts with Tanzania have been conducted solely through Nairobi in Kenya.