Angola will for the first time soon open an embassy in Israel, eight years after restoring diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, the Israeli foreign ministry said Wednesday.
An Angolan diplomatic mission arrived in Israel two weeks ago to resolve "logistical" problems with the opening of the embassy in Tel Aviv, foreign ministry official Avraham Toledo told AFP, without specifying when it would happen.
He said the ambassador will be a former senior Angolan army officer, Jose Manuel.
Angola broke off relations with Israel during the Yom Kippur war between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors in 1973 and only renewed them in 1992.
Israel has had an embassy in Luanda since 1995, headed by Tamar Golan, a former journalist whose strong links with numerous African leaders helped Israel's diplomatic relations return to the continent.
However, in January, a row between Israeli arms dealers supplying weapons to Angola led to threats by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to sever diplomatic relations, press reports at the time said – JERUSALEM (AFP)
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