Ambasada Izraela, Warszawa

Here at Krzywickiego twenty-four, you are beside the Embassy of Israel, Israel’s diplomatic mission in Poland. Let the reserved frontage frame a long, interrupted connection between Poland and Israel. Before Israel became a state, Warsaw had a Palestinian Office representing the Jewish Agency from nineteen eighteen, and such offices returned here after the war.

Israel opened its Warsaw legation during September nineteen forty-eight, placing it in the Hotel Bristol before settling at this address. By nineteen sixty-six, the relationship operated at embassy level. Poland’s communist authorities ended diplomatic relations on the eighteenth of July nineteen sixty-seven after the Six-Day War; Dutch diplomats then handled Israel’s interests in Poland, while Finland’s embassy in Tel Aviv took over Poland’s.

A thaw brought an Israeli interests section back to Warsaw during nineteen eighty-six. It became independent during nineteen eighty-nine, and formal diplomatic relations resumed on the twenty-seventh of February nineteen ninety. The embassy now brings together cultural, educational, commercial, press, consular, and military-attache work: a compact institution carrying diplomacy into everyday exchange.