The Pacific island nation of Nauru announced Wednesday that its cabinet has decided to open an official embassy in Israel—located in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital—making it the tenth country to do so. “A true friend of Israel,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said.
The official announcement was delivered to Sa’ar by Nauru’s Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Justice, Lionel Aingimea, following an agreement the two reached at a meeting in June in Fiji, where Sa’ar attended the opening ceremony of Israel’s embassy there.
Nauru’s new embassy, expected to open in the coming months, will join the list of diplomatic missions and become the fifth embassy opened in the capital since Sa’ar took office as foreign minister. This comes in addition to a similar agreement reached last week with Colombia’s incoming foreign minister.
תודה, נאורו!
אני מודה לדיוויד אדאנג, נשיא נאורו ולליונל אניגימאה, סגן הנשיא ושר החוץ, המסחר והמשפטים של נאורו על החלטת הקבינט לפתוח שגרירות של מדינתם בירושלים, בירת ישראל.
זאת בהמשך לפגישתי עם אניגימאה בחודש שעבר.שגרירות נאורו צפויה להיות השגרירות העשירית בירושלים, והחמישית… pic.twitter.com/poO65AsVxJ
— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) July 22, 2026
Responding to the decision, Sa’ar said: “Thank you, Nauru! I thank David Adeang, President of Nauru, and Lionel Aingimea for the cabinet’s decision to open their country’s embassy in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. Nauru is a true friend of Israel, and the opening of the embassy will undoubtedly contribute to deepening relations between our countries.”
Nauru is a tiny island nation in the northern Pacific, south of the equator, and is part of the Micronesian group of nations along with the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, and Kiribati. Over the years, Nauru has stood out as a consistent and staunch supporter of Israel at the UN, and even submitted a supportive legal opinion on Israel’s behalf in proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Diplomatically, Nauru officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2019, and now the current move reaches its culmination with the establishment of a physical embassy in the city.