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Bosnia and Herzegovina–Israel relations are the bilateral relations betweenBosnia and Herzegovina andIsrael.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Israel have established relations on 26 September 1997.[1] Bosnia and Herzegovina has an embassy inTel Aviv which serves both Israel and Cyprus.[2] The Israeli embassy inTirana, Albania serves also Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3]
During theYugoslav Wars, Israel took 84 Muslim refugees from Bosnia,[4] and Israel together with Jordan have operated a joined aid mission to Bosnia.[5] Bosnia and Herzegovina decided first to recognize and to establish relations with the Palestinians in 1992,[6] as Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Israel have established relations on 26 September 1997.[1]
In 2013, Israel extradited Alexander Cvetkovic to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cvetkovic an Israeli-Serb who immigrated from Bosnia to Israel in 2005, was indicted by Israeli courts in 2011 for allegedly participating in the July 1995massacre of Srebrenica.[7][8] In 2017Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serb PresidentMladen Ivanić visited Israel and meet with theIsraeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu.[9] In 2022,Bosnia and Herzegovina's Prime MinisterBorjana Krišto was the first Prime Minister to visit Israel and even wished to see the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina inJerusalem.[10] In 2023 the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the International Economy Fair Mostar.[11]
In 2020, theIsrael Aerospace Industries (IAI) opened a cyber academy in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the vision to increase the country's cyber capabilities through international collaborations, leveraging new technologies, infrastructure development, and research.[12] In 2024 Israel increased the import of aluminum from Bosnia and Herzegovina, while reducing import from Turkey and other “unfriendly” countries.[13]
In 2017, the Israeli Foreign Ministry criticized the naming of a school in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a Muslim Nazi collaborator,Mustafa Busuladzic.[14][15] In 2020, a Catholic cardinal honored in a service the soldiers of the Nazi-alliedUstasha. The local Jewish community and Israel criticized the event,[16] and thousands demonstrated inSarajevo against as well.[17]
After theattack of 7 October in 2023, many Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina protested against Israel from the early stages of the war, and supported by the mayor of Sarajevo,Benjamina Karic.[18] In September 2024, 200 fans of Bosnia and Herzegovina's national team have marched in the Jewish quarter of Budapest while callingpro-Palestinian calls.[19]
The Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina is estimated between 500 and 1,000 Jews living inSarajevo,Banja Luka,Mostar,Tuzla,Doboj, andZenica.[20] The Jewish Community of Bosnia Herzegovina have a Jewish museum in Sarajevo.[21] In 2024 a Jewish-Muslim Initiative for Peace meet on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Srebrenica and commemorated the Israeli victims of 7 October and the Palestinian victims of war.[22]
Republic of Srpska have representative office in Israel located in Jerusalem,[23] mostly focusing on economic and cultural relations.[24]
In 2011,Nebojsa Radmanovic vetoed and blocked Bosnia and Herzegovina from voting in favor of thePalestinian Authority.[25] In 2012,Milorad Dodik visited Israel.[26] In 2023, Israel's 75thIndependence Day were celebrated and patronized by Milorad Dodik in the capital of Republic of Srpska,Banja Luka.[27]
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