Foreign embassy

The FOZ Museum hosts thousands of South American tourists every year.

Paraguay officially moved its country’s embassy to Jerusalem on Monday.

Paraguay is the third country in eight days to open an embassy in the capital, following the US last Monday and Guatemala on Wednesday.

Morales was awarded the Friends of Zion Award a few months ago in a ceremony at the Guatemalan President’s Office to mark his steadfast support for strong Guatemala-Israel relations.

Mattanya Cohen, Israel’s ambassador to Guatemala and Honduras, said in a Kan Bet interview that Guatemala has a tradition of friendship for Israel that goes back to 1947.

Having faced many trials and tribulations over the past few years, this moment brought with it a wave of triumph for Zionism and for the enormous love of Israel that continues to burn inside me.

Tanzania's foreign minister attended the opening ceremony, the highest level visit by an official from the African country.

Dragnea said the comments were offensive and contained "a certain dose of antisemitism."

"This is a very serious incident, in which the immunity and privileges granted to foreign missions in Israel was cynically exploited in order to smuggle dozens of weapons..."

"Israel is one of Canada's strongest allies and a beacon of pluralism and democratic principles in a turbulent part of the world."