Israel–Portugal relations

Israel and Portugal established full diplomatic relations in 1977, while Israel already had diplomatic mission in Lisbon in the Consulate-General level which was later upgraded to embassy level. The Estado Novo did not recognize Israel, and only after the Portuguese revolution of 1974 did Portugal recognize Israel and establish a relationship.{{Cite web|url=http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/8fd7c0ac39ddf76785256fdb0067cacc?OpenDocument|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222213706/http://unispal.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/8fd7c0ac39ddf76785256fdb0067cacc?OpenDocument|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-02-22|title=A/32/151 of 20 July 1977: QUESTION OF PALESTINE: THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Letter dated 18 July 1977 from the Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General|date=February 22, 2014}} Since 1991, Portugal has had an embassy in Tel Aviv.{{cite web|url= https://portaldiplomatico.mne.gov.pt/relacoesbilaterais/paises-geral/titulares/israel-titulares|title=Israel - Titulares|website=portaldiplomatico.mne.gov.pt|accessdate=5 February 2025}}

Even without relationship, Portugal allowed the United States of America airplanes to stop in the Azores Islands on the way to Israel as part of Operation Nickel Grass to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.{{cite web | url=http://www.lajes.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123229376 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611054403/http://www.lajes.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123229376 | archive-date=11 June 2016 | title=Leadership lessons from history }}

Since 1994 both Israeli and Portuguese nationals do not need visas to visit each other.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.il/files/mfa/amanot/4-18516-4113.tif|title=Embaixada de Portugal, Tel Aviv, Israel, No. 250, Proc. VA, 29.12.1993|website= gov.il|accessdate=5 February 2025}}

On 25 September 2006, Israel and Portugal signed an Avidness double taxation agreement which entered into force on 31 December 2007.{{cite web|url= https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/dynamiccollectorresultitem/portugal_dta-eng/en/international_agreements_portugal_dtpa-eng.pdf|title=CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME|website=gov.il|accessdate=5 February 2025}}

Israel and Portugal trade is also influenced by the EU–Israel Free Trade Agreement of 1995.{{cite web|url= https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/policy/eu-isr-fta/he/sahar-hutz_agreements_euro-fta-agri-2010-en.pdf|title=AGREEMENT IN THE FORM OF AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL CONCERNING RECIPROCAL LIBERALISATION MEASURES ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, PROCESSED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND FISH AND FISHERY PRODUCTS, THE REPLACEMENT OF PROTOCOLS 1 AND 2 AND THEIR ANNEXES AND AMENDMENTS TO THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THEIR MEMBER STATES, OF THE ONE PART, AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL, OF THE OTHER PART|website=gov.il|accessdate=5 February 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/policy/eu-isr-fta/he/sahar-hutz_agreements_euro-fta-agreement-en.pdf|title=EURO-MEDITERRANEAN AGREEMENT establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part|website=gov.il|accessdate=5 February 2025}}

• Israel has an embassy in Lisbon.
• Portugal has an embassy in Tel Aviv.

• Foreign relations of Israel
• Foreign relations of Portugal
• History of the Jews in Portugal
• Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Judaeo-Portuguese

• [https://new.embassies.gov.il/portugal/en The Israeli embassy to Portugal]
• [https://telavive.embaixadaportugal.mne.gov.pt/en/ The Portuguese embassy to Israel]

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