Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Palau
Palau: relations with "Israel" since 1994, its first ambassador to Israel (2022), and its UN votes
Palau established relations with "Israel" in 1994.[1] Its first ambassador to "Israel", Ilana Seid, presented her credentials in October 2022,[2] and it voted against the General Assembly resolutions on Palestine of September 2024[3] and September 2025.[2]
Israeli state and commercial ties
Diplomacy
The Israeli foreign ministry's 2011 list of missions records relations with Palau as established in October 1994, with "Israel" represented by a non-resident ambassador based at the foreign ministry in Jerusalem.[1] The Island Times reports that Ilana Seid, Palau's first ambassador to "Israel", presented her credentials to President Isaac Herzog on 31 October 2022.[2]
According to the Pacific historian Steven Ratuva, quoted by 1News, after the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau voted with "Israel" against upgrading Palestine to non-member observer status at the UN in 2012, the Israeli prime minister "invited them over and promised them aid".[4]
Political interference
UN voting
According to 1News, Palau abstained on the General Assembly's October 2023 resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.[4] Palau abstained on the resolution of 12 December 2023 demanding an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire", according to The Diplomat.[5] The Guardian listed it among the 12 states that voted against a later General Assembly resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, which passed with 149 votes in favour.[6] In September 2024 it voted against the resolution demanding that "Israel" end its "unlawful presence" in the Occupied Palestinian Territory within 12 months.[3] Palau voted against the September 2025 General Assembly resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on a two-state solution.[7]
See also
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Australia
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Fiji
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Kiribati
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to the Marshall Islands
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to the Federated States of Micronesia
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Nauru
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to New Zealand
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Papua New Guinea
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Samoa
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to the Solomon Islands
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Tonga
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Tuvalu
- Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Vanuatu
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Missions Abroad: Status of relations mfa.gov.il, archived 5 August 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Palau Sides with U.S. and Israel Again, Rejects UN Vote on Palestinian Statehood Island Times, 16 September 2025, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 UN outliers: 7 Pacific states vote against resolution to end Israel's 'unlawful presence' in Palestine RNZ, 19 September 2024, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Indira Stewart, Israel and the Pacific – a surprisingly close 'friendship' 1News, 10 March 2024, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ Logan Green, Pacific Island States Continue Disproportionate Support of Israel at the UN The Diplomat, 16 December 2023, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ Jonathan Yerushalmy, As censure increases over war in Gaza, Israel finds support among Pacific Islands The Guardian, 6 September 2025, accessed 25 October 2026.
- ↑ United Nations General Assembly, Recorded vote on A/80/L.1/Rev.1: Endorsement of the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, 12 September 2025 (copy hosted by Al-Quds Al-Arabi).