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{{short description|'''A small Jewish community served by three Chabad houses, ties restored in 1995 and a Tanzanian embassy in Tel Aviv from 2018, agricultural students killed on 7 October, and a UN record that backs Palestine'''}}
'''Tanzania''' has a Jewish community of several dozen people, most of them in Dar es Salaam. Thousands of Israeli and other Jewish tourists also pass through each year. [[Chabad-Lubavitch|Chabad]] runs centres in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar.<ref name="Chabad2025">Chabad.org Staff, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/6903141/jewish/Chabad-of-Tanzania-Building-Jewish-Life-in-the-Heart-of-Africa.htm Chabad of Tanzania: Building Jewish Life in the Heart of Africa] ''Chabad.org'', 25 May 2025.</ref><ref name="ChabadArusha">Chabad of Arusha, [https://chabadtanzania.com/en/about/ About] ''chabadtanzania.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ChabadZanzibar">Chabad of Zanzibar, [https://chabadzanzibar.com/en/about/ About and Contact] ''chabadzanzibar.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> Tanzania cut ties with "Israel" after the 1973 war and restored them in 1995.<ref name="ToI2016">Times of Israel Staff, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-tanzania-to-open-embassy-in-israel/ In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel] ''The Times of Israel'', 5 July 2016.</ref> Under President [[John Magufuli]] the relationship warmed. Tanzania opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2018 and helped the Zionist state at UNESCO in 2016.<ref name="Masima2021">Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.il.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/view/how-have-israeli-tanzanian-ties-changed-in-the-last-five-years How Have Israeli-Tanzanian Ties Changed in the Last Five Years?] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 9 December 2021, republished by the Embassy of Tanzania in Tel Aviv (partisan).</ref> Two Tanzanian agricultural students on an Israeli training programme were killed in the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023.<ref name="BBC2023b">Wycliffe Muia and Alfred Lasteck, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67713520 Joshua Mollel: Tanzania says student killed in Israel by Hamas] ''BBC News'', 14 December 2023.</ref> Tanzania has also voted for UN demands that "Israel" leave the occupied territories.<ref name="Citizen2024">Agencies, [https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/international/tanzania-supports-un-resolution-demanding-israel-s-withdrawal-from-gaza-4768688 Tanzania supports UN resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from Gaza] ''The Citizen'', September 2024.</ref>

==Jewish community and religious life==
===History===
According to [[Chabad-Lubavitch|Chabad]], there have been Jews in Tanzania since the late 1800s, when Yemenite Jews and others founded a community. A generation later Eastern European Jews fleeing the Holocaust joined them. Instability and persecution later caused the community to all but disappear, and its synagogue was destroyed.<ref name="Chabad2025" /> No independent account of this history, such as a [[World Jewish Congress]] community profile, was found.

===The community today===
In 2025 Chabad said the community had several dozen members, most of them in Dar es Salaam, and that thousands of Jewish travellers from "Israel" and elsewhere visit each year. It was working to build the country's first mikvah.<ref name="Chabad2025" />

'''How far is it Zionist?''' No Zionist body or Israeli fundraising group was found among Tanzania's small resident community. Much of the Jewish presence consists of travellers from "Israel" and elsewhere, whom the Chabad houses serve.<ref name="Chabad2025" /><ref name="ChabadArusha" /> [[Chabad-Lubavitch|Chabad]] itself is a religious rather than a Zionist movement.

===Chabad===
:''Main article: [[Chabad Lubavitch of Tanzania]]''
Chabad has three centres in Tanzania:
*'''Dar es Salaam.''' Under Rabbi [[Shlomo Bentolila]] of Chabad of Central Africa, Rabbi Shimi and Chani Aziza moved to Tanzania and opened a Chabad House with a synagogue, kosher grocery and restaurant.<ref name="Chabad2025" /> Lubavitch World Headquarters lists Chabad Lubavitch of Dar es Salaam as its Tanzania centre.<ref name="LubTZ">Lubavitch World Headquarters, [https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/africa/tanzania/ Tanzania – Centers] ''Lubavitch.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref>
*'''Arusha.''' Rabbi Meshiach and Yachel Kofchik founded a centre in 2021.<ref name="ChabadArusha" />
*'''Zanzibar.''' Rabbi Mendi and Levana Neeman founded a centre in 2023.<ref name="ChabadZanzibar" />
Tanzania is one of ten countries with permanent centres under Chabad of Central Africa.<ref name="Kin35">Shloimy Galperin, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/7395914/jewish/Getting-Central-Africas-Rabbis-Into-One-Room-Isnt-Easy.htm Getting Central Africa's Rabbis Into One Room Isn't Easy] ''Chabad.org'', 10 June 2026.</ref>
The [[Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States]] lists no rabbi in Tanzania.<ref name="ARIS">Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, [https://www.rabbisalliance.org/about/the-rabbis/ The Rabbis] ''rabbisalliance.org'', accessed 21 October 2026 (partisan).</ref>

==Zionist movement and advocacy==
No organised Zionist movement or pro-Israeli advocacy group was found in Tanzania.

==Israeli state and commercial ties==
===Diplomatic relations===
According to a 2021 ''Jerusalem Post'' article, Tanzania established relations with "Israel" in 1964.<ref name="Masima2021" /> A 2020 University of Dodoma dissertation says relations soured after the 1967 Arusha Declaration and the war of the same year. It also points to Tanzanian objections to the Zionist state's ties with apartheid South Africa.<ref name="Chonjo2020">Richard Michael Chonjo, [https://repository.udom.ac.tz/server/api/core/bitstreams/938965ee-0735-4aa1-b1db-f0d56fa93b54/content An Assessment of Tanzania's Foreign Policy and Her Relations with Israel] MA dissertation, University of Dodoma, December 2020.</ref> Ties were cut after the 1973 war and restored in 1995. For years afterwards "Israel" handled Tanzania from its embassy in Nairobi.<ref name="ToI2016" />

According to the dissertation:
*Relations were largely stagnant from 1995 until the Tanzania-Israel Business and Investment Forum began in 2014.
*On 4 November 2016 the Israeli embassy in Nairobi opened a visa centre in Dar es Salaam.
*Tanzania recognised the State of Palestine on 24 November 1988.<ref name="Chonjo2020" />

In July 2016, at a meeting in Entebbe, foreign minister Augustine Mahiga gave [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] a letter from [[John Magufuli|Magufuli]] announcing that Tanzania would open an embassy.<ref name="ToI2016" /> It opened in Tel Aviv in May 2018.<ref name="Chonjo2020" />

====Masima's account====
In December 2021 Job Daudi Masima, Tanzania's first ambassador to "Israel", who was leaving his post, told the ''Jerusalem Post'' that ties had been dormant for about 20 years until Netanyahu's African push and Magufuli's election in 2015. He also described Tanzania's role at UNESCO in October 2016, when the World Heritage Committee considered a resolution on Jerusalem:
*Tanzania and Croatia called at the last moment for a secret ballot, which allowed more countries to oppose the text.
*The resolution passed, but with softer wording, and Netanyahu publicly thanked Tanzania.
*Masima said: "It was our vote that saved Israel".<ref name="Masima2021" />
Masima also said:
*"Israel" mattered to Tanzania in medicine, agriculture, water, technology and security.
*There was close cooperation on terrorism.
*Both [[Avigdor Liberman]], as defence minister, and [[Ayelet Shaked]], as justice minister, had visited Tanzania.
*"Israel" should open an embassy in Tanzania.<ref name="Masima2021" />
After Magufuli died in March 2021 he was succeeded by [[Samia Suluhu Hassan]].<ref name="Masima2021" />

===Agricultural training===
In late August 2023, 260 Tanzanian agriculture students left for 11 months of training at the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training in southern "Israel". The ''Daily News'' said the Israeli government sponsored the programme in collaboration with the Tanzanian government.<ref name="DailyNews2023">''Daily News'', [https://dailynews.co.tz/260-tanzanian-students-dispatched-to-israel-for-intensive-agri-training/ 260 Tanzanian students dispatched to Israel for intensive agri-training] ''Daily News'' (Tanzania), 28 August 2023.</ref> Tanzanian officials put the number of Tanzanians living in "Israel" at about 350, mostly students on agricultural courses.<ref name="BBC2023b" />

On 7 October 2023 about 36 Tanzanian students were living and working in Sderot and the kibbutzim of Mefalsim, Kissufim, Nahal Oz and Nir Oz. They had been brought to "Israel" by the company Agrostudies.<ref name="HRM2024">Shira Abbo and Sigal Rozen, [https://hotline.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HRM-report-October-2024-Caught-in-the-Crossfire-English-Final-with-design.pdf Caught in the Crossfire: Tanzanian Agriculture Students Caught up by the Gaza – Israel War] ''Hotline for Refugees and Migrants'', October 2024 (critical).</ref> Two were killed:
*'''Clemence Felix Mtenga''' (22) was at Nir Oz.<ref name="BBC2023a">Munira Hussein and Alex Smith, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67458085 Tanzanian student taken hostage by Hamas confirmed dead] ''BBC News'', 17 November 2023.</ref> He was first reported as a hostage. The [[Hotline for Refugees and Migrants]], citing a ''Haaretz'' investigation, says his body was in fact found inside "Israel" on 7 October and identified on 18 November.<ref name="HRM2024" />
*'''Joshua Loitu Mollel''' (21) was at Nahal Oz. Tanzania's foreign minister, January Makamba, said in December 2023 that he had been killed immediately after being captured by Hamas.<ref name="BBC2023b" /><ref name="VOA2023">AFP, [https://www.voaafrica.com/a/tanzania-confirms-death-of-student-after-hamas-capture-/7397773.html Tanzania Confirms Death of Student After Hamas Capture] ''VOA Africa'', 14 December 2023.</ref> In October 2024 his body was still being held in Gaza.<ref name="HRM2024" />
The Hotline's report says the authorities' chaotic handling of the evacuation affected the students too. Students in Sderot were trapped for days before being evacuated, and students evacuated from the kibbutzim started at new workplaces five days later. Claims to the National Insurance Institute made after 1 April 2024 were judged under its regulations. Students who had kept working and had no medical evidence of injury were no longer eligible for compensation.<ref name="HRM2024" />

===Arms===
The [[Stockholm International Peace Research Institute]] records no Israeli arms deliveries to Tanzania.<ref name="SIPRI">Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, [https://armstransfers.sipri.org SIPRI Arms Transfers Database] ''SIPRI'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref>

===Trade===
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics records Israeli imports from Tanzania of $14.9 million in 2025 (2024: $10.9 million), and exports to Tanzania of $10.5 million (2024: $7.9 million).<ref name="CBS">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2026/fr_trade12_2025/td1.pdf Foreign Trade Statistics Monthly, Table D1: Trade Countries – Imports and Exports] ''CBS'', December 2025 issue (library copy) (partisan).</ref>

==Migration and aliyah==
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics does not list Tanzania separately in its table of immigrants by country of birth.<ref name="CBSAliyah">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2024/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_55.pdf Statistical Abstract of Israel 2024, Table 2.55: Immigrants, by period of immigration, country of birth and last country of residence] ''CBS'', 2024 (partisan).</ref> Movement to "Israel" is mainly temporary labour and training, through the agricultural student programmes.<ref name="DailyNews2023" /><ref name="HRM2024" />

==Political interference==
Masima said that Tanzania's call for a secret ballot at UNESCO in 2016 had "saved Israel". This was the most direct case found of Tanzania acting for the Zionist state in a multilateral body.<ref name="Masima2021" /> More recently, Tanzania has voted the other way. In September 2024 it backed the first General Assembly resolution drafted by Palestine, which demanded that "Israel" end its unlawful presence in the occupied territories within a year.<ref name="Citizen2024" />

No credible sourced link between [[Jeffrey Epstein]] and Zionist or Israeli activity in Tanzania was found, so this page has no Epstein section.

==See also==
*[[Chabad Lubavitch of Tanzania]]
*[[Zionist Movement|Zionist movement]]
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Kenya]]
*[[Jewish, Zionist and Israeli connections to Uganda]]

==External links==
*[https://hotline.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HRM-report-October-2024-Caught-in-the-Crossfire-English-Final-with-design.pdf Hotline for Refugees and Migrants: Caught in the Crossfire (2024)]

==Notes==
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[[Category:Zionist movement|Tanzania]]
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	'''Tanzania''' has a Jewish community of several dozen people, most of them in Dar es Salaam. Thousands of Israeli and other Jewish tourists also pass through each year. [[Chabad-Lubavitch\|Chabad]] runs centres in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar.<ref name="Chabad2025">Chabad.org Staff, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/6903141/jewish/Chabad-of-Tanzania-Building-Jewish-Life-in-the-Heart-of-Africa.htm Chabad of Tanzania: Building Jewish Life in the Heart of Africa] ''Chabad.org'', 25 May 2025.</ref><ref name="ChabadArusha">Chabad of Arusha, [https://chabadtanzania.com/en/about/ About] ''chabadtanzania.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ChabadZanzibar">Chabad of Zanzibar, [https://chabadzanzibar.com/en/about/ About and Contact] ''chabadzanzibar.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> Tanzania cut ties with "Israel" after the 1973 war and restored them in 1995.<ref name="ToI2016">Times of Israel Staff, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-tanzania-to-open-embassy-in-israel/ In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel] ''The Times of Israel'', 5 July 2016.</ref> Under President [[John Magufuli]] the relationship warmed. Tanzania opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2018 and helped the Zionist state at UNESCO in 2016.<ref name="Masima2021">Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.il.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/view/how-have-israeli-tanzanian-ties-changed-in-the-last-five-years How Have Israeli-Tanzanian Ties Changed in the Last Five Years?] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 9 December 2021, republished by the Embassy of Tanzania in Tel Aviv.</ref> Two Tanzanian agricultural students on an Israeli training programme were killed in the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023.<ref name="BBC2023b">Wycliffe Muia and Alfred Lasteck, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67713520 Joshua Mollel: Tanzania says student killed in Israel by Hamas] ''BBC News'', 14 December 2023.</ref> Tanzania has also voted for UN demands that "Israel" leave the occupied territories.<ref name="Citizen2024">Agencies, [https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/international/tanzania-supports-un-resolution-demanding-israel-s-withdrawal-from-gaza-4768688 Tanzania supports UN resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from Gaza] ''The Citizen'', September 2024.</ref>		'''Tanzania''' has a Jewish community of several dozen people, most of them in Dar es Salaam. Thousands of Israeli and other Jewish tourists also pass through each year. [[Chabad-Lubavitch\|Chabad]] runs centres in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar.<ref name="Chabad2025">Chabad.org Staff, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/6903141/jewish/Chabad-of-Tanzania-Building-Jewish-Life-in-the-Heart-of-Africa.htm Chabad of Tanzania: Building Jewish Life in the Heart of Africa] ''Chabad.org'', 25 May 2025.</ref><ref name="ChabadArusha">Chabad of Arusha, [https://chabadtanzania.com/en/about/ About] ''chabadtanzania.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ChabadZanzibar">Chabad of Zanzibar, [https://chabadzanzibar.com/en/about/ About and Contact] ''chabadzanzibar.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> Tanzania cut ties with "Israel" after the 1973 war and restored them in 1995.<ref name="ToI2016">Times of Israel Staff, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-tanzania-to-open-embassy-in-israel/ In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel] ''The Times of Israel'', 5 July 2016.</ref> Under President [[John Magufuli]] the relationship warmed. Tanzania opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2018 and helped the Zionist state at UNESCO in 2016.<ref name="Masima2021">Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.il.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/view/how-have-israeli-tanzanian-ties-changed-in-the-last-five-years How Have Israeli-Tanzanian Ties Changed in the Last Five Years?] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 9 December 2021, republished by the Embassy of Tanzania in Tel Aviv.</ref> Two Tanzanian agricultural students on an Israeli training programme were killed in the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023.<ref name="BBC2023b">Wycliffe Muia and Alfred Lasteck, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67713520 Joshua Mollel: Tanzania says student killed in Israel by Hamas] ''BBC News'', 14 December 2023.</ref> Tanzania has also voted for UN demands that "Israel" leave the occupied territories.<ref name="Citizen2024">Agencies, [https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/international/tanzania-supports-un-resolution-demanding-israel-s-withdrawal-from-gaza-4768688 Tanzania supports UN resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from Gaza] ''The Citizen'', September 2024.</ref>

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 *'''Zanzibar.''' Rabbi Mendi and Levana Neeman founded a centre in 2023.<ref name="ChabadZanzibar" />
 Tanzania is one of ten countries with permanent centres under Chabad of Central Africa.<ref name="Kin35">Shloimy Galperin, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/7395914/jewish/Getting-Central-Africas-Rabbis-Into-One-Room-Isnt-Easy.htm Getting Central Africa's Rabbis Into One Room Isn't Easy] ''Chabad.org'', 10 June 2026.</ref>
-The [[Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States]] lists no rabbi in Tanzania.<ref name="ARIS">Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, [https://www.rabbisalliance.org/about/the-rabbis/ The Rabbis] ''rabbisalliance.org'', accessed 21 October 2026 (Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States-side).</ref>
+The [[Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States]] lists no rabbi in Tanzania.<ref name="ARIS">Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, [https://www.rabbisalliance.org/about/the-rabbis/ The Rabbis] ''rabbisalliance.org'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref>
 ==Zionist movement and advocacy==
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 In late August 2023, 260 Tanzanian agriculture students left for 11 months of training at the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training in southern "Israel". The ''Daily News'' said the Israeli government sponsored the programme in collaboration with the Tanzanian government.<ref name="DailyNews2023">''Daily News'', [https://dailynews.co.tz/260-tanzanian-students-dispatched-to-israel-for-intensive-agri-training/ 260 Tanzanian students dispatched to Israel for intensive agri-training] ''Daily News'' (Tanzania), 28 August 2023.</ref> Tanzanian officials put the number of Tanzanians living in "Israel" at about 350, mostly students on agricultural courses.<ref name="BBC2023b" />
-On 7 October 2023 about 36 Tanzanian students were living and working in Sderot and the kibbutzim of Mefalsim, Kissufim, Nahal Oz and Nir Oz. They had been brought to "Israel" by the company Agrostudies.<ref name="HRM2024">Shira Abbo and Sigal Rozen, [https://hotline.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HRM-report-October-2024-Caught-in-the-Crossfire-English-Final-with-design.pdf Caught in the Crossfire: Tanzanian Agriculture Students Caught up by the Gaza – Israel War] ''Hotline for Refugees and Migrants'', October 2024 (critical).</ref> Two were killed:
+On 7 October 2023 about 36 Tanzanian students were living and working in Sderot and the kibbutzim of Mefalsim, Kissufim, Nahal Oz and Nir Oz. They had been brought to "Israel" by the company Agrostudies.<ref name="HRM2024">Shira Abbo and Sigal Rozen, [https://hotline.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HRM-report-October-2024-Caught-in-the-Crossfire-English-Final-with-design.pdf Caught in the Crossfire: Tanzanian Agriculture Students Caught up by the Gaza – Israel War] ''Hotline for Refugees and Migrants'', October 2024.</ref> Two were killed:
 *'''Clemence Felix Mtenga''' (22) was at Nir Oz.<ref name="BBC2023a">Munira Hussein and Alex Smith, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67458085 Tanzanian student taken hostage by Hamas confirmed dead] ''BBC News'', 17 November 2023.</ref> He was first reported as a hostage. The [[Hotline for Refugees and Migrants]], citing a ''Haaretz'' investigation, says his body was in fact found inside "Israel" on 7 October and identified on 18 November.<ref name="HRM2024" />
 *'''Joshua Loitu Mollel''' (21) was at Nahal Oz. Tanzania's foreign minister, January Makamba, said in December 2023 that he had been killed immediately after being captured by Hamas.<ref name="BBC2023b" /><ref name="VOA2023">AFP, [https://www.voaafrica.com/a/tanzania-confirms-death-of-student-after-hamas-capture-/7397773.html Tanzania Confirms Death of Student After Hamas Capture] ''VOA Africa'', 14 December 2023.</ref> In October 2024 his body was still being held in Gaza.<ref name="HRM2024" />
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 ===Trade===
-The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics records Israeli imports from Tanzania of $14.9 million in 2025 (2024: $10.9 million), and exports to Tanzania of $10.5 million (2024: $7.9 million).<ref name="CBS">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2026/fr_trade12_2025/td1.pdf Foreign Trade Statistics Monthly, Table D1: Trade Countries – Imports and Exports] ''CBS'', December 2025 issue (library copy) (Israeli government-side).</ref>
+The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics records Israeli imports from Tanzania of $14.9 million in 2025 (2024: $10.9 million), and exports to Tanzania of $10.5 million (2024: $7.9 million).<ref name="CBS">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2026/fr_trade12_2025/td1.pdf Foreign Trade Statistics Monthly, Table D1: Trade Countries – Imports and Exports] ''CBS'', December 2025 issue (library copy).</ref>
 ==Migration and aliyah==
-The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics does not list Tanzania separately in its table of immigrants by country of birth.<ref name="CBSAliyah">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2024/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_55.pdf Statistical Abstract of Israel 2024, Table 2.55: Immigrants, by period of immigration, country of birth and last country of residence] ''CBS'', 2024 (Israeli government-side).</ref> Movement to "Israel" is mainly temporary labour and training, through the agricultural student programmes.<ref name="DailyNews2023" /><ref name="HRM2024" />
+The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics does not list Tanzania separately in its table of immigrants by country of birth.<ref name="CBSAliyah">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2024/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_55.pdf Statistical Abstract of Israel 2024, Table 2.55: Immigrants, by period of immigration, country of birth and last country of residence] ''CBS'', 2024.</ref> Movement to "Israel" is mainly temporary labour and training, through the agricultural student programmes.<ref name="DailyNews2023" /><ref name="HRM2024" />
 ==Political interference==

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 :''Main article: [[Chabad Lubavitch of Tanzania]]''
 Chabad has three centres in Tanzania:
-*'''Dar es Salaam.''' Under Rabbi [[Shlomo Bentolila]] of Chabad of Central Africa, Rabbi Shimi and Chani Aziza moved to Tanzania and opened a Chabad House with a synagogue, kosher grocery and restaurant.<ref name="Chabad2025" /> Lubavitch World Headquarters lists Chabad Lubavitch of Dar es Salaam as its Tanzania centre.<ref name="LubTZ">Lubavitch World Headquarters, [https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/africa/tanzania/ Tanzania – Centers] ''Lubavitch.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref>
+*'''Dar es Salaam.''' Under Rabbi [[Shlomo Bentolila]] of [[Chabad of Central Africa]], Rabbi Shimi and Chani Aziza moved to Tanzania and opened a Chabad House with a synagogue, kosher grocery and restaurant.<ref name="Chabad2025" /> Lubavitch World Headquarters lists Chabad Lubavitch of Dar es Salaam as its Tanzania centre.<ref name="LubTZ">Lubavitch World Headquarters, [https://www.lubavitch.com/centers/africa/tanzania/ Tanzania – Centers] ''Lubavitch.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref>
 *'''Arusha.''' Rabbi Meshiach and Yachel Kofchik founded a centre in 2021.<ref name="ChabadArusha" />
 *'''Zanzibar.''' Rabbi Mendi and Levana Neeman founded a centre in 2023.<ref name="ChabadZanzibar" />

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 {{short description|'''A small Jewish community served by three Chabad houses, ties restored in 1995 and a Tanzanian embassy in Tel Aviv from 2018, agricultural students killed on 7 October, and a UN record that backs Palestine'''}}
-'''Tanzania''' has a Jewish community of several dozen people, most of them in Dar es Salaam. Thousands of Israeli and other Jewish tourists also pass through each year. [[Chabad-Lubavitch|Chabad]] runs centres in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar.<ref name="Chabad2025">Chabad.org Staff, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/6903141/jewish/Chabad-of-Tanzania-Building-Jewish-Life-in-the-Heart-of-Africa.htm Chabad of Tanzania: Building Jewish Life in the Heart of Africa] ''Chabad.org'', 25 May 2025.</ref><ref name="ChabadArusha">Chabad of Arusha, [https://chabadtanzania.com/en/about/ About] ''chabadtanzania.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ChabadZanzibar">Chabad of Zanzibar, [https://chabadzanzibar.com/en/about/ About and Contact] ''chabadzanzibar.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> Tanzania cut ties with "Israel" after the 1973 war and restored them in 1995.<ref name="ToI2016">Times of Israel Staff, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-tanzania-to-open-embassy-in-israel/ In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel] ''The Times of Israel'', 5 July 2016.</ref> Under President [[John Magufuli]] the relationship warmed. Tanzania opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2018 and helped the Zionist state at UNESCO in 2016.<ref name="Masima2021">Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.il.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/view/how-have-israeli-tanzanian-ties-changed-in-the-last-five-years How Have Israeli-Tanzanian Ties Changed in the Last Five Years?] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 9 December 2021, republished by the Embassy of Tanzania in Tel Aviv (partisan).</ref> Two Tanzanian agricultural students on an Israeli training programme were killed in the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023.<ref name="BBC2023b">Wycliffe Muia and Alfred Lasteck, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67713520 Joshua Mollel: Tanzania says student killed in Israel by Hamas] ''BBC News'', 14 December 2023.</ref> Tanzania has also voted for UN demands that "Israel" leave the occupied territories.<ref name="Citizen2024">Agencies, [https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/international/tanzania-supports-un-resolution-demanding-israel-s-withdrawal-from-gaza-4768688 Tanzania supports UN resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from Gaza] ''The Citizen'', September 2024.</ref>
+'''Tanzania''' has a Jewish community of several dozen people, most of them in Dar es Salaam. Thousands of Israeli and other Jewish tourists also pass through each year. [[Chabad-Lubavitch|Chabad]] runs centres in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar.<ref name="Chabad2025">Chabad.org Staff, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/6903141/jewish/Chabad-of-Tanzania-Building-Jewish-Life-in-the-Heart-of-Africa.htm Chabad of Tanzania: Building Jewish Life in the Heart of Africa] ''Chabad.org'', 25 May 2025.</ref><ref name="ChabadArusha">Chabad of Arusha, [https://chabadtanzania.com/en/about/ About] ''chabadtanzania.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ChabadZanzibar">Chabad of Zanzibar, [https://chabadzanzibar.com/en/about/ About and Contact] ''chabadzanzibar.com'', accessed 21 October 2026.</ref> Tanzania cut ties with "Israel" after the 1973 war and restored them in 1995.<ref name="ToI2016">Times of Israel Staff, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-tanzania-to-open-embassy-in-israel/ In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel] ''The Times of Israel'', 5 July 2016.</ref> Under President [[John Magufuli]] the relationship warmed. Tanzania opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in 2018 and helped the Zionist state at UNESCO in 2016.<ref name="Masima2021">Tovah Lazaroff, [https://www.il.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/view/how-have-israeli-tanzanian-ties-changed-in-the-last-five-years How Have Israeli-Tanzanian Ties Changed in the Last Five Years?] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 9 December 2021, republished by the Embassy of Tanzania in Tel Aviv.</ref> Two Tanzanian agricultural students on an Israeli training programme were killed in the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023.<ref name="BBC2023b">Wycliffe Muia and Alfred Lasteck, [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67713520 Joshua Mollel: Tanzania says student killed in Israel by Hamas] ''BBC News'', 14 December 2023.</ref> Tanzania has also voted for UN demands that "Israel" leave the occupied territories.<ref name="Citizen2024">Agencies, [https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/international/tanzania-supports-un-resolution-demanding-israel-s-withdrawal-from-gaza-4768688 Tanzania supports UN resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from Gaza] ''The Citizen'', September 2024.</ref>
 ==Jewish community and religious life==
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 *'''Zanzibar.''' Rabbi Mendi and Levana Neeman founded a centre in 2023.<ref name="ChabadZanzibar" />
 Tanzania is one of ten countries with permanent centres under Chabad of Central Africa.<ref name="Kin35">Shloimy Galperin, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/7395914/jewish/Getting-Central-Africas-Rabbis-Into-One-Room-Isnt-Easy.htm Getting Central Africa's Rabbis Into One Room Isn't Easy] ''Chabad.org'', 10 June 2026.</ref>
-The [[Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States]] lists no rabbi in Tanzania.<ref name="ARIS">Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, [https://www.rabbisalliance.org/about/the-rabbis/ The Rabbis] ''rabbisalliance.org'', accessed 21 October 2026 (partisan).</ref>
+The [[Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States]] lists no rabbi in Tanzania.<ref name="ARIS">Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, [https://www.rabbisalliance.org/about/the-rabbis/ The Rabbis] ''rabbisalliance.org'', accessed 21 October 2026 (Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States-side).</ref>
 ==Zionist movement and advocacy==
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 ===Trade===
-The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics records Israeli imports from Tanzania of $14.9 million in 2025 (2024: $10.9 million), and exports to Tanzania of $10.5 million (2024: $7.9 million).<ref name="CBS">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2026/fr_trade12_2025/td1.pdf Foreign Trade Statistics Monthly, Table D1: Trade Countries – Imports and Exports] ''CBS'', December 2025 issue (library copy) (partisan).</ref>
+The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics records Israeli imports from Tanzania of $14.9 million in 2025 (2024: $10.9 million), and exports to Tanzania of $10.5 million (2024: $7.9 million).<ref name="CBS">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2026/fr_trade12_2025/td1.pdf Foreign Trade Statistics Monthly, Table D1: Trade Countries – Imports and Exports] ''CBS'', December 2025 issue (library copy) (Israeli government-side).</ref>
 ==Migration and aliyah==
-The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics does not list Tanzania separately in its table of immigrants by country of birth.<ref name="CBSAliyah">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2024/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_55.pdf Statistical Abstract of Israel 2024, Table 2.55: Immigrants, by period of immigration, country of birth and last country of residence] ''CBS'', 2024 (partisan).</ref> Movement to "Israel" is mainly temporary labour and training, through the agricultural student programmes.<ref name="DailyNews2023" /><ref name="HRM2024" />
+The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics does not list Tanzania separately in its table of immigrants by country of birth.<ref name="CBSAliyah">Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), [https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2024/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_55.pdf Statistical Abstract of Israel 2024, Table 2.55: Immigrants, by period of immigration, country of birth and last country of residence] ''CBS'', 2024 (Israeli government-side).</ref> Movement to "Israel" is mainly temporary labour and training, through the agricultural student programmes.<ref name="DailyNews2023" /><ref name="HRM2024" />
 ==Political interference==