'Time has come to open an Azerbaijan embassy in Israel'

After Israel and Azerbaijan celebrated 29 years to the establishment of bilateral ties, an Azeri official told the Israel Hayom newspaper, "The time has come to open an Azerbaijan Embassy in Israel."

"The Azeri people and the Jewish people have a long history together," Farid Shafiyev, the chairman of Azerbaijan's Center of Analysis of International Relations, told the newspaper.

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