An Israeli woman who has lived in Galway for the past 20 years has said she vehemently opposes Israel’s decision to shut its embassy in Dublin and that doing so will only increase the “toxicity” of its relationship with Ireland.
Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister, announced last Monday that his government was closing the Ballsbridge embassy in light of “the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government”.
Simon Harris, the taoiseach, described the move as a “deeply regrettable decision” and said that he utterly rejected the assertion that Ireland was anti-Israel. “Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-international law,” he wrote on X.
When asked this weekend how Israelis living in Ireland would be supported, a spokesman for the embassy said “the elements of the
