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Israel temporarily closes four embassies, country’s embassy in Azerbaijan works in normal regime (UPDATE)

Israel Materials 16 February 2011 13:40 (UTC +04:00)
Four Israeli embassies have been temporarily closed due to "existing threats" against them, Haaretz newspaper quotes the country’s Foreign Ministry, as reporting.
Israel temporarily closes four embassies, country’s embassy in Azerbaijan works in normal regime (UPDATE)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.16 / Trend A.Akhundov /

Four Israeli embassies have been temporarily closed due to "existing threats" against them, Haaretz newspaper quotes the country's Foreign Ministry, as reporting.

The ministry did not specify which embassies it was referring to.

The Israeli embassy works in normal regime, the embassy told Trend on Wednesday. On Monday the embassy suspended its work for technical reasons and resumed its work on Tuesday.

The Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau included Azerbaijan in a list of countries with a high probability of attacks on Israelis. The list was published on Friday in connection with the third anniversary of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh's death.Besides Azerbaijan, the list includes Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Mauritania.

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