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July 25, 2025

Why Taiwan-Israel Relations Are Flourishing

Taipei seeks to learn from Israeli resilience.

Earlier this month, the Taiwanese representative to Israel pledged an official donation to a hospital in the Binyamin region northeast of Jerusalem. This seemingly benign eleemosynary gesture violates the norms observed by most diplomats serving in Israel, who claim it is a gross breach of international law for Jews to live outside the 1949 armistice lines. 

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