DRC Announces Plan to Move Israel Embassy From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Two days after President Tshisekedi's Jerusalem talks with PM Netanyahu and President Herzog, the DRC and Israel announced Sept 3 they would continue consultations on relocating the DRC's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; no timetable was given. The joint declaration also said Israel would continue consultations on opening a resident embassy in Kinshasa. The move would place the DRC among a small group of countries — mostly outside Africa — that recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital by locating their embassy there, an unusual position for an African state and a notable deepening of the DRC-Israel relationship first revived by Herzog's November 2025 Kinshasa visit.