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As far as I know, Mauritania returned its ambassador from Tel Aviv, but didn't close the embassy. Drork (talk) 10:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

It says in several sources that Mauritania decided "to suspend" its ties with Israel, but that's not a practical term in diplomacy, so I really don't understand what it means. I can try calling the embassy and see if I get any answer. Drork (talk) 10:41, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Corrections

Here are the corrections I've made:

1. There is a huge difference between recognizing a country and having diplomatic relations with it. For example, North Korea recognizes the State of Israel, but it does not have diplomatic relations with it (it does not have diplomatic relations with most countries in the world). Morocco cut its low-level diplomatic relations with Israel a few years ago, but it still recognizes Israeli passports. Venezuela cut its diplomatic relations with Israel and the US, but it is very hard to say that it does not recognize these countries anymore.
2. Iran used to have diplomatic relations with Israel before 1979.
3. Taiwan is not a fully recognized state, but it does have diplomatic missions. It has one in Tel Aviv.
4. Western Sahara is currently administered by Morocco, and it cannot have diplomatic relations at all.
5. Mauritania's declaration about "suspending" its relations with Israel was not backed with any operational diplomatic measures. Mauritania returned its ambassador from Tel Aviv as an act of protest, but I saw no declaration about closing the embassy in Tel Aviv nor a formal demand to close the Israeli embassy in Mauritania.
6. Qatar never had diplomatic relations with Israel. The relations were purely commercial. Drork (talk) 11:57, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Updated map

There are a number of inaccuracies in this map (namely, Turkey has not (at least, not yet) cut diplomatic ties, as indicated in latest version of this map. Also Cuba, Chad, Guinea, Mali and Niger should be in yellow with dates, as these countries once had diplomatic ties with Israel). I tried updating this map (and even sought help here from the Help Desk). As I was unable to merely update the map, I have created a new map on Wikimedia Commons, based on this map but incorporating the corrections, entitled File:Foreign relations of Israel Map 2011.png, and have posted the new map to the English Wikipedia article Foreign relations of Israel in place of this map. Davshul (talk) 20:10, 5 January 2011 (UTC)