[4] In 2005, the Paraguayan embassy in Mevaseret Zion was closed, also due to budgetary constraints, and it was reopened in 2013 in the Tel Aviv District city of Herzliya.

[5] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greatly appreciated it; on the very day of the transfer, he attended the opening ceremony and there expressed an enduring friendship.

Foreign Minister Luis Castiglioni stated that "Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the Middle East.

[8][9] In May 2023, President-elect Santiago Peña announced that he intended to move the Paraguayan Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem again after being sworn in as president.

President Santiago Peña took part in the ceremony and was addressed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who declared: “Jerusalem will always be the undivided capital of Israel...This is a fact, and you recognized it.