Bilateral relations between Israel and Finland since 1949.
Finland recognized the State of Israel on the 18th of March 1949.
Diplomatic relations between Israel and Finland were established on the 14th of November, 1950.
Finland-Israel Association is established in on the 15th of December, 1954.
The Jerusalem Post's coverage of early diplomatic relations in the 1960s.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion visits Finland for the first time in 1962. During his visit, the diplomatic missions of Finland in Tel Aviv and Israel in Helsinki were upgraded to the status of an Embassy.
Ambassador of Israel to Finland between 1964-1968, H.E. Moshe Avidan, opening the Otra Department Store in Tampere in 1967.
Prime Minister Golda Meir visits Finland in 1971.
President Urho Kekkonen familiarizing himself with Israeli exports to Finland.
The Jerusalem Posts’s travel piece on Finland published in 1983.
H.E. Ali Yahya became the first Israeli ambassador of Arab descent in 1995 when he was appointed the Ambassador of Israel to Finland, a post in which he served until 1999.
President Martti Ahtisaari in Israel in 1999.
President Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva in Israel in 2007.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Stubb in Israel in 2010.
Presidents Sauli Niinistö and Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem in 2020.