Israel–Serbia relations

Israel and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established between Israel and SFR Yugoslavia in 1948. The current diplomatic relations between two countries started in 1992, with the founding of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a rump state of SFR Yugoslavia, with Serbia being its main component. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was already immersed in the process of disintegration due to civil war when in January 1992 it restored diplomatic relations between Israel, which were frozen due to the Six-Day War in 1967 as the government sided with the Arab states. After Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and finally Bosnia seceded, Serbia decided to remain in federation with Montenegro and inherited the recognition of Israel made by the Yugoslav government months earlier. Relations continued after the reform of the political structure of the country and its change of name to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. In 2006, Montenegro declared independence after a referendum and Serbia inherited all diplomatic relations the former union had with other countries, including Israel, as the sole legal successor of the state union.