The Embassy of South Africa in Israel

Whether you’re planning a trip, need consular help, or simply want to learn more about us, we thank you for dropping by and hope you find what you’re looking for. If not, don’t hesitate to get in touch directly.

South Africa has an extraordinarily rich presence on the web as we hope you’ll discover when you explore this site. Many links will take you to South Africa Information, our comprehensive national portal, and to Government South Africa, the gateway to official South Africa. You won’t want to miss South African Tourism’s site, South Africa Tourism.

As you browse, we’re confident you’ll be persuaded that South Africa is alive with possibility and that the temptation to visit our shores, if you have not already done so, will grow ever more irresistible.

South Africa’s new democracy is flourishing. Our economy is dynamic and continues to grow. Our determination to build a better tomorrow which helped us break the shackles of the past burns as brightly and irrepressibly as ever. These are truly exciting times in South Africa and the African Continent. We are at the dawn of what we confidently predict will be Africa’s century.

FIFA 2010 World Cup

We are proud to say that everything went according to plan and that we hosted a successful tournament. We attribute this to careful planning that began as early as 15 May 2004 when South Africa’s name was drawn from the envelope in Geneva declaring us the host country of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. As South Africans we are proud of what we have achieved in the last few weeks and indeed, in the past 16 years. South Africa will always bear the mark of having hosted the FIFA World Cup™, the first to come to Africa. Our preparations for the 2010 tournament have already shown that today is already better than yesterday. Improvements in public transport, security, investment and tourism have already been shown to benefit the people of our country.

"The people of South Africa were the "true stars" of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, uniting to prove to the world that the country and the continent was capable of hosting a world-class event. South Africans had proved the doomsayers, who had been warning football fans to avoid South Africa, resoundingly wrong. The world had been warned to expect high levels of crime, unfinished stadiums and a lack of accommodation, but what football fans found when they came to South Africa was vastly different. They came and discovered that we are a winning nation of very humble, hospitable people.They learned too that we are very efficient organisers and planners. We did it. We did it well. We did it successfully, but we did not do it alone. We did it with Africa and with the support of the world."

.......President Jacob Zuma.

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