Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar departed for Latvia on Monday, the first stop on a visit to Eastern Europe during which he is scheduled to inaugurate Israel’s new embassy in Tallinn, Estonia.

Sa’ar was scheduled to meet with his Latvian counterpart Baiba Braže in Riga later today.

The embassy in Tallinn will be Israel’s third to open this year at the decision of the foreign minister, after the opening of embassies in Moldova in February and in Zambia in August.

Estonia, a member of both the European Union and NATO, is a world leader in high-tech, and is considered a global pioneer in the digitalization of the public sector. It has maintained diplomatic ties with the Jewish state since 1992, and has had an embassy in Israel since 2009.

Sa’ar is expected to meet with Estonian Pri

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