Israeli consulate in Minneapolis: the office is in Chicago
No Israeli consulate operates in Minneapolis. Residents of Minneapolis go to the Israeli Consulate General in Chicago, 409 miles away (7 h 37 min by road).
Which Israeli consulate serves Minneapolis
On its list of states (source), the Israeli Consulate General in Chicago includes Minnesota; that makes it the office for Minneapolis.
On the road it is 409 miles from Minneapolis to the office, about 7 h 37 min in good conditions, or 354 miles as the crow flies.
No time difference to work out: Minneapolis runs on the same time as Chicago.
Questions to Chicago go by email, with your full name and ID number, since it gives no phone support; its notice, updated on 13 November 2026, asks for every visitor to be registered in advance (source).
Other cities in Minnesota near Minneapolis
The nearest cities to Minneapolis, in a straight line: St. Paul, 8 miles; Brooklyn Park, 10 miles; Minnetonka, 10 miles. The Minnesota page gives the drive to Chicago from its main cities.
U.S. birth and marriage papers from Minneapolis for an Israeli mission
The mission’s notice of a child born abroad asks for the original birth certificate (the mission’s birth notice page). For a birth in Minneapolis, it comes from the Minnesota Department of Health, in St. Paul (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records), and the Minnesota page has the fee.
In Hennepin County, where Minneapolis is, certified copies of a marriage record come from the local registrar of Hennepin County, according to the CDC’s directory for Minnesota (CDC, Where to Write for Vital Records). For the mission, the copy needs an apostille.
The Minnesota Secretary of State is the authority that puts the apostille on a document from Minnesota (HCCH list), before it is used in Israel.
What you can settle from Minneapolis without traveling
- You can renew an adult passport by mail if you visited Israel in the last ten years and still have the old one: Israeli passport.
- You can ask by mail to extend a travel document that was issued for less than five years: Passport extension.
- You can get a U.S. document apostilled by the state that issued it before you send it to Israel: Apostille and documents.