The us Congress sent to the Israel delegation, which will to study the possibility of moving the U.S. Embassy from tel Aviv to Jerusalem. About it reports The Independent.
Yet, according to sources of the newspaper, decided that the new us Ambassador to Israel David Friedman will live and work in Jerusalem, while the official building of the Embassy will remain in tel Aviv.
Earlier, the President of the United States Donald trump stated that he supports the transfer of the Embassy. At a press conference following the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, the us leader said: “We are very seriously and carefully consider this question and see what happens.”
On 30 July 1980, Israel declared Jerusalem its indivisible capital. Three weeks later, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution according to which Organization does not recognize Israel’s right to East Jerusalem and considers it occupied. In this regard, to implement the provisions of this resolution, all member countries of the UN had to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem. Now all embassies are located in tel Aviv. In 1995, the US Congress decided to move the us diplomatic mission to Jerusalem, but it still has not been implemented yet.