Kahlon okays construction permit for US embassy move to Jerusalem

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon signs a waiver allowing the US State Department to make the changes needed to turn its consulate in Jerusalem into the new US embassy in Israel.

In a statement, Kahlon calls the move a “historic moment that we’ve waited many years for.”

“As finance minister, as a citizen of Israel and as a Jew, there is nothing more important to work on, to invest effort in, than bringing the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” he says.

Yesterday, the National Council for Planning and Construction approved the new construction work at the US Consulate in Jerusalem ahead of its planned transformation into the American embassy in time for Israel’s 70th independence day, on May 14.