Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Likud supporters that he believes all foreign embassies based in Israel should move to Jerusalem.
“Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people and it is therefore appropriate that all the embassies, and first and foremost our friends the United Sate, move to Jerusalem,” he says at a gathering of party activists.
Despite campaign promises to do so, President Donald Trump is still reviewing whether to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
“The president has not made a decision yet and is still reviewing that,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman, said Wednesday at the daily briefing for reporters.
There have been multiple reports in the Israeli media this week suggesting that Trump will announce a move timed around his May 22-23 visit to the country. Other reports have said he has decided against the move.
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