Netanyahu says moving US embassy to Jerusalem would be 'great'

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that if US President-elect Donald Trump decided to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, that would be “great.”

Netanyahu, who is visiting Azaerbaijan, was asked what his reaction was when told that Trump’s senior aide Kellyanne Conway said moving the embassy was a “very big priority.”

“I answered with one word — ‘great’,” Netanyahu says.

This comes after reports that Israeli security and diplomatic officials are worried about the consequences of an immediate relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, with fears of adverse reactions from the Arab world and on the streets of Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.

— Raphael Ahren