British Prime Minister Liz Truss has told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid that she is considering moving the British embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Truss met with Lapid on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, telling him she was reviewing the possibility of following the United States’ lead on relocating its embassy.
Since the creation of Israel in 1948, Britain has had its embassy in Tel Aviv, even as Jerusalem has been designated as the official capital.
Shortly after he arrived in the White House in 2017, President Donald Trump promised to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. He followed through with that pledge, despite widespread criticism, opening the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem in May 2018….