Jerusalem
Menachem Zivotofsky was the first to get such a passport at a brief ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
U.S. citizens born in the capital must request that their place of birth be listed as “Israel,” or it will continue to be listed as “Jerusalem,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
According to researchers, the tiny gem seal, the third ever found in Jerusalem from the Second Temple period, was likely the property of a Jew.
“This recognition of Israel’s capital is a further affirmation of the crucial principle that Jerusalem is, and always will be, Israel’s capital,” said B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel Mariaschin.
Newly developed Jerusalem convention center to be named after Shimon Peres
The construction of the entire project, expected to take place over the next decade, is estimated at more than $532 million.
Empty for 12 years, a former orphanage will be transformed into Beit HaKehillot museum and community center dedicated to Jewish heritage.
An effort to help Jews who due to coronavirus restrictions cannot visit Jerusalem this holiday season.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails the “authentic friendship and steadfast support” that Jerusalem has received from Tegucigalpa.
Eastern Jerusalem woman to be indicted for security-related offenses.
The European Union looks like “an anti-peace body that is way behind the UAE, Bahrain and others who recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It really makes the E.U. look foolish,” says Dan Diker, director of the Political Warfare Project at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
“There is no E.U. member state with an embassy in Jerusalem,” says European Commission spokesman Peter Stano.
The planned move was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but will get underway with the expected arrival of an Israeli ambassador, says Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales Banegas.
