QUESTION Trump Administration Pushing For Jerusalem Embassy Move By Next Year: Reports | HuffPost
The Trump administration hopes to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by 2019, a much faster timeline than expected, according to several media reports.
Rather than building an entirely new structure in the city, plans have reportedly shifted in recent days, and the U.S. State Department now plans to retrofit a building the government already owns in West Jerusalem.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.“We will not be moving to a new facility ... we are going to retrofit a building,” Steve Goldstein, undersecretary of state for diplomacy and public affairs, told The Wall Street Journal. He said the building would be ready sometime next year.
The New York Times corroborated the report, and said the retrofit would help keep costs down and allow the move to happen quickly, rather than on a multiyear timeline that would have seen embassy staff move sometime after 2020.
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