Incoming US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has announced he does not plan to live in the home used by his predecessors, in Herzliya Pituach, but plans to live in Jerusalem, in line with President Donald Trump’s promise to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

Friedman is yet to receive Senate confirmation and at present, he is scheduled to arrive in Israel by the end of February.

PA (Palestinian Authority) officials have already sent their message, that moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem would ignite a regional fire.

While the United States voted to move the embassy in 1995, each president has placed the move on hold, not wishing to be the one who sparks the dispute with the international Islamic community.

The so-called “Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995” was passed by the 104th Congress on October 23, 1995. It has never been implemented because of opposition from Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama. President Trump announced during his campaign that unlike his predecessors, he plans to make the move.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)