{"id":118215,"date":"2026-05-17T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:32:08","slug":"israel-allocates-budget-to-encourage-foreign-countries-to-relocate-embassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/118215\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel allocates budget to encourage foreign countries to relocate embassies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The government unanimously approved a proposal to encourage countries around the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and to display the recognition by moving foreign embassies to Jerusalem, it confirmed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, put forth by Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-895288\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gideon Sa\u2019ar<\/a> and Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896013\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yariv Levin<\/a>, includes allocating budgets from both ministries to incentive packages for relocating embassies, encouraging meetings and delegations in Jerusalem, and fostering cooperation in additional fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Incentives include participation in funding the establishment or relocation of embassies, as well as housing and planning solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The proposal follows diplomatic efforts led by Sa\u2019ar to transfer and open embassies in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has been extremely supportive of this push, with the move of the US embassy set in motion during US President Donald Trump\u2019s first term and a proposal to allocate land for the construction of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-891106\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">permanent US Embassy<\/a> approved by Israel in March.<\/p>\n<p>During an event last Wednesday, America&#8217;s Deputy Ambassador to Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896158\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Brownstein, urged foreign diplomats<\/a> to advocate for relocating embassies to Jerusalem and emphasized the importance of the city to the US diplomatic presence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are in the process of moving all assets and personnel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This is the heart of public diplomacy,\u201d Brownstein said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cGive a push to moving the embassies to Jerusalem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Countries that relocated their embassies include Paraguay and Fiji.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ecuador opened a representative office in Jerusalem in December.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Barsky contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government unanimously approved a proposal to encourage countries around the world to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[40581,21078,5740,37,1189,12213],"class_list":["post-118215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-embassy-move","tag-foreign-embassy","tag-gideon-saar","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-yariv-levin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116591351804944929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}