Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has announced that he will move the country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Brazil is to become the most prominent country after the U.S. to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The country's newly-elected president has announced.
President Trump had, earlier in the year, moved the U.S. embassy.
Considering that Jerusalem became the capital of Israel more than three thousand years ago, it is an irony of history that its status is now being challenged.
However, in a tweet yesterday Bolsonaro said: 'As previously stated during our campaign, we intend to transfer the Brazilian Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. Israel is a sovereign state and we shall duly respect that.'
Brazil would become the third country to have an embassy in Jerusalem, after the U.S. and Guatemala.
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