JERUSALEM (AP) — There is no plaque on the door of the new U. S. ambassador to Jerusalem, no visual stars and stripes, no official list as notable assets abroad.
The official of the rented and temporary EE. UU. es envoy, authorities said, secured after two years of searching for a home following then-President Donald Trump’s questionable decision to move the U. S. embassy to the U. S. embassy. UU. de Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Ambassador Tom Nides moved into the elegantly renovated villa in the leafy West Jerusalem deal last spring. Local realtors estimate its price at around $23 million, and its owner and embassy have shown that it is rented as an officer to the U. S. envoy. USA.
Emek Refaim Street is the ultimate prevention for the U. S. ambassador’s home. UU. de a migration of more than three years from the coastal cliffs north of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, fraught with tensions. The holiday reflects the Trump administration’s divisive legacy and President Joe Biden’s reluctance: who is climbing into the region next month, to disrupt relations with Israel on the issue.
Trump turned decades of U. S. policy upside down by pointing to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017, drawing applause from many Israelis and angering Palestinians.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed it in an unrecognized move. The Palestinians need East Jerusalem to be the capital of their state in the long run. Most of the countries’ embassies in Tel Aviv due to the long-standing dispute.
Trump moved the embassy of the EE. UU. de Tel Aviv and, with it, the historic apartment of the US ambassador. USA Under the presidents, the envoy had in the past been staying in a large five-room hotel built on an acre of land, which Israel gave to the United States at a time after independence in 1948.
The past apartment was a social crossroads for relations between the two close allies. It is known for its four July eruptions, when thousands of specially invited visitors watched the sunset and fireworks over the Mediterranean Sea.
Trump’s resolution put an end to all of this. The United States sold the assets for more than $67 million, according to official Israeli records. The State Department declined to disclose the main key points of the sale, but the Israeli business daily Globes knew the customer. as one of Trump’s biggest contributors: the U. S. casino mogul. USA Sheldon Adelson, who died in 2021.
The cliffside complex looked little replaced from the outside of the walls on a recent day. Two Israeli flags fluttered from flagpoles in the sea breeze. A spokesman for Adelson’s circle of relatives declined to comment.
The resolution to sell appears to be aimed at preventing any long-term president from canceling the embassy move, which Biden has long ruled out.
But it also forced U. S. diplomats stationed in the region, most of whom continued to work in Tel Aviv, to embark on a complicated search for new excavations.
When Nides arrived last December, the destination of the “ambassador of the homeless” was the statement of the dead in diplomatic circles. There simply weren’t many features in overcrowded Jerusalem for a giant complex and secure enough to serve as the official apartment of the U. S. ambassador.
In most countries, the official is not only the ambassador’s home, but also a place for official ceremonies and social gatherings. A cramped apartment will not be enough.
Nides first moved to the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem, a toned place but not adequate accommodation for entertainment. Last spring, he moved into the assets of the German colony, one of Jerusalem’s most sought-after neighborhoods.
The US commends him and has informed Israel that the assets will be the official of the US envoy. According to the embassy. The other terms of the agreement have not been made public, but there are no plans to move the ambassador to anyone else. place. Officials from both countries, as well as the landlord, declined to comment on the asset price or monthly rent.
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