Palestinians have said in the past that the land was owned by Palestinian families and leased temporarily to British Mandate authorities before 1948.
The embassy will be on Derech Hebron between Hanoch Albek and Daniel Yanovsky Streets, an area known by its British Mandate-era name, "Camp Allenby."
Schoolchildren in Iral carried banners in support of the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran and waved Iranian flags.
The principals recently returned from the United States, where they took part in an exchange program initiated by the US Embassy in Israel.
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Lease agreements and maps show Palestinians owned land designated for a new US embassy in Jerusalem, according to Israeli-based Arab rights NGO Adalah.
The Palestinians will also be a topic of discussion, and Russia’s war on Ukraine comes up in all of the prime minister’s conversations with Western leaders, the source added.
Following a backlog of requests, which have piled up for the past two years following COVID-19 restrictions, all US embassies are "facing challenges" with Visas, the embassy said.
The new US ambassador's residence is off of Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street. Previous ambassadors lived in a large home in Herzliya.