The Jerusalem Regional Planning Committee has approved plans to expand the US Embassy in Jerusalem.
The plans are now open to objections and then the municipal committee, which already approved the plans, will review any proposed changes.
The approved plan for a project to be completed by 2026 includes two properties, the embassy’s current location in Arnona – which would expand to five floors – and a ten-story building in the nearby Allenby area, or northern Arnona.
The second property could include the ambassador’s residence, staff housing, a recreation center and other diplomatic uses.
A flag flutters outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv August 4, 2013. President Barack Obama’s top national security advisers met at the White House on Saturday to discuss the potential threat of terrorist attacks that caused Washington and its allies to issue travel warnings and close embassies throughout the Middle East. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL – Tags: POLITICS) – RTX12A28
The new embassy campus would have 630 office workers, 400 of whom are meant to be locals, and 450 non-office workers, 380 of whom would be locals.
Among them is Miryam Shomrat, who was the Israeli ambassador to Finland from 2000 to 2003 and to Norway from 2005 to 2008.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2017, a decision President Joe Biden said he will not reverse.
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