US president Donald Trump, flanked by vice-president Mike Pence, announces that the United States will recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the White House in Washington on December 6, 2017. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
US president Donald Trump, flanked by vice-president Mike Pence, announces that the United States will recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the White House in Washington on December 6, 20Show more
Breaking with the policy of his predecessors, the US president justified his decision by citing the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which urged the federal government to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem and to recognise that city as Israel’s capital