Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
The Jerusalem site formerly known as the Allenby Barracks, a planned location for a second campus of the US Embassy (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
A deputy mayor of Jerusalem revealed Tuesday that she is pushing for the creation of an embassy district in the south of the city, anchored by the US Embassy, whose plans for two campuses were approved by the municipality’s planning and building committee last week.
“I’ve been talking to the mayor for two years about building an embassy district,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told a Zoom press conference. “Its anchor would be the US Embassy on Hebron Road. This same area has a lot of space for building behind Hebron Road and for hotels that are already in the planning stages opposite the Jerusalem Promenade. It’s my intention to work toward an embassy district like any other capital city of the world [has].”
Jerusalem Municipal Committee Approves Plan for New US Embassy The Media Line Staff 01/13/2021
The Jerusalem Municipality announced on Wednesday night that its Building and Planning Committee had approved plans for the construction of a new US Embassy to Israel. The new embassy will be built on Hebron Road in southern Jerusalem. The committee also approved a plan to extend the current temporary embassy, which is located in the capital’s Arnona neighborhood.
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told The Media Line, “After two years of work in coordination with the US State Department and the Office for Building Overseas of the United States, we’re thrill that the local committee has approved the plan for the new embassy on Hebron Road and for the extension of the current embassy in Arnona.”