Will Bennett allow US to rollback recognition of Israel’s capital and redivide Jerusalem? Featured Column Will Bennett allow US to rollback recognition of Israel’s capital and redivide Jerusalem? A push to reopen a shuttered consulate to the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem is a first major foreign-policy test for Israel’s fragile coalition. Former Mayor Nir Barkat warns that Israel’s prime minister “must not allow a move that will divide Jerusalem, the capital of Israel forever and ever.” (July 15, 2021 / JNS) Just one month after Naftali Bennett was sworn in as prime minister, the new Israeli government is grappling with an attempt to rollback one of the most significant foreign-policy achievements of the Netanyahu era.