Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that he would push the Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro to transfer his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
This was voiced in a press conference ahead of Netanyahu’s meeting with Bolsonaro according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
Netanyahu met with Jair Bolsonaro for lunch in Rio de Janeiro on Friday in a first-ever visit to Brazil by an Israeli prime minister.
The Brazilian president-elect speaking to Israel Hayom newspaper in early November said that he intends to move his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem following the steps of Guatemala and the United States.
A week later showing some reluctance Bolsonaro said that the final decision has not been made yet.
Netanyahu is trying to complete what the US president Donald Trump has started when he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017 and moved his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May 2018.
