2019 Move

From the BBC:

"Jerusalem: US embassy to move by end of 2019 - Pence"

The US embassy will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of 2019, Vice-President Mike Pence has said. The date is earlier than some had expected when President Donald Trump declared last month that Jerusalem was Israel's capital and ordered the start of preparations for the embassy move. Mr Pence made the announcement in a speech to the Israeli parliament. He was briefly interrupted by Arab MPs who held up banners saying "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine". Mr Pence responded by smiling and saying that it was "deeply humbling to be standing before this vibrant democracy". Rather than meet the vice-president, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas travelled to Brussels to urge the EU to recognise a Palestinian state.  The US vice-president defended Mr Trump's decision to break with international consensus in his address to the Knesset (parliament) on Monday, saying it had "righted a 70-year wrong". "Jerusalem is Israel's capital," he stated. "In the weeks ahead, our administration will advance its plan to open the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, and that United States Embassy will open before the end of next year." "By finally recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the United States has chosen fact over fiction. And fact is the only true foundation for a just and lasting peace."  

^  The sooner this happens the better for the US. Talk is good, but action is better. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42773456