| | President Trump renewed a waiver Thursdaythat keeps the U.S. Embassy to Israel in Tel Aviv, rather than movingit to Jerusalem as he promised during the presidential campaign. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Israel's capital, would be highly controversialbecause the status of Jerusalem is disputed.Israel claims rights to Jerusalem dating back to biblical times,but Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future independent state. As a result, the United States and other countries maintain embassies in Tel Aviv, pending peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Congress passed a law in 1995 calling for the re-location of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, but presidents can avoid doing that by signing a waiver twice a year to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv.
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