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Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-israel-embassy-jerusalem-move-site-held-exclusive
UK Owns Land in Jerusalem Earmarked for Future Embassy
(Middle East Eye-UK) Dania Akkad - The British government holds a plot of land in Jerusalem earmarked for decades as the site of a future embassy in Israel. The site in the Talpiot neighborhood, known as the Orange Plot, was retained by the British government as part of a 1960s agreement with Israel. "The Israelis assume, no doubt, that we wish to use the site in the event of our transferring the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem," Alan Goodison, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office official, wrote in July 1964. "This is, of course, true." The lease on the site was renewed for 40 years in 2007. A visit to the plot on Monday found an area of empty scrubland between Hanoch Albek Street and Shmuel Lupo Street, adjacent to a proposed site for a new U.S. embassy.