(AP) Audrey Horowitz and Isaac Scharf - Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said Tuesday that he is confident Donald Trump will move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and has been in touch with Trump's staff about the issue. While previous presidential candidates have made similar promises, Barkat said his conversations have led him to believe that Trump is serious. "My intuition tells me that it's different this time, knowing the people," Barkat said. "The United States of America has embassies in all of the world's capitals with the exception of Israel. That's absurd, and moving the embassy to the capital of the Jewish people, to Jerusalem, is a straightforward, standard thing to do." On Monday, Trump's spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway said moving the embassy to Jerusalem "is a very big priority for this president-elect, Donald Trump. He made that very clear during the campaign....And as president-elect, I've heard him repeat it several times privately, if not publicly."
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