The United States announced that its citizens born in Jerusalem will be able to place the name of Israel in the field of birth on passports, in reference to Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
This came in a statement announced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today, Thursday, where he said that the decision to allow citizens born in Jerusalem to choose to enter Israel or Jerusalem as their birthplace is "consistent" with what President Donald Trump announced in 2017.
And five years ago, when Barack Obama was president of the United States, the Supreme Court struck down a law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to put the name Israel on their passports as the country of their birth, saying it had unlawfully overruled presidential powers to set foreign policy.
The future of Jerusalem is still one of the axes of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but Trump announced in 2017 that he would abandon the custom that has been established by US policy for decades, and announced the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Tel Aviv and the transfer of the embassy there.