El Salvador’s outgoing ambassador to Israel pledged “with all the power vested in me” that his country’s embassy will remain in Jerusalem, according to B’nai B’rith. Rafael Angel Alfaro Pineda’s comments come amid reports that El Salvador — which with Costa Rica are the only two countries with embassies in the capital of the Jewish state — would move its embassy to Tel Aviv.
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