Putin's letter will provoke a new international conflict?

In a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel, Naphtali Bennett, the President of Russia requested that the Alexander Nevsky Church in Jerusalem's Old City be immediately transferred to Russian ownership.
Allegedly, Bennett's predecessor, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gave Putin a promise that this will be done. But Putin's insistence on ownership could fuel not only a diplomatic conflict between Israel and Russia, but also criticism from the international community, Israeli media reported today.
On Sunday, the Ambassador of Israel in Moscow, Alexander Ben Zvi, called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia to explain the recent statements of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yair Lapid, after the vote in the UN for the suspension of Russia in the Human Rights Council.
According to the Russian ministry, "it was a poorly disguised attempt to use the situation in Ukraine to divert the attention of the international community from one of the oldest unresolved conflicts, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Alexander Nevsky Church, also known as the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, is a valuable asset of the Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and is located in the center of the Christian quarter.
This holy place was written about in 2019, when Israeli Naama Issachar was in prison in Moscow for possessing cannabis on Russian territory. In order to free her, Netanyahu promised Putin the Church of Alexander Nevsky, which has been de facto owned by Russia since 1890, and earlier the Ottoman Empire claimed the right to worship.
It was recognized then that the church belonged to the Russian Empire, which is why in 2017, Moscow demanded that Israel recognize Russia's ownership. In 2020, Netanyahu decided that the...