Consulate General of the United States, Jerusalem

The US Embassy in Athens and its Consular Section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US government offices in Greece will be closed on Monday, September 4, in observance of Labor Day, a US federal holiday.

For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians. Now, that outreach will be handled by a Palestinian affairs unit, under the command of the embassy.

Paraguay opened its Israel embassy in Jerusalem on May 21, the second country to follow the United States in making the politically sensitive move from Tel Aviv.