Officials in the US administration claim that David Friedman, the incoming US ambassador, will work in the meantime from the Tel Aviv embassy.
The officials claim that Friedman will live in Jerusalem but will conduct official diplomatic events at the present location of the ambassador's residence in Herzliya Pituah.
He may conduct some of his meetings in the Jerusalem King David hotel as a declarative step.
Senator Joe Lieberman, a close acquaintance of Friedman, said that he would probably not work from Jerusalem until the official recognition by the US of Jerusalem as Israel's capital