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Honduras will open an embassy in Jerusalem this month, the country’s president said on Thursday, in a bid to build closer ties with Israel after decades of operating in Tel Aviv. The central American nation previously opened a commercial office in Jerusalem, breaking a decades-long policy of neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel is set to open a diplomatic office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’s capital city, in response. “We are going to formalize what we have already carried out step by step, which is the installation of our embassy in Jerusalem,” President Juan Orlando Hernandez …