Israel‘s ambassador in Dublin, Zeev Boker, warned in a telegram sent to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Tuesday that the Irish government may decide soon to recognize Palestine as a state, according to a report by Haaretz.

A senior official in Jerusalem said that Ambassador Boker has advised to act immediately to put the brakes on the process via a phone call between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Irish counterpart Enda Kenny and a request that the new United States administration press the Irish government to avoid recognizing such a state.