JERUSALEM, Oct. 15 -- Forty-six years after the UN Security Council told governments to take their embassies out of Jerusalem, Colombia opened one there on Wednesday, the tenth country to do so.

Foreign Minister Omar Bula Escobar travelled to attend, alongside Israel's Gideon Saar. Bula called the opening "a concrete step toward restoring diplomatic relations" that "should never have been broken," and described Israel as a strategic partner. Saar called it "a recognition of the simple political fact that Jerusalem is Israel's capital," according to the Times of Israel.

The building matters less than the direction. President Abelardo de la Espriella, who vowed a Jerusalem embassy before he won, took office in August and has moved quickly...