There's so much confusion regarding "Israel". Do you mean the "country"?
Jerusalem is God's favourite city, even still (honestly).
Acts 15:14-17 KJV
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
[15] And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
[16] After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
[17] That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
This is the true tabernacle of David and the new Jerusalem. Earthly Jerusalem was only a shadow of the real, once the real is here the shadows are done.