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The Golan Heights Law is the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i law which applies Israel's government and laws to the Golan Heights
Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
. It was ratified by the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 on December 14, 1981. The law was condemned internationally and determined null and void by the UN security council.

The law was passed half a year before Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
. Unusually, all three readings took place on the same day. This procedure was heavily criticized by the centre-left opposition.






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The Golan Heights Law is the Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i law which applies Israel's government and laws to the Golan Heights
Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
. It was ratified by the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 on December 14, 1981. The law was condemned internationally and determined null and void by the UN security council.

The law was passed half a year before Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, forming a land bridge between Africa and Southwest Asia....
. Unusually, all three readings took place on the same day. This procedure was heavily criticized by the centre-left opposition. Substantially, the law has mainly been criticized for potentially hindering future negotiations with Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
.

While the Israeli public at large, and especially the law's critics, viewed it as an annexation
Annexation

Annexation is the legal incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity . Usually, it is implied that the territory and population being annexed is the smaller, more peripheral, and weaker of the two merging entities....
, the law avoids the use of the word. Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
 Menahem Begin responded to Amnon Rubinstein
Amnon Rubinstein

Amnon Rubinstein is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions....
's criticism by saying: "you use the word 'annexation', I do not use it" and noting that similar wording was used in a 1967 law authorizing the government to apply Israeli law to any part of the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
. The earlier law only covered those areas included in the British Mandate, requiring a separate law for the Golan Heights (these were included in the French Mandate of Syria
French Mandate of Syria

The French Mandate of Syria was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. During the two years that followed the end of the war in 1918, and according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was signed between Britain and France during the war, the British held control of the Ottoman...
).

The law

The three broad provisions in the Golan Heights Law are:

1. "The Law, jurisdiction and administration of the State will take effect in the Golan Heights, as described in the Appendix."

2. "This Law will begin taking effect on the day of its acceptance in the Knesset."

3. "The Minister of the Interior is placed in-charge of the implementation of this Law, and is entitled, in consultation with the Minister of Justice, to enact regulations for its implementation and to formulate regulations on interim provisions regarding the continued application of regulations, directives, administrative directives, and rights and duties which were in effect in the Golan Heights prior to the acceptance of this Law."

Signed:

  • Yitzhak Navon
    Yitzhak Navon

    Yitzhak Navon is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel....
     (President)
  • Menahem Begin (Prime Minister)
  • Yosef Burg
    Yosef Burg

    Dr Yosef Shlomo Burg was a long-serving Israeli politician and Rabbi....
     (Interior Minister)


  • Passed in the Knesset
    Knesset

    The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
     with a majority of 63 in favour, 21 against.


See also


  • International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict
    International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict

    There is international consensus that at least some of the actions of the nations involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict are "illegal" under international law ....