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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 Law is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of 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....
 passed by the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740).

It began as a private member's bill
Private Member's Bill

A private member's bill is a proposed law introduced by a backbencher, a so-called private member of parliament, who can be a member of a party represented in the government or in the opposition....
 proposed by Geula Cohen
Geula Cohen

Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist....
, whose original text stated that "the integrity and unity of greater Jerusalem
Greater Jerusalem

Greater Jerusalem is a term used generally to describe the area encompassing the approximately one-hundred square miles surrouding the Old City of Jerusalem....
 (Yerushalayim rabati) in its boundaries after the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
 shall not be violated." However, this clause was dropped after the first reading in the Knesset.






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The Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 Law is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of 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....
 passed by the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740).

It began as a private member's bill
Private Member's Bill

A private member's bill is a proposed law introduced by a backbencher, a so-called private member of parliament, who can be a member of a party represented in the government or in the opposition....
 proposed by Geula Cohen
Geula Cohen

Geulah Cohen is a former Israeli politician and journalist....
, whose original text stated that "the integrity and unity of greater Jerusalem
Greater Jerusalem

Greater Jerusalem is a term used generally to describe the area encompassing the approximately one-hundred square miles surrouding the Old City of Jerusalem....
 (Yerushalayim rabati) in its boundaries after the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
 shall not be violated." However, this clause was dropped after the first reading in the Knesset. As the Knesset thus declined to specify boundaries and did not use the words "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....
" or "sovereignty
Sovereignty

File:Leviathan gr.jpgSovereignty is the exclusive right to control a government, a State, a people, or oneself. A sovereign is a supreme lawmaking authority....
", Ian Lustick
Ian Lustick

Ian Steven Lustick is an American Political science and specialist on the modern history and politics of the Middle East.Lustick completed his Ph.D....
 writes that "The consensus of legal scholars is that this action added nothing to the legal or administrative circumstance of the city, although, especially at the time, its passage was considered to have political importance and sparked a vigorous protest reaction from the world community." For example, UN Security Council Resolution 478, adopted by 14 votes to none, with 1 abstention (United States of America), declared soon after that the law "must be rescinded". This resolution called upon member states to withdraw their diplomatic missions from the city.

Text of the Law


"Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Jerusalem, Capital of Israel:

1. Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel.

Seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court:

2. Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court.

Protection of Holy Places:

3. The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings towards those places.

Development of Jerusalem:

4. (a) The Government shall provide for the development and prosperity of Jerusalem and the well-being of its inhabitants by allocating special funds, including a special annual grant to the Municipality of Jerusalem (Capital City Grant) with the approval of the Finance Committee of the Knesset. (b) Jerusalem shall be given special priority in the activities of the authorities of the State so as to further its development in economic and other matters. (c) The Government shall set up a special body or special bodies for the implementation of this section.

Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
 Prime Minister

Yitzchak Navon
Yitzhak Navon

Yitzhak Navon is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel....
 President of the State"

Published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 980 of the 23rd Av, 5740 (5 August, 1980), p. 186; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 1464 of 5740, p. 287.

External links

  • More information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs