المركز الفلسطيني للدراسات الإسرائيليةInitiator: (Jewish Home)
Bill No. 5104/20/F
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) and MK Yoav Kish (Likud) submitted a bill, which provides for annexing all settlement areas in the occupied Palestinian West Bank to the so-called “Israel’s sovereignty”. As an initial step, the bill was officially listed on the Knesset agenda on Monday, 5 February. Later, the initiators will present the bill to the government to state its position and decide whether the draft regulation enters into force.
(A bill sets binding conditions on any government in respect of the content and form of prisoner exchange deals. First and foremost, the bill prohibits the release of any prisoner who was convicted of operations that resulted in Israeli casualties.)
(The two bills aim to provide a legal guarantee for the conditions set by security agencies on the funerals of Palestinian fighters who carried out operations. Both bills seek to thwart court decisions that revoke security agencies’ conditions)
Initiators: Nava Poker (Likud) and two others
Bill No. 5105/20/F
Nova Poker, Yoav Kish, and David Bitan (all MKs for the Likud party), proposed a bill that provides for amending Article 96 of the Penal Law of 1977. The amendment allows that capital punishment or indefinite imprisonment for life be imposed on Arab Palestinian combatants if they carry out operations, which result in the killing of Israelis.
Initiator: Sharren Haskel (Likud)
Bill No. 4993/20/F
Sharren Haskel, MK for the Likud party, initiated a bill, which provides for imposing the so-called “Israel’s sovereignty” over the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.
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The Repercussions of the War against Gaza on Israel's Relations with Russia and Turkey: Will There Be Fundamental Changes?
On the collapse of the concept of "moving away from America and the West and replacing them with new friends": "Netanyahu was looking for comfortable political partners, even at the cost of harming Israel's national security."
Israeli Affairs (Issue no. 91)
