Israel’s Attorney General on Monday issued a decision stating that all new laws from now on will include the West Bank settlements.
Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett welcomed the Attorney General’s decision as quoted by Madar website but no further details were disclosed on this decision.
Bennett stressed that they will no longer approve the passage of any law unless it is applied to the West Bank settlers.
For her turn Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked hailed the decision and said that the Israelis living in the West Bank are not “second class citizens” and that she will work to develop new measures to make sure that the new legislations will be applied to them too.
This move followed Likud party’s vote on Sunday in favor of a draft resolution to annex the West Bank and Jerusalem settlements to Israel.
The vote was held during the general conference of the 3700-member Likud Central Committee and the resolution is expected to be passed to the Knesset for its approval.
