Background: Annex Via Government Decision

Background: Annex Via Government Decision
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 10 September, 2019

There are two ways to annex: legislation and a Government decision.

Here is the full text of the law that relating to annexation via Government
decision:

Ordinance Law and Administration, 1948
… 11B The law, jurisdiction and administration of the State shall apply to
any area of the Land of Israel that the Government sets in an order.

That’s right. All it takes is a vote of the Cabinet.

And that is exactly what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apparently
intended to do today in a snap vote of the cabinet to annex the Jordan
Valley (with the exception of Arab villages and cities) but was stopped by
the Attorney General who claimed that Netanyahu could not take such a major
move right before elections.

That’s how Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem.

The reason that PM Menachem Begin opted for legislation to annex the Golan
is that the Golan was not part of the Mandatory Palestine and thus might not
qualify for being an “area of the Land of Israel” as stipulated in 11.B.
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