by Gideon Allon and Israel Hayom Staff
Ministerial Committee on Legislation to debate proposal seeking to subject the Israeli citizens of Judea and Samaria to the full extent of Israel's civil and criminal codes • Current situation effectively imposes dual legal system on the area.
Habayit Hayehudi MK Orit Struck
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The Ministerial Committee on Legislation is
scheduled to debate a new bill seeking to subject the Israeli residents
of Judea and Samaria to the full extent of Israeli law.
According to Israel's Defense (Emergency)
Regulations of 1967, while most articles in Israel's criminal and civil
codes apply across Judea and Samaria, the area is simultaneously under
military law, meaning its Israeli citizens are subjected to a dual legal
system. Furthermore, many legal amendments enacted in Israel over the
years, especially those pertaining to property and labor laws, exclude
the settlements.
The proposal, presented by MK Orit Struck
(Habayit Hayehudi) and supported by the Knesset's Land of Israel Lobby,
has been dubbed the "norms bill." Other signatories to the bill include
Coalition Chairman MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), Habayit Hayehudi MK Ayelet
Shaked, Land of Israel Lobby chairman MK Yariv Levin (Likud), Shas MK
Avraham Michaeli, Yisrael Beytenu MK David Rotem and United Torah
Judaism MK Menachem Moses.
The bill states that every law passed by the
Knesset would be enacted in Judea and Samaria by a GOC Central Command
order, within 45 days of its approval.
The proposal's stated purpose is to "rectify
the current situation ... in which some 350,000 Israelis living across
Judea and Samaria participate in elections for the Knesset, but it does
not actually run their lives due to the lacking application of Israeli
law in the area," and to "equate the legal norms imposed on Israeli
citizens, regardless of their place of residence."
The bill's brief stressed that it does not
seek to promote a change in the area's diplomatic status, nor does it
seek to contradict the international law edicts to which Israel
subscribes to in the area.
"There is no reason that Israeli citizens
living in Judea and Samaria should be unable to realize their rights, as
well as their obligations, via their elected officials in the Knesset,
even without imposing [Israeli] sovereignty on the area," Struck noted.
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation is set to debate the bill on Sunday.
Gideon Allon and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=21229
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