Jerusalem Law

[2][3][4] On 30 July 1980, the Knesset officially approved the Jerusalem Law, which called the city the complete and united capital.

In a 1970 majority ruling, Justice Y. Kahan expressed the opinion:"... As far as I am concerned, there is no need for any certificate from the Foreign Minister or from any administrative authority to determine that East Jerusalem ... was annexed to the State of Israel and constitutes part of its territory ... by means of these two enactments and consequently this area constitutes part of the territory of Israel.

As the Knesset thus declined to specify boundaries and did not use the words "annexation" or "sovereignty", Ian Lustick 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.

[12] Resolution 478 also "condemned in "the strongest terms" the enactment of Israeli law proclaiming a change in status of Jerusalem."

[13] However, thirty-eight years later the United States relocated their Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on 14 May 2018, and other countries, including Paraguay and the Czech Republic expressed similar intentions.

[citation needed] Although the law was not proposed by the governing coalition or Prime Minister Menachem Begin, rather, it was proposed by lawmakers concerned that peace negotiators were demanding that Arab residents of East Jerusalem be given votes in Palestinian Authority elections.

(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.

Menachem Begin Prime Minister Yitzchak Navon President of the State" Published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No.