Israel’s contentious “nation-state bill” won backing in the first of three votes in the Knesset overnight Monday, with 64 Knesset members supporting the motion and 50 opposing it.
The approved version was relatively softened, and the section that was designed to underline the democratic values of the state as being a Jewish nation-state was removed, thus dropping the word “democracy.”
This comes after the fact that representatives of Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit and the Knesset’s legal advisor made it clear that the bill was both discriminatory and unconstitutional.
However, the approval after the first reading will allow the next coalition, after the upcoming elections, to continue advancing the law for the second and third reading instead of starting the legislative process from the beginning.
“Whoever does not belong to the Jewish nation cannot define the State of Israel as his nation-state,” MK Avi Dichter (Likud) said.
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“The Palestinians will not be able to define Israel as the nation-state,” he added. “The law of nationality is the insurance certificate we leave for the next generation.”
MK Yariv Levin (Likud) said that the bill “expresses in the most refined way Herzl’s vision that the State of Israel is first and foremost the nation-state of the Jewish people.”
Article source: https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-urges-Europeans-to-impose-sanctions-on-Iran-missile-program-552968
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