{"id":94604,"date":"2025-10-24T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/94604\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:04:09","slug":"israel-freezes-legislative-process-for-west-bank-annexation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/94604\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel freezes legislative process for West Bank annexation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Oct 22, 2025. [Photo\/Agencies] <\/p>\n

JERUSALEM – Israel on Thursday froze the West Bank annexation bills that passed a preliminary vote in the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, the day before.<\/p>\n

Ofir Katz, chairman of the government coalition, said in a statement that the bills for the full annexation of the West Bank and the annexation of the large-scale settlement of Maale Adumim near Jerusalem will not be advanced until further notice.<\/p>\n

Israel’s parliament voted Wednesday in favor of the two bills to apply Israeli law and administration to all settlements in Maale Adumim and the West Bank.<\/p>\n

The vote was carried out during US Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv before his departure on Thursday, Vance said the vote was a “political stunt” which has no practical significance.<\/p>\n

“If it was a political stunt, it was a very stupid political stunt, and I personally take some insult to it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the parliamentary vote on annexation “was a deliberate political provocation by the opposition to sow discord during US Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Israel”.<\/p>\n

It explained that Netanyahu’s Likud party “did not vote for these bills … Without Likud support, these bills are unlikely to go anywhere”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,63347,43,25221],"class_list":["post-94604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-legislative-process","tag-news","tag-west-bank-annexation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}