“There is no reason that in 2025 a Jew should not be able to purchase land in Judea and Samaria—in his own country,” lawmaker Boaz Bismut said.
A Knesset committee on Tuesday approved for first reading a bill aimed at repealing a Jordanian-era law that discriminates against non-Arabs who want to buy land in Judea and Samaria. The legislation, brought forward privately by lawmakers Moshe Solomon (Religious Zionism Party), Limor Son Har-Melech (Otzma Yehudit) and Yuli Edelstein (Likud), will now advance to the Knesset plenum for the first of three readings required to become law.
The explanatory notes to the bill read: “The Law on the Lease and Sale of Immovable Property to Foreigners was enacted by the Jordanian authorities in 1953. The purpose of the Jordanian law was to prevent the purchase of land in Judea and Samaria by foreigners—that is, by people who were not Jordanian citizens or Arabs.
This law remained in force after the liberation of the Judea and Samaria area in 1967, and since then it has been directed mainly against Jews. This reality, which imposes restrictions on the right of a citizen of the State of Israel to acquire rights in real estate in the Judea and Samaria area solely because he is an Israeli citizen, is unacceptable.” (Read More)
