The bill is intended to allow expansion of the Jerusalem municipal boundaries to include four major settlements and a settlement bloc in the West Bank home to more than 100,000 Israelis. The dispute arose over a section added to the bill which removed an equal number of Palestinians living in neighborhoods outside the security barrier from the city’s census, effectively creating a new municipality from sections of Jerusalem.
The bill states, “We are enacting this law so that in the future we will have the option of relinquishing sections of Jerusalem.”
It was precisely this section of the proposed law that was the focus of Rabbi Glick’s fury.
“What can be said?” Rabbi Glick asked rhetorically. “Jerusalem is supposed to be the city that floats above us all. This law shouldn’t even be necessary. Every Jewish couple married in the last 3,000 years has sworn not to forget Jerusalem. Who could imagine splitting up Jerusalem?” (Read More)
