On August 11, 2020 it was reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the United States for his failure to apply sovereignty to 'West Bank' settlements. On Channel 20. the Prime Minister said: “It was clear from the start that the application of sovereignty would be done only with agreement from the United States. Otherwise, I would have already done it a while ago.”
On July 14,2020 Arutz 7 reported "Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to apply sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria has been frozen for the time being, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday morning. Yariv Levin (Likud), the Knesset Speaker and chief of the Israeli delegation negotiating with the White House on the implementation of the sovereignty plan, said in closed talks that talks with the US on the plan were not progressing at this time..."
The reason not to apply sovereignty is that talks with the US on the plan are "not progressing", but the next one will be the proximity of US elections. According to reports, sovereignty will not be implemented close to US elections. On April 6 , 2020 Arutz 7 reported "The Yamina party responded Monday evening to leaked reports of the unity agreement between the Likud and Blue and White parties...Netanyahu received a vague wording about sovereignty that says nothing, and, worse, rejects sovereignty close to the US election in a way that casts a heavy shadow on the possibility of obtaining American consent to the move..."
So the proximity of US elections will be another reason to postpone the application of sovereignty. Naftali Bennett has been trying to apply Israeli sovereignty over Ma'aleh Adumim since January 2017 but Netanyahu has repeatedly found reasons to postpone the vote.
