Israel only for Jewish people: Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed legislation that would change Israel’s basic laws to define it as the home of the “Jewish people” only. ● Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting on Sunday that the draft basic law is meant to clarify that Israel is “the nation state of the Jewish people.” Israel “provides full equal rights, individual rights, to all its citizens, but it is the nation state of one people only – the Jewish people – and of no other people. And therefore, in order to bolster the status of the state of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, I intend to submit a basic law that will anchor this status,” he said. Netanyahu stressed that the move is vital as Israel’s legitimacy is “under a constant and increasing assault from abroad and at home.”