1. Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of
Israel.
Seat of the President, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme Court
2. Jerusalem is the seat of the President of the
State, the Knesset, the Government and the Supreme
Court.
Protection of Holy Places
3. The Holy Places shall be protected from
desecration and any other violation and from anything
likely to violate the freedom of access of the members
of the different religions to the places sacred to
them or their feelings towards those places.
Development of Jerusalem
4. (a) The Government shall provide for the
development and prosperity of Jerusalem and the
well-being of its inhabitants by allocating special
funds, including a special annual grant to the
Municipality of Jerusalem (Capital City Grant) with
the approval of the Finance Committee of the Knesset.
(b) Jerusalem shall be given special priority in
the activities of the authorities of the State so as
to further its development in economic and other
matters.
(c) The Government shall set up a special body or
special bodies for the implementation of this section.
Territorial Boundaries of Jerusalem (Amendment 1)**
5. The Boundaries of Jerusalem include, for the purposes of this Basic Law, among others, all of the territory described in the appendix to the Declaration on the Expansion of the Boundaries of the Jerusalem Municipality from 20 Sivan, 5727 (June 28, 1967), which was issued according to the Municipalities ordinance
Prohibition of Transfer of Powers (Amendment 1)
6. No powers relating to the boundaries of Jerusalem that are granted by Law to the State of Israel or the Jerusalem Municipality shall be transferred to a foreign power, State or sovereign, or any other foreign party, either permanently or for a fixed period of time.
Entrenchment (Amendment 1)
7. The directives in Articles 5 and 6 shall not be changed save by a Basic Law which is passed by a majority of the members of Knesset.
Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (Amendment)**
Purpose
1. This Basic Law comes to establish in the Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel a restriction on altering the territorial boundaries of Jerusalem and on altering the application of law, justicability, and administration of the State of Israel within these boundaries, and comes also to prohibit the transfer of any kind of authority, sovereign or municipal, regarding the boundaries of Jerusalem, to any body which does not act by power of a law of the State of Israel.
2. [Incorporated into the main Basic Law]
Protection of Laws
3. Nothing in the directives of this Basic Law detracts from the directives of the Application of the Interim Accords on the West Bank and Gaza Strip Law (restriction of activity), 5755 - 1994, or from the directives of any law.
MENAHEM BEGIN
Prime Minister
YITZCHAK NAVON
President of the State
* Passed by the Knesset on the 17th Av, 5740 (30th
July, 1980) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 980
of the 23rd Av, 5740 (5th August, 1980), p. 186; the
Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in
Hatza'ot Chok No. 1464 of 5740, p. 287.
** Amendment (1) was published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5761, p.28
