The Knesset approved the repeal of the 2005 Disengagement Law in its second and third readings.
POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The Israeli judicial reform’s emotional roots were planted in the summer of 2005 and a feeling of betrayal.
The original Disengagement Bill from 2005 included a clause that bars Israeli citizens from reentering any of the evacuated areas.
The prime minister said that the protesters should learn from demonstrators who opposed the Disengagement Law in 2005.
The bill passed the vote with 62 MKs supporting the bill and 36 voting against it. It will now move to one of the Knesset's committees before a first reading on the Knesset floor.
Yossi Dagan: "It is impossible to describe the excitement that comes as an injustice that has gone on for years is corrected.”
Once approved by the Knesset, the legislation would pave the way for the reconstruction of the four communities razed there that year.
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