Special International Regime for Jerusalem

The measure confirms the provisions of the Partition Resolution 181 (1947) relative to Jerusalem, according to which the City of Jerusalem "shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special...

King Abdullah adopts a "Supplementary Law" to the Parliamentary Election Law of 1947.

King Abdullah dissolved Jordan’s parliament ahead of elections intended to include West Bank representatives.

Jordan adopts the National Guard Law that subjects all male Jordanians who are between 20 and 40 years of age to 150 hours of training each year in or near their localities.

In the wake of the Nakba, the Israeli authorities seek to "legalize" the confiscation of property left behind by Palestinian internal and external refugees.

Having been officially informed of the union between Jordan and the Arab portion of Palestine under Jordanian control (as bounded by the line defined in the Jordan-Israel Armistice Agreement ), that...

Israeli forces drive 12,000 Palestinians from 2 villages and thousands of dunams ready to be harvested in Hebron.

A Tripartite Declaration, jointly issued by the United States, Britain, and France, guarantees the territorial status quo determined by the Arab-Israeli armistice agreements and undertakes to limit an...

Israel's Knesset passes the Law of Return, which states that every Jew has the right to settle in Israel as an immigrant (or more precisely, as "oleh," a person who "ascends" to Israel).

Adopted shortly after the Absentees' Property Law, this legislation closes the loop of Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian "absentees'' lands and assets.