OREANDA-NEWS. The issue of extending Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and Jewish settlements on the West Bank will not be submitted to the Israeli government for approval on Sunday, February 2, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on January 28, as this requires careful preparation.

This opinion was expressed on Wednesday in an interview with Israeli state radio Kan by Israeli Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin, a senior Likud party activist Netanyahu, who accompanied the prime minister during a trip to Washington.

Netanyahu said at a briefing for journalists in Washington on January 28 that he hopes that already at the next weekly meeting of the Israeli cabinet on Sunday, February 2, Israel "will be able to approve the distribution of Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and to all settlements in Judea and Samaria. Earlier that day, at a press conference with US President Donald Trump in Washington, the Prime Minister said that the White House’s peace plan would give the Jewish state a permanent eastern border so that it could protect amb themselves.

In December 2016, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2334, demanding an end to Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories. Israel then stated that it would not comply with the provisions of this document.