Trump say Israel will ‘lose all of its support’ from US if it annexes the West Bank

One of the bills would require the Israeli government to begin the process of absorbing all of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank into Israel.

The motion, which was sponsored by the far-right Noam party, passed an initial reading with the help of a Likud rebel.

Most MKs from the prime minister's party boycotted the vote, but Yuli Edelstein broke ranks to pass the bill 25-24.

In response, Likud accused the right-wing lawmakers who pushed the bills through of "trolling".

The party said: "We strengthen settlements every day with actions, budgets, construction, industry, and not with words.

"True sovereignty [over the West Bank] will be achieved not with a show-off law for the protocol, but by working properly on the ground and creating the political conditions appropriate for the recognition of our sovereignty, as was done in the Golan Heights and in Jerusalem."

The bills have now passed first reading but will have to go through three more parliamentary stages to become law, but the statement issued from the Prime Minister’s Office made it clear that wasn’t going to happen.

“The Likud party and the religious parties (the principal coalition members) did not vote for these bills, except for one disgruntled Likud member who was recently fired from the chairmanship of a Knesset committee,” it read. “Without Likud support these bills are unlikely to go anywhere.”