Gov’t to explore upgrading all personal laws in Area C: The government is looking into upgrading through military orders all personal laws for Israelis living in Area C, starting with the workplace, to ensure that they match those legislated by the Knesset for citizens in the rest of the country. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked the Justice Ministry to start the task, at the end of a discussion on the labor law for working mothers in Judea and Samaria, held Sunday at the government’s weekly meeting, an official said. The issue of legal rights for working mothers in Area C must be addressed at the government’s October 13 meeting, Netanyahu insisted on Sunday at the end of the debate. (…) These laws are also likely to improve rights for Palestinian workers in Israeli companies in the West Bank. But no similar timetable was set for overhauling military legislation of personal rights for settlers. This legislation would likely not be broadly applicable to Palestinians. Full Israeli law does not apply to Area C of the West Bank. This means that Israelis living there do not receive all the legal rights afforded those who live in the rest of the country. The military laws designed to give them those rights often fall behind updated legislation in the Knesset. The matter is complicated because attempts to impose Knesset legislation on Area C are often seen as a de facto attempt to annex the area to Israel, one legislation at a time. (JPOST)