The issue focused on a new, non-binding resolution proposed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) that would recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Ahead of the vote in the Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that "the Palestinian issue will not be resolved by a resolution on the state of Jerusalem. It will be resolved peacefully."

He said it would "take years, maybe decades before the Israeli state will be recognized as the Jewish state of Palestine."

The PL