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Corpus separatum is Latin for "separated body". The 1947 UN Partition Plan used this term to refer to a proposed internationally administered zone to include Jerusalem and some nearby towns such as Bethlehem and Ein Karim, that was, "in view of its association with three world religions" to be "accorded special and separate treatment from the rest of Palestine and should be placed under effective United Nations control". The United Nations Conciliation Commission in 1949 reaffirmed this statement.

The plan was not implemented; instead, Israel and Transjordan each took control of part of the area. Two decades later Israel gained control of East Jerusalem and the entire West Bank in the Six-Day War, and immediately annexed East Jerusalem to be part of Israel and of a united Jerusalem municipality, which however does not have boundaries identical with those of the proposed corpus separatum and does not include Bethlehem.

Israel declared united Jerusalem to be Israel's capital in 1980, but United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 condemned this and all countries today refuse to locate their embassies in Jerusalem; however, Bolivia and Paraguay have their embassies in Mevaseret Zion, a suburb 10km west of Jerusalem. In 1995, the United States said that Jerusalem was the Israeli capital and should be the site of its embassy, but it has yet to move to the city.

Map of the corpus separatum

United Nations United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
Jerusalem Corpus Separatum
Lifta Shu'fat JERUSALEM at-Tur al-Eizariya Abu Dis Silwan Sur Baher Umm Tuba Ramat Rahel Sharafat Beit Safafa Beit Jala BETHLEHEM Beit Sahur al-Maliha Ein Karim Deir Yassin Motza al-'Isawiya

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