If, during your travels in the Holy Land, you decide to take the next step with your Palestinian sweetheart, you should notify the Israeli military within 30 days.
That's what it says on page 30 of a new 97-page policy released by COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of civilian affairs in the occupied West Bank.
The policy, set to take effect later this year, specifies that the "start of the relationship" is the engagement, the wedding or when you move in together.
The wide-ranging policy imposes new restrictions on foreigners who marry Palestinians or who come to the West Bank to work, volunteer, study or teach, further extending Israel's nearly 55-year military rule into nearly every corner of Palestinian life.
The rules do not apply to people visiting Israel or the more than 130 Jewish settlements scattered across the West Bank.
“It's outrageous that the Israeli military thinks it can micro-manage Palestinian society to this extent, to decide who's qualified to teach at a university, who is entitled to have foreign volunteers," said Jessica Montell, director of the Israeli human rights group HaMoked.
Her group filed a legal petition with lengthy objections to the policy, leading Israeli authorities to delay its implementation from May 20 until early July.
The policy could also anger the United States, which has long refused to enter into a visa waiver programme with Israel, in part because Israel treats Palestinian-Americans differently than other US citizens. The State Department said it was studying the new procedures and “engaging with Israeli authorities to understand their applications”.