The High Court of Justice produced a dramatic legal innovation this week when it ruled that Jewish victims of terror can sue for compensation from the Palestine Authority
The High Court of Justice ruled Sunday that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) practice of paying stipends to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and their families constitutes “ratification” of the terrorists’ actions and therefore the PA “shares in the wrongdoings” committed by the terrorists-detainees and is liable to pay damages to the Israeli victims of terrorism. The…
An Israeli High Court judge recently suggested to Israeli defense officials that they meet with Mordechai Vanunu. Vanunu's lawyer, however, is being banned from the meeting. Once again, the High Court acted as a rubber stamp for the defense establishment
An Israeli judge recently suggested to defense officials that they meet with Mordechai Vanunu, but the former spy's lawyer is being banned from the meeting, for security reasons. Once again, the High Court is acting as a rubber stamp for the defense establishment
transaction.
Up until this ruling, the ITA relied on the provision of the Real Estate Taxation (Betterment and Purchase) Law that deems a couple (and its minor children) a single economic unit. As a result, when executing a real estate transaction, a couple must pay taxes as if it were a single seller or buyer, regardless of whether or not the couple signed a prenuptial agreement regulating the separation of property between the spouses.
Absurd situations arose as a result. For example, take a husband/wife with an apartment that he/she purchased or received as a gift prior to the marriage. The couple signs a prenuptial agreement regulating the separation of property between it during the marriage, as well as in the event of divorce, and prescribes that the apartment belonging to the spouse prior to the marriage remains solely under that spouse’s ownership. The agreement clarifies that, in the event of divorce, the other spouse will not h