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Jan. 11, 2021
Israel s High Court of Justice on Sunday denied a request for a rehearing of its ruling last year saying hospitals can t ban visitors from bringing bread or other leavened products that aren t kosher during Passover.
In denying the request by the Chief Rabbinate and Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit to reconsider the ruling, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut said that searching visitors’ belongings at hospital entrances and forbidding them from bringing in hametz, as it is known in Hebrew, violates the visitors’ basic rights. The decision is now final as far as the courts are concerned and can only be altered through Knesset legislation.
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Dec. 28, 2020
“I’ve worked in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv since I was a kid,” Issam Barakeh told me on the phone, and I pictured him as a young boy hauling crates, husking corn, culling overripe tomatoes, sweeping the shop at the end of the day, and picking up Hebrew all the while.
In the 1970s and ‘80s, Israel respected the Palestinians’ right to freedom of movement: With a few exceptions, and except for during periods of curfews, they could freely move between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and back and forth from the occupied territories to Israel. Israel had its own economic and political incentives to permit the freedom of movement, but still many youths from Gaza, like Barakeh, who is now 56, were able to use their school vacations to help support their families. Many Israeli families owe their own wealth to Palestinian workers and the low wages they were paid.
Israeli sex abuse suspect finally to be extradited to Australia al-monitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from al-monitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Israel agrees to extradite sex abuse suspect to Australia December 16, 2020 at 11:14 am | Published in: Australia, Israel, Middle East, News, Oceania
Malka Leifer (C), a former Australian teacher accused of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at a school, is escorted by police as she arrives for a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on February 27, 2018 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images] December 16, 2020 at 11:14 am
The Israeli Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Malka Leifer could be extradited to Australia over legal claims accusing her of sexually abusing students when she ran a secondary school in Melbourne between 2003 and 2008.
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn announced Wednesday that he had signed an extradition order for Malka Leifer, the final step in an over-six-year-long legal battle to send the accused child sex abuser back to Australia.
“After many years, after a shameful attempt to present herself as mentally ill, and in light of the Supreme Court ruling, it is our moral obligation to allow for Leifer to stand trial,” tweeted Nissenkorn after signing the order.