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Mute audio These documents can reveal the Shin Bet s methods of operation and harm the safety and good name of the individuals involved, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut wrote in the ruling on Tuesday.
“To preserve Israel s intelligence agencies ability to recruit sources, protecting the identity of these sources is essential,” Hayut added.
Shay Hazkani, a historian who researches the absorption of Jews from Arab and Middle Eastern countries in Israel, submitted the petition, as part of his academic research.
In 2017, Hazkani filed a request with Israel State Archives to sift through documents from the 1950s dealing with Shin Bet s operations within the immigrant camps and the thwarting of the Wadi Salib riots.
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Apr. 1, 2021 5:15 PM
An unusual encounter took place last month at the High Court of Justice. On one side were three justices. On the other were individuals whose names remain under gag. On the agenda: access to classified archival documents in the possession of the Shin Bet, in an attempt to understand why the security service opposes their publication. The documents don’t touch on Israel’s nuclear program or the early־warning blunder in the Yom Kippur War – two issues to which the public is almost automatically denied access. They touch on the assassination of Dr. Rezso Kasztner (aka Rudolf Israel Kastner) in March 1957.