Published: 15 March 2022
Last updated: 4 March 2024
NGO asks High Court to declare the bill, which would force Palestinian families to either emigrate or live apart, unconstitutional; advocates say it helps maintain 'Jewish character'
NGO asks High Court to declare family reunification bill unconstitutional (Jerusalem Post)
Adalah said that taking into account ethnicity as a basis of interfering with marriage and citizenship issues has been rejected since World War II, even by apartheid South Africa in 1980
Controversial 'citizenship law' passes in Knesset (Ynet)
Law, which would force Palestinian families to either emigrate or live apart, passes by a 45-15 majority vote that crossed party lines; proponents say it helps maintain 'Jewish character'
Israel just re-banned Palestinian family unification. what does this law do, and how can it be fought? (Haaretz)
The new law replaces temporary legislation that barred Palestinians who marry Israeli nationals from resident status in Israel
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Israeli settler suspected of terrorist activities to be placed in administrative detention (Haaretz)
The 21-year-old settler is suspected of acts of terror, arson, vandalizing, and assault of left-wing activists in the West Bank as well as in Israel
Photo: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at the Knesset plenum (Yoav Dudkevitch)
