Published: 28 September 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
In unprecedented move, judge bases verdict on controversial nation-state law (Haaretz)
In the first verdict based on the controversial nation-state law, the Jerusalem District Court ruled Monday that a Jew injured in a terror attack is entitled to punitive damages from his assailants.
Judge Moshe Drori ruled that Hamas must pay 5.4 million shekels (A$2million) to David Mashiah and his family. Mashiah was injured along with 15 other people when a bomb exploded in a garbage can on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv in 1998.
Drori, who has a history of controversial decisions and remarks in court against Palestinians and other minorities and is expected to retire in about a year, based his ruling on a clause in the new law – which is a Basic Law, carrying constitutional weight – that the state will strive to ensure the safety of the Jewish people.
In first, Israel judge bases verdict on new Jewish nation state law (Middle-East Monitor)
In the first ruling of its kind, an Israeli judge has issued a verdict based on the recently-passed Jewish nation-state law, reported Haaretz.
At Jerusalem District Court on Monday, Judge Moshe Drori ruled that Hamas must pay 5.4 million shekels ($1.5 million) to an Israeli injured in a 1998 bombing in Tel Aviv.
In his decision, Drori cited clause 6(a) of the Jewish nation-state law, which states: “The state will strive to ensure the safety of the members of the Jewish people in trouble or in captivity due to the fact of their Jewishness or their citizenship.”
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Judge acquits Jewish stonethrower (Israel National News)
In March 2017 Judge Moshe Drori ruled against convicting youth who threw stones and Molotov cocktail after kidnapping of three Jewish youths
Photo: Judge Moshe Drori (Israel National News)
