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Topic: High Court

May 17, 2013
7:27 pm

Activist protest in the Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on Friday, May 17 (photo credit: Flash90)

Activists march in East Jerusalem to oppose home eviction

In West Bank, police arrest settlers for clashing with Palestinians; Jordanian protesters mark Nakba Day with march towards border

December 10, 2012
2:50 pm

Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid political party, leaves the High Court in Jerusalem after filing a petition to halt the Israeli government’s decision to substitute national service for military service for 1,300 members of the ultra Orthodox Jewish community. December 10, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Lapid petitions High Court to stop ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions

Yesh Atid head calls move to allow 1,300 Haredi men to perform national service instead of army stint a ‘scandal’ and an attempt to circumvent the law

By Times of Israel staff

December 9, 2012
11:53 pm

Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid at his party's convention, December 2012 (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Lapid says he’ll go to court to stop ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions

Yesh Atid head calls move to allow 1,300 Haredi men to serve national service a ‘scandal’

By Philip Podolsky and Asher Zeiger

September 13, 2012
8:04 pm

Israeli security forces enter and forcibly evict some 250 settlers and their supporters from a disputed building in the West Bank city of Hebron in December 2008, about three weeks after the High Court of Justice ordered its immediate evacuation (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Contested Hebron house belongs to settlers, court rules

Beit Hameriva, or ‘house of contention,’ was evacuated of Jews in 2008; Sa’ar urges Barak to approve ‘lawful’ purchase

By Yifa Yaakov