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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Michael Sfard

Palestinians sit as PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh opens a hospital for COVID-19 patients in the West Bank city of Nablus, on January 16, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
January 21, 2021, 6:42 am
Israeli immunity hinges on Palestinians getting COVID shots too, doctors say
Epidemiological interest is clear, say officials, warning that herd immunity cannot be reached otherwise, but legal experts conflicted over whether Israel is ultimately responsible
By Aaron Boxerman and Nathan Jeffay
A screenshot of Amazon launching free shipping on November 11, 2019, used by one of several Facebook groups. (Courtesy, Amazon)
February 16, 2020, 9:07 pm
Amazon delivering for free to settlements, but not to Palestinians – report
Rights groups claim discrimination, but online retailer tells Financial Times discrepancy is only due to ‘logistical issue’
By ToI Staff
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda addresses the 18th session of the ICC Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, December 2, 2019. (Courtesy International Criminal Court)
December 26, 2019, 10:07 am
From The Gambia to The Hague: Meet Israel’s new public enemy number one
ICC prosecutor Bensouda’s bid to probe Israel for war crimes is being met with intense hostility, including by reporters highlighting her past work for a brutal African dictator
By Raphael Ahren
The West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad, January 10, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 8, 2018, 11:22 pm
State plans to use nation-state law to defend outpost legalization
Attorney defending Regulation Law in High Court says basic law’s encouraging of ‘Jewish settlement’ allows for preferential treatment to wildcat Israeli towns over Palestinian ones
By Jacob Magid
Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)
May 23, 2018, 4:46 pm
Court freezes expulsion of top Human Rights Watch official
Omar Shakir, who rejects accusation that he supports an Israel boycott, allowed to remain in country pending decision on bid to deport him
By Sue Surkes
Security forces evacuate Israeli settlers from the illegal Netiv Ha’avot outpost in the West Bank, November 29, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 24, 2017, 11:07 am
Whose land is it anyway? The battle over a West Bank outpost offers some answers
Residents of Netiv Ha’avot, where 15 homes are slated for razing, argue that the land never belonged to anyone; a group of Palestinians from al-Khader petition to prove otherwise
By Jacob Magid
A hearing takes place Petah Tikvah Magistrate's Court on May 22, 2016, over the demand for the Breaking the Silence NGO to reveal the identities of soldiers providing testimony of alleged abuses by the military. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
May 22, 2016, 10:31 pm
Breaking the Silence rejects state’s demand to name sources
IDF-critiquing NGO tells court that requirement to reveal informants is tantamount to ‘demanding the end’ of the organization
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 photo, Israeli lawyer Michael Sfard talks to media after a court hearing at Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
December 23, 2013, 4:09 am
The Israeli lawyer fighting for Palestinian rights
Jerusalem-native Michael Sfard successfully defends Palestinians in a number of high-profile cases in Israel’s Supreme Court
By AP
Im Tirzu activists demonstrate during a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at the Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, on May 13, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
September 8, 2013, 10:16 pm
Right-wing group deemed to have fascist characteristics
Rejecting libel suit, judge says extra-parliamentary Im Tirzu draws influence from authoritarian ideology
By Adiv Sterman
Members of the panel discussing whether Israel is or could become an apartheid state, Feb 20, 2013. From left: Amiram Goldblum (who introduced the event); Danny Rubinstein (moderator); Gideon Levy; Menachem Klein, and Michael Sfard. (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
February 21, 2013, 10:15 pm
A night of apartheid
A succession of speakers at a three-hour conference in Jerusalem broadly agree that the ‘A word’ describes the status quo; the one dissenting panelist gets seven minutes
By Raphael Ahren
Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arabs ride the Jerusalem light train on March 15, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 30, 2012, 8:12 pm
Haaretz changes tack on major story that alleged widespread ‘apartheid’ attitudes in Israel
Newspaper publishes small ‘clarification’ of widely quoted article, changes headlines online; top Israeli pollster calls key question ‘skewed’; critic says vital question omitted from poll
By Elhanan Miller
A prayer service held Monday outside the Ulpana neighborhood houses slated for demolition (Photo credit: Flash 90)
May 23, 2012, 12:16 am
Two bills Wednesday force coalition to choose between settlements and judiciary
Proposals aim to ‘regularize’ status of 9,000 West Bank homes and avert court-ordered demolition of Ulpana neighborhood
By Mitch Ginsburg
A map of Beit El during the court hearing of the Ulpana petition Sunday. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
May 6, 2012, 1:42 pm
Justices lambaste Ulpana petition in turbulent hearing
State wants 60-day delay on enforcement of ruling that West Bank neighborhood must be torn down
By Hillary Zaken and Mitch Ginsburg
A lawyer looks over a map of Beit El prior to a High Court hearing in 2012 (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
April 29, 2012, 6:04 pm
West Bank outpost set to survive Tuesday’s demolition deadline
Supreme Court, in possible indicator of how it will handle the fate of Ulpana, gives government 60 days to address similar case in another part of Beit El settlement
By Raphael Ahren
Sara Yael Hirschhorn
April 27, 2012, 12:39 pm
Sara Yael Hirschhorn
State or settlement
As Israel marked 64 years, Netanyahu clandestinely legalized three West Bank outposts. Is this how a mature country conducts itself?
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