Summary
President of the Israeli Supreme Court and author of the judgment in the Beit Sourik case, HCJ 2056/04, on the separation fence seizure orders west of Jerusalem (Beit Sourik Village Council v. Government of Israel, lines 184-204).
Details
- His earlier judgments are quoted in the Beit Sourik judgment for the governing propositions: in Ajuri (HCJ 7015/02, at 358) on suicide bombers reaching every place Israelis can be found; in Jam’iyat Ascan, at 794, “The military commander is not permitted to take the national, economic, or social interests of his own country into account”, and at 795 that road planning in occupied territory “cannot be done in order to serve the occupying country”; in Jam’iyat Ascan, at 810, that every Israeli soldier carries in his pack the provisions of public international law and the basic provisions of Israeli administrative law; and in HCJ 72/86 Zaloom, at 532, that respondents must balance security considerations against the civilian population’s interests (lines 183-503).
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Beit Sourik Village Council v. Government of Israel, Beit Sourik case, Israeli Supreme Court