Summary
East Jerusalemite, born and raised in Jerusalem, whose 1988 deportation case produced the Israeli Supreme Court ruling from which the “Center of life” principle for revoking Palestinian permanent residency derives (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.110).
Details
- Awad left Jerusalem in the 1970s for the United States to study and work, returned in the 1980s to live in Jerusalem, and was ultimately deported by the Israeli authorities (PDF p.110).
- The Court rejected the argument that Palestinian Jerusalemites hold a special status of “quasi-citizenship” or “constitutional residency” that the Minister of the Interior cannot revoke; Justice Aharon Barak held that a permanent residency permit expires of itself once the reality of permanent residency no longer exists, and that Awad’s acquisition of American citizenship signified that his “center of life” was no longer Israel (PDF p.110).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Center of life, East Jerusalem, Hania Assali