Case Number
HCJ 727/00
Date Decided
12-12-2001
Decision Type
Original
Document Type
Full Opinion
Abstract
Facts: Petition seeking the establishment of egalitarian socio-economic criteria for the implementation of the Neighborhood Restoration Project, and a similar inclusion of Arab settlements, which are ranked under the first and second cluster by the Central Office of Statistics, to the inclusion within the project of Jewish settlements which fall under that same ranking.
Held: In the majority opinion, written by Justice Beinisch, the petition was granted in part as to the requested criteria. The court determined that the petition was made partially extraneous given the drafting of new criteria in 1999, and that the criteria were to be redrafted and the criterion relating to ‘saturated construction’ and its relative weight among the rest of the criteria was to be given explicit expression within the criteria. The petition was denied in relation to the immediate inclusion of all the settlements detailed therein.
Keywords
Constitutional Law -- Freedom of Expression, International Law -- Occupied territories
