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 | | Since the reunification of the city in 1967, all Israeli Governments have declared their policy that united Jerusalem, Israel's eternal capital is one indivisible city under Israeli sovereignty and that free access to holy places and freedom of worship will continue to be guaranteed to members of all faiths. | | | Only twice has Jerusalem served as a national capital -- the capital of the Biblical Kingdoms of Israel and Judea before the Roman destruction of 70 C.E., and the capital of the modern State of Israel since the rebirth of the Jewish state in 1948. | | | On May 28, 1948 the Arab Legion overran the Jewish Quarter and eastern Jerusalem, while Israel held on to the Jewish populated western neighborhoods of the city. |
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| Â | Jerusalem Law - definition of Jerusalem Law in Encyclopedia |
| | Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel. | | | Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel (http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1980_1989/Basic%20Law-%20Jerusalem-%20Capital%20of%20Israel) More information at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs | | | The Jerusalem Law is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Israeli Knesset on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740). |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Jerusalem_Law
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| Â | Palestine Center - The Evolution of U.S. Policy on Jerusalem: International Law versus the Rule of Force |
| | The city remained divided until the 1967 war, at which point Israel occupied the eastern Arab sector of Jerusalem as well as the rest of the West Bank. | | | No other country except the U.S. and Israel supports a united Jerusalem largely under Israeli control as its capital. | | | Our job is to set them right.” Granted, there are powerful domestic forces supporting Israel, but on some very key aspects of this conflict, such as Jerusalem, “we already have the support of the American people behind us.” It is just a matter of mobilizing them to act. |
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|  | Rights of the Jewish People to a Sovereign State in their Historic Homeland - Dore Gold and Jeff Helmreich |
| | And once a citizen, he or she enjoys all the rights and privileges granted by Israel's laws and government to the majority of its people, based on a principle of equality now enshrined in the basic law of the country and the fabric of its political culture. | | | Given the historical background, it is impossible to argue that the Palestinians have a claim to the Land of Israel superior to that of the Jews, as Israel's detractors contend. | | | Israel's new detractors seek to delegitimize Jewish national rights by arguing that their assertion was an extension of European imperialism. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp507.htm
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| Â | Politics of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Israel's electoral law is based on a Basic Law (The Knesset) and the 1969 Knesset Elections Law. | | | As the legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset enacts laws, supervises government activities, and is empowered to elect or remove the President of the State or State Comptroller from office. | | | The Monitor Committee of Israeli Arabs: an Arab group, claiming to represent the interests of the Israeli Arab minority in Israel, tend to be separatists and hence perceived as hostile by the Jewish majority and have little influence in politics. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Israel
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| Â | divest from Israel - psgchicago.org |
| | The government of Israel has long established itself as a violator of the most basic of human rights and the most sacred of international law, and the United States government, as well as corporations and institutional investors, has done nothing in response but to increase aid and support to Israel. | | | After the war of 1948, refugees' property was officially expropriated under the Absentee Property Law, which declared anyone not present on their land at the close of the war an "absentee landholder" and granted their property to the state. | | | This resolution restates the general rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands; Israel has instead denied millions of people their right to return home on the grounds that the "Jewish character of the state" would be threatened by a population not of their preferred ethnic or religious heritage-regardless of human rights. |
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| Â | UN Resolutions Targeting Israel and Palestinians |
| | Resolution 478: "...‘censures (Israel) in the strongest terms’ for its claim to Jerusalem in its ‘Basic Law’ | | | Resolution 681: "...‘deplores’ Israel’s resumption of the deportation of Palestinians | | | Resolution 799: "...‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return. |
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http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/un.html
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| Â | Yehud : Israel : Government : Politics |
| | While Israel has no constitution, it is guided by what they call Basic Laws, and the text to the famous Law of Return, which grants every Jew the right to immigrate to Israel. | | | Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs - designed to provide basic information about Israel and its people, while offering comprehensive material on the Israeli government and its policies. | | | PSI - Professors for a Strong Israel is a non-partisan organization of academics united in a common concern for the security and the Jewish character of the State of Israel. |
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http://www.yehud.com/Israel/Government/Politics
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| Â | futureisrael.org |
| | Acting as a virtual dictator, he has emasculated his cabinet and, in defiance of the heads of Israel’s military and intelligence services, is determined to uproot Jews from their homes in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza—thus violating Israel’s Basic Law: Human Freedom and Dignity. | | | (7) Several of these parties—each with its own agenda—must coalesce to form a government, in consequence of which the government is incapable of pursuing a coherent and resolute national strategy—which prompts the Prime Minister to violate the law by ignoring his cabinet on controversial issues. | | | But we do claim to represent the people of Israel in terms of their Jewish heritage and aspirations on the one hand, and their many grievances against the existing government on the other—which grievances cannot be remedied under Israel’s existing political system. |
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| Â | Politics of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Israel's governmental system is based on several basic laws enacted by its unicameral parliament, the Knesset. | | | The Monitor Committee of Israeli Arabs: an Arab group, claiming to represent the interests of the Arab minority in Israel, tend to be seperatists and hence percieved as hostile by the Jewish majority and have little influence in politics. | | | From 1967 to 1970, a national unity government included all of Israel's parties except for the two factions of the Communist Party of Israel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Israel
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| Â | World Almanac for Kids |
| | Israel’s basic ideology, many of its contemporary political institutions and parties, and the individuals who established it came from the Zionist movement, which adopted as its goal the creation “for the Jewish people [of] a home in Palestine secured by public law.” For previous history of the territory that is now Israel. | | | The population of Israel (1993 est.) was 5,451,000. | | | Much foreign exchange is derived from expenditures by foreign tourists in Israel as well as from the donations of Jews living in other countries, especially the U.S. During the early 1990s, Israel was the principal beneficiary of U.S. foreign aid, receiving about $3 billion annually, of which 60% was military assistance. |
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http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/israel.html
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| Â | Politics of Israel - All About All |
| | Israel 's governmental system is based on several basic laws enacted by its unicameral parliament, the Knesset. | | | The Monitor Committee of Israeli Arabs: an Arab group, claiming to represent the interests of the Arab minority in Israel, tend to be seperatists and hence percieved as hostile by the Jewish majority and have little influence in politics. | | | From 1967 to 1970, a national unity government included all of Israel's parties except for the two factions of the Communist Party of Israel. |
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http://www.emypedia.com/catalog/Politics_of_Israel
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| Â | Democracy In Action 1999 - Chapter 3 |
| | Party officials also pointed out that, contrary to the accusations of leadership of the Orthodox political parties, Meretz's promotion of the Basic Law: Freedom of Religion does not mean that the party is opposed to steps to enshrine Jewish values and traditions in Israeli society: "We are not anti-religion... | | | Shas, the Sephardi Torah Guardians party, was founded on the eve of the 1984 general election as a protest against the perceived under-representation of Orthodox Sephardic Jews in the leadership of the Agduat Israel party. | | | The Israel Labour Party is the successor to the labour-Zionist movement and the Mapai party that (principally under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion) dominated the politics of pre-state Israel and the first twenty-nine years of statehood. |
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| Â | Israel Law: Internet Law Library |
| | "Apple of Gold: Constitutionalism in Israel and the U.S." by Gary Jacobsohn (review of, from"The Law and Politics Book Review") | | | Basic Laws of Israel, other major laws, and court decisions | | | Basic Laws of Israel, Proclamation of Independence, and other documents of interest (compiled by the Knesset) (in English) |
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| Â | Special Elections þ2001 |
| | "...supports the passing of additional basic laws and, above all, a law on freedom of religion, to ensure a democratic constitution for Israel. | | | affirm the legitimacy of all religious streams and assert that Israel is a democratic, Zionist and Jewish State in which all have the right to live in an atmosphere of tolerance and true equality." | | | opposed to the passage of legislation in the Knesset which would deny the rights of non-Orthodox religious groups in Israel." "We oppose all forms of religious coercion." |
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| Â | United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Israel |
| | These directives stipulate that "according to the law in force in Israel, any authority exercising any public function by virtue of law, is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, religion, creed, political opinion or any other basis". | | | Basic rights of persons in Israel are anchored in the respect of the value of persons, the sanctity of life and in the freedom of man, they are to be respected in the spirit of the principles enunciated in the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. | | | Israel is a very open society with a vocal parliamentary opposition, a free press including multiple TV and radio stations and a politically active electorate. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CERD.C.294.Add.1.En?Opendocument
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| Â | GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Israel |
| | International Constitutional Law: Israel (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the basic laws which form the constitutional background; and background notes | | | Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Israel (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) | | | Background Notes: Israel (U.S. Dept. of State) September 2004 |
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| Â | Israel Police |
| | The Israel Police strives to enforce the law in the spirit of the basic values set forth in the Proclamation of Independence, with the aim of ensuring the security of both individuals and society as a whole and enhancing quality of life in the State of Israel. | | | The forensics delegation succeeded in identifying the bodies of all of the missing Israelis, initiated an enterprise of international cooperation, that led to the setting up of casualty stations and the creation of an international D.N.A database. |
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| Â | Documents and Papers Relating to Israel and the Jewish People |
| | Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel [July 30, 1980] | | | The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [May 14, 1948] | | | Documents and Papers Relating to Israel and the Jewish People |
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| Â | The State Comptroller |
| | The function of the State Comptroller is defined in the Basic Law: The State Comptroller. | | | State audit in Israel focuses on the examination of the activities of the executive authority and whether they have been carried out in accordance with the principles of economy, efficiency, effectiveness and moral integrity. | | | The State Comptroller's audit evaluation is independent and he is responsible to the Knesset. |
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| Â | Institute of Field & Garden Crops |
| | Agricultural Research According to The Torah - the conduct of modern agricultural practices in accordance with Jewish law ("Halacha"). | | | Basic research is conducted on the genetics, biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology of crop tolerance to pests, of fruit development, fruit quality, male sterility and control of gene action. | | | Our scientists serve as members of advisory committees of the Ministry of Agriculture and of farmers’ organizations, participate in large-scale regional and national RandD projects, and are involved in international activities including research projects funded by international or binational grants. |
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| Â | Isreali Law & Government |
| | IS - Israel - Basic Law: The Government - Basic Law: The President of the State | | | IS - Israel - Basic Law: The Government - Basic Law: The Knesset | | | IS - Israel - Basic Law: The Government - Basic Law: Judicature |
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| Â | Basic Laws of Israel: Freedom of Occupation |
| | This Basic Law shall not be varied except by a Basic Law passed by a majority of the members of the Knesset. | | | Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation** is hereby repealed. | | | There shall be no violation of freedom of occupation except by a law befitting the values of the State of Israel, enacted for a proper purpose, and to an extent no greater than is required, or by regulation enacted by virtue of express autorisation in such law. |
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| | With the adoption of the Basic law, "the legal scholars started scrutinizing my court's and also other Canadian court's judgements under the Charter, and their interpretations by academe and reference in Israel to Canadian jurisprudence in the field of constitutional law became much more frequent," he stated. | | | Barak has described an Israeli "constitutional revolution" that has followed the adoption in 1992 of the country's Basic Law, Lamer said. | | | Israel's Supreme Court makes frequent references to Canadian judicial decisions because of the similarities in protecting human rights "that one finds in Israel's Basic Law and our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
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| Â | Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Israeli army ordered to protect civilians |
| | The three-judge panel ruled that during combat the military was bound by "international law and custom, international conventions that Israel is a signatory to and the basic laws of Israel." | | | The army has insisted it did not violate international law and did its utmost to ensure the basic rights of the Rafah residents were protected during the operation. | | | Israel's Supreme Court ruled Sunday the army must uphold international law and make sure civilians have access to medicine, food and water during military operations in Palestinians towns. |
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| Â | Sharing the Land of Canaan - Is Israel Unique |
| | Israel is funded to the tune of $5 billion (3 billion in direct aid, 2 billion other) from our (US) taxes or shielded from International law and basic human rights conventions by our government (e.g. | | | Israel has no constitution but promulgated a set of basic laws that govern it essentially “for the benefit of the Jewish people”. | | | Israel is unique among the nations in not being a country of its citizens but of “Jewish people everywhere”. |
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| Â | Palestine Center - The Palestinian Basic Law |
| | After the PLO signed the Declaration of Principles (DOP) on the interim Self-Government Arrangements with Israel in September 1993, the PLO Legal Committee began work on a Basic Law as an interim document to govern the newly formed PA. Under the leadership of Palestinian jurist Anis Al-Qasem, several drafts were completed. | | | The Basic Law was supposed to have been the governing document for an autonomy period that should have ended in 1999, the time for completion of final status negotiations. | | | The PA Election Law, which set up the structure for electing the new council, stated that the PLC would compose a constitutional order for the transitional period founded upon “popular sovereignty, democratic principles, separation of powers, independence of the judiciary, equality among citizens, and the guarantee of the basic rights of the citizen. |
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| Â | Basic Law: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | Basic laws of israel function as israels "uncodified constitution".... | | | The basic law for the federal republic of germany (german: grundgesetz für die bundesrepublik deutschland) is the constitution of modern germany.... | | | Basic Law of Hong Kong[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] |
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