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• Writing al-Haq
• Scholarship : al-Haq and human rights
• Framing the work
• Al-Haq contributions
• The occupied territories, Israel and the PLO
• West Bank legal profession
• Camp David
• Human rights organisations
• International law
• Human rights in the region
• Raja Shehadeh
• Jonathan Kuttab
• Charles Shammas
• LSM Steering Committee
• Who are we? 1983
• The politics of LSM
• Participation, voluntarism and Wednesday evening meetings
• The role of a human rights organisation under occupation
• Members and staffers
• Into the intifada
• Twenty years of occupation-: a time to reflect
• Interventions
• Allies
• The ICRC
• The Enforcement Project
• Fieldwork methodology
• The risks of fieldwork
• Intifada expansion
• From affidavit to publication and campaign
• Affidavits and the Palestinian audience
• Fieldwork and the database
• Publishing on prisons
• Structural work
• Legal advice and know your rights
• Invoking the law

Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her tireless quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible. As far as Palestinians are concerned, she's more than an attorney, she's an advocate

• Introduction: Israel’s declaration of independence : history and political theory
• Government : the origins of Israel's declaration of independence
• Natural rights
• From natural rights to labor Zionism : Tzvi Berenson and the legal department draft
• International law : Herschel Lauterpacht's drafts
• Diplomacy : Moshe Shertok's draft
• Politics and law : debating the declaration
• Natural and historical right : David Ben-Gurion and Israel's declaration
• The laws of Israel and the Declaration of Independence
• Conclusion: sovereignty, the Jewish state, and principles of political right

"Israel's Declaration of Independence is the first book-length treatment of the history and political thought of Israel's founding text. Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler examine the political and theoretical dilemmas faced by the founders of Israel as they prepared to declare independence. The issues at stake began with war, strategy, survival, and great power diplomacy, and ascended to the nature of rights, the relationship of religion and state, and the meaning of political sovereignty. The volume documents how the Declaration of Independence evolved and changed over several drafts. On May 14, 1948, Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared that it "is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State." With those words, he changed the trajectory of a nation and a region"-- Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Rebecca Wittmann
• Part I: Eichmann on Trial
• 1. Coming to Terms with the "Banality of Evil": Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behavior James E. Waller
• 2. From History to Story: When the "Architect" of the Holocaust Became his Own "Witness" Fabien Theofilakis
• 3. Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and their Afterlives Michael Berkowitz
• Part II: Eichmann and Jurisprudence
• 4. Prosecuting "Crimes against the Jewish People": The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept Laura Jockusch
• 5. The Eichmann Trial: Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity? Leora Bilsky
• 6. What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts Ruth Bettina Birn
• Part III: Eichmann and Geopolitics 7.The Eichmann Trial's Impact Reconsidered Boaz Cohen
• 8. The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence? Dominique Trimbur
• 9. The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany Roni Stauber
• 10. The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse Esther Webman
• Part IV: Representing Eichmann
• 11. Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
• 12. From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and the Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial Liat Benhabib.
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The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961. The essays in this important new collection span the disciplines of history, film studies, political science, sociology, psychology, and law. Contributing scholars adopt a wide historical lens, pushing outwards in time and space to examine the historical and legal influence that Adolf Eichmann and his trial held for Israel, West Germany, and the Middle East. In addition to taking up the question of what drove Eichmann, contributors explore the motivation of prosecutors, lawyers, diplomats, and neighbouring countries before, during, and after the trial ended. The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered puts Eichmann at the centre of an exploration of German versus Israeli jurisprudence, national Israeli identities and politics, and the conflict between German, Israeli, and Arab states.
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• Introduction: the intimate fiscal state
• Part I. The Rise of Income Taxation: 1. Before the income tax: Jewish Ottoman, and early mandatory taxation
• 2. The introduction of income taxation in mandatory Palestine
• Part II. The Ascendancy of Social Norms: 3. Taxation without law: the Jewish voluntary tax system
• 4. Law and social norms in early Israeli taxation
• Part III. The Transformation of Israeli Taxation and its Law: 5. The rise of tax experts: accountants, lawyers, and economists
• 6. The transformation of tax law: doctrinal and legislative changes.
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This book describes how a social-norms model of taxation rose and fell in British-ruled Palestine and the State of Israel in the mid-twentieth century. Such a model, in which non-legal means were used to foster compliance, appeared in the tax system created by the Jewish community in 1940s Palestine and was later adopted by the new Israeli state in the 1950s. It gradually disappeared in subsequent decades as law and its agents, lawyers and accountants, came to play a larger role in the process of taxation. By describing the historical interplay between formal and informal tools for creating compliance, Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel sheds new light on our understanding of the relationship between law and other methods of social control, and reveals the complex links between taxation and citizenship.
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• Issues Subject to Modification in Family Law
• The Right of a Minor to Independent Status
• Extramarital Relationships and the Theoretical Rationales for the Joint Property Rules
• Property Sharing Arrangements in Israeli Family Law
• Recognition of Foreign Civil Marriages
• The Development of the Issue of Same-Sex Couples
• The Issue of Document Disclosure in General Court and in Family Court.

In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and geographic locations. This book examines Israeli family law in comparison with the corresponding law in the United States and illuminates common issues in legal systems worldwide. The Israeli system is primarily controlled by the religious law of the parties. Thus, religious courts were also established and granted enforcement powers equivalent to those of the civil courts. This is a complex situation because the religious law applied in these courts is not always consistent with gender equality and civil rights practiced in civil court. This book seeks to clarify that tension and offer solutions. The comprehensive analysis in this book may serve as a guide for those interested in family law: civil court judges, rabbinical court judges, lawyers, mediators, arbitrators, and families themselves. Topics central to the book include issues subject to modification, the right of a minor to independent status, extramarital relationships, and joint property.
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• 1. Natural rights
• 2. From natural rights to labor Zionism: Tzvi Berenson and the legal department's draft
• 3. International law: Herschel Lauterpacht's draft
• 4. Diplomacy: Moshe Shertok's draft
• 5. Politics and law: debating the declaration
• 6. Natural and historical right: David Ben-Gurion and Israel's Declaration
• 7. The laws of Israel and the declaration of independence
• Conclusion: sovereignty, the Jewish state, and principles of political right.
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Israel's Declaration of Independence brings to life the debates and decisions at the founding of the state of Israel. Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English for the first time, Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler shed new light on the dilemmas of politics, diplomacy, and values faced by Israel's leaders as they charted the path to independence and composed what became modern Israel's most important political text. The stakes began with war, state-building, strategy, and great power politics, and ascended to matters of high principle: freedom, liberty, sovereignty, rights, and religion. Using fast-paced narration of the meetings of Israel's leadership in April and May 1948, this volume tells the astonishing story of the drafting of Israel's Declaration of Independence, enriching and reframing the understanding of Israel's founding and its ideas - and tracing its legacy.
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60 years after the execution of Adolf Eichmann, the daughter and son of the prosecutor in the Gideon Hausner trial are publishing a new book - "When Eichmann entered our home". Tami Hauzner-Rova, then 14 years old, and Amos Hauzner, who was only 11 years old, remember very well the dramatic days when their father managed the most important case in the young country that was living through the horrors of the Holocaust. A Yedioth Ahronot reporter, whose father, the late journalist Noah Kaliger, covered the trial, met them and heard how she collected testimonies from the survivors in their home, how Shelem prepared for the opening speech, and when was the only time he allowed himself to shed a tear
60 שנה אחרי הוצאתו להורג של אדולף אייכמן, בתו ובנו של התובע במשפט גדעון האוזנר מוציאים ספר חדש – "כשאייכמן נכנס אלינו הביתה". תמי האוזנר־רוה, אז בת 14, ועמוס האוזנר, שהיה בן 11 בלבד, זוכרים היטב את הימים הדרמטיים שבהם אביהם ניהל את התיק החשוב ביותר במדינה הצעירה שחיה ממש את זוועות השואה. כתבת "ידיעות אחרונות", שאביה, העיתונאי נח קליגר ז"ל, סיקר את המשפט, פגשה אותם ושמעה איך גבה עדויות מהשורדים בביתם, כיצד התכונן לילה שלם לנאום הפתיחה, ומתי הייתה הפעם היחידה שהרשה לעצמו למחות דמעה

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Context
• 2. Beginnings
• 3. Founders
• 4. Organization
• 5. Interventions and Allies
• 6. Field and Legal Research
• 7. Fallouts
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups. .
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• Acknowledgments Notes on Translation and Internet Hyperlinks Introduction: Land Law and Land Policy
• 1. The Fingerprints of History in Land Inventory
• 2. Culture, Nation, and Socialism in the Administration of Public Lands
• 3. Privatization of Public Lands
• 4. National Land Planning in a Small Country
• 5. Jewish and Democratic
• 6. Creative Judiciary Epilogue: Identity in Flux Bibliography Index.
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As one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in the world, the State of Israel faces serious land policy challenges and has a national identity laced with enormous internal contradictions. In Land Law and Policy in Israel, Haim Sandberg contends that if you really want to know the identity of a state, learn its land law and land policies. Sandberg argues that Israel's identity can best be understood by deciphering the code that lies in the Hebrew secret of Israeli dry land law. According to Sandberg, by examining the complex facets of property law and land policy, one finds a unique prism for comprehending Israel's most pronounced identity problems. Land Law and Policy in Israel explores how Israel's modern land system tries to bridge the gaps between past heritage and present needs, nationalization and privatization, bureaucracy and innovation, Jewish majority and non-Jewish minority, legislative creativity and judicial activism. The regulation of property and the determination of land usage have been the consequences of explicit choices made in the context of competing and evolving concepts of national identity. Land Law and Policy in Israel will prove to be a must-read not only for anyone interested in Israel but also for anyone who wants to understand the importance of land law in a nation's life.
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• 1: Introduction - Access Denied.
• 2: A Review of Land Rights in International Law Context.
• 3: An Architecture of Exclusion.
• 4: Towards Building the Present Land Regime in Israel Legislation and Judicial Systems.
• 5: Case Study, Sheikh Jarrah as a Contemporary Struggle.
• 6: Conclusion, Exploring the "Dark Side" of Land Law.
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This book provides a comprehensive examination of land law for Arab Palestinians under Israeli law. Land is one of the core resources of human existence, development and activity. Therefore, it is also a key basis of political power and of social and economic status. Land regimes and planning regulations play a dynamic role in deciding how competing claims over resources will be resolved. According to legal geography, spatial ordering impacts legal regimes; whilst legal rules form social and human space. Through the lenses of international law, colonisation and legal geography, the book examines the land regime in Israel. More specifically, it endeavours to understand the spatial strategies adopted by Israel to organise the entire territorial expanse of the country as Jewish, while also excluding Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel and residents of East Jerusalem from the landscape. The book then details how the systematic nature and processes of marginalisation are mapped out across the civil, political and socio-economic landscape. This monograph will be of interest to international legal theorists, legal geographers, land lawyers and human rights practitioners and students; as well as to international scholars, NGOs and others focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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• The Extent of the Activities of the Shariʻa Court
• Methodology and Sources of Islamic Law
• Mechanisms for the Renewal of Islamic Law
• About Ijtihad
• Marriage : Nikah/Betrothal : Khiṭba
• Age of Marriage
• The Israeli Law of the Age of Marriage
• Marriage Registration of Muslims in Israel
• Conditions in Marriage Contracts
• Paternity
• Maintenance
• Maintenance for Children
• Determining the Cost of Maintenance
• Divorce and Marriage Dissolution
• Triple Divorce in One Interval
• Arbitary Divorce : Without the Wife's Consent
• Marriage Dissolution by Arbitration (Nizāʻ Wa Shiqāq)
• The Right of a Convict's Wife to the Dissolution of Her Marriage

"Promoting Women's Rights in Islamic Law describes the mechanism of renewal in Islamic law, followed by the main reforms in various areas of the family law; marriage, divorce, the right of wives to dissolve their unsuccessful marriage, paternity, maintenance of wives and children support"-- Provided by publisher

• Writing al-Haq
• Scholarship : al-Haq and human rights
• Framing the work
• Al-Haq contributions
• The occupied territories, Israel and the PLO
• West Bank legal profession
• Camp David
• Human rights organisations
• International law
• Human rights in the region
• Raja Shehadeh
• Jonathan Kuttab
• Charles Shammas
• LSM Steering Committee
• Who are we? 1983
• The politics of LSM
• Participation, voluntarism and Wednesday evening meetings
• The role of a human rights organisation under occupation
• Members and staffers
• Into the intifada
• Twenty years of occupation-: a time to reflect
• Interventions
• Allies
• The ICRC
• The Enforcement Project
• Fieldwork methodology
• The risks of fieldwork
• Intifada expansion
• From affidavit to publication and campaign
• Affidavits and the Palestinian audience
• Fieldwork and the database
• Publishing on prisons
• Structural work
• Legal advice and know your rights
• Invoking the law

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups. .
(source: Nielsen Book Data)