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Watchdog group to court: Don't let state delay payment to Holocaust survivors
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel, Holocaust survivors 

The Movement for Quality Government in Israel on Thursday petitioned the High Court of Justice demanding that the government aid promised to Holocaust survivors be transferred to the beneficiaries without delay.

The petition asked the court to order the immediate implementation of the recommendations made by the Dorner commission, which determined that an additional allowance should be paid immediately to 43,000 Holocaust survivors, following a decision by the cabinet on Tuesday to postpone the payment.

The petitioners argued that further delay in the implementation of the commission's recommendations will prevent many survivors from benefiting from its conclusions, which aim to rectify a gross injustice.
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"During every day that goes by in which the [Dorner commission] report is not implemented, Holocaust survivors in Israel die. And their rights, as the report determined, have been stolen by the state of Israel for dozens of years," the petitioners wrote.

"The report composed by the state commission of inquiry," the petition went on to say, referring to the Dorner panel, "determined that the state of Israel relinquished the right to sue West Germany for reparations, on the behalf of the survivors, without consulting them, and then didn't honor its pledge to take care of them, thus depriving them. The report found that the state's responsibility is not only a moral one, but also a legal one."

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