AG: JNF cannot discriminate against Arabs in allocating land rights - Haaretz

Last update - 21:06 20/05/2007

AG: JNF cannot discriminate against Arabs in allocating land rights

By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent

Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ruled that the Jewish National Fund (JNF) must allocate land rights in an egalitarian fashion, without discriminating between Jews and Arabs.

In recent days, the State Prosecution informed the High Court of Justice of Mazuz's decision, in reference to several petitions filed by Arab citizens complaining that the JNF refused to sell them apartments and empty lots resting on lands belonging to them.

The State Prosecutor's Office issued a statement saying "the attorney general's opinion, as it was presented to the JNF, is that the Israel Lands Authority must adhere to the principles of equality, and is forbidden from discriminating against people based on their nationality, even when the land in question is owned by the JNF."

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In recent days, the State Prosecution instructed the Israel Lands Authority to cancel a lands sale tender in Carmiel for which one of the prerequisites was that the buyers must be Jewish. It was agreed that should a non-Jew make the highest bid in the tender for one of the lots, the property would be frozen until the High Court issues a ruling on the petition.

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1.	Rip off	21:38	\|	Dave	20/05/07

2.	#1 Dave	22:05	\|	T A Sheppard	20/05/07

3.	end second class status	22:33	\|	david	20/05/07

4.	Separate JNF from ILA	22:43	\|	jnf	20/05/07

5.	ridiculous	22:53	\|	Sol	20/05/07

6.	Then same legal basis applies to the Waqf, Orthodox Church	22:58	\|	Dr. L. Brnd	20/05/07

7.	JNF is a total Fraud that predates 1948	23:07	\|	Steven	20/05/07

8.	Pals depopulate Sderot thanks mainly to Mazuz and he gives them	23:24	\|	Absolute Sweden	20/05/07

9.	If this is true...	23:27	\|	Aaron Levitt	20/05/07

10.	THE AG IS WRONG	23:44	\|	Meir Weinstein	20/05/07

11.	Demand JNF/Israeli Leaders RETURN TO JEWS Land Purchased with (1)	23:45	\|	Linda Rivera	20/05/07

12.	Aaron Levitt,how many arabs live in your Neturei Karta enclave?	23:51	\|	Absolute Sweden	20/05/07

13.	Demand JNF/Israeli Leaders RETURN TO JEWS Land Purchased with (2)	23:52	\|	Linda Rivera	20/05/07

14.	One million JEWISH Refugees MUST be Compensated	23:57	\|	Linda Rivera	20/05/07

15.	Is this what happened to our pennies	00:00	\|	Avi Yerushalmi	21/05/07

16.	#3 Dear David	00:11	\|	Reb Bahir	21/05/07

17.	22 HUGE Arab Countries. TINY Israel only one tenth of one percent	00:37	\|	Linda Rivera	21/05/07

18.	Linda Rivera	00:48	\|	christa	21/05/07

19.	What was the point of stealing the land	00:58	\|	Getrude	21/05/07

20.	Aintsient Sivillisation of the Palacetinians	02:51	\|	Norma Jean	21/05/07

21.	A Good Day for Israel	03:52	\|	dan	21/05/07

22.	You do not fight and evil by adopting it and practicing it	04:01	\|	American	21/05/07

23.	Defacto apartheid	04:15	\|	Mitch Cohen	21/05/07

24.	this is ridiculous	04:16	\|	isaac	21/05/07

25.	The Arabs can bid on land in Gaza	05:14	\|	Ron	21/05/07

26.	#22 That is the saddest thing of all about Israel	15:54	\|	T A Sheppard	21/05/07

27.	david, get one fact straight	20:48	\|	Jake	21/05/07

28.	This ruling gives the lie to Azmi Bishara`s bogus claim	20:49	\|	Jake	21/05/07

29.	Another SCAM for JNF donors	09:15	\|	Michelle	22/05/07

30.	JNF a bit of history for you lot	22:08	\|	alan	22/05/07

31.	#18 - 10,000 Jews Ethnically Cleansed from Gaz/No Samaria	05:27	\|	Linda Rivera	23/05/07