{"id":4091,"date":"2012-01-31T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2012-02-28T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:11:22","slug":"acri-in-the-news-jan-14-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/01\/31\/acri-in-the-news-jan-14-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ACRI in the News: Jan 14 \u2013 Jan 30 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health Care<\/span><\/strong> <\/strong>
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\nAdvocates want to nationalize school health<\/a>
\n18 January 2012 (The Jerusalem Post)<\/strong>
\nOpponents to the privatization of the School Health Service voiced objections to the Health Ministry\u2019s decision to allow the private company to continue to operate in most of the country.
\n[\u2026] The Association for Civil Rights in Israel joined in the call for the restoration of a public School Health Service, and charged that its poor provision increased the social gap.
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\nCommittee rejects dental-care plan for elderly<\/a>
\n23 January 2012 (The Jerusalem Post)<\/strong>
\nRami Adut of ACRI, who has been closely involved in the private members\u2019 bill, told The Jerusalem Post that the cost could be covered by raising health taxes collected by the National Insurance Institute by only 0.05 percent \u2013 and that there would not be a means test for coverage. Adut said that offering such care \u201cwithout rehabilitation of the mouth would be a waste of time\u201d and hoped the ministry would come around to understanding the need for dentures and implants to replace missing teeth.
\nAdut said that leading community dental medicine experts are involved in preparing a plan.
\n\u201cThere must be objective supervision of such a program,\u201d he said, noting that a significant flaw in the existing children\u2019s dental care program introduced by Litzman was that it lacks objective and comprehensive supervision.
\n\u201cBut there is room for optimism,\u201d said Adut. \u201cI am not totally saddened by the rejection of the private members\u2019 bill, because the strong support in the Knesset has the power to influence positive changes in the government plan.\u201d
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\nCitizenship Law<\/span><\/strong>
\n 
\nNo Israeli Citizenship for Palestinian Spouses<\/a>
\n24 January 2012 (PRI: The World)<\/strong>
\na recent Israeli Supreme Court decision\u00a0 [ruled] that most Palestinians…who are married to Israelis would not be eligible for Israeli citizenship. A panel of Supreme Court judges was split on this decision six-to-five. Typically, the human rights community in Israel has viewed the high court as a bastion of democratic values. But Hagai El-Ad \u2013 who directs the Association for Civil Rights in Israel \u2013 says the ruling amounts to a disaster for Israeli democracy.
\n\u201cThis is probably the most extreme piece of racist legislation that the Knesset has passed and now, it has the seal of approval from the highest court in the land,\u201d El-Ad said in an interview with The World.
\n 
\nIsrael citizenship ruling slammed as ‘racist’<\/a>
\n29 January 2012 (The Telegraph)<\/strong>
\nIsraeli rights groups and MPs on Thursday denounced a court ruling upholding a law that prevents Palestinians married to Arab Israelis from obtaining Israeli citizenship or residency[\u2026]
\n“It is a dark day for the protection of human rights and for the Israeli Supreme Court,” attorneys Dan Yakir and Oded Feller from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said in a statement.
\n 
\nCitizenship Law prefers discrimination over human rights<\/a>
\n24 January 2012 (972 Mag)<\/strong>
\nRecent rejection by the Israeli High Court of the final petitions against Israel\u2019s Citizenship Law \u2013 which denies status in Israel to Palestinian spouses of Israeli citizens \u2013 was described as a \u201cwatershed\u201d ruling. Watershed indeed, but how exactly?
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\nBus Passes Infringe on Privacy<\/span><\/strong>
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\nIsraeli activists fear bus passes may infringe on human rights<\/a>
\n23 January 2012 (Haaretz)<\/strong>
\nHuman rights activists and government officials are concerned that public transportation ticket packages could potentially infringe on the privacy of passengers. The tickets in question are the Rav-Kav passes used for a variety of public transport purposes.<\/p>\n

Attorney Avner Pinchuk, who heads the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI ) privacy and information division, says that the state has given a green light to a request made by transportation contractors, enabling them to monitor routes chosen by each passenger, and railroad and bus stations at which passengers start and finish journeys. A passengers’ journey record remains in this data base for seven years. The extent to which such information is secure remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Pinchuk says that the Transportation Ministry has ignored requests made by Knesset members, asking that it furnish guidelines for the protection of privacy rights of passengers who purchase Rav-Kav passes. Up to now, more than half a million Rav-Kav passes have been issued.
\n 
\nRefugees and Asylum Seekers<\/span><\/strong>
\n 
\nMyths, facts and suggestions: Asylum seekers in Israel<\/a>
\n24 January 2012 (972 Mag)<\/strong>
\nAsylum seekers\u2019 are often confused with \u2018migrant workers\u2019 in Israel. Here is an info-sheet written by two experts in the field that explains the facts about the new faces in Israeli society, and suggests how the country should cope.
\nYonatan Berman is the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the Academic Center of Law and Business. Attorney Oded Feller is director of the Immigration and Residency Project at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
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\nAnti-Ethiopian Racism in Housing<\/span><\/strong>
\n 
\nFein: An easy case followed by a harder one<\/a>
\n24 January 2012 (Florida Jewish Journal)<\/strong>
\nThe fallout of the Kiryat Malachi episode is not all bad. There have been demonstrations galore, some by local Ethiopian Jews alone, some joined in by one or two thousand protesters who made the trip to join the demonstrations. Still, in the face of so blatant, so egregious a violation of Israel’s fundamental social contract, where were the hundreds of thousands of people who just this last summer chanted, over and over, “The People demand social justice?”<\/p>\n

Among Israel’s jewels is ACRI, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. ACRI has reacted to this sordid episode by demanding that the authorities “clearly state that they do not accept displays of racism and discrimination and are taking clear and decisive steps to eradicate them.” Among those steps, ACRI is seeking a legal amendment that would give the Real Estate Registrar the authority to suspend or even cancel the license of a real estate agent who discriminates against clients on the basis of their ethnic origin. That would likely help, but more “clear and decisive steps” seem warranted, at least to cover cases where no real estate agent is involved.
\n 
\nAcceptance to Communities Law<\/span><\/strong>
\n 
\nIsraeli AG defends controversial law on admissions panels<\/a>
\n26 January 2012 (Haaretz)<\/strong>
\nAttorney-General Yehuda Weinstein supports the law permitting small communities to screen potential residents, with the state telling the High Court of Justice on Wednesday that the law is proportionate and that there is no basis for invalidating it[…]<\/p>\n

Social action groups castigated Weinstein’s response. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, one of the petitioners against the law, said “The Admissions Committee Law discriminates against and humiliates people whose only crime is a desire to exercise their right to choose where to live.”
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