Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel Relating to Human Rights

Published in Hebrew on: www.court.gov.il. Examination of the constitutionality of amendments to Section 30A and Chapter D of the Prevention of Infiltration (Offenses and Jurisdiction) Law, 1954 providing that infiltrators may be detained for a period of up to three months and that an order may be issued to hold them in a stay center for a period of up to twenty months. In a unanimous decision, the High Court upheld Section 30A allowing the detention of infiltrators for up to three months and upheld Chapter D enabling the stay center, but the High Court voiding the twenty month stay center requirement as disproportionate. This summary is a sequel to previous judicial summaries published in volumes 44 and 45 of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights in summarizing prior decisions of the High Court of Justice on the matter of earlier amendments to this Law.