Expanded Supreme Court gives historic victory to Beduins in land dispute cases with state
The essence of the ruling is that Beduins will for the first time be allowed to attack land confiscations authorized in the past by the Knesset on the grounds that they were improper.
A group of Beduin announced on Monday that a special seven- justice panel of the Supreme Court has made a landmark ruling overturning decades of precedent which could change the face of litigation over an untold number of land disputes between the Beduin community in the South and the state.
The entire procedure, with the decision actually being handed down Sunday to the Beduin of al-Arakib but announced only Monday, was extremely unusual, as it was a rarely allowed appeal by the state of an earlier Supreme Court ruling, also against the state, by a three-justice panel composed of justices Daphna Barak-Erez, Yoram Danziger and Yitzhak Amit from December 2012.
The essence of the ruling was that Beduin, both in multiple land dispute cases before the Beersheba District Court and in all future cases, will for the first time be allowed to attack land confiscations authorized by the Knesset in the South in the 1950s and 1960s and endorsed by the courts in the 1980s on the grounds that the original confiscations themselves were improper.
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