Citizenship betrayed: Israel's emerging immigration and citizenship regime

Theoretical Inquiries in Law

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Peled, Yoav ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 34547346594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15653404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1565-3404.1162     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Advisory Committee for the Examination of an Immigration Policy for the State of Israel, Interim Report (Feb. 2, 2006) (unpublished report, on file with author) (Hebrew) [hereinafter Rubinstein Committee, Interim Report]. The committee was established by Cabinet Decision No. 3805 (June 26, 2005).
2. DK (1950) 2035-37; Yoav Peled, Ethnic Democracy and the Legal Construction of Citizenship: Arab Citizens of the Jewish State, 86 AM. POL. SCI. REV. 432 (1992).
3. Citizenship and Entry into Israel (Temporary Order) Law, 2003, S.H. 544.
4. Legal Counsel, Ministry of the Interior, Memorandum Regarding Draft Bill Amending the Citizenship and Entry into Israel (Temporary Order) Law, 5763-2003 (Nov. 23, 2006) (unpublished memorandum, on file with author); see also a response to this memorandum by a group of law faculty professors (Dec. 8, 2006) (on file with author).
5. The committee is made up of four prominent legal scholars - Amnon Rubinstein, Yaffa Silberschatz, Ariel Bendor and Ruth Lapidot - and the doyen of Israeli political theorists, Shlomo Avineri. Rubinstein and Lapidot received the 2006 Israel Prize for legal scholarship.
6. GERSHON SHAFIR & YOAV PELED, BEING ISRAELI: THE DYNAMICS OF MULTIPLE CITIZENSHIP (2002).
7. See Yoav Peled & Doron Navot, Ethnic Democracy Revisited: On the State of Democracy in the Jewish State, 20 ISR. STUD. F. 3 (2005).
8. Sammy Smooha, The Model of Ethnic Democracy: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State, 8 NATIONS & NATIONALISM 475, 477 (2002).
9. Id. at 478.
10. OREN YIFTACHEL, ETHNOCRACY: LAND, POLITICS AND IDENTITIES IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE 107 (2006);
11. see also As'ad Ghanem et al., Questioning "Ethnic Democracy": A Response to Sammy Smooha, 3 ISR. STUD. 253, 255 (1998).
12. YIFTACHEL, supra note 10, at 91-92.
13. Id. at 96-97;
14. Ghanem et al., supra note 10, at 260-64.
15. YIFTACHEL, supra note 10, at 100.
16. HCJ 7052/03 Adalah v. Minister of the Interior [2006] 2 TakEl 1754 (Barak, C.J., para. 17). The formal situation of Gaza is not very clear right now, following Israel's disengagement from there, but substantively, and probably formally as well, it is also held by Israel under belligerent occupation.
17. ROBERT DAHL, DEMOCRACY AND ITS CRITICS 32-33 (1989).
18. Cf. Smooha, supra note 8, at 481.
19. Adalah, [2006] 2 TakEl 1754.
20. Cabinet Decision No. 1813 (May 12, 2002). See ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY 2004, at 21-27 (Nimer Sultany ed., 2004).
21. For the views of the proponents of the law I will rely primarily on Rubinstein Committee, Interim Report, supra note 1, and on a law review essay written by the committee's chair and its secretary: Amnon Rubinstein & Liav Orgad, Security of the State, Jewish Majority and Human Rights: The Case of Marriage Migration, 48 HA-PRAKLIT 315 (2006) (Hebrew).