Legal Division
The Kfar Qasem Case – See above for details. The petition, submitted in late June 2020, is scheduled for its first hearing in August. The Abu Basma Case – Recently we submitted an addendum petition to...
View ArticleThe “History Awaits” Campaign
We recently concluded a major campaign focused on the Trump plan and the sovereignty issue. The campaign succeeded in generating widespread public interest and discussion, in Israel and abroad. Our...
View ArticleDevelopments in Ongoing Cases
Bir Hadaj – In May, the High Court of Justice heard the petition we submitted on behalf of private landowners whose rights we have been defending in this matter for over a decade. We are seeking the...
View ArticleSovereignty in reverse: Palestinians have seized 30 percent of Israeli land...
Knesset told that authorities are sleeping as the EU funds Palestinian takeover of Israeli-controlled land. By Paul Shindman, World Israel News (August 17 2020) The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense...
View ArticleWhat is the major battle happening over the future of Kafr Kassem?
Officials from Kafr Kassem and the state’s land use enforcement authorities have acknowledged that there is significant illegal building in the area in question. By Yonah Jeremy Bob (Jerusalem Post,...
View ArticleIt’s the largest quarry in Israel – and it’s illegal
In its most recent Supreme Court petition, Regavim sues the Ministers of Defense and the Environment, the IDF Commander of Central Command, the Civil Administration and the Israel Police. (JNS Wire,...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority make ecological assault on Nahal Alexander
In response to Regavim’s complaint over new environmental hazards in Nahal Alexander, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has placed the blame elsewhere. Nahal Alexander, which flows from the...
View ArticleRewriting history
In theory, thousands of historical and archaeological sites in Judea & Samaria are protected by explicit international treaties. In practice, the Palestinian Authority continues to destroy the...
View ArticleMK Ofer Cassif’s crocodile tears are also green
The sad truth is that Cassif’s objections have very little to do with ecology and environmental protection, and everything to do with a scorched-earth policy of anti-normalization in the West Bank. A...
View ArticlePolygamy in the Bedouin sector: A ticking time-bomb that nearly exploded
Today (Monday), the Shin Bet security agency announced that it foiled a Hamas bombing attack at Bilu Junction in central Israel. Mahmud Makdad, an Israeli citizen from the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom...
View ArticleA case of self-defeating government & Israel’s eroding sovereignty
Regavim’s petition regarding the UNTSO Compound in Armon HaNatziv continues. In March 2017, Regavim petitioned the Jerusalem Magistrates Court for a temporary injunction requiring the Israeli...
View ArticleLatest Illegal Palestinian Authority School Built Overnight, This Time in...
(Jewish Press, September 23 2020) One more illegal school joins the rapidly growing roster of similar structures built by the Palestinian Authority at lightning speed. The newest to join the ranks is...
View ArticleNew Masterplan Approved for Druze Township in Galilee
(JewishPress, October 13 2020) Israel’s Regional Planning and Construction Board (Northern District) has approved the publication of a new municipal masterplan for Julis, a Druze township in the...
View ArticleSchools and the #BattleforAreaC
In 2009, then-Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad unveiled his plan for the creation of a Palestinian state. Ever since, driven by European funding and the cynical use of the most vulnerable members of...
View ArticleUnder our noses, the illegal Kfar Kassem Commercial Zone
In the last few years, in central Israel, next to Kfar Kassem and on lands zoned for agricultural use, an enormous commercial zone has popped up illegally. With massive warehouses, garages, stores,...
View ArticlePolygaMeToo? Not anymore!
This post first appeared on our Facebook page Last week, the Beer Sheva Magistrates Court sentenced an Israeli Bedouin to seven months in prison, after he was found guilty of polygamy. The man, a...
View ArticleIDF’s Civil Administration: Hundreds of PA Employees Engaged in Land...
(JewishPress, November 23 2020) Brigadier General Ghassan Alian, Commander of the IDF’s Civil Administration, said at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the Palestinian...
View ArticleThe Bedouin’s Guide to the Negev: How to Make a Fortune at the State’s Expense
“Meet Abed. Abed is an 18-year-old Bedouin who lives in an ‘unrecognized’ squatters’ camp in the Negev. He’s a spontaneous, sensitive guy – and he’s nobody’s fool.” Regavim’s video illustrates why,...
View ArticlePromoting Land Regulation in Judea and Samaria
After the liberation of Judea and Samaria in 1967, the IDF suspended the process of land registration and regulation that had been initiated by the Jordanians and continued by the British mandatory...
View ArticleBlocking the Repeal of the Kaminitz Law
Over the past year we continued the fight for Amendment 116 of Israel’s Planning and Construction Code, known as the Kaminitz Law – crucial legislation which Regavim was instrumental in formulating....
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