After three years, two court petitions and one appeal to the appellate committee for foreigners: children from a previous marriage, accompanying their parent seeking family unification in Israel, will receive a permit of temporary residency in Israel

In response to a petition filed by HaMoked: for the first time, stay-permits granted to Palestinians from the OPT as part of the family unification procedure will also constitute work permits. Beginning January 1, 2013, permit holders will be able to work in Israel without restriction

HaMoked to the Magistrates' Court: the fee demanded by the Ministry of Interior for handling application under the Freedom of Information Law is four times the fee stipulated by law

Following HaMoked's petition: a West Bank Palestinian married to an Israeli resident will receive temporary status in Israel in the framework of the family unification process

HaMoked to the authorities: Follow the protocol forbidding the removal of individuals with open Ministry of Interior files from Israel

Following HaMoked's petition: the Ministry of Interior has undertaken to step up the processing of requests for status of foreign women who reside in Israel without visas and suffer from domestic violence at the hands of their Israeli spouses

HaMoked’s request to grant an OPT resident, the husband of a Palestinian resident of Israel, temporary status in Israel (A/5) as part of the family unification application they filed in 1994. HaMoked stresses that case law clearly indicates the husband is entitled to temporary residency since the reason the family unification process was not completed prior to the enactment of the Citizenship ...

HaMoked to the Prime Minister: Rescind government resolution banning family unification with Gaza Strip residents immediately

HaMoked files an administrative objection against the decision to refuse a family unification application due to "absence of center of life": an examination of the materials upon which the interior ministry based its decision, points to selective reading and the use of dubious investigation methods

Following HaMoked's petition: the widow of a permanent resident from East Jerusalem will receive temporary residency status in Israel

After three years, two administrative relief applications and one court petition: the Ministry of Interior approves a family unification application of an East Jerusalem resident and his West Bank wife

Administrative petition on behalf of a Jordanian woman, a victim of domestic violence, whose husband also refrained from arranging her status. HaMoked filed the petition after her application for temporary status while the Inter-Ministerial Humanitarian Committee discussed her case was refused. HaMoked also asked the Ministry of Interior to establish in protocol that all women in these circumst...

The HCJ dismisses the petitions against the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order): the decision legitimizes an infamous law, which violates the rights to equality and to family life

Following HaMoked's intervention: a Jordanian woman, who for the past 17 years, has been living in Jerusalem with her violent husband, has received a temporary visa which allows her to work. Her application for permanent status is yet to be answered

English translation taken from Adalah’s Newsletter, Volume 89, January 2012.