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

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

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

The court grants HaMoked's petition: nine years after their application was filed, the adult sons of an East Jerusalem resident will receive Israeli stay permit

Following HaMoked’s petition and based on the Supreme Court's judgment in the Srur case: three children of a Jerusalem resident will be granted permanent residency in Israel

Following HaMoked's administrative petition: 13 years after applying for family unification, the husband of an East Jerusalem resident will receive temporary residency status in Israel

HaMoked to the HCJ: the Hatib judgment unmasks the true unlawful purpose of the Temporary Order – the collective rejection of applications for Israeli status in order to promote a racist-demographic agenda

HaMoked’s motion to submit a supplementary brief in a petition to repeal the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law inasmuch as it applies to children. The brief relates to the 2005 amendment to the definition of “resident of the Area” and the Court’s interpretation thereof in Hatib. HaMoked argues that the definition contradicts an earlier ruling by the Supreme Court and that it is inconsistent...

Two daughters of a Jerusalem resident will be upgraded to permanent residency status: the Appellate Commissioner for Foreigners in the Interior Ministry accepted HaMoked's claims and ruled that given the lack of ties to the OPT, the girls cannot be regarded as "residents of the Area", and therefore do not come under the child registration procedure as stipulated in the Temporary Order

Ministry of Interior denies permanent residency to Palestinian schoolchildren in Jerusalem

HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual files an administrative petition to instruct the Interior Ministry to grant permanent Israeli status to an alien spouse's children from a previous marriage: HaMoked requests that the court stipulate decisions on the status of children under the age of 14 be taken regardless of the Temporary Order

Temporary residency visa upgraded as part of the graduated procedure of family unification: the Appellate Commissioner for Foreigners of the Interior Ministry, granted three appeals by HaMoked on behalf of three Palestinians, and instructed the population administration to upgrade the status of the appellants to temporary residency visa type A5

Letter from HaMoked to the health ministry’s legal advisor regarding a Palestinian whose mother is an Israeli resident and who has a severe neurological disease and is recognized as 100% handicapped by the National Insurance Institute. HaMoked complains that once he turned 18, the state disowned the child by notifying that he was not entitled to health insurance and handicapped benefits despite...