26.01.2009|Judgment|Judgment / District Court
AP 8568/08 - Hamadah et al. v. State of Israel - Ministry of Interior et al. Judgment
Judgment in a petition against the Interior Ministry's refusal of an application for family unification submitted by a permanent resident of Israel, who lives in Wadi Humus, a neighborhood of Sur Bahir which is located outside of Jerusalem's municipal limits. The Court accepted the petitioners' position, that the Attorney General's decision - that residents of the neighborhood have a center of life in Israel for the purpose of National Insurance - should be applied to the Entry into Israel Law. Linking the Entry into Israel Law and the National Insurance Law is especially appropriate, as the Interior Ministry itself relies on National Insurance Institute investigations when it seeks to ascertain an applicant's center of life.
