Slippery Slope

The Haifa Regional Court last month overturned a police determination that an Arab man who stole a weapon from a security guard and was subsequently shot to death in 2007 in the old city of Jerusalem, was acting out of nationalistic motives.  The court ruled that the police gave false information to the media, was acting out of prejudice, and that the officer in charge of the investigation gave false testimony in court.

(Hebrew - Haaretz)

Minister of Interior Eli Yishai (Shas), claimed that many women were raped in Tel-Aviv “but do not complain out of fear of being stigmatized as having contracted AIDS.” (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Haaretz)

An indictment has been served in the Tel-Aviv Juvenile Court against eleven minors who are charged with assaulting foreign nationals in Tel-Aviv.  According to the indictment, the accused organized in order to commit violent acts against the foreign nationals, based on their ethnic and national background. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Walla)

A female soldier serving in an IDF base in the north of Israel claims she was raped on the weekend by two soldiers, while the three were on guard duty in the base.

(Hebrew – Walla)

Three Border Guard policemen – Uziel Hanun, Osama al-Sahly, and Reuven Dhokerker are suspected of systematically leaving their base without authorization, and assaulting and robbing Palestinians in Jerusalem. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Haaretz)

A young Ethiopian man was assaulted by right-wing demonstrators in south Tel-Aviv after they mistook him for a foreign national. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Ynet)

Supreme Court Justices ruled that the Attorney General’s office withheld evidence from the defense, which had the potential to acquit their defendant, and this evidence only came to light during the supreme court appeal.

(Hebrew - News1)

Soldiers assaulted three Taayush and Rabbis for Human Rights activists near Tekoa and broke one of the activists’ hands.  The soldiers claimed that the area was a closed military zone, but the activists say they refused to show them a decree backing their claim.

(Hebrew - Facebook)

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced that journalist Uri Blau will be indicted for unauthorized possession of confidential information, over documents he received from Anat Kam. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew - Ynet)

Six Arab-Israeli girls aged 14-15 claim they were attacked by four Jews while playing in the south Tel-Aviv-Yafo Menachem Begin public park last week.  According to the girls, two men and two women threw stones at them and hit them with sticks while they were in the park in the evening.  As a result of the assault, they claim, they sustained injuries and one of them was treated in the city’s Ichilov hospital.

(Hebrew - Walla)