The Supreme Court has demanded that a military appeals court justify its decision to allow two Jewish families to remain in their homes in Hevron despite a Civil Administration eviction order. The case was brought before the Supreme Court after extreme-left group Peace Now filed a suit against the appeals court decision. Peace Now was joined by two local Arab men who say they have rights to the homes in question, which they say they rented from the Custodian of Properties and used as stores.
The court also heard a request from Yosef Ezra, who was among the last Jews to be forced out of Hevron following the Arab pogrom of 1929 and who owns one of the properties in question. Ezra has asked the court to include him as a respondent in the case. He criticized the state prosecution, saying, “How dare the state prosecution ignore me, disregard my property rights...while at the same time insisting that the Arabs who stole my home be included in the legal procedures because it recognized their so-called property rights,"