In a split 6-5 decision, the High Court ruled the controversial Citizenship Law is legal but warned it comes dangerously close to trampling on the human rights of citizens. The court understood that 26 naturalized Israeli Arab citizens were involved in terror attacks after becoming naturalized citizens. That was a major argument by the state against accepting the petitions which sought to invalidate an amendment to the law, which prohibits ‘family unifications’ of PA residents married to Israeli Arab women.

60 Years ago in Israel

The defenders of Kfar Etzion surrendered to the Arab Legion. They gathered in front of a school and put down their weapons before an armored car, apparently belonging to the Legion, approached and opened fire, and other Arab attackers opened fire with submachine guns and grenades.