The High Court ruled against a petition to prevent four Jordanian terrorists serving life terms in jail for the murder of IDF soldiers in 1990 and 1994 from being returned to Jordan.
--An Israeli Arab has been appointed as a director of the Jewish National Fund, which works to purchase land in Israel for Jewish settlement. A Jerusalem District Court approved the appointment despite an appeal by several members of the JNF’s Zionist Executive Committee, who said that the appointment of a non-Jew to a directorship should be discussed by the JNF General Assembly.