The Supreme Court partially rejected the State's request to cancel its "no deportation" order and to rush up its deliberations on the matter. Last week, the Court issued a two-week restraining order against the deportation of terrorist family members from Judea and Samaria to Gaza. The State, however, asked that the case be heard earlier in light of army claims that holding back the deportations greatly detracts from the effectiveness of this anti-terrorism measure. Atty. Shai Nitzan argued that this is a matter of life and death, as "the army knows for certain that the expulsion of family members deters and significantly reduces the number of terrorist attacks." Justice Shlomo Levine ruled, however, that the restraining order remains intact, and that the case would be heard in a larger forum in a few days from now.



The Supreme Court dealt another blow to Israel's war effort yesterday when it issued a 7-day injunction against the use of the "neighbor procedure," in which an Arab neighbor of a suspect is employed to negotiate the latter's surrender.