The family members of missing navigator Ron Arad turned to the Supreme Court today, requesting that the implementation of yesterday\'s decision allowing visits to Hizbullah prisoners in Israel be postponed. The Court ruled yesterday that terrorists Sheikh Obeid and Mustafa Dirani, who have been held in Israel for 12 and 7 years respectively, could receive visits by the Red Cross. This, despite government claims that such visits must continue to be held off as a bargaining chip in the efforts to secure the release of Arad, as well as four other Israelis who were kidnapped by Hizbullah ten months ago.
Ron Arad has been missing in Lebanon since his plane went down over Lebanon in 1986. His family is asking that the Court rehear the case in a forum larger than the five-judge panel that made yesterday\'s decision. Family atty. Eliad Shraga said that there must be reciprocity between the situation of Ron Arad, whose whereabouts no one knows, and that of Dirani and Obeid.
Ron Arad has been missing in Lebanon since his plane went down over Lebanon in 1986. His family is asking that the Court rehear the case in a forum larger than the five-judge panel that made yesterday\'s decision. Family atty. Eliad Shraga said that there must be reciprocity between the situation of Ron Arad, whose whereabouts no one knows, and that of Dirani and Obeid.