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Foundations Of Rights Jurisprudence In Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy, Pnina Lahav
Foundations Of Rights Jurisprudence In Israel: Chief Justice Agranat's Legacy, Pnina Lahav
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"Liberty of the individual is a things of the past, or the future, in Palestine", wrote Bernard Joseph, a distinguished member of Israel's "government in the making" in 1948, shortly before Israel was inaugurated as a sovereign state. Joseph's "present" was the dusk of British rule in Palestine. Draconian Defence (Emergency) Regulations suspended conventional liberties ordinary westerners were accustomed to expect and turned Palestine into a police state.