On the legal level: Recently, two sets of appeals were presented to the High Court. The first, initiated by “Hotline in Defense of the Individual”, represented by Attorney Andre Rosenthal, deals with the case of about 30 women and children who married Palestinians in Kuwait. When, due to the Gulf war, their husbands wanted to return to the Occupied Territories, they discovered that their wives were prevented from joining them: they are granted only short term visitors’ permits and the husbands’ families have to sign a NIS 5,000 guarantee. 

The second appeal, initiated by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), focuses on cases concerning families who, according to ACRI, should be included in the guarantee given by the state’s Attorney to the High Court in 1990, but who are again threatened by expulsion or prevented from returning to the Territories.