7 results for “Absentees Property Law”
The instruments governing forced displacement carry no term of years. Where duration is legally operative, it is in property law.
Israel’s Law of Return, its 1952 Citizenship Law, the court record on family reunification, and why four published refugee counts differ by millions.
The 1950 absentee statute, the property claims the Conciliation Commission sampled in 1951, and the valuations on record, each named and dated.
Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1947 to 1949, per Morris’s archival history. What the archives, statutes and recorded votes hold.
Published shares of Jewish landholding at the end of the Mandate run from 2.1% to 7.6%. Reading the registers, the purchases and the 1948 instruments.
Published totals run from about 1 million to more than 17 million dunams. What each figure counts, and which body measured it.
Seven Israeli laws carry the label. One is a Basic Law, passed 62 to 55 in July 2018 and upheld 10 to 1 by the Supreme Court in July 2021.