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<p class="wp-caption-text">Justice Elyakim Rubinstein</p>
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<p>The Supreme Court had a nice verdict today, <a class="external" href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/high-court-blocks-state-from-deporting-pregnant-foreign-workers-1.355743" target="_blank">deeming as illegal</a> the Interior Ministry’s policy of deporting anyforeign worker who had a  child three months after she gave birth. Retiring Justice Ayala  Procaccia, sitting on her last case for the court, called the Interior  Ministry’s policy “discriminatory” and ordered it to form procedures  that would be in line with Israel’s labor laws.</p>
<p>In her verdict, Judge Procaccia also mentioned a UN report from  February which expressed concern over the living and working conditions  of female foreign workers in Israel. To this, Justice Elyakim  Rubinstein—who also sat at this case—felt an urge to response.</p>
<p>In his section of the ruling, Rubinstein <a class="external" href="http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files/05/370/114/r27/05114370.r27.htm" target="_blank">wrote</a> [my bold]:</p>
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<blockquote><p>Even  though it is our tendency as Israelis—and rightly so—to be very  suspicious of reports from UN human rights institutions, where countries  who make a mockery of human rights lecture us on these issues—as if the  worse criminals were to become high judges—still, one shouldn’t ignore  what was said regarding the issue before us. <strong>Maybe, in issues unrelated to the Palestinians, chances to hear words of reason from these institutions are higher. </strong></p></blockquote>
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<p>[h/t to civil rights attorney Yadin Elam, who posted this paragraph on his Facebook wall]</p>
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<p><a href="http://972mag.com/no-point-listening-to-un-on-palestinians-says-supreme-court-judge/">Source</a></p>
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