An article published in the local newspaper "Beit Shemesh" on August 11, 2011, entitled "The Ministry of the Interior has no answers" and reviews our petition to the High Court of Justice against the Interior Ministry's decision to annex the industrial zones of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. Supreme Court Justice Yoram Danziger issued an injunction against the request of our ministry preventing the Minister of the Interior from ordering the annexation of the industrial zones. The petition, which covers more than 400 pages of arguments and appendices, was submitted through our office in cooperation with attorney Vered Cohen of the Legal Bureau of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council and asks the court to cancel the decision of the Minister of the Interior as arbitrary, disproportionate, and unreasonable. Experts and professionals regarding the severe consequences expected to Mateh Yehuda as a result of the annexation of the territories to the city of Beit Shemesh.
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The Interior Ministry has no answers
The Ministry of the Interior again evaded submitting its response to the petitions, as required by a High Court order
Tens of thousands of residents of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, factory owners and workers in the council's industrial areas, have been waiting for several months to hear the state's explanation for the bizarre decision to annex all the council's industrial zones in favor of the city of Beit Hashemesh. It is political and tainted by foreign considerations.
The residents are waiting, but the answers of the Minister of the Interior, Eli Yishai and the staff of his office, are in order. Initially, the High Court ruled that the Ministry of the Interior would submit its response to the petition by June 19. The Interior Ministry requested an extension and received, with the consent of the parties, until Wednesday, August 3rd. That date passed last week. Has the firm's response arrived? no and no.
That morning, Interior Ministry officials informed the High Court that they did not intend to submit their response as they were trying to advance a compromise on the issue. Here, the announcement has already met with opposition from members of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. '' The various petitions filed against the Ministry of the Interior require orderly responses from Minister Yishai. The public expects ah. Employees expect ah. The factory owners are looking forward to it. Councilmen expect ah. "Just as we have all been hit with a decision that hurts us badly, so we expect detailed and clear answers from those who made the decision," says a senior council official.
Ministry of the Interior - opposed the granting of another extension.
Advocate Vered Cohen of the Council's Legal Bureau and Advocate Shlomi Turgeman of the Afik-Turgeman Law Firm responded to the statement in response to the state's announcement, claiming in response to the state's request: For the first time, there is an intention to hold a meeting of the petitioners at the Beit Shemesh Municipality. Only in a telephone conversation, after the petitioner announced that she would not be able to agree to a further extension, did the State Department clarify that the director general of the Ministry of the Interior would also take part in these conversations.
This clarification contradicts the simulator's request for rejection, which states that "it was decided, in accordance with the request of the Minister of the Interior, that the Director General of the Ministry of the Interior will work to promote dialogue between the parties, in an attempt to bridge them. In light of the aforesaid, in order to enable the extraction of the halach of the dialogue, the Honorable Court is requested to extend the time ”.
The council did not reject Minister Yishai's compromise proposal, but said that "it is of paramount importance, even if for the purposes of dialogue, that an answer be submitted in time so that the state's position regarding the allegations can be clarified. Dialogue is not a detour in the High Court, but a parallel to it