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Attorney General Affirms State Commission of Inquiry Must Be Established. We Shall Fight On!

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“My son was murdered in a tunnel that was built under your watch…. Stop concerning yourself with winning Knesset seats.” The harsh words hurled this week at Prime Minister Netanyahu by Rabbi Elhanan Danino, whose son Uri was killed in Hamas captivity, are not only heartbreaking but also compel us to keep our eyes on the ball and continue to demand the establishment of a state commission of inquiry.

As reported by Channel 12’s Guy Peleg, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s remarks that “the government’s refusal to establish a commission of inquiry under these circumstances will in fact emasculate the Commissions of Inquiry Law” are compatible with the claim in the petition to the Supreme Court submitted by Attorney Dafna Holtz-Lechner on behalf of Zulat and 86 former government ministers and MKs demanding an investigation into all the events, processes, and failures that led to the debacle of October 7 “in order to draw the necessary lessons to prevent the recurrence of similar events in the future, as well as to restore the people’s trust in all governmental systems and authorities and to initiate the healing and recovery process direly needed by Israeli society.”

Ours joins a series of additional petitions seeking to stop Prime Minister Netanyahu’s attempts to cover up the debacle and failings of the ongoing war, as reflected in his response to Rabbi Danino. With every passing day, the war that has expanded to other fronts and for which there is no end in sight, is exacting an unbearable price in the lives of the hostages held by Hamas, the IDF soldiers, the Israelis displaced from their homes, and the Palestinians in devastated and bloodied Gaza.

A self-preserving country must identify the persons responsible for the greatest calamity in its history. A country that wants children to play in the fields and families to live along its borders cannot afford to do nothing and leave the events of the past year exposed to the Prime Minister’s campaign of concealment and muzzling and to the propagators of fake news and conspiracy theories. This is a sure recipe for disaster, for civil war, for the collapse of what little this government has left unbroken in its short existence.

The government’s most important national mission is to secure the return of the hostages. This is a supreme necessity, as is the establishment of a state commission of inquiry. Unless a vital, comprehensive, and objective investigation of the processes that led to the October 7 calamity and its prolongation for 11 months is conducted, Israeli society will not be able to start the rehabilitation, recovery, and healing that are essential both for the proper running of the state and for creating the social resilience that is sorely needed.

Yours,

Zehava Galon

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.