Appeal against Acre housing for religious Jews fails

24.04.2012                      02.Ijar. 5772                    Tag 17 des Omer

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Appeal against Acre housing for religious Jews fails

In February, the Israel Lands Administration issued a tender for 200 housing units in Acre to two Orthodox housing associations that started marketing the homes exclusively to religious Jewish families.

The Haifa District Court on Monday denied a petition to revoke the tender for a housing development in Acre because it was being marketed exclusively to religious Jewish families.
The petition was filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Al-Yater, an Acre civil rights group and Haifa University's legal clinic for human rights. Judge Ron Shapiro ruled that the petition was "theoretic and academic," and was based on assumptions that were insufficient to call off the tender. He also said that because the petition was submitted very late, a revocation would infringe on the interests of the associations marketing the apartments….