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...seen any large-scale commercial development in the past two decades aside from a gleaming glass-and-steel hospital complex. A similarly-styled seven-story “Justice Center” casts its shiny bureaucratic glory over the faded grandeur of the city’s original court house...
...time jury trial court rooms lie on floors three through seven, but most of Legal Aid’s cases don’t make it past the Justice Center’s second floor—Domestic Relations. The first floor, meanwhile, is the paper mill, absorbing and spitting back out the endless rounds of documentation composed, notarized, respectfully submitted, and acknowledged in cases like home foreclosure...
...ground level the legal options available in such cases are discouragingly few. Lawyers can search for inconsistencies in the documents filed with a court in a foreclosure action, creating enough extra time for a homeowner to find a job or to work out an agreement to modify the mortgage...
...with the Palestinians, the obsession with security comes at the expense of dealing with other social issues. "There are more than two societies here," says Netanel. "It's a very diverse population in Israel. There is one part of Israel, my camp, for whom the temple is the Supreme Court and we believe in democracy and we want a liberal and modern country; and there is a part of Israel that wants a more religious country - some of them even want the rule of Jewish law, not a democracy. They don't believe in the courts - they believe...
...activists recall the 2005 pride march in Jerusalem, when an ultra-Orthodox man leaped into the crowd and stabbed three marchers before he could be restrained by police. The violence came after the city's ultra-Orthodox mayor had tried to ban the march but was overruled in court. The following year, police ordered 12,000 officers to protect a few hundred marchers from possible ultra-Orthodox violence. Even Tel Aviv has not been exempt from gay-bashing. Gay activist Shlomi Laufer, writing in Tel Aviv's daily Yedioth Ahronoth, recalled two men embracing on the boardwalk being spat...