The Claymore Shops
Loyalty Issue
Leads To Firing
Jerusalem (JTA) — An at-
torney who has served in
Israel's Justice Ministry for
33 years and headed its civil
division for the past 22 has
been fired after questioning
a Knesset member's loyalty
to the state.
Plia Albek, one of the min-
istry's most senior at-
torneys, has raised an
uproar on a number of past
occasions by issuing legal
opinions and statements
seen by many as serving the
political right.
Until now, though, she had
always managed to survive
the controversy.
The latest uproar was
caused when she- issued a
legal opinion on a bill pro-
posed by Knesset member
Chaim Oron of the left-wing
Meretz bloc that called on
the government to grant
equal compensation to Arab
and Jewish victims of ter-
rorist attacks. Currently,
only Jewish victims are en-
titled to such compensation.
Ms. Albek wrote: "One
receives the message from
Oron's bill that the State of
Israel is not endeared to him
and that he does not under-
stand that as a member of
Knesset he has the duty of
being loyal to the State of
Israel."
The decision to remove Ms.
Albek from her post was
made jointly by Justice Min-
ister David Libai, Attorney
General Yosef Harish and
the director-general of the
Justice Ministry, Haim
Klugman..
Ms. Albek, 55, is con-
sidered an expert on real
estate law. Many of the set-
tlements in the territories
were made possible by a
legal formula devised by Ms.
Albek that legalized the ac-
quisition of land without ac-
tually confiscating it from
Arab owners.
For this position and
others, she was often accus-
ed by the political left of us-
ing her position at the
Justice Ministry to serve
Jewish settlers in the ter-
ritories.
Ms. Albek denied the
charges.
Ms. Albek angered critics
with her various rulings and
statements. In one con-
troversial case, she ruled
that an Arab who died in the
custody of the Shin Bet
security agency should be
regarded as an absentee and
that therefore compensation
for his death must be given
to the state and not to his
widow.
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