- Title: ISRAELI-OCCUPIED GOLAN HEIGHTS: COURT OPENED TO ADMINISTER ISRAELI LAW
- Date: 22nd October 1969
- Summary: ISRAELI AND UNITED NATIONS PATROL CARS; DAYAN AND SHAPIRO ARRIVING FOR OPENINGS CEREMONY; RIBBON CUT AND MEZZUZA PLACED OVER DOOR; PEOPLE SITTING IN COURTROOM; DAYAN AND PARTY LEAVING. Initials GL/V/JH/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th November 1969 13:00
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- Location: ISRAELI-OCCUPIED GOLAN HEIGHTS
- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA8EW0CPYLV1YGBRQZI1NXKPU30
- Story Text: AT KUNEITRA, FORMER SYRIAN GARRISON TOWN ON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL SINCE JUNE 1967, A MAGISTRATES' COURT WAS OPENED YESTERDAY (TUESDAY) TO ADJUDICATE LOCAL CIVIL DISPUTES UNDER ISRAELI LAW. UP TO NOW, SYRIAN LAW HAS CONTINUED IN FORCE IN THE OCCUPIED AREA.
MILITARY COURTS WILL CONTINUE TO DEAL WITH SECURITY OFFENCES AND OTHER SIMILAR CASES.
THE NEW COURT HAS BEEN SET UP IN ONE OF KUNEITRA'S MANY ABANDONED BUILDINGS. AT THE OPENING CEREMONY WERE DEFENCE MINISTER MOSHE DAYAN AND JUSTICE MINISTER YAACOV SHAPIRO. MR SHAPIRO CUT THE RIBBON AND MR DAYAN WATCHED AS AN ARMY CHAPLAIN FIXED THE MEZZUZA -- A JEWISH RELIGIOUS EMBLEM -- TO THE ENTRANCE.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT WERE LEADERS OF THE DRUZE, THE MINORITY RELIGIOUS GROUP WHO LIVE IN THE HEIGHTS AND NEARBY AREAS OF ISRAEL AND LEBANON. SHEIKH SOLIMAN HANDJ WAS AMONG THE SPEAKERS.
MR SHAPIRO SAID: "THIS IS A GREAT HISTORIC DAY... WE ALL PRAY THAT ISRAELI LAW SHALL NEVER CEASE TO FUNCTION IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS !" HE PROMISED A NETWORK OF COURTS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED TO HAND DOWN ISRAELI LAW.
MR DAYAN SAID ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE COURT WAS A SYMBOL OF THE DYNAMISM OF THE LIFE DEVELOPING IN THE HEIGHTS WITH THE "RENEWAL OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENT" THERE.
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