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165 families who reside in the caravan site in Nitzan were given urgent evacuation orders to leave their homes, Ma'ariv reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the families, who took up residence in Nitzan after being kicked out of their homes in Gush Katif, were ordered to pay rent to the government on the caravans but many were unable to or simply refused, citing poor living conditions and a feeling of frustration towards the government over the realty that seven years after the forced "Disengagement" from Gaza many of their lives are still in fragments. Officials in the Tenufa...

Deputy State Attorney for Special Assignments Shai Nitzan is expected to end his career at the State Attorney's Office next month, according to Haaretz. Nitzan will have completed eight years in his current job, where he has earned the wrath of Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, and of Jewish nationalists in general. Haaretz says Nitzan, who was vying for the post of Jerusalem District Attorney, canceled his candidacy after learning that Attorney Nurit Litman, the number 2 figure in the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, will receive the job. Sources in the Justice Ministry said that Nitzan may compete for...

Deputy State Attorney Shai Nitzan has informed the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel that he has decided to turn down their demand to open an investigation against Professor Judd Ne'eman, an Israel Prize laureate in cinema studies due to Ne'eman's call for a civil war in a radio interview. Nitzan explained his decision. "I believe that Professor Ne'eman's statements do not suffice to consolidate grounds for opening a criminal investigation against him on the crime of incitement to violence as per your demand, because it is highly doubtful if the fundamentals of the article in the criminal code...

The Yesha Human Rights Organization on Tuesday sent a letter to chief state prosecutor Shai Nitzan demanding he investigate leftwing journalist Yonatan Shem-or over statements he made on the Hebrew-language news website MySay. The Yesha Human Rights Organization said Shem-or's comments were nothing short of incitement to violence against rightwing Israelis. ... Shem-or's article “fulfills the criteria to warrant a criminal investigation against the writer and against the website that published it.” The attorneys, comparing the article and reactions to it on the website to another case Nitzan has been involved in, said that “the talkback commentaries on this article...