The Jerusalem Post reports that the procurator of Judea and Samaria petitioned the Supreme Court to overrule the military appellate court’s decision, which applied the Ottoman homestead law to Jews.
According to the law, in force since the 1860s, a ten-year cultivation creates homestead rights to the land, which the farmer can register in his name. Israeli leftists normally use the law to issue land titles to Palestinians while ignoring that Jews have cultivated land plots in the same area for decades.
