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(Israeli) High Court: Compensation for Mandatory Polio Sufferers					News
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Check It Out Israel National News Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:49 PM PST (IsraelNN.com) A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that 50 victims of polio from the pre-state British Mandate for Palestine qualify for benefits under the compensation law for polio victims. The language of the law would not allow compensation for those who lived, for example, in the Golan Heights or eastern Jerusalem, or those who were even treated for the disease in the Land of Israel but did not make aliyah (officially immigrate) until after they had the dissease, according to the majority opinion of justices Yoram Danziger and Edmond Levi. Dissenting justice Miriam Naor said that while the law was based on the state obligating itself to compensate the victims, the obligation did not apply to anything before it came into existence

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