Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank

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By Yael Berda *14

Published Nov. 9, 2017

Yael Berda *14 was a human rights lawyer in Jerusalem, representing Palestinian clients trying to obtain labor permits to enter Israel from the West Bank. She explores the permit regime in Living Emergency (Stanford University Press), offering a firsthand account of how the Israeli government and military civil administration control the Palestinian population.

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